Posted March 28, 2022
By Trevor Lwere The Pan African Youth Conference, jointly organized by the Pan African Students Union (PASU) at Northwestern University and the African Students...
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...
Posted February 23, 2022
The final video of the 4-part video series Reclaiming the Tongue, curated by journalist and poet Wana Udobang, is now available. “The poetry of...
Posted February 21, 2022
by Janet Ochieng, Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant for Swahili A clip of students performing “Wageni Wako Wapi.” To join in Black History Month...
Posted February 16, 2022
Video 3 of the 4-part video series Reclaiming the Tongue, curated by journalist and poet Wana Udobang, is now available. Nigerian food blogger and...
Posted February 13, 2022
By Will Reno Dr. Amos Claudius Sawyer, interim president of Liberia from 1990 to 1994, died this past February 16th in Baltimore, Maryland. He...
Posted February 9, 2022
“Unearthing connectedness; a journey through memory and place-making” by Ozoz Sokoh (Kitchen Butterfly), is the second installation of the Reclaiming the Tongue video series,...
Posted February 2, 2022
“Reclamation and the Samosa” by Neema Syovata (Modern African Table), is the first part of the Reclaiming the Tongue video series, curated by journalist...
Posted January 24, 2022
“Reclaiming the Tongue” is a video series curated by journalist and poet, Wana Udobang. For the series, Wana enlisted the help of prolific food...
Posted January 20, 2022
by Bengi Rwabuhemba, junior, Northwestern University As a Freshman, I found the Alliance of African Scholars (AAS) to be one of the few spaces...