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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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PAS Bookshelf

Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte (London:. Routledge, 2022) Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this...
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Inspiration from faculty leads to the donation of a painting

By Esmeralda Kale Gifts come in all shapes and sizes, and this past year the Herskovits Library was fortunate to receive a gift of...
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Documenting Black student experience at Northwestern University

By Florence Mugambi and Charla Wilson, We have embarked on an oral history project to document the Black student experience at Northwestern University in...
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ISITA welcomes new grad assistant

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...
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On vigilance: the Pan-African Youth Conference Tangaaza series

by Bengi Rwabuhemba, junior, Northwestern University The Pan-African Youth Conference (PAYC) is a student-led initiative that was conceived by students at the University of...
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Message from PAS director Chris Abani

In Afikpo Igbo, the morning greeting, nnaa, elicits the response, nahicha. As in many West African languages, words are often elisions of longer phrases...
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The highest bidder won Gambia’s presidential elections

by Lamin Kieta, graduate student in political science, Northwestern University Gambian president Adama Barrow won a second term in the December 4, 2021, presidential...
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