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“I want to understand how my continent is being imagined in intellectual discourses across the globe so I can turn received wisdoms about Africa upside down.”
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“Invoking Martin Luther King, Jr, Cornel West once said that an activist is someone who is ‘maladjusted to injustice’. We should all be activists; I certainly am.”
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“I wrote Gbagba and Jaadeh! with the intention of starting a bloodless, ethical ‘revolution from below’, using children as my allies.”
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I look forward to #reconvening an inter-collegiate seminar/short course in #Liberia this #August based on my award-winning #book! Students at #UL, #AMEU, #StellaMaris & #UMU can apply BEFORE 1 June. Grateful to the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa & LSE Department of Social Policy for funding.
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) Mar 25, 2026 at 6:53
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