Posted April 7, 2021
by Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University) The idea of African as a conciousness emerges through colonization in much the same way the idea of...
Posted April 2, 2021
Wana meets with Tope Oshin, award winning director of film and television. Her body of work contains titles like Shuga, Up North, New Money,...
Posted March 19, 2021
Image: She and I. The Secret Keepers by Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, (Mixed Media: paper, fabric and acrylic on canvas) 2020 Wana Udobang interviews artist Abyobola...
Posted March 18, 2021
by Brandon Joseph, Northwestern undergraduate student I initially joined the Swahili program because one of my football teammates recommended it. I did not know...
Posted March 15, 2021
The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana (University of California Press, 2020). The Scarcity Slot is the first study to critically...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...