UW–Madison senior Sam Allen has never taken the conventional path when it comes to his education. The Geography and International Studies major managed to integrate his passion for Swahili with a career path in the Army. He shares what inspired him to study the continent, his takeaways from his time in Tanzania, and his favorite …
As a result of the Ethiopian government’s prioritization of higher education, Ethiopian universities are eager to attract foreign faculty, American scholars in particular. The Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholars will create a critical foundation for Ethiopia’s development by strengthening the leading Ethiopian universities’ capacity to teach and manage undergraduate and graduate programs, and enhancing research capacity within …
UW–Madison will select one undergraduate student to serve as the 2017-18 Newman Civic Fellow. This student will participate in leadership development and learning around civic engagement with a cohort of other fellows from schools around the country. The application deadline is Sunday, December 10 at 11:59 PM. Newman Civic Fellow nominees must also meet the …
The African Studies Program encourages both undergraduate and graduate students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2018 and Academic Year 2018-2019 fellowships and awards. Applications for the following competitions are now open: – Undergraduate Summer 2018 FLAS award – Undergraduate Academic Year 2018-19 FLAS award – Graduate Summer 2018 FLAS awards – Graduate …
National Geographic Society is currently soliciting nominations for the 2018 National Geographic Buffett Awards for Leadership in Conservation in Africa and Latin America. These awards honor the unsung heroes of conservation by celebrating the recipients’ past achievements and supporting ongoing work in conserving nature. Each award includes a $25,000 grant. Click here to submit a nomination. The awards are limited to nationals of …
African Studies Program faculty affiliate Emily Callaci’s new book, Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, will be published in December by Duke University Press. In this book, Callaci explores what she calls “street archives”—popular texts such as women’s Christian advice literature and self-published pulp fiction novellas—to reveal the worlds of youth …
Course Description This course examines sound and technology as tools of cultural invention and identity in contemporary African life. How do music and its mediums construct national belonging in Africa and the diaspora? What are the embodied senses of these? Posthumanism, new media and globalization are examined against competing theories of modernity through the writings …
Professor D was recently featured on a special episode of Le Journal Rappé (The Rap News) hosted by Senegalese rap stars Keyti and Xuman to discuss the escalating tension between Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un. Course Description Can HipHop help make the world more just? If so, what theory and practice best advance this aim? …
The 60th annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) will convene this weekend in Chicago. Founded in 1957 in response to Ghana’s independence, the ASA is “dedicated to increasing public awareness and understanding about economic, political, and cultural developments in Africa and to forging greater relationships between the United States and Africa.” Last year’s …
In addition to a Nov. 8 talk at the Wisconsin Union Theatre, Bassem Youssef, dubbed the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” sat down with students during a recent visit to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Youssef appeared at a joint class session, speaking with students from Assistant Professor Samuel England’s “Arab Publics” course, as well as Assistant …