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Speakers will address the role of art and fiction as a tool to celebrate love and resist harmful attitudes and actions towards LGBTQ+ communities. This panel will include speakers from Sudan, Nigeria, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, and Cameroon. This event is free and open to the public and is in-person only.\n \n Co-sponsored by: the African Studies Center, the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), the Spectrum Center, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department.\n \n Chair:\n \n Hala Al-Karib, Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellow, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)\n \n Al-Karib has dedicated her life to the cause of human rights in Africa. Her work is focused on women's rights, social justice, and equal citizenship in the Horn of Africa and Eastern Africa (particularly Sudan and South Sudan). Her expertise spans advocacy, conflict resolution, research, capacity building, policy engagement, and feminist organizing, making her a leading voice in fighting for legal reforms and amplifying women\u2019s voices in revolutions and post-war transitions.\n \n Panelists:\n \n B. Caroline Kouassiaman, Executive Director, Initiative Sankofa d\u2019Afrique de l\u2019Ouest\n \n Caroline (pronouns: she\/her) is the Executive Director of Initiative Sankofa d\u2019Afrique de l\u2019Ouest (ISDAO), an activist-led fund dedicated to strengthening and supporting a West African movement for gender diversity and sexual rights. She joined ISDAO in February 2019. She is a queer, bilingual (English\/French) African feminist of Ivorian and African-American heritage, and currently calls C\u00f4te d'Ivoire and Ghana home(s).\n \n Caroline has 23+ years of diverse professional experiences in philanthropy, human rights activism, social justice and education, and has been in the field of feminist and human rights centered-philanthropy since 2011, both as a staff member in leading philanthropic organizations, and as a strategic advisor in other innovative grantmaking initiatives, including VOICE program, the ACTIF Fund, and the Numun Fund. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College (USA), a Master of Public Administration degree and a master\u2019s in international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (USA).\n \n Caroline sees herself as a builder, a connector and a perpetual question-asker.\n \n Frieda Ekotto, Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature, and Francophone Studies\n\n As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, Dr. Frieda Ekotto concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. Her primary research to date has focused on how law serves to repress and mask the pain of disenfranchised subjects; her intention in this work is to trace what cannot be said in order to address and expose suffering from a variety of angles and cultural intersections and reassess the position and agency of the dispossessed.\n \n Dr. Ekotto is the author of multiple books, and numerous book chapters as well as many articles in prestigious literary journals. She is currently working on LGBTQIA2S+ issues, with an emphasis on Sub-Sahara African cultures within Africa as well as in Europe and the Americas. In addition to her academic work, she is also a creative writer.\n \n Dr. Ekotto received the Nicol\u00e0s Guill\u00e8n Prize for Philosophical Literature in 2014 and in 2015 she was awarded the Benezet Award for excellence in her field. In 2016, she was awarded the John H. 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His writing has been widely recognised for opening space for marginalised voices within African literature.\n \n A recipient of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Prose, Sweden's Natur och Kultur Priz and a finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, Dibia has also contributed fiction and essays to numerous international anthologies. Now based in Sweden, he works across writing, editing, and cultural advocacy, bridging African and global literary conversations while mentoring emerging writers and supporting freedom-of-expression initiatives.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. 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