We are on in an hour! Join our panel discussion on: '(Dis)content Futures?: The Politics of Insecurity and Inequality in Africa'. Wed April 6th @ 2-4pm (EST) Zoom Link: yorku.zoom.us/j/94739963967 YorkU Sociology YorkU African Studies Program Founders College YU 吃人陈 SSHRC

We're live, join Yousif Hassan, Hleli Luhlanga ,Temitope Oriola, @tiekutom, Amina C. Mbaye (PhD) and Dr Pablo Idahaso for a conversation on (Dis)content futures: The politics of insecurity and inequality in Africa. Zoom Link: yorku.zoom.us/j/94739963967

Happening right now is a discussion on Queer Afrofeminist futures at the Canadian Association of African Studies / ACÉA conference. Join us if you can. #Congressh

"We need to reconsider our investment is in queer theory... Most queer people just want to live in peace in a country that wants to dehumanize them" Rita Nketiah, PhD

Queer theory and the concept of queerness will be useful to the practice of activism. It can be used as the umbrella term to help create community and network across Africa - Aminata Cecile Mbaye

We do have to respond to colonialism, we have top contend with our indigenous practices. We have to admit that neither of these things is innocent. - Anima Ajepong #Congressh Canadian Association of African Studies / ACÉA

The LGBT question in Africa has evolved. We have this peculiar situation in Africa where policy is not informed by African scholarship. How do we effectively collaborate as academics and activists on the continent? How do we come together? – @DrSNNyeck #Congressh Canadian Association of African Studies / ACÉA

What are the possibilities and challenges of employing activism, storytelling about everyday queerness and projects of queer belonging/liberation to address geographies of exclusion and injustice?

There's a problem of patriarchy and how it continues to show up in queer spaces; a masculinization of what activism should like in these spaces. There's the tendency to consider queer communities as homogeneously progressive - Rita Nketiah, PhD

We need to have an acceptance that we are in a fragile space and recognize our vulnerability. Maybe it’s because these issues are very political and politics can be tiring. How do we move from the brain to the heart? - S.N Nyeck

How would you theorize Queer Afrofeminist futures (i.e., what does it mean to you?)? What could QAF offer us in the current moment and in the future? Canadian Association of African Studies / ACÉA #Congressh

I like to hope for a queer afro feminist future in which we don’t want to die, shouldn't die. A future where we insist on our right to be here on our terms; a sense of belonging, a future in which we all feel safe. - Rita Nketiah, PhD

Amazing day for Decolonising Geography at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Steve Brace talking about how teachers can work towards decolonising their curricula. Keynote speakers included Dr Anjana Khatwa Malica Scott and our very own Tariq Jazeel Shanique Harris 👏🌍