{"id":2530,"date":"2018-02-16T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:38:04","slug":"blackhistorymonth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2018\/blackhistorymonth\/","title":{"rendered":"From Old to New African Diasporas: The Multiple Difficulties of Entangling Displacements and Identies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        From Old to New African Diasporas: The Multiple Difficulties of Entangling Displacements and Identies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2018 Black History Month event was a great success. &nbsp; There were close to 100 persons in attendance. &nbsp;In his lecture \u00ab&nbsp;From Old to New African Diasporas: The Multiple Difficulties of Entangling Displacements and Identies&nbsp;\u00bb, Professor Pablo Idahosa (York University) discussed the ways in which Diasporic identities were being \u2018instrumentalized\u2019 by African nation states within a discourse of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1692\" height=\"984\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29.png 1692w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29-160x93.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29-240x140.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29-400x233.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.29-360x209.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1692px) 100vw, 1692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture was followed by a brief discussion with Sarah Onyango and a question and answer period. Those in attendance were fully engaged. &nbsp;The wine &amp; cheese reception allowed for the discussion to continue in a more informal context after the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1692\" height=\"1084\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53.png 1692w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53-160x103.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53-240x154.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53-400x256.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2018-02-15-\u00e0-12.20.53-360x231.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1692px) 100vw, 1692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Dr. Pablo Idahosa is a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at York University. He is an internationally recognized specialist in African Studies. His publications, include The Populist Dimension of African Political Thought: Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval and Development\u2019s Displacements: Ecologies, Economies and Cultures at Risk. Dr. Idahosa\u2019s research interests include, but are not limited to, the relationship between development and modernity in Africa, the relationship between development and cultural production in Africa, ethnicity and displacement in the Niger Delta, and the politics of ethnicity, globalization and development. He has previously served as the Coordinator of the African Studies Program at York University and is currently the Head of Founder&#8217;s College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The History Watch Project has produced a podcast of the event for those who were not able to attend, which is available <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/historywatch\/the-politics-of-remembering-the-many-diasporas-of-africa\">here<\/a>. The Institute of African Studies is grateful for the support of Migration and Diaspora Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-section cu-section--white w-screen ml-offset-center px-4 md:px-6 lg:px-12\"><div class=\"cu-max-w-child-5xl space-y-6 md:space-y-10   cu-prose-first-last\"><figure class=\"cu-figure not-prose  max-w-full\"><div class=\"not-prose overflow-hidden bg-white shadow-lg max-w-full rounded-none\"><div class=\"relative none overflow-hidden w-full pb-[56.25%] border border-cu-black-100\"><iframe width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/historywatch\/the-politics-of-remembering-the-many-diasporas-of-africa&amp;color='ff5500'&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" class=\"cu-embed-iframe\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/W9V7406-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Black History Month event was a great success. &nbsp; There were close to 100 persons in attendance. &nbsp;In his lecture \u00ab&nbsp;From Old to New African Diasporas: The Multiple Difficulties of Entangling Displacements and Identies&nbsp;\u00bb, Professor Pablo Idahosa (York University) discussed the ways in which Diasporic identities were being \u2018instrumentalized\u2019 by African nation states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}