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Afrotopia: Virtual Welcome Party
Join us for the Ijeruka Virtual Welcome Party, a vibrant celebration to kickstart our collective journey into Afrotopia. Come connect with other members of our incredible, global community, meet some of the brilliant minds behind Ijeruka, and take some time to reflect and set intentions together.
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Building Intimate Communities
This 3-week online study is a multi-dimensional exploration of African indigenous philosophies on intimacy, kinship and community. Learners will be immersed into West African Dagara philosophy, belief systems and frame of being to learn about ancestral ways of seeing, apprehending and cultivating intimacy with life, spirit, the self and our community, human and non-human.
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Designing Africa and the Diaspora
"Designing Africa and the Diaspora" explores the transformative power of social design in African and Afro-diasporic communities, examining both historical and contemporary practices to envision and build just, thriving futures. It equips participants with the knowledge and tools to address today's complex challenges through creative and community-driven solutions.
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Digital Kinship: Redefining Relationality in the Digital Age
An immersive course that explores the impact of digital technology on human connections through Afro-diasporic and Global South lenses. Enroll to navigate, influence, and co-create a more inclusive digital future guided by pioneering experts.
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Restorying Afro-descendant Women and Social Change
Explore the roles, power, and agency of African and black women in society. Learn from a collective of scholars, cultural workers, and wisdom carriers, who challenge traditional narratives to highlight African and black women not merely as participants in their own stories but as pivotal architects of change.
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January 14, 2024
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Join us for the Ijeruka Virtual Welcome Party, a vibrant celebration to kickstart our collective journey into Afrotopia. Come connect with other members of our incredible, global community, meet some of the brilliant minds behind Ijeruka, and take some time to reflect and set intentions together.
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June 2024
This essay dismantles the scaffolding of Eurocentric desirability politics, exposing the biases embedded within our understanding of beauty. Read about Afro-aesthetics, in all its diversity, and the worldviews that underpin it.
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Anwulika Okonjo
May 2024
The global landscape demands a new approach to education – one that empowers African and diasporic communities to draw from their rich cultural heritage and knowledge systems. Explore Ijeruka's vision for transformative Pan-African learning.
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May 2024
Learn about the origins of Afrocentricity as a theory of agency and social change that empowers people of African descent to shape themselves and the world.
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May 2024
Here are fifteen transformative, paradigm-shifting books that promise to stretch your expectations and change the way you think about African and Afro-diasporic women.
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Ijeruka's community is home for people of African descent to connect, collaborate, and grow together. Embrace this space as your sanctuary for meaningful conversations, learning, and relationships with like-hearted peers around the world.
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Visit Ijeruka's community on Circle
Ijeruka's community is home for people of African descent to connect, collaborate, and grow together. Embrace this space as your sanctuary for meaningful conversations, learning, and relationships with like-hearted peers around the world.
visit the community