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Africadia
DCHP-3 (Apr 2024)
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n. — Ethnicities
a Black Nova Scotian community.
Type: 1. Origin — The term was coined by poet George Elliott Clarke and has since been utilized by other writers (see the 2020 and 2025 quotations).
See: Africadian
Quotations
2019
In an interview with the Telegraph-Journal, Nova Scotia-based Historian Barry Cahill said that although Walker felt that he should be "accepted as a lawyer and not a black lawyer," there were also issues with members of the N.B. Bar.
"If you're the first, not everybody is going to be happy to see you or treat you as you would expect or deserve to be treated."
In his research paper, "First Things in Africadia", published in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal, he points to the sheer range of activities Walker undertook in his life, including itinerant lecturer, journalist, magazine editor, political organizer and civil rights activist, as suggesting he could not and did not earn his living as a lawyer - alongside the fact that there is no direct evidence he ever had a conventional law practice.
"If you're the first, not everybody is going to be happy to see you or treat you as you would expect or deserve to be treated."
In his research paper, "First Things in Africadia", published in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal, he points to the sheer range of activities Walker undertook in his life, including itinerant lecturer, journalist, magazine editor, political organizer and civil rights activist, as suggesting he could not and did not earn his living as a lawyer - alongside the fact that there is no direct evidence he ever had a conventional law practice.
2020
In his imaginary dimension of Africadia, Siwa Mgoboza is 'obliterating identity'.
Siwa Mgoboza's textile works bring to life a dimension free of race, sexuality and gender. See his work as part of Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu Continuel, the National Gallery of Canada's exhibit of international Indigenous art running from July 23 to October 4, 2020.
Siwa Mgoboza's textile works bring to life a dimension free of race, sexuality and gender. See his work as part of Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu Continuel, the National Gallery of Canada's exhibit of international Indigenous art running from July 23 to October 4, 2020.
2021
Through the prism of his remarkable family, Clarke takes us on a fascinating journey through Africadia, his name for the tightly knit, Black Nova Scotian communities that are now fading away into the broader culture.