Meditations on the Dead, the Dying and the Displaced: Theorizing Structural Anti-blackness as the Root Cause of Africa’s ‘Forever Wars’

How can we liberate our theoretical inquiries in ways that confront the global machinations of racialized subjection, expropriation, and immiseration? A book chapter by Western Academy Postdoctoral Scholar Ola Osman on global anti-blackness and white supremacy as enduring, foundational forces that choreograph and haunt the genealogy of international relations.

Osman, Ola. “Meditations on the Dead, the Dying and the Displaced: Theorizing Structural Anti-blackness as the Root Cause of Africa’s ‘Forever Wars'” In Beyond Inhumanity: Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Flourishing edited by Scherto Gill, 81-106. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111651217-007

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