TEMA: A IDEIA DE UMA IDENTIDADE SEM FRONTEIRAS
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Estes dados colocam questões interessantes ao conceito de “identidade africana”. O que acontece a este conceito quando ele é filtrado através de duas ou três gerações? O que lhe acontece quando viaja através de longas distâncias e se funde com outros conceitos seja através de casamentos, miscegenações ou por efeito de mera proximidade? Onde começa e acaba a “identidade africana”? A que se assemelha quando vista das suas periferias?
O exercício de pensar a utopia de “mundo sem fronteiras” (como o faz Achille Mbembe) implicará então também imginarmos “identidades sem fronteiras”. A existência de uma população em crescimento acelarado em todo o mundo pode fornecer-nos estudos de caso em torno de questões como a de se saber estas “identidades” são possíveis ou desejáveis e o que poderão significar para as solidariedades e conexões globais.
This raises interesting questions around notions of African identity. What happens to it once filtered through two or three generations? What happens to it when it travels across vast distances and fuses with others whether through intermarriage, intermixing or mere proximity? Where does African identity start and end? What does it look like from its edges?
If we are to imagine a borderless utopia, we may also have to start imagining borderless identities. A growing population around the world provide test cases in questions of whether such identities are possible or desirable and what they might mean for global solidarities and connections.
James Wan estudou na universidade de Cambridge e na London School of Economics (LSE). Trabalha como jornalista sendo, actualmente, o Editor da revista African Arguments (Reino Unido). Foi anteriormente editor da revista African Business e da Think Africa Press.
Tem colaborado com diversas organizações de media como a Al -Jazeera, a BBC, a IRIN a e o jornal britânico The Guardian.
Foi um dos autores incluídos na colectânea Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century (Routledge) e colabora no China-Africa Reporting Project da Wits University (África do Sul).
Em 2013, foi um dos finalistas da International Development Journalism Competition, competição organizada pelo jornal The Guardian.
James Wan is a journalist and award-winning editor focusing on Africa.
He studied at the University of Cambridge and LSE (London School of Economics). At present he is the Editor of the pan-african publication African Arguments (UK). He was previously Acting Editor of African Business magazine and Senior Editor of Think Africa Press.
He has written for Al -Jazeera, BBC, IRIN and the UK newspaper The Guardian.
He was also a contributor to the book Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century (Routledge). He is a fellow of Wits University China-Africa Reporting Project.
In 2013, he was shortlisted for the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Competition and in 2015 he was considered one of 12 leading journalists in Aid and Development.
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