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Author Meets Critics: Textual Life at ASA 2025

Author Meets Critics: Textual Life at ASA 2025 Recorded on November 20, 2025 at the African Studies Association Meeting, this roundtable brings together four distinguished scholars — Shobana Shankar (Stony Brook University), Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign), Ariela Marcus-Sells (Elon University), and Oludamini Ogunnaike (University of Virginia) — for a wide-ranging engagement with Wendell H. Marsh’s Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities. This is a redacted video per the request of one of the speakers. Across their remarks, the panelists explore the life and afterlives of Shaykh Musa Kamara and the book’s broader arguments about philology, the textual attitude, Sufi hermeneutics, African humanism, and the long crisis of the humanities shaped by coloniality. Guiding questions include: What can African thinkers teach us about reading, study, and intellectual life? How did colonial and postcolonial regimes shape knowledge production? What is the relationship between humanism and empire? What does translation make possible as a mode of decolonizing knowledge? How do Kamara’s writings invite us to rethink history, form, and representation? The episode concludes with Wendell H. Marsh’s response, weaving together the panel’s provocations into a reflection on the futures of African thought and the humanities. https://textuallife.substack.com/p/au...