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The first PAS Newsletter

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...
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Blazing a Trail: Women Africanist PhDs

This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2020, Volume 30, Number 3 by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Herskovits Library of African Studies As...
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From the Archives: The Lion and the Jewel

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...
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From the Herskovits Library of African Studies: Spotlight on Claude Barnett Research Collection

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...
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