✨ James Yékú @jyeku.bsky.social (Université du Kansas) présentera en anglais sur Zoom la conférence «Memes, Gamification and Other Uses of Nollywood Nostalgia» le 11 novembre, de 18h à 19h30! Afin de recevoir le lien Zoom, merci de vous inscrire par courriel (celat@uqam.ca).
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Thankful to @505omatic.bsky.social for the interview with executive director Dr. Estevan Rael-Galvez!
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Traoré has become an almost “messianic figure” on the internet, said James Yékú, associate professor of African digital humanities at the University of Kansas. “For many young Africans, the democratic experiment is practically dead.
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Read an excerpt from the stunning new poetry collection, A PHIAL OF PASSING MEMORIES (@mawenzihouse.bsky.social), by James Yékú.
#AmReading #Poetry #Literature #Excerpt
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Second poetry collection published by @mawenzihouse.bsky.social
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Today's "Dialogue Across Borders: Ghana Library Collaboration Workshop," is one way KU's Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship (IGEL) promotes knowledge exchange, professional development, innovation, and collaborative research.
Eliot: "...the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history."
Knowledge is power…
Have you nominated your student for the Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award? Students can apply funds to research, study abroad, or ASA travel which many need now more than ever. Faculty nominations receive first priority so nominate your student today. africanstudies.org/taha-travel-...
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*Black DH Projects & Resources* an open community list of 600+ links and counting! bit.ly/Black-DH-List
Add yours, and then help us learn about someone else's work too? #BlackSky
Easter as a season of hope:
butterflies fluttering into flowers,
the voice of a son cackling
into an eternity of love,
grace renewed like a smile
on the face of spring. #HappyEaster
A cluster of naked trees once stood,
lonely, on a Christmas Eve. Along the frayed
edges of the pathway to a Rewe store.
It was a winter without snow when the park
was barren, the branches bare, and only
the chirping of festive birds filled the air.
#poetry #Berlin
"I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core."
#WilliamButlerYeats (1892) #poetry #poem
CfP: Matatu - Journal of African Culture and Society invites articles for 3 special issues:
1 "Africa in Europe, Europe in Africa" (15 Jan)
2 "Against Decolonisation? Critical Approaches to Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò" (1 Feb)
3 "Blue Stories: Indian Ocean Narratives and Cultures of Trauma and Healing" (15 Feb)
In shifting scapes poetry is prone to wander:
Like a flâneur, mixing a child’s curiosity with
the sights of strangers smiling indifferent
hellos to friends on a busy street in Paris.
#poetry #flâneur
