Decolonizing Transnational Assemblages of Knowledge from African Feminist Perspectives
5th of June, 14h-16h
Bâtiment de Recherche Sud, Salle 3.122
Campus Condorcet
From the 1700s records of African and Caribbean scholars there have been consistent calls for the retelling and re-inserting of our stories into global history. Black and African women’s knowledges have been central to the care and wellbeing of our communities. Hence, an insistence on indigenous knowledge assemblage has been core to African feminist perspectives. Black and African feminisms emerged as theoretical and political projects showing how race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism, neo colonialism, and capitalism are inseparable. These intersections made the project of decolonizing knowledge assemblages almost inescapable. These are the stories this presentation attends to.
Akosua Adomako Ampofo is Professor of African and Gender Studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana (UG). She considers herself an activist scholar, and at the heart of her work are questions of identity and power—within families, institutions, political and religious spaces, and the knowledge industry. Her areas of interest include African Knowledge systems; Higher education; Race and Identity Politics; Gender relations; Masculinities; and Popular Culture.