Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025

[Adebayo Ajadi]

Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025

Dr. Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine is the Associate Director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. Her interdisciplinary research explores human trafficking, child slavery, equity in higher education, and Black Joy practices. Dr. Chapdelaine is the co-editor of When Will the Joy Come? Black Women in the Ivory Tower (2023) and author of The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (2021). Her article, “Marriage Certificates and Walker Cards: Nigerian Migrant Labor, Wives and Prostitutes in Colonial Fernando Pó,” published in African Economic History, received the 2021 Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Prize. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as the Journal of West African History, Radical Teacher, and Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology. She also served as guest editor for the special issue “Retrospectives on Child Slavery in Africa” in Genealogy. In addition to several book chapters in co-edited volumes, Dr. Chapdelaine is currently working on her next book, Embrace Black Joy: How Empathetic Teaching Empowers All Students.

 

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

Register Here:

https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/toby-green

Join via Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82974511332 

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