Swahili Corner: Covid Safety in Swahili
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. ...Category: 2021
Queering Belonging mini-series: Xavier Livermon
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...
Edward Blyden and the Gaze in African Intellectual History
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...
PAS Bookshelf: Alex Thurston
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,...
Queering Belonging mini-series: Bimbola Akinbola
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...
Ava Thompson Greenwell on her “Mandela in Chicago” documentary
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,...
Queering Belonging mini-series: Keguro Macharia
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...
PAS Alumni: Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde
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...