Assistant Professor, African/Black Studies in Education, McGill University
Nanre is a pan-Africanist scholar-activist who writes, studies, teaches, and learns about how Africana peoples can reclaim their history and culture and emancipate themselves from their current dilemmas. She has inherent faith in the capacity of people, movements and classrooms to transform the world.
Nanre’s research contributes to debates and collective knowledge production in the areas of critical education policy studies, decolonial approaches to education, global critical race theory, critical youth studies, Black/Africana social movements, youth participatory action research; and the role of civil society in education and democratic nation-building in the Global South.