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The Bahamas celebrates 53 years of independence today with Junkanoo, flags, prayers, speeches, and patriotic pageantry. Yet the constitution still bows to a British king and the Privy Council. iPINIONS bemoans that’s not independence fulfilled. That’s independence deferred. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-bahamas-marks-53-years-of-independence Read more.
Lumumba Vea stood motionless in the stands, formally suited in DR Congo’s colors, turning World Cup spectacle into anti-colonial witness. iPINIONS contends that his silent tribute to Patrice Lumumba shamed Belgium for its colonial crimes. His altered gesture, hand over mouth and fingers to his head, indicted the media’s screaming silence about the genocidal war… Read more.
As the Louvre mourns the loss of royal jewels once worn by Napoleon’s empresses, iPINIONS asks how a museum built on colonial plunder dares cry theft. This post illustrates the irony of empire, the politics of restitution, and why the heist may embolden the plundered to seek justice by any means. See my take on… Read more.
Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But his martyrdom has made him as much the face of Pan-Africanism as MLK’s has made him the face of Black civil rights. This is why even I can appreciate the “closure” the return of Lumumba’s remains represents for his family. Never… Read more.
Juneteenth and reparations for slavery Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It stems from slaves in Galveston, Texas, not being informed of their emancipation until June 19, 1865. That was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. What about reparations? The US House of Representatives… Read more.
