Seminar with Professor Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech

What is the Global South and Why it Matters?

The Global South is not a metaphor, contrary to assertions by descendants of settler-colonizers. The Global South is the home of the global majority and the origin of human life. The Global South continues to feed the greed of the Northern minority who invaded to kidnap millions for enslavement during hundreds of years of human trafficking, stole the land of Indigenous Peoples and subjected them to genocide, built fortresses and prisons to incarcerate the survivors, and continue to wage genocidal wars for the control of the resources of the Global South. The Indigenous Peoples of the Global South remain generous in offering to share their resources and labor power in equal exchange with the big fat frog that wishes to drink up all the water in the world even if all other beings die of thirst, we continue to send our best human resources to provide technical foreign aid to the ungrateful Global North that thanks us with crimmigration all over global Deathscapes. The Global South testifies that we have enough to give to all according to their needs and take from all according to their abilities.

About the speaker

Dr. Onwubiko Agozino is a Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Virginia Tech. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh (Ph.D.), the University of Cambridge (MPhil), and the University of Calabar (B.Sc.). He is the author of Black Women and the Criminal Justice System: Towards the Decolonisation of Victimisation, and of Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, 2024. He was a Fulbright-Hays fellow on a Group Project Abroad to study creative responses to climate change in Tanzania, 2024.