In 2023, the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)—the world’s largest professional association of individuals and institutions dedicated to the study of Latin America—held its first conference in and about Latin America’s relationship with the African continent…

Tracking Latin America-Africa Exchanges from the Twentieth Century to the Present

In 1999, on the hinge of the millennium, I was invited to South Africa to give some lectures at Cape Town and Rhodes universities…

To the extent that my work straddles Africa and Latin America, it has always been with Africa as my point of departure. This has strictly personal reasons…

The present outlook for scholarship that thinks across Latin America and Africa is very exciting. The inaugural LASA/Africa congress in November 2023 is just one indication of institutional recognition for the recent wave of scholarship…

Despite their geographic distance and significant differences, Africa and Latin America often mirror each other, due to their shared histories of European colonization and of the transatlantic slave trade…

When I was in the final stages of my PhD, I received a vinyl record containing Senegalese music from the 1970s that opened a whole new world for me…

I would like to begin by commenting that my research focuses on territorial conflicts and Indigenous peoples, mainly the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in the fight for territory and land issues…

One of the works that I consider particularly influential for a relational reading (Mignolo 2010) of Latin American-African literature is…

Accessing South-South literary histories requires more than multilingual fluency. Beyond reading practices that engage a fictional text with a colonial treaty, I have turned…

When pondering the question of core competencies and methodologies of scholarship on Latin America-Africa, I find myself returning to a recent classic in Afro-Caribbean thought…

While literary and cultural comparisons bridging Latin America and Africa have only relatively recently found institutional space, sites of encounter and discussion among African and Latin American artists and intellectuals have a much longer history…