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-Institut für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, 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
  • 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

Samura (2022) „We are in misery - Racism and Mental Health“ In: BER (ed.)
„Allgegenwärtigkeit von Kolonialismus in Themen
globaler Ungerechtigkeit". Deutschland: BER.

Samura (2022) “Bearing the collective”:
The Politics of Race and Gender in German settler
colonialism (1884-1914), SOAS University, London

Samura (2021) „Black Fatigue" In: Obulor,
Evein (ed.) „Black in Capital Letters."
Deutschland: & Töchter.

Samura (2020) "The unmarked white Woman. Politics of Race, Gender and Population Control in German Colonial Policies."