Professor Abdou Seck is a decolonial scholar and activist from Senegal (West Africa). In this seminar, we will learn more about his work and what decolonial activism looks like from a West-African and Senegalese perspective! This chat will be facilitated by Dr. Pernille Røge and Dr. Oronde Sharif. Reception to follow!
More about the speaker:
Professor Abdou Seck founded and currently leads the Group for Action and Critical Study of Africa (GAEC – Africa), a decolonial group of activist scholars. Prof. Seck’s work centers on making theory accessible to people outside of academia and he engages with artists, musicians, indigenous communities, and boots-on-the-ground activists to bridge the gap between academia/theory to the populations living those lives that theory comes from. He brings critical knowledge of race and racial formation from a West African and Pan-Africanist perspective. This is all part of a larger conversation about the globalization of Africa and the Africanization of the globe – it is of critical importance to center African knowledge and uplift education about Africa in our communities and beyond.
