Opacities

This lecture by Dr. Boneace Chagara interrogates how Black and African identities are experienced and perceived across diverse cultural, geographic, and historical contexts. It contests historical demands for legibility and visibility— evident in mediated colonial narratives, ethnographic photography, and Enlightenment’s dismissal of Africa as ahistorical. From the creolized formations of the Caribbean to the ongoing negotiations of African heritage, Blackness manifests in irreducible multiplicity: rooted yet hybrid, ancestral yet reimagined, continental yet diasporic. Against the colonial imperative for transparency, Édouard Glissant’s “right to opacity” guarantees a politics of relation grounded in difference, irreducibility, and respect.

Organized by Tajah Oquisso '29 as part of Black History Month.

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Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: Lecture Hall

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