FESTAC ’77 was Nigeria’s boldest attempt to lead Africa, and a cultural spectacle for the world. But trying to impress the world came at a steep cost.
On this episode of Previously in Nigeria...
Happy to share that my article on Makumbi and Afropolitanism in @JCLJournal is now available to read online. 😀
Probably a good time to also note that I am over on Bluesky (@clarenicheall.bsky.social)
https://t.co/JPLJr5SLV2
Just wanted to shout out this CFP for Josh Jewell's ACLA panel on 'Surplus Labour and World-Literature' -excellent opportunity to discuss social reproduction and subsumption: https://t.co/NgBoVjywDs
CFP for a fantastic upcoming conference on 'Palestinian Landscapes & Liberatory Ecologies' organised by the Palestine and Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE) group as part of their Autumn School Nov 9th-10 in Ramallah and online: https://t.co/0S9Lvn49Im
Registration is now open for the Trans* Research Association of Ireland's First Annual Symposium! 31st Oct - 1st Nov in Dublin with a keynote from @HilMalatino and panels from an incredible series of presenters. Register here: https://t.co/U1TwWoRvqh
🌳 Competition Alert 🌳
Thanks to @ElysianFilmUK, to celebrate the return of MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO on Aug 2, we have a very special @ghibliuk merch bundle to give away including a Totoro plush puppet, a notebook, a poster and more!
To be in with a chance, follow & rt this ✨
#AfricaCommons has nearly 600,000 items digitised on its incredible database!
Elizabeth Robey, part of the editorial team at Coherent Digital, currently manages the portfolio and told us about it at the 2nd installment of the #SCOLMA2024SS
See how you can access the database 👇
This is huge. UCD pushed by the students & by OUR UCD to make a strong statement, to provide scholarships & fellowships, to make serious moves to divest, to build an anti-apartheid, anti-racist UCD. The genocide continues in Gaza & Palestine, and we will continue to fight. 🍉🍉✊
Solidarity with Palestine & solidarity w/ the students "UCD Justice for Palestine and AfP strongly support the solidarity encampment established by UCD students... “It is outrageous that those who oppose war must fight for the space to argue for peace.”"
https://t.co/YV154C9kHD