‘Bonnie Greer, OBE’

Salon Jeanne Duval invites award-winning playwright, novelist, author, and cultural critic Bonnie Greer. She will launch the BE Side Lectures series with a talk: “Meta-Africa: Towards an African Continuum”, exploring the mid-21st century role of the African Diaspora in relation to African history. 

Bonnie Greer (Order of the British Empire) has been a Board Member of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), The London Film School and The British Museum, where she served for eight years, four of which as Deputy Chair.   Since August 2019 she runs “Insurrection of Cargo”, a London-based production company dedicated to the work of women of African descent. 
 

Programme:
​​​​​​​18:00 – 19:00: Networking reception
19:00 – 19:30: Bonnie Greer OBE
19:30 – 20:00: Conversation with Bonnie Greer, OBE & Dorrie Wilson, Salon Jeanne Duval
20:00 – 20:30: Q&A 

This lecture is part of The BE Side Lectures series – curated by Dorrie Wilson – which aims to explore the richness and diversity of voices within the African diasporic community. Dorrie Wilson is an African-American independent researcher, writer and cultural curator, whose work is centred on the examination of structural racism, citizenship and migration within the contemporary European context. 

Within the framework of the FORUM Programme, a collaboration between the AfricaMuseum and BOZAR, financed by the Belgian Development Cooperation.