View from Africa illustration by Kate Copeland.

In October, I saw Angela Davis, lifelong freedom fighter, feminist philosopher and author from the US, speak at an online event called ‘Black Feminist Writers and Palestine’, organized by the Black Women Radicals advocacy organization.1

Davis led with what is at stake in the world today. Reflecting on her own visit to Palestine, she reminded us of the piercing words of her friend June Jordan, the late Jamaican-American poet and activist: ‘Palestine is a litmus test, especially now.’