Crumbling History…

While retracing the footsteps of Malcolm X in Sudan for an academic article coming out this month in a Special Issue of the Journal of Africana Religions (“The Meaning of Malcolm X for Africana Religions: Fifty Years On”), I visited this house where Malcolm X had lunch in 1959. As you can see from the photo above, the house is already half-demolished–soon, it will be completely destroyed to make room for a wider road. I’m very grateful that I had the chance to see it, before it disappears…