Mukoma Wa Ngugi on Twitter: "I detest the white gaze in this essay. He uses Elmina slave castle and a black family in Ghana intimately reckoning with slavery as backdrop. I cringe at the thought that there was a white dude eavesdropping, who then writes this. Shame on @AHAhistorians! https://t.co/RaBlWbMoM4" / Twitter

I detest the white gaze in this essay. He uses Elmina slave castle and a black family in Ghana intimately reckoning with slavery as backdrop. I cringe at the thought that there was a white dude eavesdropping, who then writes this. Shame on

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Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present

When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.

10:30 AM · Aug 19, 2022

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