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SUMMARY:The RDA: the Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement in Bl
 ack French Africa - Lyn Kouadio (University College\, Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:The Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA)\, a Francophone
  Pan-Africanist movement founded in 1946\, worked transnationally and tran
 s-territorially to shape the terms of belonging for Black Africans in Fren
 ch Africa and other colonised people in the French overseas territories (l
 es territoires d’outre-mer\, TOM) towards liberatory anti/de-colonial po
 litical futures. The movement was committed to political organising in the
  territories of Black French Africa and campaigning in the national assemb
 ly of the French Fourth Republic to secure rights not only to uphold the d
 ignity of colonised peoples in the French Union but also\, critically\, in
  a reparative justice perspective. In this seminar\, I will explore the po
 litical significance of campaigning for rights by consolidating citizenshi
 p for nationals of French overseas territories. I will examine the importa
 nce and implications of the RDA’s founders’ and leaders’ commitment 
 to securing civil rights in the French Union for the liberatory political 
 projects and futures they envisioned and pursued. \n\n\n\nLyn Kouadio is a
 n Ivorian scholar and Beacon Junior Research Fellow in Race and Postcoloni
 al Studies at University College Oxford. Her research interests lie in the
  international politics of Black African (Francophone) worlds and their as
 sociated politics of knowledge production. She is currently working on two
  book manuscripts. The first builds on her doctoral thesis and examines th
 e politics of Africanising transitional justice\, and the second traces th
 e RDA’s political history as a transnational civil rights movement in Bl
 ack French Africa. Prior to her postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford\, Lyn st
 udied for her MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge and completed h
 er undergraduate degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tec
 hnology in Ghana.  \n\nSpeakers:\nLyn Kouadio (University College\, Oxford
 )
LOCATION:St Antony's College - Main Site (Pavilion Room\, accessed via lif
 t)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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