Chalk Radio Podcast - Finding Expertise Everywhere with Prof. Amah Edoh (S3:E8)

Episode 8: Finding Expertise Everywhere with Prof. M. Amah Edoh Though there’s widespread consensus that the slavery and colonization that characterize the history of European relations with Africa represent a legacy of grave injustice, there is much less agreement on how to redress that injustice. Professor M. Amah Edoh, who teaches in MIT’s Department of Anthropology, designed the course 21A.S01 Reparations for Slavery and Colonization with the goal of honestly facing the historical record and openly discussing how best to respond. Because she believes expertise is too often conceived of as something that flows “north-south” from the developed nations toward the developing world, she structured the course to embrace expertise wherever it might be found—recruiting guest lecturers from various disciplines and from institutions around the world, as well as activists currently involved in the quest for reparative justice. She even went a step further, sharing the lecture videos on YouTube while the semester was still ongoing and inviting viewers to contribute their own insights into how to deal with the ongoing legacy of historical wrongs. In this episode, Prof. Edoh describes the motivation for this innovative course structure and reflects on the challenges of grappling with such a sensitive subject. Relevant Resources: MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=chalkradio&utm_term=s3e8 The OCW Educator Portal https://ocw.mit.edu/educator/index.htm?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=chalkradio&utm_term=s3e8 Share your teaching insights https://forms.gle/XBwUwqn35abSdjNs8 Professor Edoh’s faculty page https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/m-amah-edoh Course materials by Professor Edoh on OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?q=Edoh&t=African%20History/index.htm?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=chalkradio&utm_term=s3e8 21A.S01 Reparations for Slavery and Colonization https://anthropology.mit.edu/21A.S01_Reparations_for_Slavery_and_Colonization Open Learning story on 21A.S01 https://openlearning.mit.edu/news/global-mit-reparations-course-takes-open-learning-new-level YouTube playlist for 21A.S01 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP621znZNO7tBuTH-WKjsV0D6 Africa’s Expertise (YouTube lecture by Prof Edoh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHfh9RJpCc African Futures Action Lab https://africanfutures.mit.edu How Africa Has Been Made to Mean (2020 episode of Chalk Radio) https://chalk-radio.simplecast.com/episodes/how-africa-has-been-made-to-mean-with-prof-amah-edoh Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue Connect with Us If you have a suggestion for a new episode or have used OCW to change your life or those of others, tell us your story. We’d love to hear from you! Call us @ 617-715-2517 On our site https://ocw.mit.edu/contact/ On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MITOCW/ On Twitter https://twitter.com/MITOCW?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mitocw/ Stay Current Subscribe to the free monthly "MIT OpenCourseWare Update" e-newsletter. https://ocw.mit.edu/newsletter/ Support OCW If you like Chalk Radio and OpenCourseware, donate to help keep these programs going! https://giving.mit.edu/give/to/ocw/?utm_source=ocw&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=donate Credits Sarah Hansen, host and producer (https://twitter.com/learning_sarah) Brett Paci, producer (https://twitter.com/Brett_Paci) Dave Lishansky, producer (https://twitter.com/DaveResonates) Show notes by Peter Chipman