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Author of On Black BD and Transcolonial Power: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215821.html mbumatay.com
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🤩 Thrilled to have Jagravi Dave profile my book on @brittlepaper.bsky.social - brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...

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Can't wait for the Tout-Monde Foundation & Winthrop-King Institute Homo Sargassum symposium at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts & I'm honored to participate with Mora Beauchamp-Byrd & Henri Tauliaut to discuss comics, art, and the environment!🤩 www.tout-monde-foundation.org/copy-of-homo...

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🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵

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The new issue of Imaginaries is up & its on bandes dessinées including Jessica Oublié's #tropiquestoxiques & Marcelino Truong's 40 Men and 12 Rifles h-france.net/imaginaries/

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📢 The final draft of the 5th Global Africas: Afrotopias Conference program is live: winthropking.fsu.edu/5th-global-a... I'm looking forward to what promises to be a rich engagement with and expansion on Felwine Sarr's #Afrotopia 🤩

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

My students' collaborative comments on the Sarr-Savoy report are clear-sighted & give me hope for whatever comes next!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Finalizing my "Francophone Afrotopias" seminar syllabus & I can't wait to share Bodys Isek Kingelez's art (at the Chicago Art Institute now!) & screen Mati Diop's "Dahomey" in preparation for Felwine Sarr's keynote during the 5th Global Africas event, the "Afrotopias" conference! 🤩

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Announcing our spring 2025 season! Review copies and course adoption requests: [email protected] bit.ly/OSUPress_S25_s @e-bumps.bsky.social @angelamsanchez.bsky.social @austinaraujo.bsky.social @molliegodfrey.bsky.social

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Tb to the 67th ASA meeting where I ran into Duncan Yoon & my incredible co-panelists Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Hilary Jones, & Ousseina Alidou (not pictured). Looking forward to more discussions following the "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histories &Thought" panel!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to the 67th ASA & participating in the roundtable "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histoires and Thought" w/ Aliko Songolo, Naminata Diabate, Ousseina Alidou, & Hilary Jones! A très bientôt! africanstudies.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Final proofs! I'm looking forward to sharing this with everyone!🤩

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🔊🔊 CFP deadline Nov. 25 for the 5th Global Africas Conference: AFROTOPIAS (April 2025) with Felwine Sarr hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute Please apply and share widely! winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...

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