Christopher Donshale Sims

rebsl — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:48:40 +0000

Christopher D. Sims is a cultural bearer and leader in all things African diaspora. Committed to African American and/or Black liberation, his contributions to Black people spand from writing, public reading, research, and serving on committees and the like representing the best of Black vision and creativity. A scholar, Christopher is a published author with content that details our shared Africaness. As a writer and researcher, he has written scholarly publications about the history of Black people worldwide.

Keywords: Anti-Blackness, Reparations, Black Diasporas, Black History, African American History, Canadian Black History, Canadian Indigenous People's History, African Diasporas Travel, Community, Culture, and African Diasporic Music and Performance Arts

Zulfikar Hirji

rebsl — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:48:49 +0000

Zulfikar Hirji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at �첥��Ƶ, Toronto (Canada). He is interested in how human societies articulate, represent and perform understandings of self, community, and other, and on issues of knowledge production, representation and identity, visual, material, and sensory culture, and critical pedagogy. His research focuses on Muslim societies in a range of historical and contemporary contexts, particularly in coastal East Africa and around the Indian Ocean. He has conducted archival research and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in various parts of the world including East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia, Europe, and North America. He received his DPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2002), MPhil in Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge (1997), and BA (Joint Honours) in Religious Studies & Anthropology from McGill University (1989).

Keywords: Muslim Societies, Coastal East Africa, Indian Ocean, Islamophobias

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Christopher Donshale Sims

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