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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Intersecting and contiguous identities in African narratives
Description: Recorded April 19, 2022.
‘Intersecting and contiguous identities in African narratives: ontological and anthropological perspectives' a talk by Dr Théophile Munyangeyo (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.
Socio-political and economic crises that many African societies have experienced are generally attributed to the absence of what could be the nation-states. When the main conception of identities and related attitudes and behaviours are primarily linked to tribal and ethnic constructs, it can inevitably contribute to mutual exclusions, with the possibility of leading to open conflicts. The tribal and...