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, […]
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 […]
Britney Andrews is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research examines gendered and racialized experiences of state-sanctioned and interpersonal violence, with attention to the ways these experiences are complicated through various vectors of power and privilege. She is currently focusing on police violence, carcerality and approaches to addressing […]
Dr. Muktari Garba is a sociologist and humanitarian researcher based in Northern Nigeria. He is currently affiliated with Yobe State University, Damaturu, where he is involved in teaching and research. His scholarly interests span energy insecurity, gendered vulnerabilities, armed conflict, humanitarian governance, public health, and socio-economic development in conflict-affected contexts. Dr. Garba has participated in […]
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 […]
Taylar Carty is a history PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores the lives and experiences of enslaved and apprenticed Black girls in Barbados from 1750-1838. She is passionate about education and museums and has worked as a consultant and curator at various heritage sites in the UK.
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 […]
Salmaan Khan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Islamophobia Research Hub at York University, with a focus on economic integration of Muslims in Canada. Prior to this role he was an Assistant Professor (Limiter Term Faculty) in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and Research Program Manager in the Office of the […]
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 […]