Posted February 9, 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 6, 2021
The first Program of African Studies (PAS) newsletter launched February 6, 1975. Two pages typed on a typewriter with a hand-drawn banner, its layout...
Posted January 21, 2021
by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Herskovits Library of African Studies Rosamund Ayodele Forde (geography PhD ’66) was the first Sierra Leonean woman to obtain a...
Posted January 11, 2021
This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2020, Volume 30, Number 3 by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Herskovits Library of African Studies As...
Posted December 20, 2020
“The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies” was the theme of last November’s meeting of the African Studies Association,...
Posted December 15, 2020
by Katie Risseeuw, preservation librarian, Northwestern University You can read the original post with pictures on the Library Blog site. For decades, the Herskovits...
Posted December 8, 2020
by Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Research and Media Assistant, Herskovits Library of African Studies The work of the artist known as Ganzeer often focuses on...
Posted November 27, 2020
The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC now has a virtual presentation of The Block’s Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time:...
Posted November 12, 2020
This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2020, Volume 30, Number 3 by Moussa Seck, graduate student, French and Italian, Northwestern University...
Posted November 3, 2020
End SARS (or #EndSARS) is a decentralised social movement against police brutality in Nigeria. The slogan calls for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery...