Not Your African Cliché

Happy New Year! Inspired by Chimamanda Adichie’s Danger of a Single Story TED Talk, we examine Afropolitanism and discuss whether or not it’s the new Single Story about Africa. We discuss the relatively new concept as it relates to Afro-Pessimism and Pan-Africanism. Is Afropolitanism a social movement? A political one? Does it matter? Related articles: - http://africasacountry.com/2014/01/why-im-not-an-afropolitan/ - http://thelip.robertsharp.co.uk/?p=76 - http://blog.qeh.ox.ac.uk/?p=910 - http://africainwords.com/2013/02/08/exorcizing-afropolitanism-binyavanga-wainaina-explains-why-i-am-a-pan-africanist-not-an-afropolitan-at-asauk-2012/ - What we are currently watching/reading/listening to: - Minority Report (The Movie) - Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See - Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance - Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone - Kristin Kimball’s The Dirty Life - The web series An African City, Gidi Up and Shuga - Falz’s Stories That Touch album Show was mixed by Ifeoluwa Olokode, and theme musi