Jenaba Samura

Research team member in the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations

CV

  • Since 2024: Academic Assistant (Graduate Researcher) at the Leibniz-Centre for Literary - & Cultural Research, Berlin
  • 2020-2022: MA Postcolonial Studies at SOAS University, London
  • 2016-2020: BA Gender Studies and Cultural Anthrologoly at Georg-August University, Göttingen

Research Interests

  • Black German Literature
  • Afropea /Black Europe
  • German Colonial Histories
  • Imaginations of Black Sexuality and Gender Constructions in the Colonial Discurs
  • Pre-Colonial Constructions of Gender
  • Colonial Trauma and the effects of rasicm on mental health

Publications

  • Afrotopia - Black Constructions of Gender & Sexuality. Berlin: Querverlag 2025
  • We are in misery – Racism and Mental Health, in: BER (Hg.): Allgegenwärtigkeit von Kolonialismus in Themen globaler Ungerechtigkeit (2022), 51-54
  • “Bearing the collective”: The Politics of Race and Gender in German settler colonialism (1884-1914), London: SOAS University 2022
  • Black Fatigue, in: Evein Obulor (Hg.): Black in Capital Letters. München: & Töchter 2021, 99–106
  • The unmarked white Woman. Politics of Race, Gender and Population Control in German Colonial Policies, Göttingen: University of Göttingen 2020

Lectures

  • 2025: Adventures in Afropea: Black Travelogues as Literary Deconstruction of the Colonial Gaze, European Conference for African Studies, Prague
  • 2025: Adventures in Afropea: Looking back at Black Europe(ans), Institute for Postkolonial & Socio-cultural Studies, Bremen University

Courses

  • SuSe 2019: Doing Anthropology Critically - Postcolonial & Feminist Perspectives on Anthropology in Theory and Practice (Seminar), University of Göttingen, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection