ABSTRACT
The Afropolitan is one who stakes moral claims to Africa and the world, and conversely admits that others can lay the same claim to Africa. The Afropolitan believes that being African is not reductive to colour, heritage or autochthony; rather being African is expansive. Whoever has lived on the continent long enough to identify with it is African; out of this flow all other conceivable forms of relationships. We are all Africans, and we believe that to be is to relate. The more expansive our spheres of relations are, the deeper is our humanity. We, Afropolitans, believe in the ever expanding universe in which we are the centres; we are the centres of the world because in each of us there is a space big enough to contain apparent contradictions and oddities: We are not half this or half that; we are this and that. In matters of history, the Afropolitan distinguishes between lust for vengeance and search for fairness.
