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On February 17, 2023, Elizabeth Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute was invited to virtually recite her translations of acclaimed late Ethiopian poets Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Debebe Seifu as part of Harvard University’s latest issue, Transition dedicated to Africa and African diaspora.
Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Transition is a publication of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, edited by Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr and published three times annually.
An attendee from the audience shared, “The poems were truly awesome and felt relevant to me.”
Joining Professor Giorgis at the virtual reading were Transition 133 poets Ariana Benson; Danielle Legros George, and Joseph Ndukwu as they read their pieces from Transition 133: Climate.
Environmental catastrophe has been a longstanding condition of life in the African Diaspora. And today, African communities throughout the world bear the brunt of climate disasters. In the issue, writers and artists explore this long and short view; together, they create a perspective that helps us understand this moment and move forward to address it.
Robert Reid-Pharr writes in his introduction: “…the struggle to ‘save our planet’ is ancient and ongoing. In order to prevail…we have to remember who we are…we are the living promise of the colonized and enslaved. Our passion can never be subdued. Our links to our planet can be stretched and deformed but never broken.” The writers and artists of T133 remind us, over and over, who we are and what the task ahead of us is.
On February 17, 2023, Elizabeth Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute was invited to virtually recite her translations of acclaimed late Ethiopian poets Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Debebe Seifu as part of Harvard University’s latest issue, Transition dedicated to Africa and African diaspora.
On February 17, 2023, Elizabeth Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute was invited to virtually recite her translations of acclaimed late Ethiopian poets Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Debebe Seifu as part of Harvard University’s latest issue, Transition dedicated to Africa and African diaspora.
Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Transition is a publication of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, edited by Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr and published three times annually.
An attendee from the audience shared, “The poems were truly awesome and felt relevant to me.”
Joining Professor Giorgis at the virtual reading were Transition 133 poets Ariana Benson; Danielle Legros George, and Joseph Ndukwu as they read their pieces from Transition 133: Climate.
Environmental catastrophe has been a longstanding condition of life in the African Diaspora. And today, African communities throughout the world bear the brunt of climate disasters. In the issue, writers and artists explore this long and short view; together, they create a perspective that helps us understand this moment and move forward to address it.
Robert Reid-Pharr writes in his introduction: “…the struggle to ‘save our planet’ is ancient and ongoing. In order to prevail…we have to remember who we are…we are the living promise of the colonized and enslaved. Our passion can never be subdued. Our links to our planet can be stretched and deformed but never broken.” The writers and artists of T133 remind us, over and over, who we are and what the task ahead of us is.
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