Creativity in the academy: A poet-scholar’s intellectual journey

Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon is a poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and The History of Intimacy. She is a member of the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and co-directs the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State University, where she is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature. Prof Baderoon is also the author of Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid and, with Desiree Lewis, co-edited the essay collection, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Prof Baderoon is the 2023 Sarah Baartman Senior Fellow at the University of Cape Town.

Rabia Abba Omar

Rabia Abba Omar is a researcher and curator working towards a MA in Visual Studies from Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department. She is a joint MA fellow at AVReQ and Exeter University’s Imagining Futures of Un/Archived Pasts. She likes to think with/of the ocean, memory, archives, object histories and current expressions of past violences. She holds a MA in Heritage Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she was part of the Oceanic Humanities of the Global South. She is also an alumni of the UnSchool of Disruptive Design’s Emerging Leaders Fellowship and the Accountability Lab’s Non-Profit Management Fellowship.

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