Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics  ›  Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic  ›  News  ›  Launch of G-SAP

This side-event on April 15th at the UN Headquarters in NYC will officially launch the Global Network for the Study of Africans and People of African Descent (G-SAP). G-SAP is a global research network organized around the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. 

G-SAP will bring together scholars, educators, academic institutions, schools and universities funds and programmes, civil society organizations and activists across the world to: 

  • Produce knowledge and research-based policy advice on the human rights and socio-economic development of Africans and people of African descent.
  • Promote public awareness on the human rights of Africans and people of African descent.
  • Promote and strengthen Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Studies, African Diaspora Studies and any other studies on Africans and people of African descent at universities and schools across the world.
  • Promote socially and politically engaged research and education on Africans and people of African descent that are relevant to the liberation, human rights and socio-economic development of Africans and people of African descent.

Panelists:

  • Keisha Blain, Brown University
  • Kia Caldwell, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Washington University in St Louis
  • Denise Fereira da Silva, New York University
  • Tao Leigh Goffe, Hunter College, City University of New York
  • Barbara G. Reynolds, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Moderators:
  • Michael McEachrane, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
  • Mame-Fatou Niang, Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic

Organizers:

Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Mame-Fatou Niang (Director of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic, Carnegie Mellon University), Mactar Ndoye (retired Human Rights Officer at the OHCHR).