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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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,...
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...