Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars

In Nationalism: (Mis)Understanding Donald Trump’s Capitalism,
Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars, Africa VS
North America Vol 2, we have 10 essays, 3 fiction pieces, 51 poems,
2 plays from leading and upcoming writers, essayists, academicians and
poets from the two regions, Africa and North America and their
Diasporas, in these among other countries, USA, Canada, Sweden,
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, UK etc…, coming
together to transact around issues to do with the nationalism espoused
by Donald Trump. Cornell dissects issues to do with blackness and racism
using Fanon’s theories, Nyongesa deals with the Fetishism of Donald
Trump’s policies known colloquially as Trumpism, Opicho calls it
‘inoracy’, Donald Trump’s statement, “Shit-hole”, some essayists took to
the personal narrative you would find in Mhondera and Kantey’s essays,
yet Pravda used the middle ground between playwriting, Filmmaking and
the essay form, Ofodile investigates the problematic issue of Boko Horam
terrorism in North Nigeria, Bearly looks at capitalism, so does Koffi
with his French Language essay which is also translated into English,
Ifeachor in his poem has praise for Donald Trump, Hall goes back to
apartheid South Africa period and as a direct tangent Matshoba deals
with Xenophobia in his letter written from the future. Smith looks at
the white supremacist demonstrations, for or against Trump, Thompson and
Swanson encourage us to unfocus on Donald Trump, and Thompson rightly
blames us for allowing the likes of Donald Trump and the kind of
Nationalism and Capitalism he stands for to grow. Thus this collection
of writings is rich, robust and very interesting and will be invaluable
to scholarship to do with Nationalism, Capitalism, Media freedoms,
Global Politics, Racism and International trade.