ISITA welcomes new grad assistant
Posted May 12, 2022
ISITA welcomes Xena Amro as the Institute’s part-time graduate assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary...Blog
On vigilance: the Pan-African Youth Conference Tangaaza series
Posted April 22, 2022
by Bengi Rwabuhemba, junior, Northwestern University The Pan-African Youth Conference (PAYC) is a student-led initiative that was conceived by students at the University of...
Message from PAS director Chris Abani
Posted April 2, 2022
In Afikpo Igbo, the morning greeting, nnaa, elicits the response, nahicha. As in many West African languages, words are often elisions of longer phrases...
The highest bidder won Gambia’s presidential elections
Posted March 31, 2022
by Lamin Kieta, graduate student in political science, Northwestern University Gambian president Adama Barrow won a second term in the December 4, 2021, presidential...
Pan African Youth Conference promotes common understanding of Africa’s challenges
Posted March 28, 2022
By Trevor Lwere The Pan African Youth Conference, jointly organized by the Pan African Students Union (PASU) at Northwestern University and the African Students...
Evan Maina Mwangi named Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies
Posted March 15, 2022
Professor Evan Mwangi from Northwestern University’s English Department has been named the Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies in a ceremony that took...
The poetry of Comfort Food; As memory, mothering and reclamation
Posted February 23, 2022
The final video of the 4-part video series Reclaiming the Tongue, curated by journalist and poet Wana Udobang, is now available. “The poetry of...
Swahili class at Harambee 2022
Posted February 21, 2022
by Janet Ochieng, Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant for Swahili A clip of students performing “Wageni Wako Wapi.” To join in Black History Month...
Erasing the Borders
Posted February 16, 2022
Video 3 of the 4-part video series Reclaiming the Tongue, curated by journalist and poet Wana Udobang, is now available. Nigerian food blogger and...
In Memoriam: Amos Claudius Sawyer (1945–2022)
Posted February 13, 2022
By Will Reno Dr. Amos Claudius Sawyer, interim president of Liberia from 1990 to 1994, died this past February 16th in Baltimore, Maryland. He...