There are several exciting upcoming events that we’d like to bring to your attention. For the full listings, please check out the calendar section here. If you have relevant events that you would like added, please email us at cihablog[at]gmail[dot]com.
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3rd Annual Lagos Conference (June 19 – 23)
This week, the Lagos Studies Association is hosting its third annual conference on the theme: “Futurity in Lagos Scholarship, the Arts, Advocacy, and Social Enterprise.” Established in 2017, the Lagos Studies Association is an international, interdisciplinary organization of academic and non-academic practitioners whose interest focus on Lagos and its peoples. The upcoming conference will be preceded by a free, two-day pre-conference workshop (registration required). The workshop will include a showing of the documentary film: “Makoko: Futures Afloat” by Femi Odugbemi. Find more information here: http://www.cihablog.com/event/3rd-lagos-conference/
Institution for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) Book Launch: The Lone Wolves’ Legion (June 21)
The Institution for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in collaboration with Best Red cordially invites you to the public book launch of Peter Knoopes’s “The Lone Wolves Legion: Terrorism, colonialism and capital.” In his examination of the relationship between the West and the rest of the world, Knoope turns many Western assumptions on their heads; convincingly demonstrating fundamental differences over key concepts such as existence, time, development and violence. Find more information about the event here: http://www.cihablog.com/event/institution-justice-reconciliation-book-launch-lone-wolves-legion-terrorism-colonialism-capital/
Talk and Performance: Mhoze Chikowero and Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa on the Mbira (July 29)
This two-part program showcases the work of award-winning UC Santa Barbara historian and previous CIHA Blog contributor, Mhoze Chikowero, and Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Chikowero discusses the postcolonial politics of the mbira, and its survival in light of crusades by colonizing forces that sought to harness and subvert it. This story of resilience signifies the instrument’s key place in the cosmologies of the Zimbabwe cultures, which wielded it to resist missionary evangelization, and to inspire the armed struggle for self-liberation. In spite of the transgenerational traumas of colonialism, generations of performers have maintained and passed on the art, knowledge, and spiritualities the mbira represents. Tawengwa, who has explored new sonic realms with this ancient instrument, will perform a live mbira concert in the museum’s Davis Courtyard. Find more information here: http://www.cihablog.com/event/talk-performance-mhoze-chikowero-tanyaradzwa-tawengwa-mbira/