UDENSI Lawrence Okoronkwo is a Nigerian Sociologist with interest in Rural Sociology and Community Development. His research and teaching perspective focuses on applying sustainable development goals in addressing global environmental challenges especially among rural populations within Sub Saharan Africa. He currently lectures in the Department of Sociology, Federal University of Kashere, Nigeria.
Rose Ukeci Uwodha is a PhD candidate in sociology and anthropology at the University of Mons (Belgium). Her research focuses on political ecology, extractivism, and community resistance in gold-mining territories in the Ituri and Haut-Uele regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative methods, she examines vernacular knowledge, local imaginaries, […]
Emmanuel Ayoola is an international development professional, researcher, and practitioner working at the intersection of reparations, healing, historical memory, transitional justice, and African-diasporic justice. He currently serves as manager of grantmaking and impact at the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, where he supports governance, grantmaking systems, and donor stewardship for large-scale social impact initiatives. Emmanuel […]
Jude Idada is a winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, an AMAA best screenplay award, an AMAA for Best Film by An African in the Diaspora, an AFRIFF Globe best screenplay award, and an ANA prize for Drama alongside several other awards. Amongst others, Jude was selected as one of the writers for the […]
Michael Gervers is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He has worked in Ethiopia since 1982 and made annual field trips from 2000 to 2020 to document its architectural, ecclesiastical and manuscript heritage. He publishes regularly on Ethiopian material culture, particularly rock-hewn and built architecture, and textiles. He raised sufficient funding to endow […]
Norman Smith is a Master’s student in the Graduate Education Program. His current project through the lens, is a cultural critique on the subtleties of racism that exist within Canadian culture, that utilizes photographic elements to bring to the forefront the hidden truth of the social norms we hide behind. His goal for his research […]
Feisal Farah is a Teaching Assistant in History at the University of Toronto and was previously an instructor at the American University of Nigeria. He is affiliated with the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull and the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University.Farah has expertise in […]
Isabella Akaliza is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University. Her research examines the lived experiences of African sex workers, centring Audre Lorde’s theory of the erotic as a site of connection, relationality, and knowledge production. Engaging Black feminist thought and transnational feminist methodologies, her work challenges dominant […]
Christopher D. Sims is a cultural bearer and leader in all things African diaspora. Committed to African American and/or Black liberation, his contributions to Black people spand from writing, public reading, research, and serving on committees and the like representing the best of Black vision and creativity. A scholar, Christopher is a published author with […]
Damola holds a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany, a specialized LL.M program jointly administered by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, George Washington University, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Augsburg. Currently, Damola is pursuing his doctoral studies […]