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...Category: PAS News & Events
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...
PAS launches new fellows program
Posted September 21, 2022
The Program of African Studies, supported by the Office of Research, launches two new fellowships this fall quarter. They are the Ama Ata Aidoo...
How the Mandela Washington Fellowship helped redefine my objectives
Posted August 30, 2022
By Sidi Teguedi, 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow It was around midnight, the end of the last day of the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship group...
Community News
Posted August 1, 2022
Alumna Priscilla Adipa (sociology ‘17) has published two short stories: “Hope upon Hope” on Afritondo (afritondo.com/afritondo/hope-upon-hope) and “The Woman Across the Street” on AfricanWriter.com...
On vigilance: the Pan-African Youth Conference Tangaaza series
Posted April 22, 2022
by Bengi Rwabuhemba, junior, Northwestern University The Pan-African Youth Conference (PAYC) is a student-led initiative that was conceived by students at the University of...
Message from PAS director Chris Abani
Posted April 2, 2022
In Afikpo Igbo, the morning greeting, nnaa, elicits the response, nahicha. As in many West African languages, words are often elisions of longer phrases...
Pan African Youth Conference promotes common understanding of Africa’s challenges
Posted March 28, 2022
By Trevor Lwere The Pan African Youth Conference, jointly organized by the Pan African Students Union (PASU) at Northwestern University and the African Students...
Evan Maina Mwangi named Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies
Posted March 15, 2022
Professor Evan Mwangi from Northwestern University’s English Department has been named the Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies in a ceremony that took...