Dance panel organised by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (African Studies; Anthropology)
Funmi Adewole (DeMontfort University): ‘The National Arts movement of Ghana and the African dance movement in Britain: pan-Africanism and cultural exchange in the 1980s’.
Adjoa Osei (Oxford, Portuguese Studies): ‘Modern, Black Performers In Early Twentieth-Century Brazil’
Cécile Feza Bushidi (SOAS, formerly Oxford MSc in African Studies): ‘Dance, individual becoming and belonging among the Kikuyu on the cusp of colonial conquest’
The interdisciplinary research group ‘Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century’ brings together researchers in the history, literature and culture of anti-racist movements in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and beyond.
