Dr. Emmanuel Saboro in Residence September 2024

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Emmanuel Saboro will be in-residence September 2024 with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program.

While in-residence in Indianapolis, Dr. Emmanuel Saboro will work on his latest project, Sites of Memory: Visuality and Metaphors of the Slave Experience in Ghana.”

During the SPJF Residency at Indiana University, Professor Saboro will be working on the project, Sites of Memory: Visuality and Metaphors of the Slave Experience in Ghana. This is a work in progress and builds on an already vibrant body of scholarship on memory studies in Africa. Its major originality is that it will expand our current understanding of the enterprise of enslavement and the slave trade by calling for a re-reading of key cultural and historical sites, connected to the slave experience in Ghana beyond their structural representations but as symbolic spaces that can “speak” and be understood only through the imagination and the invocation of metaphor. 

About Dr. Emmanuel Saboro

Emmanuel Saboro, PhD (he/him) is an Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Studies: African Literature, Cultural Memory, and Slavery Studies at the Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He obtained his PhD at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull, England. He has published extensively on memories of slavery in Ghana. His most recent book is Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives (2022) published in the Global Slavery Series, Brill Leiden and Boston.