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History and Politics

Catholicism and the Decolonization of Africa

University Room: David T. McGovern Grand Salon (C-104)
David T. McGovern Grand Salon (C-104) | 6, rue du Colonel Combes 75007
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 18:00

鈥淎frican Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church鈥� examines how French and African Catholics imagined the future of Catholicism in Africa between 1945 and 1965. They raised the question of whether Catholicism was inherently tied to European civilization and colonization, or if it could in fact be authentically African. In this talk, I will specifically describe a long-overlooked Catholic strand of the Negritude movement, and how its leading exponent, Alioune Diop, became a major influence on the Vatican in the late 1950s and 1960s.聽

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