The McGill Daily - “Africa Has Always Been My Centre”

The ASSA’s Uhuru Journal celebrates Pan-African agency and innovation - by Isabelle Lim / February 23, 2026

For our Black History Month issue, The McGill Daily spoke with ASSA President Zahra Hassan Doualeh, ASSA VP Academic Henry Maidoh, and ASSA VP External and UHURU Editor-in-Chief Shanna Coulanges. We discussed UHURU’s role in shifting the needle on African narratives, and their greater hopes for the journal as part of a larger vision of Afrofuturism.

You can enjoy the interview at The McGill Daily