Swahili corner
Posted February 18, 2023
By: Gabriel West I am in my second year of Swahili and my third year at Northwestern. I postponed taking a language course due...Blog
PAS bookshelf
Posted February 1, 2023
Rethinking Civil Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup D’etat (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022). Political science alumni Moses Khisa (2016) and Christopher...
African-led peace operations: Enhancing effectiveness
Posted January 17, 2023
By: Eric G. Berman Last August, the East African Community became the 14th regional organization on that continent to deploy a peace operation...
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...
Wana Udobang opens traveling exhibition “Dirty Laundry” in Abuja
Posted December 22, 2022
Ama Ata Aidoo Arts Fellow Wana Udobang presented her first mixed media installation, “Dirty Laundry,” in Abuja on December 15–20, 2022. The traveling installation...
Message from PAS Director Christ Abani, Winter 2022-23
Posted December 6, 2022
Well, it is that time again for the director’s message. Recently, sculptor, poet, and artist, Adegoke Tugbigele, in an Instagram post brought our attention...
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...
Conducting fieldwork in Kiswahili
Posted October 20, 2022
By Shelby Mohrs One of the most significant steps toward ethical fieldwork for an archaeologist is learning the local language of the community you...
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...