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He had been born Edwin Finley Taliaferro in Detroit, but like many who discovered black nationalist movements in the 1960s, he relinquished his European names and took African ones each, in his case, with connotations of anti-colonial resistance.
The song offers a prayer of thanks, but as the civil rights era dawned, it took on broader connotations – implicitly addressing how African-Americans "got over" for centuries in the face of racism.
Anthony: I hope this progressive project challenges and replaces the negative stereotypes and connotations placed upon generations of African descendants worldwide.
These comments, beyond having inescapably racist connotations, are also disparaging of Luol Deng's African heritage.
Returning to London at the age of 11, being African was not something to be proud of because of all the negative connotations it conjured up, and it drove me to be almost ashamed of who I was.
Cage deals with the same profiling and negative connotations of being a black man in America, the same any African American has the misgivings to deal with, and yet he still does good.
This may make sense for Canada or Australia, whose historical majority culture was an ancestral Britishness that had strongly racial connotations, excluding through their immigration and citizenship policies all Asians or Africans well into the 1960s, and even longer in Australia.
In the ecosystem of the market, Nwaosu is a hustler — a word with largely positive connotations in Canaan patois, a patchwork of English, French, Chinese, Igbo, and other African languages.
