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To call the past 25 years the “Age of Historical Reckonings” would be an understatement—what with the watershed Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Concerned Student 1950, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Rhodes Must Fall, End SARS protests, and continued institutional reckonings with slavery and imperialism. Grounded in the view that writers are often the consciences and seers of their societies and the world at large, are there rich and insightful ways that we might begin to locate, discuss, and/or extend Achebe and his oeuvre relative to these social justice movements across the world? What would Achebe think about the anti-WOKE, anti-Critical Race Theory efforts pushed by Republican legislatures across the country? Even more, what would he say about the embroilment of the fields of Medieval Studies and Classics in such reckoning?
Panelists
Dr. Simukai Chigudu – University of Oxford
Dr. Ainehi Edoro – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Mukoma wa Ngugi – Cornell University
Dr. Maik Nwosu – University of Denver-Colorado
Discussant: Dr. Hannah Essien – Princeton
Dr. Simukai Chigudu
Symposium Guest
Dr. Hannah Essien
Dr. Maik Nwosu
Dr. Maik Nwosu, Dr. Hannah Essien, and Dr. Ainehi Edoro
Dr. Simukai Chigudu, Dr. Maik Nwosu, Dr. Ainehi Edoro, and Dr. Hannah Essien
Dr. Ainehi Edoro