October talk in CAP's online seminar series for Hons/Masters/PhDs/Postdocs

[amara esther]

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings.

You are cordially invited to attend our October talk in CAP's online seminar series for Hons/Masters/PhDs/Postdocs (details below). Please save the date and time. We look forward to your participation.

Bafu: A Kriol Way of Philosophizing

Antoine Gillett (Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut)

 

Bafu is a Belizean Kriol term denoting clumsy or awkward movement. Although Belizean society tends to attach a negative connotation to this word, Yasser Musa, a Belizean artist, argues that when one moves away from that negativity, bafu becomes profoundly existential, pointing to a deep sense of trying always aimed at making life possible. In this essay, I build on Musa’s argument and explore the philosophical sense and salience of bafu as an expression of Africana philosophical reasoning through the analytic of potentiated double consciousness and its implications for the project of Black life.

 

Date: October 2, 2026

Time: 1: 00 pm – 2: 00 pm (SAST)

 

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Thank you,

AE Chimakonam

Centre for African Phenomenology, 

University of Fort Hare, South Africa.

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Recent book: Rethinking Feminist Discourse in Africa: Gender Marginalization or Complementarity. Edited by AE Chimakonam and JO Chimakonam. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. 

Forthcoming book: Transhumanism in Africa: The Prospects of Moral Enhancement and Its Challenges. Edited by AE Chimakonam. Springer.