My experience at the mid-year BFulbright Foreign Language Assistants conference
Posted November 17, 2023
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
Posted October 30, 2023
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)
Posted October 16, 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
Posted October 15, 2023
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
Posted October 13, 2023
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
Posted October 12, 2023
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
Posted October 12, 2023
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
Posted October 10, 2023
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
Posted October 8, 2023
“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
Posted October 7, 2023
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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