Posted February 23, 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...
Posted February 19, 2021
by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University) Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) needs no introduction in most academic circles. He is a celebrated figure...
Posted February 18, 2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Cambridge University Press, 2020)Drawing on case studies from Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger,...
Posted February 16, 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...
Posted February 12, 2021
Ava Thompson Greenwell, journalist and professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, has a new documentary premiering on WTTW Chicago this February 14,...
Posted February 9, 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...
Posted February 6, 2021
The first Program of African Studies (PAS) newsletter launched February 6, 1975. Two pages typed on a typewriter with a hand-drawn banner, its layout...
Posted January 21, 2021
by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Herskovits Library of African Studies Rosamund Ayodele Forde (geography PhD ’66) was the first Sierra Leonean woman to obtain a...
Posted January 11, 2021
This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2020, Volume 30, Number 3 by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Herskovits Library of African Studies As...
Posted December 20, 2020
“The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies” was the theme of last November’s meeting of the African Studies Association,...