PAS Bookshelf: Amanda Logan
Posted March 15, 2021
The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana he Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana (University of California Press,...Blog
Revisiting Culture Diaries: a chat with host and series creator Wana Udobang
Posted March 12, 2021
It is with great pleasure that the PAS blogsite will begin sharing poet, filmmaker, and journalist Wana Udobang’s video series Culture Diaries. Udobang’s series...
African Muslims Enslaved in the Caribbean
Posted March 5, 2021
by Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), Fula Muslim of Senegal, was one of an unknown number of West...
Queering Belonging mini-series: Tiffany Kagure Mugo
Posted March 2, 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...
Swahili Corner: Covid Safety in Swahili
Posted February 25, 2021
This winter quarter, Prof. Peter Mwangi’s Swahili students translated Covid-19 safety signs around Northwestern University’s campus from English to Swahili. ...
Queering Belonging mini-series: Xavier Livermon
Posted February 23, 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...
Edward Blyden and the Gaze in African Intellectual History
Posted February 19, 2021
by Harry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University) Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) needs no introduction in most academic circles. He is a celebrated figure...
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,...
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,...