Year: 2020

Open Letter to the ASA Community Concerning the 2020 Annual Meeting Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and our commitment to keeping our community safe, the African Studies Association Board of Directors has made the …

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their …

Dear ASP colleagues, Racism and state-sanctioned violence have shaped the U.S. from this country’s founding, but in this moment, long-standing calls to transform the White supremacist roots of our national identity are gaining new power. …

Question 1: Gregg Mitman’s film “The Land Beneath Our Feet” film won the award for Best African Film in the 2017 San Francisco Black Film Festival. True Question 2: Which Africanist was known to always …

Overview Opportunity in Washington, DC The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has contracted through ZemiTek partnered with CAMRIS International, to recruit and hire a qualified individual for the following position: Title:  Power Africa Program Analyst United …

Question 1: Africa At Noon speaker, Noah Tamarkin presented on genetic ancestry and political subjectivity in… South Africa Question 2: Which Africanists served as the directors of the African Studies Program? Philip D. Curtin Aliko …

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 …