The Radio as the Master’s Tool: How the Algerian Revolution Repurposed a Colonial Technology into One of Resistance

Audre Lorde famously stated in a <a href="https://monoskop.org/images/2/2b/Lorde_Audre_1983_The_Masters_Tools_Will_Never_Dismantle_the_Masters_House.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">1979 speech</a> that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.’ In this speech, she argued that using the tools of racist patriarchy to examine the fruits of that very same racist patriarchy would only allow the narrowest parameters of change, if any. And she was correct. Make no mistake; despite the title of this article, it contains no effort to disprove her statement within the context it is situated: as a powerful call to oppressed groups to build their own systems, faculties, communities in which to situate and conduct resistance. <a href="https://ammarayasin.medium.com/the-radio-as-the-masters-tool-how-the-algerian-revolution-repurposed-a-colonial-technology-into-2355b557889a">Visit Now</a>