Culture Diaries revisited: Uche Okpa-Iroha
Posted April 9, 2021
This episode of Culture Diaries features photographer Uche Okpa-Iroha. He is a founding member of the Blackbox Collective and Invisible Borders Trans-African Organisation and...Profile PAS Blog
The Khoja: a story of economic and and social resilience in the face of war, revolution, and expulsion
Posted April 7, 2021
by Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University) The idea of African as a conciousness emerges through colonization in much the same way the idea of...
Culture Diaries revisited: Tope Oshin
Posted April 2, 2021
Wana meets with Tope Oshin, award winning director of film and television. Her body of work contains titles like Shuga, Up North, New Money,...
Culture Diaries revisited: Ayobola Kekere-Ekun
Posted March 19, 2021
Image: She and I. The Secret Keepers by Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, (Mixed Media: paper, fabric and acrylic on canvas) 2020 Wana Udobang interviews artist Abyobola...
Swahili Corner: Brandon Joseph
Posted March 18, 2021
by Brandon Joseph, sophomore, Northwestern University I initially joined the Swahili program because one of my football team-mates recommended it. I did not know...
PAS Bookshelf: Amanda Logan
Posted March 15, 2021
The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana he Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana (University of California Press,...
Revisiting Culture Diaries: a chat with host and series creator Wana Udobang
Posted March 12, 2021
It is with great pleasure that the PAS blogsite will begin sharing poet, filmmaker, and journalist Wana Udobang’s video series Culture Diaries. Udobang’s series...
African Muslims Enslaved in the Caribbean
Posted March 5, 2021
by Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), Fula Muslim of Senegal, was one of an unknown number of West...
Queering Belonging mini-series: Tiffany Kagure Mugo
Posted March 2, 2021
Intro by Queering Belonging curator Bimbola Akinbola (performance studies, Northwestern University) While the contentiousness of community has been taken up by several scholars in...
Swahili Corner: Covid Safety in Swahili
Posted February 25, 2021
This winter quarter, Prof. Peter Mwangi’s Swahili students translated Covid-19 safety signs around Northwestern University’s campus from English to Swahili. ...