Afropolitanism: Taiye Selasi’s emancipatory perspective in Ghana Must Go!
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Afropolitanism, Taiye Salesi, Ghana must go!.Abstract
The aim of this article is to briefly reflect on the conception of Afropolitanism as a result of an emancipatory perspective and its representation in the novel Ghana must go!, by Taiye Selasi. Coined by Selasi (2005) and first mentioned in the article “Bye-bye Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?)”, the term was later addressed by theorists sucha as Achille Mbembe, Wawrzinek and Makokha (2011), Simon Gikandi (2011) e Chielozona Eze (2014), among others. Departing from the concept of Afropolitanism and its theorization, the article analyzes the characters’ degree of adherence to the term.
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