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28
Oct

Cartoons as Political Critique in Ghana – a Close Look at the Work of Bright Ackwerh

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AUC New Cairo

The lecture focuses on the activist work of Ghanaian political cartoonist Bright Ackwerh. Bright is an artist who describes himself as a “pseudo-historian,” someone who responds to the gatekeeping practices of elite-owned and state-influenced media, by telling stories that media agencies are too afraid to tell. Bright’s political cartoons bring to the surface the unspoken and unseen worlds of e...

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10
Dec

Women of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Women’s Social Power in the First 11 Dynasties

AUC New Cairo

This lecture challenges the traditional focus on elite male narratives in ancient Egyptian history by examining the evolving social power of women from the Early Dynastic Period to the First Intermediate Period (Dynasties 1–11). Using Michael Mann’s Social Power Domains as a theoretical framework, the study analyzes women’s biographical inscriptions—mainly from funerary monuments—to map changes...