The Citizen and the Anthropophage
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The Citizen and the Anthropophage: The Cannibal Boom and Postcolonial Amnesias
Zoé Samudzi is a Provost’s Fellow to Faculty postdoc in the Department of African American and Africana Studies at Ohio State University and a Global Blackness Fellow with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Her work contends with genocide memory and denialism, mythologies of the postcolonial African state, and the politics of visuality. Samudzi is also a writer and an associate editor of Parapraxis Magazine, as well as a co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press, 2018). She is a 2026 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant grantee, a 2026 resident at La Becque’s Principal Residency Program, and an awardee of the 2026 Fire Station Studios’ International Curator Residency.
SGW Campus, Concordia
Following the talk, Dr. Gabby Moser will be in conversation with Dr. Samudzi. Please note that for those out of town or unable to make it in person, we will be having this talk in a hybrid format, with Zoom registration available.
In addition, we will be hosting Dr. Samudzi in the lab the following morning on Friday 27 March at 10am for a workshop, spots are limited. The workshop is in person only.
Zoé Samudzi is a Provost’s Fellow to Faculty postdoc in the Department of African American and Africana Studies at Ohio State University and a Global Blackness Fellow with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Her work contends with genocide memory and denialism, mythologies of the postcolonial African state, and the politics of visuality. Samudzi is also a writer and an associate editor of Parapraxis Magazine, as well as a co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press, 2018). She is a 2026 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant grantee, a 2026 resident at La Becque’s Principal Residency Program, and an awardee of the 2026 Fire Station Studios’ International Curator Residency.
Poster credit: Setayesh Nejadi
