The academic year 2024-2025 marks the second year of existence of the seminar series Arts and (re)Creation from Africas to the World I initiated at Princeton University in August 2023. This second edition will be under the direction of Iseyen and Nectar Knuckles.

However, coming of age without taking time to reflect on the past is like driving through time and space with the rearview mirror permanently covered. What you will surely miss is the beautiful and ugly lessons learned along the way. What I learned was : determination, passion, and resilience.

Blinded by the ambition to find, if not to build, a community of scholars, professionals, and artists sharing and shaping “decongested” and decolonized approaches to African studies … (read more…)