dgi – kadija george sesay – 1 29 26
dgi events.. via bsky post [https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3mdinqaw35s2t]:
Tomorrow we will host a livestream about Decolonization. Kadija George Sesay who is a literary activist, writer, and scholar, she will speak and answer your questions. Come along! [https://www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mgqck0]
Kadija George Sesay will join us on the 29th of January at 6pm London time /1 PM New York time.
Despite the challenges faced by independent Black publishers, they still create what John La Rose of New Beacon Books called ‘a publishing maisonette’. Radical book and magazine publishing becomes the foundation for local and global community activism. Does Pan-Africanism have a strengthening role and a positive impact?
Kadija George Sesay is a literary activist, poet, writer and scholar. She is also the Publications Manager for Inscribe/Peepal Tree Press and the co-director of Peepal Tree Press‘s their writer development programme, Inscribe. She founded, published and edited SABLE LitMag from 2000 for 15 years. She has co-edited several anthologies, the latest being Encounters with Baldwin: Celebrating 100 years. Her written works include a poetry collection, Irki (2013), and contributions to anthologies such as New Daughters of Africa (2019). She is the founder of the ‘International Black Speculative Writing Festival’ , co-founder of ‘Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport’, and creator and lead researcher at the AfriPoeTree, a Selective Interactive Video (app.) of Poetry and Pan-African History. She recently completed her thesis on Black Publishers and Pan-Africanism at the University of Brighton. She is currently a Fulbright scholar at Howard University and the Kluge Research Center in the United States. We also recommend checking out ‘This is the canon-decolonize your bookshelf in 50 books’, a collection she cocurated with Joan Anim-Addo, and Deirdre Osborne.
notes/quotes from livestream:
10 watching at beginning
on black publishing.. history of radical publishers
decolonization: about cultural psychological and economic freedom for indigenous people w the goal of achieving indigenous sovereignty.. the right and ability o findigenous people to practice self determination over the land, cultures, and political and econ systems.. center for peace and global citizenship
black radical pulbisher characteristics: decolonized; do not seek/accept govt support/institutional funds; funds from known sources; publish books that are community not commercially led (if it becomes commercial .. great.. but that’s not why they’re doing it); publishers usually community activists; belief in marxist principles
where does pan african have a role in this
2 publishers:
1\ john rose and new beacon books.. black people motion.. from 13 teens dying and nobody did anything about it.. rose led it
2\ eric and jessica huntley.. bogle l’ouverture publications.. how europe underdeveloped africa
those are our pioneers..
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