Caroline Bledsoe retires
Posted September 2, 2021
by LaRay Denzer, PAS Editor of newsletter and working papers, Northwestern University Caroline Bledsoe, professor of anthropology and the Melville J. Herskovits Professor...Category: PAS News & Events
Reflections on an all-virtual YALI experience
Posted August 25, 2021
by Tiffany Williams-Cobleigh, program assistant, Program of African Studies The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the Young African...
Queering Belonging mini-series: Bimbola Akinbola
Posted February 16, 2021
Intro by Queering Belonging curator Bimbola Akinbola (performance studies, Northwestern University) While the contentiousness of community has been taken up by several scholars in...
Ava Thompson Greenwell on her “Mandela in Chicago” documentary
Posted February 12, 2021
Ava Thompson Greenwell, journalist and professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, has a new documentary premiering on WTTW Chicago this February 14,...
COVID and Forced Migration in Africa
Posted November 3, 2020
October 28, 2020, Clementine Nkweta-Salami (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional director for East, Horn and Great Lakes Region) discussed the effect...
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...
Swahili Corner: Welcome Nyanjala Maingu
Posted September 8, 2020
PAS welcomes Nyanjala Maingu, a Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant from Tanga, Tanzania, who will be involved in teaching and developing instructional materials for...
Celebrating D. Soyini Madison, a personal tribute
Posted September 3, 2020
by Karen Tranberg Hansen, professor emerita of anthropology, Northwestern University We all regret missing what would have been the most fabulous retirement party in...
PAS welcomes new director, Chris Abani
Posted September 1, 2020
Chris Abani, the Board of Trustees Professor of English, became director of the Program of African Studies in September. When he joined Northwestern in...