The bifurcated treatment of the continent between two separate geographical domains, in different fields of study and politics, has deepened the divide between Africans on both sides of the imaginary Saharan border, as it betrays the historical connections which tie these regions. This interactive symposium allows scholars to reimagine an African identity beyond essentialism and ethnocentrism while offering methodological approaches to remedy this intra-continental split along racial, ethnic and religious lines. Registration required