Afrilition: The Challenge of Blackness
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- Adéwálé Àjàjí reflects on the difficulty of addressing Blackness as an identity in writing Afrilition.
- The piece describes an identity that many have died to assert and others experience through coercion and oppression.
- Àjàjí also presents Blackness as central to personal self-love, affirmation and adult identity.
Writing Afrilition means confronting one of its most difficult subjects: Blackness as an identity.
Adéwálé Àjàjí describes Blackness as an identity that many people have died to assert, while others live with it through coercive and oppressive encounters.
For many, including Àjàjí, it has also become a settled foundation for self-love and affirmation. The writer says that this identity has shaped their own adult life.
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Originally published by Premium Times in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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