“The Sphinx Must Solve Her Own Riddle”:Edward Wilmot Blyden, Orientalism, and the Regeneration of Africa

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AFRO-ASIA INTERACTIONS SEMINAR

October 27, 2023, 4-6pm

Oluwatomisin (Tomi) Onabanjo

“The Sphinx Must Solve Her Own Riddle”: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Orientalism, and the Regeneration of Africa

53 Washington Square South (King Juan Carlos Center) Room 701

Oluwatomisin (Tomi) Onabanjo is a graduate student in the History department at New York University. He studies the relationship between Orientalist discourse and subjectivity formation in West Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He holds a BA in History and Africana Studies from Brown University. Tomi is also a 2023–2024 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Emerging Critic. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, and The Brown Undergraduate Journal of Middle East Studies.

October 27, 2023

Time: 4-6pm

Presenter: Oluwatomisin (Tomi) Onabanjo

Afro-Asia Interactions Seminar