'The colonized man who writes for his people
ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future,
as an invitation to action and a basis for hope.'
Kai Mora is a Ph.D. student in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She graduated with her A.A. in Literature at LaGuardia Community College and her B.A. and M.A. in History at the City College of New York.
Through the framework laid by critical Black theorists like Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, and Paul Gilroy, her research primarily explores the spiritual and artistic traditions which link Africa and her diasporas.
She has written and delivered lectures of on a wide range of subjects including Ethiopianism, Negritude, Islam in Africa and the Americas, and Blackness in North Africa. She also has a broad portfolio of biographical work on critical figures such as Thomas Sankara, Haile Selassie I, Marcus Garvey, the Nardal Sisters, and Mansa Musa.
