Posted November 17, 2023
By: Faith Jebet On November 11th, all roads led to Washington, DC, for this year’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) from different...
Posted January 7, 2023
Community news winter 2023 Semiu Adefemi Adegbenle (history graduate student) coauthored a chapter, “Female Deputy Governors as Subaltern in Lagos Politics, 1999–2019,” in Gender Politics...
Posted December 6, 2022
Well, it is that time again for the director’s message. Recently, sculptor, poet, and artist, Adegoke Tugbigele, in an Instagram post brought our attention...
Posted October 20, 2022
By Shelby Mohrs One of the most significant steps toward ethical fieldwork for an archaeologist is learning the local language of the community you...
Posted September 25, 2022
Welcome, or as the Ibibio of Nigeria say, Emedi, which is incindentally the language of our inaugural Ama Ata Aidoo Visiting Arts Fellow, Wana...
Posted September 21, 2022
The Program of African Studies, supported by the Office of Research, launches two new fellowships this fall quarter. They are the Ama Ata Aidoo...
Posted September 20, 2022
PAS welcomes new Foreign Language Teaching Associate Faith Jebet Bitok. holds a BEd from Kenyatta University in Nairobi. She has also completed a short...
Posted September 15, 2022
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...
Posted August 30, 2022
By Sidi Teguedi, 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow It was around midnight, the end of the last day of the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship group...
Posted August 2, 2022
By Gene Kannenberg Selected posters on public health, travel and art from Herskovits Library As you travel...