Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Sonjah Stanley Niaah is a Jamaican scholar, international speaker and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus (UWI). She holds international appointments as member of the International Scientific Committee of the Slave Route Project (UNESCO), Senior Research Associate (honorary), Rhodes University, and Advisor, International Cultural Diversity Organisation. She is the author of numerous publications among them Dancehall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto ( 2010). Her research and opinions have appeared in various media, among them Netflix, The Guardian, BBC, The Washington Post, NPR, The Fader, Pop Matters, Refinery29 and VICE Tv. She is a former Director at the Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit and currently serves as Director of the Centre for Reparation Research, UWI.