“Indonesian blacksmithing is spiritually powerful and sacred, and an area exclusive to men. The story is that blacksmiths forged human souls for the next generation”
-Alice Dewey, University of Hawaii
West African writer L.E. Ikenga explains that Barack Obama’s platitudes about race in America were useless in understanding who he is. Throughout the president’s much-adored book, Dreams From My Father, Obama claims his identity as African—even as he exploits the historical struggles of blacks in America to suit his own purposes.
