THOUGHTLEADER: Although Beyoncé’s visuals are spectacularly beautiful, we are allowed to criticise ‘Black is King’ as reducing Africa for the gaze of the capitalist West, writes withPaballo.
Black is King
evoked a lot of contradictory feelings and reflections inside me. I believe art is not void of intention: art can be very political and does not exist in a vacuum; art is created to be consumed and critiqued, without fear or favour. It is thus harmful to want to silence any discourse about Beyoncé’s art and artistry. She exists at the confluence of many contradictory identities as her matrix of oppression and domination in theIntersectionally speaking, “Queen B”, as she’s affectionately known, is both an oppressor and the oppressed, occupying multiple roles at once. She is a super-rich, famous, light-skinned African American woman who has power and privilege.
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