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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

The Apostate Revolutionary

(this short creative essay is based on the book _Whither Fanon_ by David Marriott)

3 min readMar 21, 2024

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Black Reconstruction as a Portal

This piece was written as a cover letter application for the 2022–2023 Black Reconstruction Fellowship at UC Irvine

4 min readDec 31, 2022

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

2022 Momus Emerging Critics Residency Application

Statement of Intent

3 min readAug 11, 2022

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

I Mumbled At the Fire

“Silence often denotes something that is suppressed or repressed and is an interiority that is about withholding, absence, and stillness…

6 min readApr 22, 2022

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

A Foray into African Studies

These remarks were given at a University of California African Studies workshop held at UC Berkleley in March 2022.

5 min readApr 11, 2022

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Review of Frank Wilderson’s _Afropessimism_

“Althusser writes about the three great fatherless children of modernity: Marx, Nietsche, and Freud. And then ya know you get from those…

5 min readApr 3, 2022

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Review of Frank Wilderson’s _Afropessimism_

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Of What to the Slave is Juneteenth?

Racial slavery remains an under-theorized and misunderstood condition.

3 min readJun 17, 2021

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Of What to the Slave is Juneteenth?

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Written response for a student panel on diversity in higher ed

These were my prepared remarks as an invited student panelist for the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Diversity, Equity…

3 min readMar 27, 2021

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

PLANTATION LOGICS UNDERWRITE THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

This essay originally appeared in the Abolish The UC’s 2020 Disorientation Guide — https://disorientation.guide/

4 min readFeb 21, 2021

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Hieroglyphics and Afropessimism

This piece is from a presentation given for Dr. Frank Wilderson’s seminar on Afropessimism. The piece is based on the article “Speaking…

3 min readFeb 18, 2021

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Hieroglyphics and Afropessimism

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Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

The apostate marabout in absentia. Tentative tai chi swordsman. Soul-not-for-sale whilst suffering from weltschmerz. Somewhere sippin' baobab juice.

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