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Africans and African Americans: Political Solidarities and the Question of Slavery

October 25, 2024 at 3:30pm – 5:00pm

Eggers Hall, 341

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The Moynihan Institute’s Maxwell African Scholars Union (MASU) presents Mukoma Wa Ngugi.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi argues that while interpersonal, political and cultural solidarity have always been historically present between Africans and African Americans, the relationship is also mediated by each seeing the other through the lens of racism. Furthermore, the question of African complicity in the selling of Black Americans into slavery is also central to the relationship. 

Light refreshments will be served.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a professor of literatures in English at Cornell University and the author of “The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership,” the novels “Mrs. Shaw,” “Black Star Nairobi,” “Nairobi Heat,” and two books of poetry, “Logotherapy” and “Hurling Words at Consciousness: Unbury Our Dead With Song,” a novel about competing Tizita musicians that was released from Cassava Republic Press in May of 2021.

A former co-editor of Pambazuka News and political columnist for the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, Mukoma’s columns have also appeared in The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Ebony.com, Chimurenga, Los Angeles Times, South African Labour Bulletin, Africa is a Country, Daily Nation, and Business Daily Africa. He has been a guest on Democracy Now, NPR, Al Jazeera, Nation TV, and the BBC World Service, among others.   

This event was published on October 7, 2024.

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