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Africans in Academia: Diversity in Adversity

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Author
Grada Kilomba

Posted
September 23, 2008

Categories
Education
Culture

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*Grada Kilomba is writer, researcher and psychologist from the West African Islands of Sao Tomé e Príncipe. Having studied clinical psychology and psychoanalysis in Lisbon, she is living and working in Berlin, Germany where she researches and writes within the area of cultural studies. She is a guest lecturer at the Berlin Humboldt and Freie universities in the gender studies and psychology departments respectively. In her research and teaching, she focuses predominantly on psychoanalysis, slavery, colonialism, trauma and memory.

*This article is based on a presentation she gave at an AfricAvenir dialogue-forum in May 2007 at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.

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