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Global reading - Radical hope and black mattering

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Jul 17 - Aug 11
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Global reading - Radical hope and black mattering

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ABC City
Jul 17 - Aug 11
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Global reading - Radical hope and black mattering

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ABC City
Jul 17 - Aug 11
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Digital Kinship: Redefining Relationality in the Digital Age

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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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Becoming a Cultural Architect

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Your cultural background can be your superpower in life and work! Learn how culture shapes our collective reality and how to leverage the unique cultural assets of your community to be an architect of change.
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Designing Africa and the Diaspora

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POPULAR COURSE: Every aspect of our world is designed, but who are the designers? Explore the transformative power of social design and design thinking from a Pan-African perspective. Examine both historical and contemporary practices and challenges.

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Designing Loving Worlds Workshop
Guided by the question, 'what does it look like to return love to the systemically underloved?', this 2-hour workshop invites us to first, consider how design upholds structural violence and armed with this knowledge, begin to carefully imagine new ways of being together towards personal and collective healing.
June 20, 2024
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LIVE INTERVIEW: Filmmaking and Pan-African Identities with Oluwaseun Babalola
A Pan-African Lens: Live with Oluwaseun Babalola. This live Q&A will be exploration of the role of storytelling in the reclamation and definition of African identities.
March 6, 2024
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African Literatures as Sites of Ancestral Knowledge
Listen in on a live conversation between Keren Lasme and Anwulika Okonjo on the power of African literature and indigenous knowledge systems. Held in anticipation of Ijeruka's upcoming course, Meeting Our Griots: Remembering the Foundations of Intimate Community through African Literature.
October 30, 2023
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