Black, Brown and in Love: Interracial Relationships between Africa and India

Black, Brown and in Love: Interracial Relationships between Africa and India

This panel took place on March 12th, (10-11:30am EST / 3-4.30pm GMT). It featured David Amponsah, Tracy Mensah, Shobana Shankar, and Meera Venkatachalam, who spoke about the historical and contemporary, inter-racial and inter-cultural, relationships between Africans and Indians. This event was co-organised with Everyday Orientalism and chaired by Girish Daswani. Image by Bright Ackwerh @brightakwerh

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This is not Namaste Wahala: On Silences, (His)Stories and Ghana’s Oldest South Asian Family

This is not Namaste Wahala: On Silences, (His)Stories and Ghana’s Oldest South Asian Family

This post responds to the Naija-Netflix film "Namaste-Wahala" (February, 2021). It provides a review but also a deeper history of the South Asian (Sindhi) presence in the Gold Coast and Ghana. It is both historical and personal as the author shares his family's (hist)story in Ghana.

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