About this Event
The Africa Summit at Princeton is a student-run association that hosts conferences and events bringing together global changemakers to discuss challenges and opportunities facing the African continent. By putting renowned scholars, visionary politicians, and cutting-edge entrepreneurs in conversation with passionate students at Princeton and neighboring institutions, the Summit offers a unique platform to translate ideas and relationships into meaningful action.
Spring 2023 Theme: “Growing Africa beyond the continent and into the diaspora”
Panels
Panel 1: Black Indigenous Realities
This moderated conversation will be exploring African cultural practices and epistemologies pre and post-colonialism, religious and spiritual rituals as well as the journey of this knowledge and traditions to the diaspora outside of the continent.
March 20, 1pm EST
Panel 2: African Music in the Diaspora
This moderated conversation will be exploring the theme of modern African music and its place in the global sphere. Afrobeats and amapiano are examples of African-born genres that have entered world popular music. These genres are strongly influenced by traditional and indigenous roots and have a cultural importance that might become erased on the popular market.
March 20, 5pm EST
Panelists
