Indeed,
Afro-pessimism, a prominent theory informing the M4BL, views Blackness as an ontological condition of social death, a position of radical exclusion that undermines conventional political strategies (including radical ones) (Martinot & Sexton 2003, Wilderson 2003).
So, categories like
Afro-pessimism are just a little bit empty, sometimes.
Raquel Baker in her essay offers
Afro-pessimism as one of the counterweights to balance the euphoria that some feel after their first viewing of Black Panther.
The supposed apoliticality of
Afro-pessimism, according to its critics, is in the inevitability of failure.
Drawing from hegemonic theory, theory of consent,
Afro-pessimism and systematic racism theory, we create a framework for understanding why and how race matters in the 21 st century and ways people of color challenge racialized social structures through #BlackLivesMatter and Black Studies programs.
Their topics include towards a hermeneutic for public theology: conversations with Habermas and Schillebeeckx, the hermeneutics of intersubjectivity: theologies of homelessness, still revealing himself: how Jesus' resurrection enables Christians to be public theologians, overcoming political Nestorianism: toward a Calcedonian politics, concentrating on creation: following Christ in a context of climate change, eschatology and the discourse of martyrdom, Schillebeeckx's view of eschatology as public theology today,
Afro-pessimism and Christian hope, the church and the elusive public, and the church in the limelight of the public square: an alternative community.
Leaving Lonely Planet's neocolonialist discourse aside, fictional and nonfictional representations of Nigeria from the mid-1980s onwards tend to convey
Afro-pessimism, "the belief that the continent and its populace is hopelessly imprisoned in its past, trapped [in] a vicious cycle of underdevelopment, and held hostage to corrupt institutions" (Gikandi 2011, 9).
For his part, Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), does not share this
Afro-pessimism. He made this absolutely clear on Monday in Geneva at the opening of the Africa CEO Forum 2015.
"In the last decades of the previous century,
Afro-pessimism was very common.
Mo Ibrahim, Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation said: "Neither
Afro-pessimism nor Afro-optimism do justice to modern Africa.
The Bank was created at a time of
Afro-pessimism during the '80s.