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Unlike Selasi, whose contemporary notion of
Afropolitanism only considers the last couple of decades and voluntary movement, Mbembe finds forced movement – of which the transatlantic slave trade is an extreme example – as capable of leading to an Afropolitan way of being as well. Mbembe asserts that people on the African continent have always mixed elements of different cultures, beliefs and ways of being. Movement (to, from and across the continent) and encounters naturally lead to Afropolitanism’s essential characteristic: a “broad-mindedness”, which enables creative and critical thinking with relevance for local and global contexts.
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Afropolitanism as a thoroughly African way of being. This Afropolitanism includes a critical examination of Africa and the world. Human mobility is central to Selasi's and Mbembe's conceptions of Afropolitanism.
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and a few other celebrity authors. Several communities, artists, and publications now use the label, most notably The
Afropolitan Network, The Afropolitan Experience, The Afropolitan Legacy Theatre, The Afropolitan Collection, Afropolitan Berlin and South Africa's
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