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New week, new conference. This time it is the 5th Biennial Conference for the Association for the Study of the World Wide African Diaspora.
The conference, which has the title “Africa, Diaspora, and Pan-African Agendas”, has been going on since Sunday, however unfortunately I haven’t been able to go to every day. In addition to my spotty attendance, about five workshops and panels happen at once so I have probably just experienced a fraction of this year’s conference but what I know for sure, to paraphrase Oprah, is
1. It is the first ASWAD conference on African soil
2. Kwame Nkrumah would have turned 100 years this year
3. We still dont know enough about slavetrade and its consequences
4. Diasporan and African studies need to converge for any Pan-African agenda to progress
And finally and most uplifting:
5. A new generation of Pan-Africanists is emerging!
In the pic, the new generation of Pan-Africanists (including Robtel Neajai Pailey, Carina Ray and myself) listen to one of the old-school activists, Jaqueline Ki-Zerbo.
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