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Shobana Shankar
"Afro-Dravidianism: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Solidarity after Empire" On May 1974, President Léopold Senghor of Senegal and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India together created an Indo-African studies project at the University of Dakar and Annamalai University. How did these predominantly Muslim and Hindu nations construct their purportedly ancient biological and cultural connections through linguistics, folklore, and racial sciences? This paper explores Afro-Dravidianism as a distinct cultural nationalism in the early postcolonial era, one that sought to use moral, spiritual, and intellectual practices to decolonize knowledge and recast race as a part of international diplomacy between two hitherto unconnected polities. |
Abosede George
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Nwando Achebe"Nervous Conditions, National Anxieties: Nigerian Marriage in Crisis."
This lecture explores a multiplicity of marriages which found expression and acceptance in precolonial Nigeria, such as woman-to-woman marriage and polyandry, but which would be tested and forcibly challenged by the colonial and independent Nigerian state as heathenistic and unnatural. It also considers the contradictions inherent in the Nigerian state's silence surrounding the religious 'rights' of adult men to marry children in northern Nigeria. Case studies are drawn from eastern to northern Nigeria, and several localities in-between. Sasha Turner
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