Race and Research: On whiteness and the study of Africa
Simukai Chigudu is Associate Professor of African Politics at the Oxford Department of International Development and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford.

He is currently writing a book called, When Will We Be Free? Living in the Shadow of Empire and the Struggle for Decolonisation, (forthcoming with The Bodley Head and Crown, 2024). This book will combine memoir, political history and cultural criticism to show how colonialism continues to shape politics, society and culture in Africa and in Britain and to explore what it really means to decolonise.

In this talk, he will speak with Dr Catherine Grasham on decolonising knowledge production in Africa, colonial legacies and Rhodes Must Fall.
Date: 8 June 2022, 13:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speaker: Professor Simukai Chigudu (Associate Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College)
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser: Dr Catherine Grasham (Postdoctoral researcher in Water Security and Society, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: catherine.grasham@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/race-and-research-on-whiteness-and-the-study-of-africa-tickets-348746248417
Cost: FREE
Audience: Public
Editor: Catherine Grasham