2023 in Review: Highs and Lows - Minority Africa
Toluwani Omotesho
March 13, 2024
The curtains finally close on 2023 today, and while it’s a time of celebration, it’s also an opportunity for deep reflection. In this Minority Roundup, I’ll highlight some significant stories from 2023 concerning minorities in Africa and around the world.
Mwathi to a 30-year imprisonment.
Despite the small victories that came with 2023, we were constantly faced with stark reminders of the persistent struggles faced by minority groups. As we enter the new year, we mustn’t forget these stories and continue fighting for a future where fairness and equality win.
We’ve reached the end of this newsletter and I’ll wrap it up by sharing some of the stories we enjoyed reading in 2023.
The Mathematics of Hooking Up
Everyone talks about how good the Amala in Ibadan is, but nobody talks about how horrible the Grindr is. Yes, these two things are on separate ends of the conversation, but if one must praise something about a city, they might as well mention the way it falls short, too.
A Rwandan afro-futurist musical constitutes dreaming as resistance.
Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist musical film that follows coltan mine workers who escape and meet other outcasts to find a community in an abandoned village named Digitaria.
For marginalized communities, imagination is a solid and suitable tool of resistance against systems of oppression. Stacey A. Gibson explained this best when she wrote, “Often, imagining is an act of liberatory adventure, since it feels borderless, boundaryless, and free of the constructs that bind. To imagine is to transcend. The imaginer can time travel, hover, disappear, and multiple selves can be constructed, observed, and nurtured.”
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