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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Place of Africa: Erasure\, Elision\, and the Task of Self-Writing
DESCRIPTION:Narratives of “connectivity” typically rely on discourses about Africa as a blank space devoid of social networks that are unique\, vibrant\, and continually being modified. While this takes agency away from Africans\, it rests on the colonial assumption that “connectivity\,” just as “civilization” before it\, is inherently exogenous\, white\, and male. This talk begins with the Rhodesian fantasy of connecting Africa from the Cape to Cairo and traces this logic through the contemporary discourse of digital inequality. It argues that the story of media & tech and African society today is as much rooted in the “hubris of good intentions” espoused by Henry Morton Stanley and Lord Frederick Lugard as it is in Silicon Valley’s missionary bent. In both\, the Global North’s actions are presented as bringing Africans into history and launching them into the future. Of course\, the Africa this discourse embraces is an imaginary Africa rather than a geographic Africa with people in it. This imaginary is vital because\, as Tageldin reminds us\, for the Global North to understand itself\, “Africa must be both ever compared and ever beyond the reach of comparison: beyond the pale of Western humanity” (2014\, 303). When it comes to media & technological advancement\, narratives about Africa and Africans are always\, as Mbembe reminds us\, “pretext for a comment on something else\, some other place\, some other people” (2001\, 3). The anchoring motivation for this talk is an excavation of moments of Africa’s “self-writing” in its pursuit to challenge the continual erasure and elision in connectivity narratives by the Global North. \nj. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. His primary scholarship examines media constructions of knowledge in Africa\, focusing on genocide and mass atrocities. His research interests include the effects of ethnicity and culture on the media representations of human rights violations\, global and transnational news flows\, postcolonial land claims\, and the political economy of international media\, with a regional emphasis on postcolonial Africa. His primary book project offers an extensive account of media coverage of Darfur between 2003 and 2008 within various African states (including Kenya\, Rwanda\, South Africa\, Nigeria\, and Egypt). When not studying media and genocide\, he works on data privacy issues and media manipulation in African countries. This secondary research stream is the subject of his second book project currently under contract with MIT Press. Wahutu’s research has appeared in African Journalism Studies\, African Affairs\, The International Journal of Press/Politics\, Global Media and Communication\, Media and Communication\, Media\, Culture and Society\, and Sociological Forum. \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies Research Focus Group\, Africa Center\, and History Department
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-place-of-africa-erasure-elision-and-the-task-of-self-writing/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies":MAILTO:Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Reclaiming Confiscated African Histories
DESCRIPTION:Zoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/81168927411 \nHow do histories of a people get confiscated? And what is the significance of indigenous epistemologies in reclaiming stolen\, silent\, and distorted histories? These are some of the fundamental questions that underlie Professor Shadreck Chirikure’s research on Great Zimbabwe\, a prominent symbol of African civilizations of Southern Africa that colonial historiography tried very hard to wrest away from Africans over the last two centuries. Professor Chirikure has produced several publications from his archaeological work at Great Zimbabwe and related sites\, including his recent book\, Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a “Confiscated” Past. We welcome him to UCSB to speak to us about this significant book. \nProfessor Chirikure holds a British Academy Global Professorship within the School of Archaeology at Oxford. He is Professor of Archaeology\, Director of the Archaeological Materials Laboratory\, Director of the African Heritage Hub and Research Centre\, and a former Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town. \nCo-sponsored by the IHC African Studies Research Focus Group and the Africa Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-reclaiming-confiscated-african-histories/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies":MAILTO:Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Exploding the Khoi and San Colonial Stereotypes\, Reclaiming African Histories
DESCRIPTION:Academic historians have largely represented the Khoi and the San people of Southern Africa as marginal to the production of the region’s history\, deleting their place in the emergence and development of African civilization and self-liberation. As a public historian\, intellectual\, activist and healer\, Attaqua’s voice has intervened to forcefully reframe the history of the indigenous people of Southern Africa. In this talk\, she will speak about the Khoi and San’s long struggle against the historical and epistemic silencing. \nAttaqua is a South African indigenous historian\, social justice activist\, knowledge keeper\, and oral and visual storyteller. She was born in District Six\, Cape Town\, in 1964. She is from the clan Herandien from Zoar\, the Attaqua nation in the Western Cape. A fighter against the Apartheid state\, she was forced to flee South Africa to Germany and the United Kingdom\, where she studied and assisted the banned South African Congress of Trade Unions. She returned to South Africa in 1990 where she continued to work for the Department of International Affairs of the African National Congress. In 1994\, Attaqua joined the film industry where she cut her teeth in fiction and documentary film making. She lives in Johannesburg where she works doing holistic indigenous treatments and consultations dealing with colonial\, inter-generational\, historical and oppression trauma. \nCo-sponsored by the IHC African Studies Research Focus Group and the Africa Center \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86978353518?pwd=dzZsQ0ZsOVVaNmhFTjR3bk95K3ZEZz09 \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-exploding-the-khoi-and-san-colonial-stereotypes-reclaiming-african-histories/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies":MAILTO:Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP TALK: BEYOND BOKO HARAM: WRITING THE HISTORY OF BORNO
DESCRIPTION:  \nHiribarren addresses the issue of presentism in historical writing in an African context. The region of Borno in Nigeria is well known for being the cradle of Boko Haram and many analysts have tried to understand the reasons behind the numerous terrorist attacks since 2009\, the kidnapping of the Chibok girls in 2014\, or the renewed jihad in West Africa. Writing the history of the northeastern corner of Nigeria remains difficult because of the security situation – of course – but also because of the pressure exerted by the current events on academic writing. Can we write the history of Borno beyond Boko Haram?’ \nVincent Hiribarren is a Senior Lecturer in Modern African History at King’s College London and Co-founder of Africa4\, a Libération blog. He received his MA from Sorbonne University and his PhD from University of Leeds. Dr. Hiribarren trained as a History and Geography teacher and taught in France\, China\, Guinea and England. From 2008 to 2012\, he undertook a PhD on the history of Borno\, Nigeria at the University of Leeds. His thesis was titled: “From a kingdom to a Nigerian state: the territory and boundaries of Borno 1810-2010”. From January to June 2013\, he was a Leverhulme teaching fellow at the University of Leeds and joined the History Department at King’s College London in September 2013.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-beyond-boko-haram-writing-history-borno/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:African Studies,IHC Research Focus Groups
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