Lenny A. Ureña Valerio’s scientific contributions

... As Piotr Puchalski has argued, through the establishment of a Liga Morska I Kolonialna (LMik, Maritime and Colonial League) in 1930, Poland developed a colonial discourse that both saw itself as morally superior to its British, French and German colonial counterparts and appealed to an alleged Polish-African brotherhood that could serve as a unique bridge between Europe and Africa (Puchalski, 2017). In this vein, (Millot, cited in Coppens, 1988: 122-23 Swimming with the coelacanth into the black holes while some Polish politicians understood that the colonial conditions experienced by Black Africans resonated with their own fate under the partitioning powers, others grappling with the legacy of partitions viewed themselves superior to their supposed African 'brethren' as a way to shore up their own whiteness, viewed as synonymous with culture and civilisation (Ureña Valerio, 2019;Zaremba, 2022). ...

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Swimming with the coelacanth into the black holes of Breslau/Wrocław, the Eastern Polish Kresy and Madagascar