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Black is not king, queen or peasant — black is complex

Paballo Chauke by Paballo Chauke 4 August 20204 August 2020

Although Beyoncé’s visuals are spectacularly beautiful, we are allowed to criticise ‘Black is King’ as reducing Africa for the gaze of the capitalist West

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