New acquisitions by the Herskovits Library
Posted September 29, 2020
by Esmeralda M. Kale, George & Mary LeCron Foster Curator of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies In addition to answering your...Category: Newsletter
In memoriam: Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean mbira master
Posted September 24, 2020
by LaRay Denzer, PAS Editor, Newsletter and working papers COVID-19 claimed the life of mbira virtuoso Cosmas Magaya of Zimbabwe on July 10. He...
Swahili Corner: Claudia M. Kalisa
Posted September 22, 2020
by Claudia M. Kalisa, Northwestern undergrad student I was born in Luxembourg but raised in Rwanda. I moved to the US for college in...
PAS bookshelf: The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
Posted September 15, 2020
The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics, University of Michigan Press, 2019 Evan Maina Mwangi (English) analyzes the importance of African writing to...