Proud to have been part of Iris Kensmil‘s performance, along with Munganyende Hélène Christelle, Lisette Ma Neza, Zaïre Krieger, Djuwa Mroivili, Lakiescha Tol and Willem de Rooij. There will also be an exhibition at Kunstinstituut Melly on the first of October for which I’m very excited. Iris Kensmil made a portrait of me which will be exhibited there for the first time.
https://debalie.nl/programma/beeldbepalers-iris-kensmil-2-04-09-2021/
I am very happy to announce that I signed a contract today with publishing house De Geus to translate Aimé Césaire’s ‘Discours sur le colonialisme’. ‘Discours sur le colonialisme’ was first published in 1950 and is a seminal essay when it comes to Decolonial Theory. This will be the first time that this book will be translated to Dutch. One of the first papers I ever wrote as an undergrad student was about Négritude, and ‘Discours sur le colonialisme’, so it is an immense honor to now be able to translate it and bring it to a wider Dutch-speaking audience. I hope many young Black students will get to discover and appreciate Aimé Césaire’s work like I did.
I want to thank the Lagos Studies Association Conference for inviting me to come present my paper and join in the celebration of Sophie Oluwole’s work. My paper was about Oluwole’s place in African philosophy and the importance of her work as being Beyond paradigmatic dichotomy. It was great to be in the company of Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi, Professor Oladele Balogun, dr. Ademola Fayemi and Juul van der Laan who has made a film about Oluwole. Special thanks to Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi for considering me.
I wrote a critique on the anthropocene from a decolonial and African perspective for Hard//Hoofd. You can read it by clicking on the following link https://hardhoofd.com/een-afrikaanse-kritiek-op-het-antropoceen/
I wrote an essay about decolonizing the academic curriculum for Hard//Hoofd. You can read it by clicking on the following link https://hardhoofd.com/de-roep-om-een-gedekoloniseerd-curriculum-is-niet-nieuw/
I am so proud to announce that AfroLit which features a is finally out. I am really proud of the result and hope that many people will read it. You can order it online or get it at your local bookstore if you live in the Netherlands or Belgium.
Due to Covid-19 we can’t promote the book with a book launchparty, so most of the promotion will be online. Tomorrow, October 31st at 8pm CET, I will be having a live conversation with fellow author Sayonara Stutgard about the book. You can watch it on Instagram on the pages of The Black Archives and Dipsauspodcast.
AfroLit is now available for pre-order!!🥳 You can of course also buy it at your local bookstore on October 29th.
I did an interview with the candidates of BIJ1. We talked about their motivations for getting involved in politics, their activism, the Black Lives Matter protest and their hopes and vision for the next years.
I am proud to announce that one of my short stories is going to get published this October. The book is called AfroLit and it’s a collection of short stories and essays by various Black writers from the Netherlands and Belgium. The book was edited by Dipsauspodcast and will be published by Uitgeverij Pluim.
Met genoegen presenteren wij de shortlist voor de Hypatia-prijs. De tweejaarlijkse prijs voor het beste en meest prikkelende en actuele filosofieboek geschreven door een vrouw. Met het instellen van deze prijs willen we vrouwen in de filosofie in Nederland en Vlaanderen een podium bieden.
De Hypatia-prijs is vernoemd naar de Griekse filosofe Hypatia (ca 355-415). Zij was befaamd om haar wiskundige en astronomische kennis. Tegenwoordig fungeert ze als symbool van het feminisme.
Shortlist Hypatia-prijs 2020
Katleen Gabriels – Regels voor Robots (Vubpress)
Joke Hermsen – Het tij keren (Prometheus)
Monica Meijsing – Waar was ik toen ik er nog niet was? (Vantilt)
Renée van Riessen – Van zichzelf bevrijd (Sjibbolet)
Ingrid Robeyns – Rijkdom (Prometheus)
De jury van de Hypatia-prijs bestaat uit Annemie Halsema (voorzitter), Cris van der Hoek, Mariska Jansen, Grâce Ndjako en Khadija al Mourabit.
De prijsuitreiking vindt plaats op zaterdag 3 oktober. Deze feestelijke uitreiking vindt offline of online plaats, afhankelijk van de dan geldende coronamaatregelen.
