This breakout session features Manthia Diawara (Professor, NYU, and filmmaker), Elizabeth Giorgis (Associate Professor, University of Addis Ababa), and Surafel Wondimu Abebe (Assistant professor, Centre for African Studies and College of Performing and Visual Arts, Researcher, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) in an open conversation about topics related to the March Meeting 2021 theme, ‘Unravelling the Present’. The talk is moderated by Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah and Goldwin Smith Professor, Cornell University).