PAS Bookshelf
Posted June 10, 2022
Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte (London:. Routledge, 2022) Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this...Profile Lutgardis Ineza Ukangutse
Inspiration from faculty leads to the donation of a painting
Posted May 30, 2022
By Esmeralda Kale, Librarian, Herskovits Library Gifts come in all shapes and sizes, and this past year the Herskovits Library was fortunate to receive...
Documenting Black student experience at Northwestern University
Posted May 17, 2022
By Florence Mugambi, Librarian for African Studies, and Charla Wilson, Archivist for the Black Experience We have embarked on an oral history project to...
ISITA welcomes new grad assistant
Posted May 12, 2022
ISITA welcomes Xena Amro as the Institute’s part-time graduate assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary...
Message from PAS director Chris Abani
Posted April 2, 2022
In Afikpo Igbo, the morning greeting, nnaa, elicits the response, nahicha. As in many West African languages, words are often elisions of longer phrases...
Pan African Youth Conference promotes common understanding of Africa’s challenges
Posted March 28, 2022
By Trevor Lwere, University of Notre Dame undergraduate student The Pan African Youth Conference, jointly organized by the Pan African Students Union (PASU) at...
Evan Maina Mwangi named Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies
Posted March 15, 2022
Professor Evan Mwangi from Northwestern University’s English Department has been named the Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies in a ceremony that took...
In Memoriam: Amos Claudius Sawyer (1945–2022)
Posted February 13, 2022
By Will Reno, political science, Northwestern University Dr. Amos Claudius Sawyer, interim president of Liberia from 1990 to 1994, died this past February 16th...