The African Politics Conference Group (APCG) recently recognized Crawford Young’s The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence (UW Press, 2012) as the co-winner of the best 2012 book on African Politics. The other …
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UW Libraries launch Mandela research guide
Emilie Songolo, Social Science and African Studies Bibliographer at UW-Madison’s Memorial Library, spearheaded an in-depth research guide on the life and times of Nelson Mandela. Explore the site. Read “Libraries Create a Guide to Mandela’s …
Resources for teaching about Nelson Mandela
Boston University’s African Studies Center and Africa Access Review prepared a special resource for educators to engage and discuss the life and times of Nelson Mandela in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms. Learn …
Course Spotlight: Africa South of the Sahara
Course Description This course is an intermediate-level introduction to the geography of Africa. While very much welcomed, no course work on Africa is required prior to taking this course. After a general overview of physical, …
UW faculty and graduate students reflect on Madela’s life and legacy
Campus mourns Nelson Mandela, University of Wisconsin-Madison News, 12/10/2013 Heinz Klug: Reflections on Nelson Mandela’s legacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison News, 12/06/2013
Get funding to study an African Language with a FLAS fellowship
The competition for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships and awards at UW-Madison is now open. The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2014 and Academic Year …
Explore Summer 2014 domestic and international African language programs
The Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has put together a helpful resource for students looking for summer African language programs. Summer 2014 domestic and international programs List of overseas African …
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships and the African Languages Initiative
The applications for the 2014-2015 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available. Boren Awards, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to …
Course Spotlight: Health, Healing, and Science in Africa and the African Diaspora
Course Description Theoretical perspectives from Science and Technology Studies have become increasingly influential in the study of health in Africa and the African Diaspora in recent years. The scholarly turn toward bio-politics and the examination …
Teaching assistants needed for Spring Africa survey course
277 Africa: An Introductory Survey Cross-listed in African Languages and Literature, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology Instructor: Michael Schatzberg, Political Science Number of Teaching Assistants needed: 2 or 3 (to be …