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My experience at the mid-year BFulbright Foreign Language Assistants conference

By: Faith Jebet   On November 11th, all roads led to Washington, DC, for this year’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) from different...
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The Lansine Kaba Symposium

By Rebecca Shereikis  The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa has organized a half-day symposium October 25, 2023 to celebrate the...
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In memoriam: Hannah Abeodu Bowen-Jones (1934-2023)

by Florence Mugambi  Hannah Abeodu Bowen-Jones died on July 9, 2023. Bowen-Jones was the first PhD in African history at Northwestern. Her 1962 dissertation...
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Student reflections on their experience as Fulbright-Hayes awardees this summer in Kenya

Swahili corner:   Nick Bucciarelli writes “This was my first trip to Kenya, and my first to Africa. Kenyans are proud to be Africans,...
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Robert Launay to serve as next Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa

Robert Launay (anthropology) has been appointed the executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa, published by Brill Academic Publishers. Founded in 1967,...
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PAS bookshelf

  Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)  Emerita Karen Tranberg Hansen (anthropology) distills five...
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Quo vadis, America? US engagement with Africa in need of urgent reset

          by Musifiky Mwanasali Directives on US engagement with Africa After years of professing Africa’s irrelevance to its global agenda,...
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PAS welcomes new visiting scholars

PAS welcomes Arthur Banshayeko, popularly known as Arthur Ban, as Ama Ata Aidoo Visiting Scholar in the fall quarter. Arthur Banshayeko is a Burundian...
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Augmented Curiosities virtual experience exhibit at the Herskovits

“Augmented Curiosities: Virtual Play in African Pasts and Futures” is the Fall quarter exhibit at the Herskovits Library. It uses augmented and virtual reality...
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Update on the African Poetry Digital Portal Collections

by Esmeralda M. Kale  The spring conference of the African Poetry Digital Portal was convened on April 27–29, 2023, at the University of Nebraska....
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