Milton Allimadi is a Ugandan-American author, journalist, professor, and a co-founder of ''

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''. He is known for his critique of racist writing by white authors about Africa and Africans, in his 2003 book '' The Hearts of Darkness'' and his 2021 ''

Manufacturing Hate ''Manufacturing Hate - How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media'' is a 2021 non-fiction book by Milton Allimadi. The book documents the dehumanizing and racist writing by European and American authors and explorers and how they have been used t ...

''.

Early life and education

Allimadi was born in Uganda. He graduated from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia and has a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from

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Career

Journalism

Allimadi's first journalism job was as an intern at

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before working at the Wall Street Journal. He later worked freelance for the

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where his piece ''Inventing Africa'' pointed out the trend of white reporters fabricating stories about Africa. In 1997, he became the founding editor of New York-based investigative newspaper ''

''. He criticized Ugandan peacekeepers seconded to the United Nations for acting as proxy police force for the United States.Censored 2012: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011. (2011). United Kingdom: Seven Stories Press. Allimadi wrote about the relief of Black Americans after

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was defeated in the

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Activism

In 2014, Allimadi created a petition to the

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to revoke the visa of Ugandan politician

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Academia

Allimadi has worked as professor of African studies and an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at the

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at the

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.Kwarteng, F. (2021). The American Medical Association on the Case for Teaching Racism: Afrocentric Literary Pedagogy in Nursing Education and Clinical Practice. United States: Xlibris US. As of 2022, he worked at the John Jay College and as an adjunct assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia.

Literature

His book '' The Hearts of Darkness'' critiques the racist stereotypes that white writers perpetuate about Africa and Africans, specifically descriptions of barbarism, physical, moral and intellectual inferiority, denial of the positive contributions that Black people have made to culture, arts, science, and descriptions of Africa as inhospitable and uncivilized.Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa. (2018). United States: Lexington Books. pages 191-192

Selected publications

*''Targeted Rapes to Spread HIV Started in Uganda,'' 2009,

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*'' The Hearts of Darkness - How White Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa'', 2002, Black Star Books *'' Manufacturing Hate - How Africa Was Demonized in Western Media'', 2021,

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References

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