Title
Africa in Global China Imaginaries
Abstract
This event was a collaboration with the African Studies program for the Africa at Noon series. It was held in-person with a livestream option.
Ignatius G.D. Suglo is a media and cultural historian and a scholar of global media. In this talk, he presented his research which explores the African presence in Chinese media from the 19th century to the present and their role in knowledge production, circulation, and worldmaking.
Biography
Ignatius Suglo is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication studies at the University of Richmond. Prior to joining Richmond, Ignatius was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong, M.A. from Beijing Language and Culture University, and B.A. from the University of Ghana. His writing has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias among others.