Sarah Then Bergh is a doctoral candidate in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University (USA). Originally from Germany, she earned her BSc. Econ. in International Politics, and her M.A. in International Relations on the David Davies Scholarship, at Aberystwyth University (Wales). For her master’s dissertation she was awarded the Alfred Zimmern Prize by the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her current research interests are located at the intersection of Africana philosophy, political and international relations theory, and musicology to explore the phenomenology of music in international relations. Her chapter ‘Subverting Colonial Aesthetics: Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois and Janelle Monaé’ is forthcoming in Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, edited by Grant Farred.