The conversations that make up ‘The Era of Reclamation’ ask questions like: is there a diminution of the African Caribbean voice in the British public sphere? Does the LGBTQ community point a way out of the ‘Wakanda-isation’ of African history and towards a ‘meta Africa’ - a new space that exists not only in Africa, but in Europe, the Americas, the world. Has diversity devolved into a business? And what does diversity really mean? What are we being diverse from?
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