HU African Diaspora Literatures Chair's Series at Sankofa
Fri, Apr 17
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
WHAT DOES 'HOME' MEAN TO YOU? Kadija George Sesay, reads from her poetry collection Irki (meaning 'home' in the Nubian language) and other poems. She will also discuss her Pan-African literary projects in conversation with Prof. Carole Boyce-Davies.
Time & Location
Apr 17, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
Dr. Kadija George Sesay, is a Sierra Leonean/British scholar-activist and poet. She has edited anthologies including Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years. Next is Black Radical: The Political Poetry of Black Britain co-edited with the late poet Benjamin Zephaniah. She curates international festivals and her research is on African Diaspora magazines and Pan-Africanism. She is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2025/6) at Howard University and the Kluge Center at The Library of Congress.
Professor Carole Boyce Davies is Chair of the English Department at Howard University and H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters emerita and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University. She is the author of the prize-wining Left of Karl Marx. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008); the classic Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994); Caribbean Spaces. Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (2013) on the internalization of Caribbean culture; and a bi-lingual children’s story Walking/An…