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Wednesday, October 23

Black-European Women's Internationalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Time:
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Presenter:
Pamela Ohene-Nyako, University of Geneva
Location:
4157 WWPH
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of Africana Studies

Pamela Ohene-Nyako Afrolitt’ is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of General History at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Her dissertation explores Black-European women’s transnational activism between 1968 and 2001. Pamela is also the founder of Afrolitt,’ a bilingual platform that uses literature from sub-Saharan Africa and its Black diaspora as a tool enabling critical knowledge and sharing. Its activities take place in Lausanne, Geneva and Accra. They range from reading groups to events around literature, as well as a blog and a web series.