African queens regnant
Posted May 25, 2024
By: Esmeralda Kale, LaRay Denzer, Gene Kannenberg, Jr…. From the very beginning of African history, many women have acted as queens, assuming roles of...Category: From the Mellville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
In memoriam: Hannah Abeodu Bowen-Jones (1934-2023)
Posted October 16, 2023
by Florence Mugambi Hannah Abeodu Bowen-Jones died on July 9, 2023. Bowen-Jones was the first PhD in African history at Northwestern. Her 1962 dissertation...
PAS bookshelf
Posted October 12, 2023
Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) Emerita Karen Tranberg Hansen (anthropology) distills five...
Augmented Curiosities virtual experience exhibit at the Herskovits
Posted October 8, 2023
“Augmented Curiosities: Virtual Play in African Pasts and Futures” is the Fall quarter exhibit at the Herskovits Library. It uses augmented and virtual reality...
Update on the African Poetry Digital Portal Collections
Posted October 7, 2023
by Esmeralda M. Kale The spring conference of the African Poetry Digital Portal was convened on April 27–29, 2023, at the University of Nebraska....
Recent additions to the Herskovits Library
Posted October 6, 2023
The archives of the historian Dr Jean Herskovits have recently been deposited at the Herskovits Library of African Studies. Jean was the daughter of...
PAS participation in Ghana summer conferences
Posted October 1, 2023
Northwestern faculty and alumni made an impressive turnout at the 47th International Traditional Music World Conference and the Association for the Study of the...
Inspiration from faculty leads to the donation of a painting
Posted May 30, 2022
By Esmeralda Kale Gifts come in all shapes and sizes, and this past year the Herskovits Library was fortunate to receive a gift of...
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...
Special Treatment: the care of African language books
Posted December 15, 2020
by Katie Risseeuw, preservation librarian, Northwestern University You can read the original post with pictures on the Library Blog site. For decades, the Herskovits...