"Sensing Bimbia: Ancestry Reconnection in an Anti-Crisis Atmosphere" by Victoria Massie

In “Sensing Bimba,” Assistant Professor Victoria M. Massie reorients the study of genetic diaspora away from its genetic constitution and toward the constitution of a relation to people and places that exceed DNA test results, drawing from fieldwork in the United States and Cameroon. The essay illustrates how the genetic diaspora’s return becomes a new avenue for assessing how transformations in postcolonial sovereignty feels through emerging modes of crisis knowledge pro­duction.