African Dialogues 1.0 – Re-thinking African and Black History: Natural resources & law

This focused lecture at the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is part of the "African Dialogues 1.0", a three-part UK academic and cultural symposium in Exeter, London and Penryn, organised by Madeline R. Young-Touré in partnership with the "Black Dialogues 2.0" Netherlands events supported by the seed grant from University of Amsterdam’s Decolonial Futures RPA. The UK-EU series collaborates with the University of Exeter, SOAS University of London, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, University College London (UCL) and the British Museum. It explores decolonial approaches to African and Black material cultures, embodied heritages, natural resources, law, and extractive legacies shaped by Africa–Europe entanglements.

The Penryn session features two University of Exeter academics whose work speaks directly to the symposium’s core themes:

Madeline R. Young-Touré is an interdisciplinary PhD researcher, adjunct lecturer at University of Exeter, visiting lecturer at UCL, and Afro-diasporic cultural practitioner whose work explores African extractivism and embodied heritage. Artist-curator of Distinguishing African Identities: mining history, memory, and material cultures exhibition. 

Dr Chitzi Ogbumgbada is a lecturer in the HASS department at the University of Exeter specializing in energy justice and environmental law. He addresses extractivism, climate ethics, and African communitarian approaches to global energy transitions. 

Everyone welcome to attend.
Please come 20 minutes ahead of the start time to help yourselves to tea, coffee and cake!