Remembering Jane Guyer
Posted July 17, 2024
By: Caroline Bledsoe Jane Isabel Guyer, who served as PAS Director and NU Professor of...Category: Archive
The first PAS Newsletter
Posted February 6, 2021
The first Program of African Studies (PAS) newsletter launched February 6, 1975. Two pages typed on a typewriter with a hand-drawn banner, its layout...
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...
From the Archives: The Lion and the Jewel
Posted October 1, 2020
Saturday, May 10, 1969, you could purchase a $2 ticket ($1 if you were a Northwestern student!) to see the production of Wole Soyinka’s...
From the Herskovits Library of African Studies: Spotlight on Claude Barnett Research Collection
Posted September 17, 2020
by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Herskovits Library of African Studies The Herskovits Library’s Claude Barnett Research Collection offers a window on 1950s–60s African affairs as...