Dr. Emmanuel Saboro in Residence September 2024

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Emmanuel Saboro completed his residence September 2024 with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program.

While in Indianapolis, Dr. Emmanuel Saboro developed his latest project, Sites of Memory: Visuality and Metaphors of the Slave Experience in Ghana.

This work-in-progress builds on an already vibrant body of scholarship on memory studies in Africa. Its major originality is that it expands 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 structural representations— 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 (Brill, 2022), which was published in the Global Slavery Series.

Speculative Play and Just Futurities is made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation. SPJF is a collaboration between the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, the Center for Africana Studies and Culture, and the Ray Bradbury Center. Learn more about the program here.