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| A colour photo of a Black women with long straight hair sitting on her right shoulder, wearing black glasses and standing in front of a white background. |
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Chris Ndedi Essombe
| Chris is a Black woman in a postcolonial world. She holds a Master’s degree in public health from the University of Montreal School of Public Health and a PhD in psychology from the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Over the last ten years she has worked in Colombia, Mexico and Tanzania on different projects focused on anti-Black racism. Her current research focuses on the psychology of western colonial violence and the ways in which whiteness influences how racialized peoples, specifically Black peoples on the continent and in the diaspora, perceive themselves and others. Chris is grateful to live in Tiohtiake. |
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2024 — PhD Psychology, University of Cape Town
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| Book Chapters Maiangwa, B., Ndedi Essombe, C. (2023). Being and Becoming “African” in the Postcolony. In: Maiangwa, B. (eds) The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging. Politics of Citizenship and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan. Ndedi Essombe, C. (2023). On Names, Labels, and Colonial Amnesia. In: Maiangwa, B. (eds) The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging. Politics of Citizenship and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan. Ndedi Essombe, C. (forthcoming 2026). Conclusion: Skintight Shelters. In: Maiangwa, B. (eds) Boundaries Traversed: Home, Peace and the Gradations of Return. University of Regina Press. Doctoral Dissertation Ndedi Essombe, C. (2024). "We still have to unlearn […]. We are programmed, you know?" Analyzing Black South Africans' violence against foreign Black Africans. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cape Town]. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34624.96002/1 Journal Article Maiangwa, B., Ndedi Essombe, C., Byrne, S. (2022). The banality of infrastructural racism through the lens of peace and conflict studies. Peacebuilding, 10(3): 242–264. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.2018180 |
Other publications
Ndedi Essombe, C. (2021). Opinion – Anti-Blackness: A Go-to Foreign Policy? Einternationalrelations. https://www.e-ir.info/2021/10/11/opinion-anti-blackness-a-go-toforeign-policy/
Ndedi Essombe, C., Maiangwa, B. (2022). Racist Europe – Ukraine, human rights & thewretched of the Earth. Review Of African Political Economy (ROAPE).https://roape.net/2022/03/21/racist-europe-ukraine-human-rights-the-wretched-of-the-earth/
Ndedi Essombe, C., Maiangwa, B. (2022). As we die in plain sight: the autopsy of AfricanCivilisations. Review Of African Political Economy (ROAPE). https://roape.net/2022/10/12/aswe-die-in-plain-sight-the-autopsy-of-african-civilisations/
Maiangwa, B., Ndedi Essombe, C. (2022). Opinion – The Pope's Apology for IndigenousResidential Schools. E-international relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2022/08/09/opinion-thepopes-apology-for-indigenous-residential-schools/
Maiangwa, B., Ndedi Essombe, C. (2021). By Our Own Hands and by Theirs: Africans and theNervousness to Belong. E-international relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2021/07/16/by-ourown-hands-and-by-theirs-africans-and-the-nervousness-to-belong/