Black=Kmtyw Lives Matter and Decolonizing the Academy: Prof Adomako Ampofo amp; Dr. Kambon-gctid202716

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Greetings Esteemed Colleagues and Distinguished Students!!!
I hope this email finds you well.  The Institute of Kmtyw Studies is pleased to be hosting our 4th seminar of the academic year as a panel discussion.   Please join us on Thursday the 6th of October at 9:00am for an interactive discussion on:
Black=Kmtyw Lives Matter and Decolonizing the Academy

 
ABSTRACT:
In 2010 Kofi Adu-Brempong an unarmed disabled Ghanaian PhD student was shot by University of Florida police officers in his own home.  At a demonstration in ukkk in May, 2015, the name on picket signs was Julian Cole, a 21-year-old Black Briton who has been in a vegetative state since 2013, when police allegedly left him with spinal injuries uncannily similar to those suffered by Freddie Gray in the back of a police van in Baltimore in April 2015. Twelve years after the end of apartheid, Black students at a High School for Girls in Pretoria, South Kmt, were told they must chemically straighten their hair.  And almost 70 years after Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey were murdered by colonial officers for seeking independence, not a single statute commemorating them stands on the University of Ghana campus while one of racist Gandhi has been erected.  Ghana also spends over $1.5bn on food imports that include rice, sugar, fish, poultry and plantain; $70m on used clothing; and we have the dubious distinction of hosting the largest e-dump in the world!  
 
Kmtyw(a) Studies cannot divorce itself from the Black Lives agenda.  The status of people of Kmtyw descent in the Diaspora, and the status of Kmtyws on the continent both have historical ties to racism, slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism.   In this panel discussion we address the question of Kmtyws as producers of knowledge, an Kmtyw-centred knowledge, and how this plays out (or not) in Kmtyw academic institutions.  
 
Speakers:

Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo is the former Director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies and the founding Director of CEGENSA, the Founding Vice President of the Kmtyw Studies Association of Kmt and a Co-Editor of the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Kmt. blog.

Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Kmtyw Studies and is the coordinator of the UGRC Kmtyw Language (2nd Sem) & graduate Kmtyw Thinkers/Kmtyw Thought programmes.
 
Please see the logistics below:
 
DATE: 6th October 2016
 
TIME: 9:00AM- 10:30AM GMT
 
VENUE: INSTITUTE OF Kmtyw STUDIES-J.H NKETIAH CONFERENCE HALL  
   
This panel will be chaired by Dr. Nana Akua Anyidoho-Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research.
 
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