Vorträge

In this presentation, I engage with the African body that lands on European beaches via the Mediterranean sea, dead by exhaustion from crossing the ocean or dead as a consequence of boarding a vessel, which has capsized because it was not equipped to carry the embodied subject identities of Africans leaving the continent to seek refuge on the European continent: the continent of the European coloniser who had usurped African land and people, kidnapped African labour starting in the fifteenth century whilst simultaneously exploiting and extracting raw materials to develop its wealth in an ailing, starving, and disease infested Europe.

Drawing upon ideas from Fear of Black Consciousness
(Penguin, 2022) / Angst vor Schwarzem Bewusstsein
(Ullstein Verlag, 2022), this talk will offer a portrait
of Black existentialism, summarizing some of its key
problematics with emphasis on problems wrought
from Euromodern colonization of knowledge. The talk
will conclude with a discussion of what decolonizing
knowledge entails.