Visiting calligrapher instructs and inspires
Posted September 30, 2024
From October 13–20, ISITA hosted visiting artist and scholar Mohameden Ahmedou. A professional calligrapher and historian of the...Category: Newsletter
Celebrating diversity: Swahili students shine at campus festivals
Posted August 25, 2024
By: Zainab Momany Amidst the vibrant cultural exchange and celebration on our campus, I had the privilege of preparing...
Message from PAS Director Chris Abani
Posted August 25, 2024
By: Chris Abani I have an uncle who always responded to a greeting with, “Here you...
PAS bookshelf
Posted August 8, 2024
Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024). Professor Dotun Ayobade (performance studies) highlights the role...
Professor Will Reno named Payson S. Wild Chair of Political Science
Posted July 30, 2024
Will Reno was named the Payson S. Wild Chair of Political Science in an investiture ceremony held...
PAS participation at ASA San Francisco 2023
Posted July 19, 2024
Many PAS faculty and alumni participated in the annual African Studies Association meeting in San Francisco at the end of November and early December...
Remembering Jane Guyer
Posted July 17, 2024
By: Caroline Bledsoe Jane Isabel Guyer, who served as PAS Director and NU Professor of...
Selected attacks on security forces and peace operations resulting in diversion of arms and ammunition, January 2014–December 2023
Posted July 5, 2024
Non-state armed groups (NSAGs) secure significant quantities of lethal materiel from the very governments that seek to defeat...
Calligraphy: A bridge between the visual and the linguistic
Posted June 15, 2024
Arabic calligraphy has been a fascinating activity to participate in, revealing unforeseen dimensions of learning that extend far...
Student reflections on learning Swahili
Posted June 8, 2024
On June 2nd, 2004, I was born in the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Does that mean...