Posted October 6, 2021
Islam and trans-Atlantic Black Liberation 4-part video lecture series, is hosted Program of African Studies, Northwestern University and curated by Zachary Wright (history and...
Posted September 23, 2021
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) and Northwestern Qatar have announced a new joint minor program in Africana Studies. The program will provide a critical...
Posted September 12, 2021
Videos of the talks in the ISITA Dialogues speaker series (winter/spring 2021) are available for viewing on ISITA’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Uh4PiEZozmK_5QwpcLQAw. ...
Posted September 2, 2021
by LaRay Denzer, newsletter editor-in-chief, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University Caroline Bledsoe, professor of anthropology and the Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African...
Posted August 25, 2021
by Tiffany Williams-Cobleigh, program assistant, Program of African Studies The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the Young African...
Posted July 31, 2021
Beach signs translated from English to Swahili by Prof. Peter Mwangi’s Swahili students. Stay safe on the beach this summer! ...
Posted July 6, 2021
by LaRay Denzer, PAS Editor of newsletter and working papers The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Madison, WI:...
Posted June 14, 2021
by Nina Fridman, junior, Northwestern University When I first came to Northwestern, Weinberg’s six-class language requirement felt like a chore. I was uninterested in...
Posted June 7, 2021
by Austin Bryan, anthropology, graduate student, Northwestern University This article originally ran in the PAS Newsletter, Spring 2021, Volume 31, Number 3 The Africa...
Posted June 4, 2021
In 2017, Wana sat with Nigerian author Lola Shoneyin, whose works include works include the novel The Secret of Baba Segi’s Wives (2010) a...