Amaraizu Genius

11/09/2026

Full Scholarship: Chernice shares her journey from Kenya to Yale University for a bachelor's degree, then to Northwestern University for her Ph.D.

Full Scholarship: Chernice shares her journey from Kenya to Yale Un...

09/08/2026

Sara shares her identity reflection in this conversation as a Palestinian-American living in the United States.

Sara shares her identity reflection in this conversation as a Pales...

17/07/2026

Black Women Series (Identity) Part 3 with Yasmine

Our conversation centred on naming practices in America and how they intersect with racial making, identity, and opportunities. Yasmine shares her experiences as a Black American woman.

26/06/2026

Sara shares her identity reflection in this conversation as a Palestinian-American living in the United States, tracing the migration of her grandfather from Palestine to Kuwait to Jordan and then the United States.

Sara shares her identity reflection in this conversation as a Pales...

29/05/2026

Am I Hausa or Hausa-Fulani or Just Fulani? Researching My Local West-African Identity from Diaspora

This is PART 2 of a conversation with Umar that reflects the experience of the Hausa diaspora (an ethnic majority group in Nigeria). This is the 2nd of a three-part video.

This is PART 2 of a conversation with Umar that reflects the experience of the Hausa diaspora (an ethnic majority group in Nigeria). This is the 2nd of a thr...

23/05/2026

Hausa Diaspora: Why You May Never Meet Hausa-Nigerian Abroad

This conversation with Umar reflects the Hausa diaspora experience — living abroad as a Hausa Nigerian (an ethnic majority group in Nigeria). This is the first of a three-part video. For context, we use abroad to refer to Europe/America.

This conversation with Umar reflects the Hausa diaspora experience — living abroad as a Hausa Nigerian (an ethnic majority group in Nigeria). This is the fir...

30/04/2026

Dating Abroad as a Black African American Muslim Woman

"All skinfolk ain't kinfolk" - In this conversation with Sabrina, we expanded our ideas about Black women's identities to discuss dating, traveling, and the uniqueness of growing up with immigrant parents.

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08/04/2026

This is a second segment with Deb. She shares experiences as a Jamaican-American Black woman living in America.

This video is of a series of conversations with Black women in the United States as part of the Black Women Identity Series with Genius.

This is a second segment with Deb. She shares experiences as a Black woman with Jamaican roots living in America. See PART 1: https://youtu.be/d9ZGWaGvoYMThi...

03/04/2026

In this conversation with Maggie, we discussed white privilege from a white woman’s perspective, traveling abroad, and the call for a borderless world.

In this conversation with Maggie, we discussed white privilege from a white woman’s perspective, traveling abroad, and the call for a borderless world.Connec...

02/04/2026

New Publication Alert

Check out my new publication in Comparative Migration Studies. "Humanitarian complex: the paradoxical tension of migration narrative and mapping" uses Migrants on the Move, a digital visual archive that combines geospatial data with narrative storytelling to trace irregular migration routes in Libya and Mali, to critically examine the role of deep mapping in representing migration experiences.

Read the open-access article here:

This essay critically examines the role of deep mapping in representing migration experiences, focusing on how contemporary humanitarian frameworks engage