Online Workshop :
Friday 1 December 2022, 2pm-4pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97935170064?pwd=a0QzY21QMTduZDkrbHdyUUV5UXN3UT09
Meeting ID : 979 3517 0064
Passcode : 373128
This collaborative project focuses on histories of power and popular politics as a way into studying Anglophone and Francophone Africa. Paradoxically, these regions are often studied in isolation from each other, mimicking former colonial boundaries rather than allowing for points of convergence. Transcending a division that diminishes our understanding of Africa, this workshop aims to generate new ideas and approaches whilst also acknowledging both difference and shared historical experience.
Speakers :
– Florence Bernault (History, Sciences Po) :
Youth, Police, and Urban Gangs : Historicizing Bébés Noirs and State Violence in Congo-Brazzaville
– Florence Brisset-Foucault (Political Science, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) :
“Okwekalakasa” : Crowds, Violence and Discipline in Twentieth-Century Buganda
– Ruth Watson (History, Cambridge) :
Crowds and Protest in the History of Lagos, Nigeria