Mandela in Havana, Maria in the Favela: Black Hosts
Akin Adeṣọkan, Indiana University, Bloomington
Thu, 4/24 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 144 Louis A. Simpson Building
Program in African Studies, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
This lecture introduces a work-in-progress about the historical and artistic reverberations of the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester and the 1947 founding of the journal Présence Africaine. These two moments shaped African and global-Black experiences prior to but particularly in the Civil Rights and independence eras, but with long history and a range of artistic practices yet to receive due accounting. My goal is to propose ways out of the silos of academic disciplines through which ideas and stories about the continent and its scattered populations have been distributed.
