{"id":20004,"date":"2024-11-15T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_video&#038;p=20004"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:35","slug":"conspiracy-narratives-from-postcolonial-africa","status":"publish","type":"cu_video","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/video\/conspiracy-narratives-from-postcolonial-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cu-section cu-section-5xl not-contained cu-prose cu-prose-dark\"><figure class=\"max-w-5xl mx-auto cu-embed cu-component not-contained\"><div class=\"relative w-full pb-[56.25%] overflow-hidden border border-cu-black-100\"><iframe title=\"Videos Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xlSsggDtI6I\" class=\"cu-embed-iframe\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Politics, Shireen Hassim, in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies, hosts a discussion on&#8221; Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment. It explores how these narratives reveal societal anxieties in African contexts featuring distinguished speakers Rogers Orock (Lafayette College) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam), with commentary by Katrien Pype (University of Leuven) and Meredith Terreta (University of Ottawa). November 13, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_video_source":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xlSsggDtI6I","cu_video_service":"YouTube","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_video_type":[279],"class_list":["post-20004","cu_video","type-cu_video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_video_type-knowing-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_video\/20004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_video"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_video\/20004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_video_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_video_type?post=20004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}