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Given the general excitement over the New Millennium, Femi Ojo-Ade has deemed it fit to re-visit the question of race and color with regards to Africans from the continent and the Diaspora. His intention is to determine whether humanity has made enough progress to belie the late W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1903 statement on the preeminance of racism as a universal problem. The critic uses both written texts and film to assess the experiences of Africans as they encounter Euro-America and search for identity in a global village that has remained primarily Eurocentric. The article’s conclusions challenge all those of African ancestry: In the face of persistent racism, a polarization of Africans along continental and national lines can only hurt the cause of all descendants of Africa, including the African Americans who are being urged to prioritize their citizenship of the United States.

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Africans and Racism in The new Millennium

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