African Cultural Studies PhD student Luigi Muci recently published “From Dakar to Pyongyang: Imagining Pan-Africanism and the Global South through Sierra Leone’s National Dance Troupe (1966–1988).”
His article traces the cultural histories of the mobility of and transnational solidarity established by the Sierra Leonean National Dance Troupe within Sierra Leone’s first three decades of independence. Using interviews with past and present dancers of the troupe alongside extensive archival research, Muci analyses the evolution of the troupe’s cultural ties internationally, in order to understand the interrelation between the spatial movement of the troupe and its own evolving cultural and artistic identity.