Geographies of Fascism & Authoritarianism in Global Africa Conference

Wed Apr 15 2026 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm UTC+01:00

Jesus College | Oxford

Dr Amber Murrey, Prof Patricia Daley and Charden Pouo Moutsouka
Publisher/HostDr Amber Murrey, Prof Patricia Daley and Charden Pouo Moutsouka
Geographies of Fascism & Authoritarianism in Global Africa Conference
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This conference examines contemporary manifestations of fascism and authoritarian governance shaping political life across Africa.
About this Event

Geographies of Fascism & Authoritarianism in Global Africa Conference

From militarised border regimes to racialised technologies of policing, from extractive geopolitics to nationalist media and electoral campaigns, the grammar and practice of fascism is global. This interdisciplinary conference examines how fascism and global Africa are entangled politically, economically, and imaginatively across time and space. By foregrounding geographies of anti-Blackness and imperial capitalism as core dimensions of fascist rule, we set out to look at how racial capitalism, colonial legacies, and authoritarian formations intersect in the making of global fascist orders.

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Agenda

đź•‘: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Coffee and check-in
đź•‘: 09:25 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
Host: Prof. Patricia Daley
đź•‘: 09:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Panel 1: Geopolitics and Technologies of Fascism in Global Africa
Host: Dr Ian Klinke

Info: Paper1: Notes on Geopolitics and Fascism; Paper 2: Sovereign Necropolitics: How Ethiopia Produces Death in its Extractive Frontiers; Paper 2 : Racial Surveillance Technologies in Fascist Italy


đź•‘: 11:15 AM - 11:25 AM
Comfort break
đź•‘: 11:25 AM - 12:55 PM
Panel 2: Resistance and Antifascism in Africa
Host: Dr Larissa Kojoué

Info: Paper 1: Queer and Feminist Resistance in West and Central Africa: How Queer and Feminist Content Creators Use Social Media to Document Abuse, Organize Protests, and Build National and Transnational Alliances; Paper 2: Authoritarian Populism Under Former Liberation Movements as Governments in Southern Africa, with Special Reference to Namibia


đź•‘: 12:55 PM - 01:40 PM
Lunch break
đź•‘: 01:40 PM - 02:50 PM
Panel 3: Racial Justice and Fascist Politics
Host: Dr Olivia Rutazibwa

Info: Paper 1: Reflections on Postcolonial Authoritarianism: BLM, the Congo Commission, and the Métissen of Belgium; Paper 2: The Costs of Antifascism: BLM, Institutional Retreat, and the Limits of Liberal Democracy


đź•‘: 02:50 PM - 03:20 PM
Coffee and discussion 
Host: Dr Amber Murrey and Professor Patricia Daley

Info: Observations, provocations, and reflections;


đź•‘: 03:20 PM - 04:50 PM
Panel 4: Fascism in the Global Racial Order
Host: Dr Essam Elkorghli

Info: Paper 1: The Political Economy of Imperialism’s Anti-Blackness in Libya; Paper 2 : "The problem with the white working class is we do not really have a culture”: Triangulating Neo-Fascist Metapolitics, (Hyper)local Heritage, and the Enduring “Problem” of Africa; Paper 3: Late Fascism, the “Great Replacement,” and the Global Racial Order


đź•‘: 04:50 PM - 05:00 PM
Comfort break
đź•‘: 05:00 PM - 05:45 PM
Keynote
Host: Professor Horace Campbell

Info: Black Pan-African Joy and the Specter of Fascism


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Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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