Afro-Brazilian Voices: Literature, Art, and Diaspora

Wits is honoured to welcome Djamila Ribeiro — one of Brazil’s leading public intellectuals and a prominent voice on Black feminism and race.

Afro-Brazilian Voices: Literature, Art, and Diaspora is a cultural and intellectual event that gathers leading Afro-Brazilian scholars, artists, and performers around themes of identity, memory, resistance, and diaspora.

This event, collaboratively organised by the Embassy of Brazil in Pretoria, the Government of the Brazilian State of Bahia, the Flotar platform, and Wits University, features the launch, in South Africa, of the book Where We Stand by Professor Djamila Ribeiro. It introduces the FLIPEBA festival, which advances Afro-diasporic literary traditions and reading practices, and presents compelling visual narratives, including Ngongo: Paths of Memory Reinvention and the Photo-Diaspora Archive, and includes a dance performance by Cátia Janaína. The event culminates in book signings and a cultural exchange over Brazilian refreshments. It will be held in the Humanities Graduate Centre from 12:00–14:00 on Wednesday, 18 June (with a photographic exhibition by Leticia Franca in the Wits Anthropology Museum from 18–20 June). 

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