Here are the answers to last week’s quiz:
Question 1: Who were the founders of the African Studies Program?
Phillip Curtin and Jan Vansina
Question 2: IRIS Associate Director Anju Reejhsinghani and African Cultural Studies Assistant Professor Jacque Mougoué share what research interest?
Boxing
Question 3: In which two countries has Nancy Kendall, director of ASP, done extensive research in?
Mozambique and Malawi
Question 4: What event does Emilie Songolo, ASP’s bibliographer, orchestrate every year
International Women’s Day
Question 5: True or False: 15,000+ people have taken UW’s course “Africa: An Introductory Survey”
True
Question 6: Which African languages does the Department of African Cultural Studies offer?
ZuluWolofArabic
Question 7: When did the African Studies Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison host its first cohort of Mandela Washington Fellows?
Summer 2016
Question 8: Which programs were established by the university in the 1960s
African Studies Program
Department of African Languages and Literature (later Department of African Cultural Studies)
African Studies Department
Afro-American Studies Department
Question 9: True or False: Since 2016, every Wednesday at noon the African Studies Program hosts a one hour seminar on topics and issues related to Africa
False
Question 10: Which Africanist climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and watched the chimps in the Gombi National Park
Lara Vojnov