About:
Kojo Damptey is a sessional instructor for the African & Black Diaspora Studies program and a PhD student in the School of Social Work at McMaster University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar practitioner and musician dedicated to fostering a world free of injustice.
He holds a B.Eng in Chemical Engineering (McMaster University) and an M.A in Interdisciplinary Studies (Royal Roads University). As a decolonial advocate/scholar, Kojo integrates his academic insights and artistic talents to challenge and dismantle systemic oppression. His academic work revolves around the broad discipline of African & Black Studies, particularly around governance, African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and politics in Africa. He approaches his work using theoretical frameworks of decolonization and Afrocentricity.
This is evident in his PhD research project “Black Epistemologies for Solidarity, Reciprocity, and Action for a Decolonial World”- a multimodal project to theorize/highlight/explore and document how African/Black civic and political leaders in Canada are addressing anti-Black/African racism in political and public institutions.