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Navigating Afro-Knowledges. Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies ...

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This academic conference challenges whose knowledge counts online — asking whether digital spaces replicate or disrupt the colonial erasure of African and diasporic ways of knowing.

Postcolonial TheoryDiaspora TheoryEpistemologyDigital Culture Studies
Navigating Afro-Knowledges. Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies ...

Theory Briefing

  • A June 2026 Bremen conference brings together scholars to map 'Afro-Knowledges' in digital spaces, testing whether the internet democratizes or marginalizes diaspora epistemologies.
  • The event frames digital diaspora studies through postcolonial theory, asking how African communities build, share, and preserve knowledge outside Western platforms.
  • By centering practices alongside theories, the conference challenges the academy's habit of separating lived diasporic experience from legitimate scholarly frameworks.