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SUMMARY:When Stories Turn Into Survival: CELEBRATION OF ROOTS\, DIASPORA\, AND CULTURE
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\n~50th Anniversary of the Movie: Roots~\nBill Haley Jr.\nMalick L. Manga\nCo-Founders of The Inherited Roots Project\nWednesday\, March 25\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95002089030 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for this exciting event in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Book\, Roots. This event has been organized by our CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Conteh. The 50th anniversary of Roots provides an important opportunity to reflect on the long-lasting power of storytelling\, memory\, and spoken language in shaping African and global diasporic identities. Roots has been translated into 37 languages since its publication\, demonstrating its universal appeal and confirming language’s role as a powerful vessel for history\, culture\, and collective memory. Roots is more than just a literary work; it’s a living archive that connects ancestry\, migration\, survival\, and resistance across generations and geography. The event honours Roots’ legacy while also activating its relevance for contemporary diasporic experiences by bringing together grandson of Alex Haley\, Bill Haley\, and son of Ebou Manga\, Malick Leo Manga\, in conversation with Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nAlex Haley\, Roots\, and the Rosetta Stone — lyrics by Joel Freeman\n\n\nBill Haley Jr.\n \n \n\n\n\nMalick Leo Manga\n \n \n  \n\nModerated by: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/when-stories-turn-into-survival-celebration-of-roots-diaspora-and-culture/
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SUMMARY:Malik Ambar: Africans in the Making of the Indian Ocean World
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98819563241 \n\n\nOver the course of some twenty centuries\, it is estimated that four million Africans–including sailors\, traders\, soldiers\, and artists–migrated or were forcibly taken across the western Indian Ocean. In India\, one Ethiopian rose to significant levels of power: Malik Ambar. For more than two decades during the early seventeenth century\, Ambar ruled the Sultanate of Ahmednagar in the western Deccan. Through an examination of his life\, the lecture will look at the making of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean world. \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nPresentation\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\n\nOmar H. Ali is the Rosenthal Excellence Professor of African and Global African Diaspora History and Dean Emeritus of Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, Senior Fellow at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum\, and the author of eight books\, including Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press). A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/malik-ambar-africans-in-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world/
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