Specifically the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which, thus, made me, read the rather controversial book YURUGU: An Afrikan- Centered Critique of European Culture Thought and Behavior.
The book written by Marimba Ani discusses the notion of Yurugu, which Ani defines as, “A being in Dogon mythology which is responsible for disorder in the universe. This is a being conceived in denial of the natural order which then acts to initiate and promote disharmony in the universe.” (Ani, P. xxviii) I used that term quite often in my piece entitled #CompassionMatters and used it to discuss how challenging a movement’s rhetoric to apply your own is often problematic because it takes away from the overall agency and empowerment a movement is supposed to