Afrikan

Salikoko Mufwene s-mufwene at UCHICAGO.EDU
Tue Mar 5 22:33:38 UTC 2013


Isn't this an ideological thing, having to do with Afrocentrism and
self-empowerment? Just guessing...

Sali.

On 3/5/2013 4:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Th CNN crawl mentions an "Afrikan Heritage House" at Oberlin College.
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> What's this "Afrikan" business? I can remember when radicals were using
> "Amerika" and even "Amerikkka." But they were being critikal. So what gives?
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> JL
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