Aza Y. Alam
Jan 6, 2024

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Alexander, I was kicked out of academia as an undergraduate of Philosophy and Social Anthropology and it was simply because the examiners reacted with a vociferous umbrage at my audacity to analyse Western philosophy as essentially Eurocentric.

I wrote my thesis as a dialogue between Sojourner Truth (an actual woman of African heritage, who grew up enslaved in the USA) and the big wigs of white philosophy.

I'd love you to use this term and spread it far and wide, but if you could introduce it with that reference to my name and experience I would be very glad, as you will help to dispel the notion of the liberal democracies being all for freedom of expression . That has not been my experience - as Julian Assange and others with no publicity about their experiences of dissent in the Western sham-ocracies, would testify.

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

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Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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