Historian Quito Swan tells a story of Black internationalism that traverses the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans in the extraordinary life story of Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego, a Caribbean pan-African liberation leader, environmental scientist, and activist whose vision of true Black liberation purposefully included the Pacific. Dr. Swan will join us to talk story about his book, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice, just published in 2020, and will connect the legacy of Pauulu Kamarakafego to contemporary solidarity movements for environmental justice and liberation in the global African Diaspora and the Global South.

Dr. Quito Swan is professor of Africana studies and director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also the author of Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization.