maps, the mapmakers, & what was taken?
reflections after reading some of Something Torn & Something New
Mapping, which involves exploration and surveying, was followed first by naming and then by ownership
-Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
What sort of maps do they make before they name a child they call “Black” as theirs. We know it’s been done before, life doesn’t repeat— it rhymes. And that’s Common Sense like water for chocolate.
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