“Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter” by Frieda Ekotto

Join the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity for a lecture by Dr. Frieda Ekotto as part of our Series on Gendered Displacement and Erasure. Frieda Ekotto is an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, she concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race and LG BTQIA2S+ issues.

This paper discusses the historical importance of remembering Aimé Césaire's work through Black Lives Matter in the US.