Event
Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment
3401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
Join us for a new installment in the Africa branch of our Africana Lecture Series.
Rogers Orock is currently an Assistant Professor in the Program in Africana Studies at Lafayette College. Previously, he taught in the Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge as well as at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Dr. Orock's work focuses on moral discourses on power about elites, postcolonial sexualities, and the politics of suspicion and conspiracy theories in Central African societies. He is co-editor of Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (2021, University of Michigan Press, with Wale Adebanwi) and co-author of a forthcoming book, Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Wealth (2024, University Chicago Press, with Peter Geschiere).
This is a hosted by the Center of Africana Studies.