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A lot has been said about 1619, but not enough about 1520, the year of the first documented voyage of a ship disembarking enslaved Africans in the Americas. #twitterstorians #africanstudies
The Spanish Archives have made the original available to the public at pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas…
The corresponding entry on @slavevoyages is available below. slavevoyages.org/voyage/databas…
By 2050 more than half of the world's population will live in Africa. There will still be the recent and less recent African Diasporas, which would also have increased in size. What does this mean for universities as centres of knowledge production and transmission? My thoughts..
This means that if there is a degree offered in a university which does not engage with Africa or African produced knowledge, then by 2050 the knowledge produced by and transmitted in that degree programme will probably only be relevant to less than half of the world.
This means that if a university does not make concerted efforts to produce & transmit African produced knowledge e.g. by having an African studies degree or an African research centre, then by 2050 the knowledge produced in and transmitted by that university will probably...
