African Studies Workshop Featuring Christopher Ouma

Presenting: Eskia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African literary publics

Christopher Ouma is a Senior Lecturer in the department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor of The Spoken Word Project: Stories Travelling through Africa (Lektora,Verlag). Christopher is currently working on a second monograph that looks at how small magazines in midcentury Africa created platforms of Pan-African imagination that enabled the encounter between decolonization and anti-apartheid imagination within the polarizing context of the Cold War. Christopher is currently editor of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies.

Discussant: Hlonipha Mokoena (WISER)

A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is assumed that everyone has read the paper before the workshop.  After presentation and commentary, Workshop attendees are invited to engage in critique and discussion, under the moderation of the Workshop Chairs. 

View workshop recordings here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/2369529

ORGANIZER(S):  Harvard University Center for African Studies 
EVENT WEBSITE:  https://africa.harvard.edu/african-studies-workshop-0