The Nicholson Center for British Studies is proud to present the distinguished faculty lecture:

“Africa Reimagined: British West African Periodicals and the Rise of Garveyism”

Adom Getachew

Associate Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Indogeneity

Introduction by Jennifer Pitts

Tuesday, March 28th at 5:00pm
Franke Institute. Regenstein Library (Rm. 118) 1100 East 57th St.

Adom Getachew is Assistant Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. She is author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and co-editor with Jennifer Pitts of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022). She is currently working on a second book on the intellectual origins and political practices of Garveyism—the black nationalist/pan-African movement, which had its height in the 1920s. Her public writing has appeared in Dissent, Foreign Affairs, the London Review of Books, the Nation, and the New York Times. She is on the faculty board of the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Faculty Advisory Board of the Center for the International Social Science Research, a fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.