Posted June 14, 2022
By Xena Amro, Northwestern graduate student A May 2022 workshop organized by ISITA and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the...
Posted June 10, 2022
Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte (London:. Routledge, 2022) Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this...
Posted May 30, 2022
By Esmeralda Kale, Librarian, Herskovits Library Gifts come in all shapes and sizes, and this past year the Herskovits Library was fortunate to receive...
Posted May 17, 2022
By Florence Mugambi, Librarian for African Studies, and Charla Wilson, Archivist for the Black Experience We have embarked on an oral history project to...
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...
Posted April 22, 2022
by Bengi Rwabuhemba, Northwestern undergraduate student The Pan-African Youth Conference (PAYC) is a student-led initiative that was conceived by students at the University of...
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...
Posted March 31, 2022
by Lamin Kieta, Northwestern graduate student Gambian president Adama Barrow won a second term in the December 4, 2021, presidential election. According toresults released...
Posted March 28, 2022
By Trevor Lwere, University of Notre Dame undergraduate student The Pan African Youth Conference, jointly organized by the Pan African Students Union (PASU) at...
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...