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Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
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Sophie Strand

3 courses
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Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
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Veronica Strang

1 courses
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Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
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David Abram

2 courses
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Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
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Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
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Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Aza Njeri

Aza Njeri is professor of African Literature and researcher of African and Afro-diasporic Philosophies, Cultures, Literatures and Arts.

Aza Njeri is a professor of the Graduate Program in Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity at PUC-Rio. Coordinator and Undergraduate Professor at the Department of Letters PUC-RJ and at Pretos Novos Research Institute-RJ. Coordinator of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies and Research on the African Continent and Afro-diasporas at PUC-Rio. Writer, screenwriter, multi-artist, theatrical and literary critic, mother, podcaster and youtuber.

Re/membering Our Rooted Selves Picture

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Re/membering Our Rooted Selves

What are your roots? What is your relationship with ancestry and heritage? How do they inform you now? How do you want to walk in this world? What do you wish to contribute? This is an invitation to re/claim that which has been left behind, feeding us as we move into the future. A call to re/connect to memory and ancestry, dreaming and imagination, and re/root through story-telling.

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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads and illuminating patterns

How do we cultivate response-ability? How do we engage in the present? How can storytelling be an active act toward these ends, and what does it mean to activate the ‘muscle’ of stories? What could playing with string figures teach us? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.

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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads & illuminating patterns

How can storytelling help us find our way home and ground ourselves in the present of these times? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.

We rise as living suns: learning from Bakongo philosophy with Aza Njeri Picture

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We rise as living suns: learning from Bakongo philosophy with Aza Njeri

We are living in troubled times. In the opening session of Re/membering our Rooted Selves, we investigate tangled systemic crises and cracks in the systems that have become even more visible with the multiple collapses. How do we move, in spite? Aza Njeri, professor of African Literature and researcher of African and Afro-diasporic Philosophies, Cultures, Literatures and Arts, one of the teachers in this opening week, shares about the Bakongo philosophy, an African philosophy of the peoples of Congo and Angola.