Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the John B. Slaughter Endowment Lecture Series
Guest Lecture Series with Dr. Msia Kibona Clark
Hip Hop and the African Diaspora
Hybrid Event at Nyumburu Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room. 4018 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742 USA
RSVP (Virtual Attendance Only): go.umd.edu/AFAM_Lecture-Msia_RegFeb2022
Description:
The Department of African American Studies and the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland welcome Dr. Msia Kibona Clark for a special lecture event titled “Hip Hop and the African Diaspora”, as part of the John B. Slaughter Endowment Lecture Series.
About The Speaker:
Dr. Clark is an Associate Professor of African cultural & feminist studies in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. She is originally from Tanzania and received her doctorate in African Studies from Howard University in 2006. Her work focuses on representations of Pan Africanism, African feminism, and African/Diaspora identities in popular culture. Her work examines hip-hop in Africa’s importance as social commentary, especially around Pan Africanism and African feminist thought. Her work also explores how Black mobilization is shifting African and Diaspora identities, and impacting Black activism. She has published three books (Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati, Hip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers, and Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism). Her more recent articles and book chapters include “Hip-Hop and Human Rights in Africa”, “Feminisms in African Hip-Hop”, “The Contemporary African Diaspora”, “The Evolution of a Bicultural Identity, in the Shadows of Nyerere’s Pan Africanism”, and the forthcoming “African Women and Hip-Hop in the Diaspora”.
Source: Howard University
RSVP as soon as possible by clicking on the following link/URL: go.umd.edu/AFAM_Lecture-Msia_RegFeb2022.
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