When the African Studies Program kindly asked me if I wanted to share a few “words of farewell” for its final newsletter of 2022, I immediately accepted. As the outgoing Chair of the department of …
Year: 2022
Africa In Our Lives: Mosa Leteane
Mosa Leteane is a Fulbright Scholar from South Africa. She is a Law graduate from the University of the Free State. As a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, Mosa is passionate about education, leadership, and law. Her research is aimed …
Africa In Our Lives: Joel Baraka and Anson Liow
Joel Baraka is a former King Morgridge Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (’22) who graduated with a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering degree and currently working full-time as a project engineer for CG Schmidt Inc. Anson …
Fall 2022 Africa At Noon Events
Fall 2022 Africa At Noon Speaker Events September 14 Jan Vansina Lecture: The Long Atlantic: A History in Terms of Africa(In-Person) Kathryn de Luna Georgetown University Hosted by Neil Kodesh September 21 Decoloniality Dialogues: Building …
Call for Papers┃African Urbanities Mobility, Creativity, and Challenges
Indiana University Graduate Students in African Studies Annual Graduate Conference African Urbanities: Mobility, Creativity, and Challenges Indiana University March 24-25th, 2023 Urbanity has both a long history and a dynamic future on the African continent. …
Spring 2022 Africa At Noon Events
February 2nd “To Each Proverb Its Prosthesis: the (De)Composition of a Traditional African Verbal Art at the Present Time” Aderemi Raji-Oyelade (Remi Raji) Professor at University of Ibadan, Nigeria February 16th “Policing the Virtuous …
Africa In Our Lives: Representative Samba Baldeh
Representative Samba Baldeh is the Wisconsin State Representative in the 48th Assembly District. What is your background? I am a native of The Gambia, in Western Africa. I emigrated to the States a little bit over …
Decoloniality Dialogues Workshop Series
DD Collective is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of educators, scholars, healers, and thinkers. We invite the larger community to three upcoming workshops. These are shared spaces for learning and building other ways of being …
Spring Virtual Africa Internships
The International Internship Program (IIP) offers virtual internships with organizations all over the world. It’s not too late to apply for a Spring 2023 virtual international internship! Virtual internships for ASP students are accepting & reviewing applications on …
African Studies Spring 2023 Course List Now Open
Don’t forget to add an African Studies course to your schedule next semester! The African Studies Spring 2023 Course List is now live. This semester promises to enlighten with 40 courses overall, including 3 Afro-American Studies …