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  • [PODCAST] In Konversation: Unpacking the myth of the “racial democracy” in Brazil – Part 1

    [PODCAST] In Konversation: Unpacking the myth of the “racial democracy” in Brazil – Part 1 briankamanzi 2015-10-04 Brian Kamanzi, Host Cape Town, South Africa Marcelo Rosa, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil In Konversation: Unpacking the myth of the “racial democracy” in Brazil – Part 1 by Inkonversation on Mixcloud Konversation meets…

  • Lopsided Afro

    Lopsided Afro Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-05-04 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Self Determination. I never realised how practical those words would become for my life until I started to explore the world beyond the safety of my University. Work spaces where the politics…

  • My President

    My President Abernathy: for gentlemen of culture 2015-02-09 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Barack Hussein Obama. Let me start this off by an admission. The man is my hero. But, let me assure you that this has little to do with who he actually is. This isn’t about his foreign policy or about his…

  • Curly Hair

    Curly Hair Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-26 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa My Curly hair. This hair I have on my head has always been something I’ve had to be conscious about. Growing up my soft curls where a marker of my “difference”. Mum…

  • Caught In-between

    Caught In-between Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-13 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Caught In-between. So for the longest time. I had grown up thinking of myself as an “almost” Indian. A half-Indian. Half caste. Whatever the hell sort of awful approximation of an authentic…

  • This is my story (Part 1)

    This is my story (Part 1) briankamanzi 2014-03-14 Brian Kamanzi My name is Brian, in 1990 I was born to a South African Indian mother and a Ugandan father in Mthatha, a small city located in the hilly region of what is still often referred to as the Transkei in the heart of the Eastern…