– or “Ten speakers you could invite once you graduate from the idea that strategies for successful resistance movements, the deconstruction of eurocentric imagery, mental decolonization and/or knowledge of pre-colonial sub-Sahara Africa are best presented by African-American men.”

Haru Mutasa – journalist, one of the Africa correspondents for Al Jazeera English
Dr. Yaba Blay – professor, producer, and publisher
Reni Eddo-Lodge – journalist
Anne Mazimhaka – co-founder and creative director of Illume
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD – novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism
Sean Jacobs – founder of Africa Is A Country
Cecile Emeke – film director, creator of Ackee & Saltfish and Strolling
Teju Cole – writer, art historian, and photographer
Christina Sharpe – associate prof. of English and Director of American Studies at Tufts University
Ava DuVernay – writer, producer, director and distributor of independent film