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The Africa Scholars Forum, The Pan African Graduate Student Association, and The African Student Union, and Ghanaian Student Associations at UMass Boston present AFRICA DAY 2020 Challenges to Pan Africanism: Afrophobia and Migration Across Borders The African continent’s attempts to achieve integration and unity across its deeply pluralistic and diverse borders are fraught with challenges such as Afrophobia, which refers to a form of xenophobia directed by Africans toward other Africans. Evidenced by the surge of violent xenophobic attacks against African migrants to South Africa in 2019, Afrophobia has led to severe discrimination among fellow African migrants and it challenges Africa’s Pan-Africanism. For more information about keynote speakers, panels, graduate student flash talks, African marketplace, luncheon, gala night reception featuring Afrobeat DJ and African food.
With a range of keynote speakers including the permanent observer to the African Union UN mission, Ambassador Fatima Mohammed, Boston-based filmmaker, Rahman Oladigbolu, and Greater Boston area scholars Panashe Chigumadzi, Chipo Dendeze, Munya Munochiveyi, and Daniel Agbiboa, Africa Day 2020 engages this African issue.
ORGANIZER: UMass Boston
WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/UMBAFRICADAY2020