News

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 …

Second Annual Jan Vansina Memorial Lecture The African Studies Program hosted the second annual Jan Vansina Lecture in September 2019 to honor the legacy of Jan Vansina, one of the world’s foremost historians of Africa. Vansina played an …

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 …

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 …