The lost promise of childhood
The state-sanctioned violence committed against children such as Nahel M forces us to revisit the very question of childhood, its privileges, and its roots in the French imperialization of Africa.
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Amber Sweat
Amber Patrice Sweat is a PhD candidate in French at the University of California-Berkeley.
The colonial wounds of Senegal’s girlchild
In ‘Black Girl’ (1966) and ‘Cuties’ (2020), M’Bissine T. Diop is a cautionary figure who warns of colonialism’s wounds and afterlives for Black girl belonging in the present day.