Strange and Difficult Times
Strange and Difficult Times We had hoped that we lived in a world that would rally in the face of a common threat. Nanjala Nyabola focusses on the big crisis of the current moment, Covid-19, and the…
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Strange and Difficult Times
We had hoped that we lived in a world that would rally in the face of a common threat. Nanjala Nyabola focusses on the big crisis of the current moment, Covid-19, and the world that it may leave in its wake.Condemning the ways in which the pandemic has exacerbated global inequalities, she argues against the lazy lens that attributes agency to the West and subjecthood to Africans and others in the Global South-drawing all of the aspects Instead, we found that the collective good is abandoned for the economic and political benefit of a handful of people, and nationalist myths of exceptionalism rob billions of their right to survive.Strange and Difficult Times is a new essay collection looking at the biases, assumptions and moral failures in Western responses (both individual and collective, psychological and practical) to the 'crises' of the early twenty-first century.
Strange Times Delonge Tom J.