1:00-2:00pm Black Morocco Prompted by recent instances of violence against black African migrants in Morocco, Omar Berrada discusses an ongoing project investigating histories of trans-Saharan encounters over centuries of commercial, spiritual, and scholarly exchange when the desert looked more like a bridge than a barrier, one where cultures met and created new, creolized forms of life. 3:00-4:00pm Black Listening Teju Cole’s DJ lecture is an exploration of the way music, over the past 25 years, played an essential role in his personal notion of Africanness. Through a rejection of national or ethnic boundaries, he developed a sense of common cause with other Africans, in a way that had not been available to him as a Yoruba boy growing up in Lagos. Presented by Kwani Trust, a Nairobi-based literary network.
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