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Kumina Queen w/ Nyasha Laing
According to Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Kumina is the most African of the [cultural expressions] to be found in Jamaica, with negligible European or Christia…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Future Of Black Studies w/ Abdul Alkalimat
As Professor Alkalimat provides a few opening thoughts to his recently published, The Future of Black Studies, he writes “The future we need is the o…
3 years, 9 months ago
Africa & food security/insecurity in an age of planetary crisis
In a 2015 article titled, Decolonizing Our minds and Our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture and African Strength, Gathuru Mburu writes that: “Recolonizat…
3 years, 9 months ago
CAUSE & the Black radical tradition
The histories of Black working-class struggle, specifically in the South are rooted in radical methodologies that are grounded in the material condit…
3 years, 9 months ago
Africa, the university & the politics of knowledge production w/ Paul Zeleza
Gloria Emeagwali writes in Africa and the Academy: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa, that “colonialism was a system of administration and a…
3 years, 11 months ago
a conversation w/ Ọnuọra Abụah
Normally, we provide an introduction that attempts to situate or appropriately orient our conversations … however, there are those instances where th…
4 years ago
reflections on IRR50 w/ Colin Prescod
This year, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the radical transformation of the Institute of Race Relations [IRR]. On April 18, 1972, the directio…
4 years ago
the battle for the horn of Africa & the targeting of Somalia
Cultivating a historical consciousness requires effort. Purpose. A desire to organize information in order to develop projects that intend to directl…
4 years ago
rhythms of freedom: Africa & Black internationalism w/ Tom Porter [revised & extended]
From a program held earlier this year ... We invite you to tap into this program that we had earlier this year which featured a public lecture-conve…
4 years, 1 month ago
dialectics of liberation w/ Abdul Alkalimat
Abdul Alkalimat opens, Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement with this first-hand observation of the events that led up t…
4 years, 1 month ago