Gabriel Opare

Gabriel Opare is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Language, Literacy & Social Inquiry program at ËÄÉ«AV.His research examines Global Black Rhetorics, Linguistic Justice, Community Literacies & Writing, African Tehnocultures, Cultural Rhetorics, and Political/Feminist discourse studies. His research reimagines community literacies, digital rhetorics, and the rhetorical world making of antiblackness through African Indigenous frameworks such as Nommo, Sankofa, Ukama, Ubuntu, and Ujamaa. His dissertation, Black Ontologies at Work (In Progress): Ethnoraciolinguistic Justice and Xeno-Corporeality in Postcolonial Ghana, offers novel generative grammars on African dynamics of raciolinguistics and how it functions as forms of coloniality of being within global/internal Black discourses. Of essence to his research is how rhetoric and literacy grounded in African cosmology can foster emancipatory and healing discourses for Black folk/x.