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 co-winner is Leonardo Arriola for this book, Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Buisiness Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns (Cambridge University Press, …
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 Life and Work” by Library News and Events (12/20/2013).
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 more and download “Teaching About Nelson Mandela, the Apartheid and the Struggle for Freedom.”
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, social and historical geography in the first part of the course, we will focus on a number of important contemporary …
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
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 2014-2015 fellowships and awards. Application deadline is February 15, 2014. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education …
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 language programs that FLAS students have attended in the past Prospective FLAS students should note that the U.S. Department of …
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 study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important …
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 of vernacular science has challenged the relevance of deeply embedded polarities – traditional versus modern, African healing versus biomedicine – …
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 determined) Eligibility: Applicants must be UW–Madison graduate students in good standing, making normal progress toward a degree, specializing in the …