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Saheed Aderinto, “Uncommon Narratives, Unusual Actors”
November 7, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Africology Now and the Departments of History and Global Studies present:
Uncommon Narratives, Unusual Actors: Animals and the Making of Africa’s Past
Professor Saheed Aderinto
Winner, Dav David Prize ’23
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
11:00AM – 2:00PM
Free lunch!
Alumni Fireside Lounge W140
UWM Union
Professor Saheed Aderinto is an award-winning historian of Africa and its diasporas. This year he won the $300,000 Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world, in recognition of his “outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.”
He is the author of Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (2022), Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order (2018), and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (2015). He is currently writing a book and producing a documentary on Fuji, an African popular culture. The first episode of the documentary, “Mr. Fuji: Barry Wonder” will premiere at BarryFest, the biennial celebration of Fuji creator, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister.