Afrisem session will take place on Thursday, October 30th, from 5–7 PM at 620 Library Place. The speaker will be Visiting Scholar Ridwan Muhammed, who will present a work-in-progress chapter from his dissertation titled Return, Resettlement, and the Remaking of Reproductive and Medical Landscape: Colonial Lagos, 1835–1914. Below is a brief description of the chapter:
"Amidst the continuous erasure of Afro-Brazilian heritage in Lagos Nigeria, due to state and private gentrification- where historical sites have been repurpose for other “modern project”. An addendum to this is how Afro-Brazilians have been erased within the historiography of medicine in 19th century Lagos. In this chapter I ask overarching questions as to why now, what has been lost, and what can be recovered? By tracing the reverse diaspora return and resettlement of Afro-Brazilian in Lagos, highlighting how Afro-Brazilian returnees became medical agents who contributed to the city’s Biomedical infrastructure through their trans-Atlantic spatial practices, and reproductive Labor."