Monday, February 26, 2024

Halifu Osumare at Barnard College of Columbia University

Halifu Osumare and the book cover for "Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy" Gene Howell

Join the NYC book tour of Halifu Osumare's sequel memoir, Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy. 

Halifu Osumare is respected for her work as both professional dancer and trailblazing academic, in Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy, Halifu Osumare shares experiences from her second career, showing the potential of scholarship to reveal and document underrecognized stories of Black dance and global pop culture. In this memoir, Osumare dances across several fields of study while ruminating on how the Black past reveals itself in the Afro-present that is transforming into the Afrofuture.

Much like her mentor before her, Katherine Dunham, in Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy, the reader sees clearly the varied ways in which Osumare has dedicated her life to the intersections of the arts and humanities for the crafting and building of a better world, the building of the AfroFuture.

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