Dr Stephen Temitope David is a research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has a PhD from Stellenbosch University and an MA from the University of Ibadan. His research explores the mis/uses of memory and nostalgia in Africa and the representations of the “slow violence” of extraction and its traumatic afterlives.
David’s work focuses on how remembrance and nostalgia are weaponised for diverse violent ends in Africa. His research adopts an intersectional methodology which pays close attention to how gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and ability/disability intersect to create multiplex modes of being and belonging within Africa. This mode of approaching conflicts highlights how sameness and difference often interact to silence some voices within popular histories.