Speakers

Mr Ibini Oladapo Adeola

Mr Ibini Oladapo Adeola is an entrepreneur, author, researcher, and documentary producer with interests spanning the automotive industry, technology, literature, and African Hebrew Studies. A graduate of the University of Lagos, he began his professional career in 1997 during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme at Nigercafe, a coffee processing and exporting firm. Following […]

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Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba is an associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He has scholarly interests in African and African/Black Diaspora literatures. His scholarship primarily focuses on the cultural representations of genocides and mass atrocities within African and African diasporic contexts. Anyaduba is the author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel:

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Dr Krystal Strong

Dr. Krystal Strong is an associate professor of Black Studies in Education at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An anthropologist by training, her research and teaching use ethnographic, participatory, and multimodal methods to investigate youth and community activism, global Black social movements, and the role of education as a site of struggle in Africa and the African

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Professor Mfon Umoren Ekpootu

Professor Mfon Umoren Ekpootu is a distinguished Professor of Gender and Socioeconomic History in the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her career reflects a deep and enduring commitment to academic excellence, intellectual rigor, and gender-focused historical inquiry. A widely travelled scholar, Professor Ekpootu’s work transcends traditional disciplinary

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Dr Adewale Owoseni

Adewale O. Owoseni (Ph.D.) is a Faculty member of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he teaches Philosophy. His research interests include African Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, and Human and Animal Studies. Previously, he was a Research Associate and Postdoctoral fellow (2021 – 2023) at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS), University of Pretoria

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Kelly Adams

Kelly Adams is a Legal Advisor at the Global Justice Center, where she focuses on sexual and gender-based violence in crimes against humanity. She holds a J.D. from the Washington University School of Law, with certificates in International and Comparative Law and Public Interest Law, and a M.P.S. in Intelligence from Georgetown University. Her writing

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