Upcoming Event: "African Feminist Marronage: On the Power of African Feminist World/Space/Placemaking"
Promotional flyer for the upcoming event, “African Feminist Marronage.”
Left to right: Buchi Emecheta, Josina Abiathar Muthemba Machel, Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, Thenjiwe Lesabe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, and Andrée Blouin.
Join us for our upcoming event in collaboration with the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora titled, “African Feminist Marronage.”
On Saturday, May 3rd at 3:00 PM GMT/11:00 AM EST, join us for our upcoming event in collaboration with The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) titled, "African Feminist Marronage: On the Power of African Feminist World/Space/Placemaking.”
The event will be held in-person at LOATAD, which is located in the Adenta Municipality in Accra, Ghana.
There is also a Zoom option for those who cannot attend in-person. You can register for the event here: https://bit.ly/AfricanFeministMarronage
“African Feminist Marronage” interrogates the crucial role and leadership of African Feminists in creating new worlds and sights of refuge, restoration, and recovery across archival, digital, spiritual, textual, physical, and geographic methods and modalities, despite anti-Black racialized and gendered colonial and patriarchal violence, political and citation erasure, and more. Speakers for this event include Vida Agbolosu, Noor Elfaki, vangile gantsho & Tracy Owoo.
This event is a part of Black Women Radicals' teach-in series, “Black Feminist Marronage”, which centers the power, self-determination, and activism of Black women and gender expansive communities around the world, and their unrepentant and unyielding fortitude in creating transformative places and spaces of sanctuary, survival, and solidarity for ourselves and posterity.
About the Collaborating Organizations:
Black Women Radicals (BWR) is a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting Black women and gender expansive people’s radical political activism.
The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a library, archive, writing residency, and research institute dedicated to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of works by African and African-descended writers from the late 19th century to the present day. LOATAD’s collection includes +/- 4000 books by, and ephemera from, writers from 44 of Africa’s 54 countries and Black authors from the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe.