Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification

African and diaspora scholars have made key contributions to contemporary understandings of inequality, intersectionality, institutions ‘development'. A recent major contribution this debate is offered by Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Property, Institutions Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Drawing on a wide range literatures, but especially from traditions Black radical economic thought that span the United States, Caribbean Africa, book calls for intersectional perspectives be brought bear classical institutionalist stratification economics rethink ‘development economics’ as we know it. Obeng-Odoom utilizes these make sense persistent increasing intra- inter-group inequalities between world, showing how classed, raced gendered identities shape diverse political experiences, including access property or employment opportunities. At same time, wo*men economists Colour notable themes addressed Obeng-Odoom's - an archive deserves deep attention. Gathering collective feminist beyond (Abena D. Oduro, Tanita J. Lewis, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Sara Stevano, Ingrid Kvangraven), symposium paper develops conversation around intersectionality social Africa.