Affiliation: Thought Pyramid Arts Centre, Abuja, Nigeria; Narrativiti Community Interest Company, London, England.
Location: Abuja, Nigeria and London, England.
Contact: phoenixcdc@outlook.com
Research Description:
An experienced Cultural Manager and Educator, with in-depth knowledge of Contemporary African and African Diaspora Visual Arts and with extensive contacts in that field. An excellent communicator, skilled at facilitating the exchange of ideas.
Currently works as Adjunct Head of Education at The Thought Pyramid Arts Centre, Abuja. Nigeria. Shaun set up Narrativiti Community Interest Company {CIC} in 2005, in the UK. It is an educational outreach service advocating, memorialising, and educating diverse communities about African Diaspora cultural expression. The over-arching aim of Narrativiti CIC is to:
Advance public education by promoting the work of Diaspora artists, in the Narrativiti multi-arts showcase –‘Orature’.
Promote well-being in Diaspora communities, through the provision of services and products that integrate art, health and technology.
Provide a range of commercial activities, products and services that will support the creative arts and sustain us as a creative industryn
Research Keywords: African Diaspora Art and Culture; Art Education; Curating; Contemporary African art consulting.
Research Description: I work on twentieth century British imperial history (particularly with relation to the Caribbean), the black presence in imperial Britain, the black experience of the British Empire, and how race and empire impacted more broadly on twentieth-century British identity, politics, society and culture.
Research Keywords: C.L.R. James; Pan-Africanism; race & class; colonial seafarers; Caribbean history.
Countries and Regions of Interest: Colonial Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Caribbean, West Africa.
Publications:
C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (Duke University Press, 2014).
Chris Braithwaite: Mariner, Renegade and Castaway (Redwords, 2014).
Editor of C.L.R. James, Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only successful slave revolt in history (Duke University Press, 2013).
Co-editor of Celebrating C.L.R. James in Hackney, London (Redwords, 2015).
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