New book review:
Davis-McElligatt on Bumatay, Michelle: _On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power_. Ohio State University Press, 2025. Published by H-Africa.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20139922

I'm thrilled to be participating in an exciting comics colloquium next month hosted by Dr. Rocío Pichon-Rivière at UC Irvine!

I'll be presenting my work at Penn State on Monday for anyone in the region 😊 share.google/jTIBy9JmFcyg...

🤩⭐I got my copy of this incredible volume edited by Jen Boum Make and Charly Verstraet w/ a foreword by Jessica Oublié - I'm thrilled to be in such great company!🔥🎉

I can't wait to welcome Gaspard Njock & Annick Kamgang for the 6th Global Africas event hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Comics and the Art of Investigation. For more info: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/6th-gl...

Decolonial Care Decolonial Care examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Thr...

🤩Congratulations to Jennifer Boum Make on her new book "Decolonial Care" 🎉What an important and timely intervention - I can't wait to get my copy! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-pr...

Y-a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ? Published in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Full article: Y a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Un grand merci à Pedro Monaville pour ce compte-rendu nuancé de mon livre "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

Exciting news! 1) Drawing (in) the Feminine was nominated for a Comics Studies Society award *and* an Eisner award and 2) the Edinburgh UP page is live for Graphic Narratives of Resistance!🤩🤩 Check it out: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-graphic...

Live Updates: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four hospitalized Active shooter reported at Florida State

DEVELOPING: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four people hospitalized, local hospital says; FSU urges students to seek shelter.

For those in SoCal, I'll be talking about my book at Pomona College 💙 (4/25) and UCLA (4/28) 🩵💛 - I hope to see some of you there! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

What a gift to spend two days with Felwine Sarr during the Afrotopias conference! ✨🌟

Thank you 🤩 and bonne lecture!

I'm *so* looking forward to the 5th Global Africas event next week: the Afrotopias Conference featuring Felwine Sarr! For more info & the program: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...

I'm looking forward to participating in this workshop on comics & language classes at Pomona College and to the book talk I'll be giving at UCLA the following week!💙💛

I can't wait to welcome director Thierno Souleymane Diallo to campus this weekend for a screening & Q&A of his documentary "The Cemetery of Cinema"!🤩

Flyer: Black Bandes Dessinées in Context

Can't wait to discuss my book with everyone at UMass Lowell - un grand merci à Kristen Stern!

🤩 Yes!!! What a journey - and what wonderfully engaging and supportive conversations then and since with you and @katelynknox.bsky.social 💚

Combatting Racial Stereotypes Through Comics: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay is the first book in English to explore the work of Black francophone artists of bandes desinées and their responses to colonial l...

🤩 Thrilled to have Jagravi Dave profile my book on @brittlepaper.bsky.social - brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...

Can't wait for the Tout-Monde Foundation & Winthrop-King Institute Homo Sargassum symposium at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts & I'm honored to participate with Mora Beauchamp-Byrd & Henri Tauliaut to discuss comics, art, and the environment!🤩 www.tout-monde-foundation.org/copy-of-homo...

🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵

Global map from Tropiques toxiques on the history of kepone/chlordecone.

The new issue of Imaginaries is up & its on bandes dessinées including Jessica Oublié's #tropiquestoxiques & Marcelino Truong's 40 Men and 12 Rifles h-france.net/imaginaries/

Afrotopias Conferene Banner with Felwine Sarr

📢 The final draft of the 5th Global Africas: Afrotopias Conference program is live: winthropking.fsu.edu/5th-global-a... I'm looking forward to what promises to be a rich engagement with and expansion on Felwine Sarr's #Afrotopia 🤩

My students' collaborative comments on the Sarr-Savoy report are clear-sighted & give me hope for whatever comes next!

Bodys Isek Kingelez - "Villa fantôme" (1996)

Finalizing my "Francophone Afrotopias" seminar syllabus & I can't wait to share Bodys Isek Kingelez's art (at the Chicago Art Institute now!) & screen Mati Diop's "Dahomey" in preparation for Felwine Sarr's keynote during the 5th Global Africas event, the "Afrotopias" conference! 🤩

The Ohio State University Press: Spring 2025 Catalog The Spring 2025 catalog of the Ohio State University Press, with new titles in creative nonfiction, critical adoption studies, cultural studies, rhetoric and communication, and more.

Announcing our spring 2025 season! Review copies and course adoption requests: osup_publicity@osu.edu
bit.ly/OSUPress_S25_s
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Duncan Yoon and Michelle Bumatay

Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Michelle Bumatay, and Hilary Jones

Tb to the 67th ASA meeting where I ran into Duncan Yoon & my incredible co-panelists Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Hilary Jones, & Ousseina Alidou (not pictured). Looking forward to more discussions following the "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histories &Thought" panel!

67th Annual ASA Meeting: Global Africa (Chicago, Illinois | December 12-14, 2024)

Looking forward to the 67th ASA & participating in the roundtable "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histoires and Thought" w/ Aliko Songolo, Naminata Diabate, Ousseina Alidou, & Hilary Jones! A très bientôt!
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Title page: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power

Page from "Si la Mer Méditerranée pouvait parler..."

Final proofs! I'm looking forward to sharing this with everyone!🤩

Cross-section of the African continent with the conference title Afrotopias superimposed over it.

🔊🔊 CFP deadline Nov. 25 for the 5th Global Africas Conference: AFROTOPIAS (April 2025) with Felwine Sarr hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute Please apply and share widely! winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...