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QUEERING BELONGING 4-PART VIDEO SERIES
Curated by Bimbola Akinbola (performance studies, Northwestern University), Queering Belonging is a 4-part video series that considers how community, family, and kin are being redefined and reimagined on the African continent and in the diaspora. The final installment by Tiffany Kagure Mugo (HOLAA!) is now available.
Video 1: Author and scholar Keguro Macharia's video: "And So, Kinship?"
Video 2: Bimbola Akinbola's video
Video 3: Xavier Livermon's video: "Queer Belonging in South Africa"
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New Documentary: Mandela in Chicago
Ava Thompson Greenwell talks about her new documentary released February 14, Mandela in Chicago, with Douglas Foster.
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Events
Mar
10
2021
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean (Aliyah Khan)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean: Autobiographical Writings of Enslaved Sufi West Africans in Colonial Jamaica, and Sufi Poetry in...
Apr
7
2021
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religiou...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity Join ISITA for a talk by Iqbal Akhtar (religious studies/po...
Apr
21
2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups Join ISITA for talk by Alexander Thurston (political science, ...