The Hansberry Society: Doing the work to recover, and learn from, the history and legacy of Africa’s ancient past - panel from AAI’s 2021 State of Education on Africa Conference.

In this session three members of the Hansberry Society—a trans-continental network of emerging scholars—share the personal journeys and research passions that led to and inspire their ongoing work. They’ll also talk about Society’s mission to make the study of antiquity more inclusive and welcoming to students of African descent, and in doing so open up new vistas.

The Society was formed in 2020 to build on the intellectual legacy of AAI co-founder, William Leo Hansberry, the pioneering black scholar who created the first African studies program anywhere in the United States, at Howard University in 1922.