The Black Duality: Can We Be Unapologetically Africans?
Africans have always been forced to tone down our ‘Africanness’ to accommodate others. It is a known fact that only we, have to apologize and hide from who we are for the benefit of a Eurocentric audience.
In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean have a deep conversation about duality- the two personalities we have to live with and not our trueness. Listen in to learn the importance of having these conversations around why we need to stop bowing to others and unapologetically be Africans.
What you will learn:
· [1:00] Defining duality. How we Africans are forced to subdue our ‘Africanness’ in order to flow in this space. How Du Bois talked about the lack of trueness due to two ideals expected from African Americans.
· [5:37] Why there are two of you- the society’s expectations of who you should be versus who you really are.
· [8:00] We should have the right to live as Africans anywhere in the world without having to always be the ones to make others comfortable.
· [9:21] The question of why a fully unapologetic male or female African is such a threat.
· [11:29] How African and our originality is dumbed down and we are driven to be like others.
· [14:40] The idea of us making them comfortable while they never have to do anything to make us comfortable plus their adopted attitude becomes the status quo.
· [19:37] How we physically and psychologically bow to who we’re not for approval we don’t need from them.
