José Lingna Nafafé to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025
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Adebayo Ajadi
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José Lingna Nafafé to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025
José Lingna Nafafé is Associate Professor of African and Atlantic History at the University of Bristol, where he has also co-directed Teaching for Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. His scholarship spans the Black Atlantic abolitionist movement in the 17th century, the Lusophone African diaspora, African, Portuguese, and Brazilian histories, slavery and wage labour (1792–1850), race, religion, and migration, as well as the intersections of postcolonial theory and the Lusophone Atlantic. In 2016, he received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project Freedom and the Lusophone African Diaspora in the Atlantic. He is Co-Investigator on the ERC Advanced Grant project Modern Marronage?, leading the Brazil research strand, which examines the 17th-century maroon community Quilombo dos Palmares and migrant settlement in São Paulo. Previously Programme Director of the MA in Black Humanities at Bristol, he was named to Bristol’s 2018 BME Power List for advancing research on resistance to enslavement. His 2022 monograph Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century (Cambridge University Press) won the African Studies Association-UK’s Best Scholarly Book Award (2024), offering groundbreaking evidence of a transnational, organised African-led abolitionist movement involving oppressed peoples across the Atlantic world.
Please join us for a conversation with Africanist historian Toby Green, who will be in dialogue with six historians of global Africa and the African diaspora: Danielle Terrazas Williams, Hassoum Ceesay, Mariana P. Candido, José Lingna Nafafé, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, and Ana Lucia Araujo, who draw in his recent book The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th-Century West African Port (Allen Lane and University of Chicago Press, 2025) to discuss the connections of West Africa with Europe, the Americas, and Asia during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Using Green’s work as a framework, the panel will examine the role of West African religions and Catholicism in these exchanges and their importance in understanding this long and painful history. More than anything else, the speakers will consider the great variety of oral, material, and written archival sources, to address the central role of women in West African and Atlantic economies, as traders, healers, wives, mothers, and enslaved workers.
Please join us for a conversation with Africanist historian Toby Green, who will be in dialogue with six historians of global Africa and the African diaspora: Danielle Terrazas Williams, Hassoum Ceesay, Mariana P. Candido, José Lingna Nafafé, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, and Ana Lucia Araujo, who draw in his recent book The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th-Century West African Port (Allen Lane and University of Chicago Press, 2025) to discuss the connections of West Africa with Europe, the Americas, and Asia during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Using Green’s work as a framework, the panel will examine the role of West African religions and Catholicism in these exchanges and their importance in understanding this long and painful history. More than anything else, the speakers will consider the great variety of oral, material, and written archival sources, to address the central role of women in West African and Atlantic economies, as traders, healers, wives, mothers, and enslaved workers.
Sunday, October 5, 2025
11 AM Austin
12 PM Atlanta
4 PM Gambia
5 PM Nigeria
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