Anti Slavery Knowledge Network: community-led strategies for creative & heritage based interventions

The Antislavery Knowledge Network (AKN), a GCEF-funded Network+ project, aims to explore how the arts and humanities can address contemporary slavery by adopting a community-engaged, human rights-based focus within international development interventions. Linking together UK universities with academic and non-academic partners across West and Central Africa, AKN examines contemporary forms of enslavement, such as human trafficking and other severe forms of exploitation, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa.
This MIDEQ Share Out event focuses on AKN’s work to centre creative, arts-based approaches as a way to understand, critically engage with and tackle modern slavery. It also explores the connections between modern slavery, trafficking and migration.