Month: April 2020

Question 1: Which Africa at Noon Speaker was the main guest on NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast rebroadcasting an old episode from a couple of years ago about the ebola outbreak in west Africa. Mousaka Fallah …

The Toyin Falola Prize is administered by the literary magazine Lunaris Review. The prize is named after and presented in honor of Toyin Falola, Nigerian historian and distinguished professor of African Studies who has published over 100 …

Christopher Kirchgasler is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Global Studies, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research examines the historical and comparative qualities of schooling, particularly as they relate to notions …

Questions 1: Alika Songolo is a… Knight in France Question 2: Harold Scheub walked 1,500 miles across Africa True Question 3: How many Africanist graduate students are in our community?  93 Question 4: ASP has …

The African Studies Program is recruiting Teaching Assistants for African 277: An Introductory Survey in Summer (May 26-July 19).  This interdisciplinary course is cross-listed in African Cultural Studies, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and …

Question 1: Where did Africa’s first female president study? Madison Business College Question 2: What country was Linda Thomas Greenfield the ambassador of? Liberia Question 3: Which one of Crawford Young’s books won the Lubbert Prize …

COURSE DESCRIPTION  This course will examine the origins and forms of what a legal scholar once called an “odious scourge : genocide. For years, genocide mainly referred to the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews …

COURSE DESCRIPTION This eight week online course provides an overview of human rights in international politics. The course will cover the origins of human rights, the main international and regional human rights treaties, the main …

Applications are now being accepted for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) DEADLINE: June 30, 2020 at 11:59 PM EDT What is the CADFP? The CADFP is a scholar exchange program for African higher …

Register today! Requisites: None Credits: 4 Level: Intermediate Breadth: Humanities,Social Science L&S Credit Type: Counts as LAS credit (L&S)   Questions? Please contact Toni Landis, tllandis@wisc.edu