The Stellenbosch University Museum invites you to a discussion on: “Silences in African History” 

Prof Jacques Depelchin (Visiting scholar, Centre for African Studies, University of California, Berkley)

Prof Jacques Depelchin is a committed intellectual, historian, poet, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and people-centred politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was born in the Congo and educated at Lovanium University (Kinshasa) in the DRC, the University of London, Johns Hopkins University in Italy, and at Stanford, where he received his PhD in History. He has taught African History and related subjects at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, Stanford, Syracuse, and universities in the DRC, Mozambique, Tanzania and Brazil. Prof Depelchin has published a number of books throughout his long career, some of which include The Peasant’s Tale, Reclaiming African History and Silences in African History; between the syndromes of discovery and abolition. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DRC. Under its umbrella, he is researching American and Congolese social healing and bringing together the healers, as well as lecturing and writing on the DRC to improve American understanding of its history and present realities.

Moderator

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar (Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice, Stellenbosch University Museum)

Date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Time: 15:00-16:00 (SAST)

Webinar: MS Teams

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