Blazing a Trail: Women Africanist PhDs
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...Category: 2020
Northwestern Africanists participate in annual ASA meeting
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,...
Special Treatment: the care of African language books
Posted December 15, 2020
by Katie Risseeuw, preservation librarian, Northwestern University You can read the original post with pictures on the Library Blog site. For decades, the Herskovits...
Caravans of Gold Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Posted November 27, 2020
The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC now has a virtual presentation of The Block’s Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time:...
Veiwpoint: “Rendre à ces arts ce qui appartient à ces arts…”
Posted November 12, 2020
This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2020, Volume 30, Number 3 by Moussa Seck, graduate student, French and Italian, Northwestern University...
Current Events: SARS protests in Nigeria
Posted November 3, 2020
End SARS (or #EndSARS) is a decentralised social movement against police brutality in Nigeria. The slogan calls for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery...
Covid and Forced Migration in Africa
Posted November 3, 2020
October 28, 2020, Clementine Nkweta-Salami (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional director for East, Horn and Great Lakes Region) discussed the effect...
Swahili Corner: One of the best decisions I have made at Northwestern
Posted October 29, 2020
by Adoria Randolph, Northwestern undergraduate At the beginning of my first year at Northwestern, I met with my adviser to decide which language to...
PAS Bookshelf: Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the 18th-Century
Posted October 15, 2020
A new book by Zachary Wright—Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) faculty affiliate, Northwestern alumnus, and associate professor at Northwestern...
Encounters with Wole Soyinka
Posted October 13, 2020
by Richard Joseph, Professor Emeritus On October 2nd, an online conversation was conducted by the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University between Professor...