The Wakanda Workshop: A graduate student organized session - Building Wakanda: Graduate students envision the Africa that they want

The Wakanda Workshop: a graduate student organized session Building Wakanda: Graduate students envision the Africa that they want Rationale: This session is a workshop facilitated by two graduate students who will guide their peers through two rounds of breakout group discussions. The first round is about the opportunities available for graduate students to reframe the knowledge about Africa away from the dominant deficit-model. The second round focuses on potential strategies to further mobilize the knowledge produced in service of the African continent. Each discussion group will have a rapporteur who, at the end of the session, will assist the main facilitators to produce a short report that participants will take back to their home institutions. The intent is that the grad students feed the session report into road maps of activities in their home institutions. Facilitators: Carla Jobert: Carla Joubert is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is a Doctoral Candidate in History; her dissertation focuses on the role of white women in the settler colonisation of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and Alberta, Canada in the mid-nineteenth century. Carelle Mang-Benza: Carelle is a third-year PhD candidate in Geography and Environment at Western University. Her research focuses on the current low-carbon energy transition and relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. *Please note this session will be recorded and posted on this page after the conference. Meeting ID: 921 8023 817