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Conducting fieldwork in Kiswahili

By Shelby Mohrs One of the most significant steps toward ethical fieldwork for an archaeologist is learning the local language of the community you...
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Message from PAS director Chris Abani

Welcome, or as the Ibibio of Nigeria say, Emedi, which is incindentally the language of our inaugural Ama Ata Aidoo Visiting Arts Fellow, Wana...
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PAS launches new fellows program

The Program of African Studies, supported by the Office of Research, launches two new fellowships this fall quarter. They are the Ama Ata Aidoo...
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PAS welcomes new Foreign Language Teaching Associate

PAS welcomes new Foreign Language Teaching Associate Faith Jebet Bitok. holds a BEd from Kenyatta University in Nairobi. She has also completed a short...
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Swahili corner

Northwestern’s Swahili program is part of what attracted me to the University. I knew I wanted to learn a nontraditional language and I had...
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How the Mandela Washington Fellowship helped redefine my objectives

By Sidi Teguedi, 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow It was around midnight, the end of the last day of the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship group...
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Posters in the Herskovits Library collection are often overlooked primary resources

By Gene Kannenberg                Selected posters on public health, travel and art from Herskovits Library As you travel...
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Community News

Alumna Priscilla Adipa (sociology ‘17) has published two short stories: “Hope upon Hope” on Afritondo (afritondo.com/afritondo/hope-upon-hope) and “The Woman Across the Street” on AfricanWriter.com...
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NEH award supports development of digital manuscript collection

By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $59,571 planning grant to Northwestern’s Institute for...
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Workshop on “Teaching with West African Manuscript Collections”: A student’s perspective

By Xena Amro A May 2022 workshop organized by ISITA and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg...
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