Posted June 8, 2024
From 2019 to 2022, ISITA’s associate director Rebecca Shereikis and Northwestern University Libraries collaborated with a team led by Fallou Ngom and Daivi Rodima-Taylor...
Posted June 8, 2024
On June 2nd, 2004, I was born in the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Does that mean...
Posted June 7, 2024
A November 16–18, 2023 workshop at the University of Hamburg marked another stage in the ongoing collaboration between ISITA, the Herskovits Library of African...
Posted May 25, 2024
By: Esmeralda Kale, LaRay Denzer, Gene Kannenberg, Jr…. From the very beginning of African history, many women have acted as queens, assuming roles of...
Posted April 24, 2024
Lauren Gomez Without a doubt, embarking on my journey to learn Swahili has been one of my most enriching experiences...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...