Course Description Nollywood is the name that Nigerian filmmakers and audiences have adopted for a relatively new film industry, which began in the early 1990s with the emergence of “video films”—that is, feature-length films shot …
Year: 2016
Course Spotlight: History 201 – The Historians Craft – History of Humanitarianism
Course Description What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? This is one of the questions that threads through this course on the global history of …
Course Spotlight: The African Postcolony
Course Description This course will explore the history, theory and ethnography of the African postcolony. What global connections, circuits and migrations have shaped African worlds in the aftermath of empire? What forms of political and …
Africa in Our Lives: Tess Kolker
Tess Kolker is a current UW Junior studying for the year in Morocco. Field of Study: International Studies, Political Studies Hometown: Chatham, NJ What brought you to UW- Madison? I visited Madison for the first …
4 Elections in Africa You Should Know About
With the upcoming U.S. elections dominating the airwaves, here are four elections in Ghana, Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire and the DRC you may not know about, but you should. Ghana Ghana was the first African country …
Halloween – Africa Connections
Happy Halloween! Though Halloween has undergone a kind of Americanization in recent decades, its has a history in Christianity (All Hallow’s Eve before All Hallow’s Day) and a Celtic pagan festival called Samhain. However, similar reverence for …
Boren Awards: Funding for African Language Study and Research
The application for the 2017 Boren Awards is now open at www.borenawards.org! Boren Awards fund U.S. undergraduate and graduate language study and research abroad in world regions critical to U.S. national interests (including Africa, Asia, Central …
Africa in Our Lives: Abigail Cook
Abigail Cook is a Masters student in the Water Resources Management Program and also the new Peace Corps Recruiter at UW-Madison. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal for nearly four years. Field of Study: …
2 teaching assistants needed for Spring 2017 Africa survey course
277 Africa: An Introductory SurveyCross-listed in African Cultural Studies, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and SociologyInstructor: Jo Ellen Fair, African Cultural StudiesEligibility: Applicants must be UW-Madison graduate students in good standing, making normal …
Africa in Our Lives: Kyra Fox
Kyra Fox is a UW Junior studying International Studies and Psychology with an African Studies Certificate. She is currently studying in Gulu, Uganda on a program focused on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict in …