Event
Deprovincializing the Police: Towards a Transnational Solidarity against Brutality
The Africa Lecture Series, featuring Daniel Agbiboa, is hosted by the Center for Africana Studies.
The murder of George Floyd by now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 generated intense scrutiny and solidarity around the globe. And nowhere as critically as from the African continent, which shortly after experienced its own “Floyd moment” in the form of the #EndSARS movement against police brutality.
Taking Nigeria and the United States as contexts-in-common, two nations that rarely share the same stage, this talk will locate police brutality within the necropolitics that naturalize certain bodies as fungible and disposable. By grounding instances of spectacular police brutality in the spectral, we are able to track the ghost-like effects of the state across vast and multiple interacting spaces. Herein lies the work of ‘deprovincialization.’