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...Category: Newsletter
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...
The highest bidder won Gambia’s presidential elections
Posted March 31, 2022
by Lamin Kieta, graduate student in political science, Northwestern University Gambian president Adama Barrow won a second term in the December 4, 2021, presidential...
PAS Bookshelf: The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
Posted July 6, 2021
by LaRay Denzer, PAS Editor of newsletter and working papers The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Madison, WI:...
Afrisem annual graduate student conference
Posted June 7, 2021
by Austin Bryan, anthropology, graduate student, Northwestern University This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2021, Volume 31, Number 3 The Africa...
PAS Bookshelf: Alex Thurston
Posted February 18, 2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Cambridge University Press, 2020)Drawing on case studies from Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger,...
Northwestern Africanists participate in annual ASA meeting
Posted December 20, 2020
“The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies” was the theme of last November’s meeting of the African Studies Association,...
Veiwpoint: “Rendre à ces arts ce qui appartient à ces arts…”
Posted November 12, 2020
This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2020, Volume 30, Number 3 by Moussa Seck, graduate student, French and Italian, Northwestern University...
Swahili Corner: One of the best decisions I have made at Northwestern
Posted October 29, 2020
by Adoria Randolph, Northwestern undergraduate At the beginning of my first year at Northwestern, I met with my adviser to decide which language to...
Stranded in Mauritania during COVID
Posted October 8, 2020
by Charlie Hummel, junior studying political science and economics at Northwestern University Spring quarter of my sophomore year I got the chance to work...