Category: talks
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New event: Legacy Talk at Young Africa Centre (YAC)
Telling Our Stories: Memory, Archives and Legacy from ‘A Women’s Oral History of West Africa‘ by Sylvia Arthur. Friday, 21 November 2025 at 6.30 pm. Online. About November’s Legacy TalkIn this Legacy Talk, we sit down with Sylvia Arthur to explore the methodology behind A Women’s Oral History of West Africa, uncover the transformative power of archiving, and…
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New event in Lagos, Nigeria
I’m looking forward to presenting A Women’s Oral History Of West Africa at the G.A.S. Foundation‘s re:assemblages Symposium in Lagos, Nigeria, next month. This will be the first time I’ll be speaking about the project on the African continent and in West Africa, no less: Keynote Panel: Rematriating the Archive This keynote panel examines how…
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New online event with Black Women Radicals
Following on from my first in-person event in Berlin last month, I’m looking forward to doing my first online event for “A Women’s Oral History Of West Africa” later this month with the brilliant Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics. Join us online on Saturday, 27 September for “Speaking Herself Into…
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Kwame Nkrumah Festival talk
Left Feminist Biographies From the Kwame Nkrumah Festival at the University of Ghana, 2021 Following the screening of biographical documentaries on Lorraine Hansberry and Ama Ata Aidoo, this panel brought together several accomplished feminist biographers to discuss lessons that can be drawn from the lives and experiences of revolutionary African women: Claudia Jones, Eslanda Robeson,…
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The necessity of curiosity
I recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation and workshop on my National Geographic Society project to a group of schoolchildren aged between 13 and 16. There were, perhaps, 60 students in total, three groups in three different parts of the world: one in Europe, one in the Caribbean, and one in Africa, Ghana,…
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Talk: On the Liberating Power of Literature
“For most of my life, I’d been reading outside myself, conditioned by the (education) system and society, in general, to read only books and authors that were deemed “classics” or part of “the canon.” When I began to read more narrowly, my perspective began to change, as did my understanding of language and the way…
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Talk: A Masterclass on Social Change
September 7, 2022 | 2 pm GMT | University of Ghana, Balme LibraryA Masterclass on Social Change From the organisers: In partnership with IFED Global, Peace First, a global incubator for youth-led social change, is holding a masterclass designed to ignite the urgency and creativity of young people across Africa towards sustainable community development. In the flagship…
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Talk: 30 Minutes with Sylvia Arthur: litafrika
August 23, 2022 | 10:15 am GMT / 12:15 pm CET | Online litafrika: poetry from a continent30 minutes with Sylvia ArthurStrauhof Zurich, live broadcast The “Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora” (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, is a library, but also an archive, a museum, a writing residency, and a research facility: It is dedicated…
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