“If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”
-James Baldwin
During my final episode with the Decolonization in Action Podcast, I interviewed Zoé Samudzi and we spoke about Black radical politics, German colonial science, etc. While my involvement has come to an end, I hope to continue sharpening my storytelling through radical imagination & writing.
Zoé Samudzi is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Verso, The New Republic, Daily Beast, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and other outlets. She is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents. Along with William C. Anderson, she is the co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press). Samudzi was a 2017 Public Imagination Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California San Francisco.
References
As Black as Resistance: https://www.akpress.org/as-black-as-resistance.html
The Holocaust Analogy: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3908-the-holocaust-analogy
Looking After: https://www.artforum.com/slant/zoe-samudzi-on-museums-and-human-remains-86153
The Paradox of Plenty: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/otobong-nkanga-2-1234583810/
For some info on the Herero and Nama genocide, you can read more about it here: https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/herero-and-nama-genocide