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I believe in a just a fair world, where I am not subservient to another because we differ in color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age.

— Sylvia Tamale

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Our feminism is not qualified by the "Buts ,Ifs Or However" ..You are either a feminist or you are not.

Now, never underestimate the power of the mind. What African futurism does is harness that power into action. It empowers us to craft the future that we want.

Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people.

Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market.

Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge.

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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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