S2 Ep 9- Pan African to Afropolitan, are they too elite‪?‬ Afropolitan Central

Hello everyone, thanks for joining us for another episode of Afropolitan Central! We’ve heard the arguments made about the term Afropolitan being too elite much like its predecessor of sorts, Pan African. But is that such a bad thing after all?

Why is the portrayal of Africans as rich and economically mobile often hotly contested?
Is there merit in the argument that terms like Afropolitan for instance, focuses more on making us palatable for the Western gaze?
Is our development threatened because it’s too Western identified and elite led?
Is all this dialogue much ado about nothing with little impact on the ground for everyday citizens?


Tune in to the episode to hear our answers to these and many more as we explore this topic.

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Articles referenced
Debates about the Afropolitan term
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/afropolitanism-global-citizenship-with-african-routes/


The New Single Story
http://asterixjournal.com/afropolitanism-africas-new-single-story-reading-helon-habilas-review-need-new-names-brian-bwesigye/


Africans can have multiple sub cultures
http://www.msafropolitan.com/2013/04/can-africans-have-multiple-subcultures-a-response-to-exorcising-afropolitanism.html


Why I'm Not Afropolitan- an argument on the term’s shortcomings
http://africasacountry.com/why-im-not-an-afropolitan/