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Award-Winning International Journalist, Playwright, CEO
Esther A. Armah’s book launch:
Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing
Webster University Ghana, East Legon
Tuesday 29th November, 5.30pm
Meet Esther A. Armah
Accra-based Esther A. Armah is an international award-winning journalist, playwright, radio host, and writer. She is currently CEO of The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, (The AIEJ), a global institute implementing the ‘Emotional Justice’ framework she created. The AIEJ devises, develops, designs, and delivers projects, training, and thought leadership. The Emotional Justice framework has taken Armah as a speaker to a range of prestigious global venues including Netflix Inclusion Institute, Stanford, NYU, and Kenya’s African Women in Media
Conference.
About Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing
After two successful launches of her book; Emotional
Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing, in the US and the
UK, Esther A. Armah is now launching this groundbreaking
powerful work in Accra, Ghana.
Emotional Justice grapples with how a legacy of untreated
trauma from oppressive systems has created and sustained
dual deadly fictions: white superiority and Black inferiority that
shape—and wound—all of us. These systems must be
dismantled to build a future, an Africa that serves Africans, and
creates a humanity centered justice. We are the dismantlers
we have been waiting for, and Emotional Justice is the game
changer for a just future that benefits all of us. In this book,
Esther A. Armah argues that the crucial missing piece to racial
healing and sustainable equity is Emotional Justice—a new racial healing language to help us do our emotional work.
The Emotional Justice book connects and highlights the histories of oppression to what is
happening now, what is going wrong, and how we can put it right. Putting the two words
together is about highlighting that this is our collective work, a group focus – not an individual
effort, that it is about highlighting and addressing injustice. We all—Black, Brown, white—have
our emotional work that we need to do. But that work is not the same for all of us.
Here in Ghana, and across the Continent, we need healing from the systems of enslavement
and colonialism that shape our relationship to Africa, and that show up in our economy, our
education system, our infrastructure. Africa needs Emotional Justice. There is also the shared
untreated trauma between America and Ghana due to oppressive systems that export a
narrative of Africa as wretched, poverty-stricken resulting in global perceptions that shape public
engagement.
The book was a #1 New release on Amazon in two different categories; General Sociology of
Race Relations and Cultural Anthropology for six straight weeks. The book’s two forewords are
by New York Times best-selling authors, Dr. Brittney Cooper and Dr. Robin DiAngelo. The book
has been featured in prestigious publications including ‘Africa Is A Country’, The Los Angeles
Review of Books, Stanford Innovation Business Review and The Non-Profit Quarterly. Esther
has been featured on global media; in the UK on six BBC radio stations including BBC Radio
Derby, BBC Bristol, BBC London, BBC Gloucester; in the US the book was named as a ‘Book
Of Interest’ by Daily Kos, the largest online publication of progressive media with a 300k online
following. The book has been cited by Ivy League university professors and leaders within
philanthropy as a crucial tool and resource that is transformative in its approach to issues of
systemic racism and racial healing.
GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS PUBLIC READING SERIES – WEBSTER UNIVERSITY GHANA
The Ghana book launch takes place at Webster University Ghana, East Legon.
The Ghana book launch features:-
• Dramatized Reading featuring PEARL KORKOR DARKEY
• Discussion Moderated by FRANCIS ABBAN
• Book Signing
THIS IS A FREE EVENT, YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND:-
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugural-global-conversations-public-reading-series-
tickets-460836583627
Webster University is an American university based in St. Louis, Missouri with a 107-year track
record of academic excellence. The university has been a respected leader in the field of
international education since the late seventies.
Webster Ghana is proud to partner with The AIEJ and Vidya Books as it launches its inaugural
Global Conversations Public Reading series featuring critically-acclaimed author Esther
Armah’s latest book, Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing.”
Christa Sanders Bobotoya, Webster’s Campus director says: “Webster University Ghana’s
Global Conversations Public Reading series is designed to create cross-cultural
conversations, engaging the public on issues of international importance by inviting
global thought leaders, activists, and writers to discuss a broad range of topics
impacting today’s society and world.”
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Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing is currently available at Vidya
Bookstore, Labone and online via Amazon.
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