Maktaba project introduced at ASA roundtable
Posted October 16, 2025
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) Scholars involved in the Maktaba project reflected...Category: PAS News & Events
Akin Ogundiran establishes the Material History Lab at Northwestern
Posted October 16, 2025
Professor Akin Ogundiran has inaugurated the Material History Lab at Northwestern. It is an interdisciplinary site for researching and teaching about objects and what...
Celebrating diversity: Swahili students shine at campus festivals
Posted August 25, 2024
By: Zainab Momany, Foreign Language Teaching Assistant for Swahili Amidst the vibrant cultural exchange and celebration on our campus, I had the privilege of...
PAS sponsors new Voice from Exile podcast
Posted August 24, 2024
In December, alumnus Chernoh Bah (2023), founding editor of the Africanist Press, launched a new Voice from Exile podcast focusing on African issues. This...
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 by...
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 Anthropology from 1994—2001, died in Davis, California on January...
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...
Student reflections on learning Swahili
Posted June 8, 2024
by Elianna Phillips, Northwestern undergraduate student On June 2nd, 2004, I was born in the Aga Khan University Hospital in...