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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Matthieu Chapman
20 Apr 2022
This week’s featured scholar is Matthieu Chapman. Dr. Chapman is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His essay is “‘Away, You Ethiop!’: A…
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SPEECH: (Re)Centring African Epistemologies: An Intellectual Journey, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, 2021.
09 Feb 2022
Nigerian scholar Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí’s speech upon acceptance of the African Studies Association’s Distinguished Africanist Award offers an important reminder of the role of racist and sexist hie
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STATEMENT: Black Caucus Protest at the African Studies Association, Montreal, October, 1969
13 Oct 2021
Black challenges to white control of African Studies at the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal exposed the deeply entrenched racism within, and the imperialist leanings of, th
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Scent of Africa” Marketed to “Afropolitans”
11 May 2020
Fifty years after most African nations won nominal independence, ad agencies are marketing upscale products like the perfume “Scent of Africa” to so-called “Afropolitans,” a cohort defined by
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Pérez’s “Religion in the Kitchen”
26 Jun 2019
Black gods matter, because Black lives matter.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Women Loom Large in African Secessionist Movements
14 May 2019
In Cameroon and the former Spanish Sahara, “women are using traditional ideas about power to drives these secessionist movements,” said Jacqueline Bethel-Mougoue, a professor of hi
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Grandfather’s Powerful African Microphone
26 Feb 2019
GoGo Breeze, an elder with a radio program on a provincial Zambian station, counsels listeners on wage theft and other problems facing the common people -- and gets results.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Seton Hall Students Will Renew Push on Africana Studies
17 Dec 2018
Students with the Concerned 44 movement, representing the 44 percent of students that are ethnic or gender minorities, plan to renew their protests after the holidays at Seton Hall University, said