{"id":12503,"date":"2020-09-21T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=12503"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:21:53","slug":"africas-isms-colourism-and-racism-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/panel-discussion-africas-isms-colourism-and-racism","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Isms: Colourism and Racism (Panel Discussion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We cannot pretend that Africa does not struggle with its own ethnic or colour-related isms. The worst carry-over of colonialism that biases we face in Africa, the darkness of our skin and the tribe we come from. Hosted by Yemisi Adegoke, this panel will discuss the history of Colourism and Racism and what we can do to amend it. This panel will be joined by Sara-Jayne King, Aleya Kassam and Diana Yekinni.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We cannot pretend that Africa does not struggle with its own ethnic or colour-related isms. The worst carry-over of colonialism that biases we face in Africa, the darkness of&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-style\" href=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/panel-discussion-africas-isms-colourism-and-racism\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13177,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[51],"class_list":["post-12503","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-panel-discussion","cat_panel-discussion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Africa\u2019s Isms: Colourism and Racism (Panel Discussion) - Ake Arts &amp; Book Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/panel-discussion-africas-isms-colourism-and-racism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Africa\u2019s Isms: Colourism and Racism (Panel Discussion) - Ake Arts &amp; Book Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We cannot pretend that Africa does not struggle with its own ethnic or colour-related isms. 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