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, PAS Editor of newsletter and working papers, Northwestern University Caroline Bledsoe, professor of anthropology and the Melville J. Herskovits Professor...
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, Northwestern University The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930...
Posted June 14, 2021
by Nina Fridman, Northwestern undergraduate student 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, Northwestern graduate student The Africa Seminar (Afrisem) will hold its annual graduate student conference in June on the theme “Africanist Knowledge...
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...
Posted May 29, 2021
June 10-11 join the Northwestern graduate student group Africa Seminar (Afrisem), for their 2021 conference with keynote speakers Dr. Frank Mugisha (Executive Director, Sexual...