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...Category: Newsletter
In memoriam: Lansiné Kaba (1941-2023)
Posted October 1, 2023
by Marcia Tiede We were saddened by the unexpected loss of Lansiné Kaba on May 27 in Conakry, Guinea, the victim of a stroke...
Parallel Perspectives interview series highlights current
Posted August 23, 2023
By Kelly Coffey This fall, the Program of African Studies will release the video interview series “Parallel Perspectives.” With a focus on Africa...
Swahili corner
Posted February 18, 2023
By: Gabriel West I am in my second year of Swahili and my third year at Northwestern. I postponed taking a language course due...
PAS bookshelf
Posted February 1, 2023
Rethinking Civil Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup D’etat (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022). Political science alumni Moses Khisa (2016) and Christopher...
African-led peace operations: Enhancing effectiveness
Posted January 17, 2023
By: Eric G. Berman Last August, the East African Community became the 14th regional organization on that continent to deploy a peace operation...
Community news winter 2023
Posted January 7, 2023
Community news winter 2023 Semiu Adefemi Adegbenle (history graduate student) coauthored a chapter, “Female Deputy Governors as Subaltern in Lagos Politics, 1999–2019,” in Gender Politics...
Message from PAS Director Christ Abani, Winter 2022-23
Posted December 6, 2022
Well, it is that time again for the director’s message. Recently, sculptor, poet, and artist, Adegoke Tugbigele, in an Instagram post brought our attention...
Northwestern Africanists participate in annual ASA meeting
Posted December 1, 2022
The theme of the 2022 African Studies Association meeting was “African Urbanities, Mobility and Challenges,” which met in Philadelphia in November. A highlight of...
Message from PAS director Chris Abani
Posted September 25, 2022
Welcome, or as the Ibibio of Nigeria say, Emedi, which is incindentally the language of our inaugural Ama Ata Aidoo Visiting Arts Fellow, Wana...