This webinar is an international conversation birthed through scholarly engagements with Blackness in Africa and its diaspora, particularly North America. The placelessness of blackness is to be theorized as an anti-black mechanism that justifies the ideologies of black expulsion from the category of human enacted through slavery, colonialism, segregationist ideals and Apartheid-ness. In this conversation, we will attempt to make sense of the (re)-constitution of Black personhood and the prevalence of its placelessness in the settler colonies of North America and South Africa. In negotiation discourses on the racialized body, its subjection and dissonance of space-place. In this webinar, we bring forth a transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral conversation on Blackness rooted in Decolonial; Black and Afro-centric-feminist, philosophical, and sociological frameworks, emboldened on the existential question of Blackness in the dispensation of coloniality through its vicious expression as the de-construction of the black being. We ask the question on the expulsion of space-place for the former colonized and enslaved. Locating the black that is African, the Black that is South African and the Black that is African-American; we seek to discourse the fundamental and perpetual rupture of the African diaspora, the black subject through the loss of home (space) and the loss of self (locale of place).

Hosted by: Zandile Joy Dywati and Cameron Farrar

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5 pm – 7 pm (SA)
11 am – 1 pm (USA)