Global Caste System and the Africana Experience: Myth and Reality: The Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions 2026 Conference
Sat, Oct 24, 2026
11:00 AM–6:00 PM
This is an online conference held virtually via Zoom. Join online via the Zoom link below.
This Conference will explore the global racialized structures that continually discriminate against peoples of African ancestry. The economic, social, political psychological, geographical consequences of this racialized caste power structures are worldwide. We will explore how academic institutions in Europe and the US emerged to solidify caste and cultivate the myth of the primitive. We will also examine the internalization of caste structures within racialized groups and its consequences. How do we continue to break the spell and move forward? Click Zoom link to join: https://mercy.zoom.us/j/99735513380?pwd=HljcwemEG4rbu4qEiQYd5siixDeMP4.1
Meeting chat link: https://mercy.zoom.us/launch/jc/99735513380
Meeting ID: 997 3551 3380. Passcode: 219442
Program:
11:00 AM Opening Greetings Zay D. Green J Everet Green, Mary Taylor
11:10-11:: 11:50: The Global Caste System as Coloniality in Disguise: Epistemic Apartheid, African Self-Alienation, and the Struggle for Intellectual Liberation
Stephen Onyango Ouma, Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Tangaza University, Maasai Mara University, and Marist International University.
11:50 -12:20: Brief Remarks on the Frontline of Struggles From the Caribbean and Beyond.
Winston Cameron Kwame Wilburg and Donna Wilburg
12:25- 1:50 Keynote: The Alternative Justice System as Pragmatic Politics of Breaking
Racialized Justice System
Steve Ouma Akoth: : Deputy Director of The Kenya Human Rights Commission , Faculty member at Kenyatta University, Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Tangaza University and Vice Chairperson of Kenya’s National Steering Committee on the Implementation of Alternative Justice System.
2: – 2:40
Hilda Muigu: Lecturer at Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology
2:45 – 3:45 Report on the Congo
Maurice Carney Executive Director, Friends of the Congo
4:: 00- 45: Sara Mokuria. Co-founder, Mothers Against Police Brutality, Public Intellectual
4:45- 5”10 Closing remarks and Announcements on The HUMANITAS Institute of African Studies.
The 13th annual PRAT conference is co-sponsored HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical Society, The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY and HUMANITAS Institute of African Studies.
The conference is on zoom. It is free and open to the public
Please direct questions or propose a presentation to Dr. J Everet Green: [email protected]