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from our 2024 State of Education on Africa conference speakers
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By Carole Boston Weatherford
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Learn more →
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By Nemata Blyden
An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent. Learn More →
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By Kia Caldwell and Emily Chávez, Volume editors
This unique anthology fills an important gap in current pedagogical and curricular publications by combining the writings of leading scholars of the African diaspora with practical, hands-on tips and resources from middle and high school teachers and administrators. Learn more →
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By Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
By contending that twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles, Cross-Border Cosmopolitans reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America's Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history. Learn more →
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By Maboula Soumahoro
In this highly original book, Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Learn more →
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CFR blog by Krista Johnson
The explicit incorporation of the African diaspora into U.S.-Africa policy risks segmenting the community into old and new, with important domestic and international consequences. Read here →
Online Articles
AAI’s team top picks
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As digital connections bring the African diaspora together, these 12 creatives are at the center of a global shift. Read here →
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A thoughtful list of books, documentaries, websites, and social media accounts for teaching students—and yourself. Read here →
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A globalized art market has brought attention to Ghanaian artists like Ibrahim Mahama. On an arts-focused trip to the West African country, a writer finds a thriving scene following its own agenda. Read here →
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Discussing the literary and cultural movement allows teachers to center Black joy and facilitate conversations about identity and culture. Read here →
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“Bringing a critical and racialized lens to the stories that we tell each other not only helps depict a truer story of the United States but it allows us to start crafting a society that can root out the anti-Blackness that permeates throughout it. “
By Trevor Smith for Nonprofit Quarterly. Read here →
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A new report investigated how young Africans experience their diaspora, how they define being African and the basis of their belonging. Read here →
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NewAfrican magazine’s annual list of 100 Most Influential Africans features ANF narrative champions and storytellers who include Marie Mbullu, Moses Kiboneka, Charity Ekezie, Tomiwa Aladekomo, Claude Grunitzky and Wode Maya. Read here →