FRIDAY AND SATURDAY | MAY 1 - 2, 2015 | SEIGLE 205 | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST. LOUIS
This interdisciplinary symposium sets out to explore the role of East Africa’s highland region in European and Transatlantic knowledge and identity production from a diachronic and transnational perspective. The aim is to broaden existing theoretical frameworks of cultural encounters between Africa and the ‘West’ and to dislodge the centrality of colonialism in approaching African thought and culture by focusing on modes of exchange and transnational connections. East Africa’s highland region provides a valid