In 2017, Kenya unveiled the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) under the 2-6-3-3 education system, replacing the 32-year-old content-based 8-4-4 system of education. The implications of the new curriculum have been discussed broadly. Anecdotal and empirical evidence indicates that the curriculum...
Lectures & Special Presentations
The tangible result of Kaethe Hostetter’s 11-year odyssey was the establishing of the 5-piece ensemble QWANQWA named for the Amharic word for language. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1_px1p9cne.jpg?itok=wfsxTh8M...
Dr. Crystal Allen emphasizes global thinking and encourages students to explore the world of animals. She is currently working on a research project to improve dairy cattle genetics in Tanzania. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/...
In the first decades after the end of French rule, Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. In The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995), the speaker presents these textual...
Decentralization and Challenges of a Fragmented Territory: The Rural Commune of Kalabancoro, Mali Speaker: Dr. Baba Coulibali {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/...
Listen as Paul Naylor and Ali Diakite (Hill Museum, Minnesota): Hiding in Plain Sight—Truly Local Knowledge in the Libraries of Timbuktu; Mohamed Diagayete (Ahmed Baba Institute, Mali): The Recent Works of the Ahmed Baba Institute; Charles Stewart (UIUC): Reworking the “...
During this open discussion, people had the opportunity to share perspectives and ideas. The event was moderated by Professors Terri Barnes (History, Center for African Studies) and Erik McDuffie (History, Dept. of African American Studies...
Fatou Jobe, Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Sociology and MA student in African Studies, discusses local protests and Chinese financial interests in fishmeal factories in The Gambia...
At the end of their first initiation rite called the initiation of the evala, young Kabye males bestow on themselves and/ or on their peer's personal names that express their individual moral views of, and attitudes toward, their society’s norms. In this talk, Professor Batoma, UIUC...
Around 1400 CE, an African scholar named al-Kabari, based in Timbuktu, penned what may be the oldest surviving text written by an indigenous West African in any language. This talk—about al-Kabari and his surviving manuscript-- will explore the ontological and epistemological universe of the Niger...- Social work colleagues will walk listeners through their MSW internships, volunteer work, and immersive experience in Cape Town, South Africa, highlighting lessons learned within a social justice framework...
Dr. Paul Naylor of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Collegeville, Minnesota, presents a reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto, which provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state...
Shari Eppel, Executive Director of the Ukuthula Trust in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, speaks about the Trust's work with families of massacre victims in southwest Zimbabwe to identify, exhume and properly rebury the dead...
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short, Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman, Ohio University Press, 2020, pp. 257, ISBN: 978-0-8214-2423-0 For more information, click here: https://www.ohioswallow.com...
This talks explore how colonialism was established in two cities of today’s Niger (Zinder and Agadez) between 1898 and 1906 by exploring the discourses and the practices of French colonial domination and the agency of African actors. For a link to the author's book, click here: ...- In recent years, the College of ACES has offered several Study Abroad experiences for students to visit South Africa and Tanzania. These trips are focused on the conservation of African wildlife with emphases on not only the threats to these species and ecosystems but also the human dimensions of...
Teresa Barnes, of the UIUC History, Gender & Women's Studies Department and Director of African Studies, talks about her book, "Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization," which uses the political biography of a philosophy professor at the University of...
This presentation explores sources and themes for writing the postcolonial history of the Zanzibar Nationalist Party's intellectuals in exile...
African worldview celebration of Earth Day, featuring Hamid Drake, world-renowned drummer and percussionist, Dr Afia Zakiya, Afri-ecologist, global water, sanitation, and hygiene public health expert, and Dr. Tatiane Pereira dos Santos, singer, musician, researcher....
Dr. Charles Fogelman describes himself as a human-environment geographer who studies the relationships between land and people. In this video, he discusses how the international development industry has changed the landscapes of Lesotho in both its material and symbolic forms...
Chapane Mutiua (University of Hamburg) provides an introduction to the little-known manuscript culture, that of Swahili and other Ajami manuscripts from Northern Mozambique, their production, use, and circulation...
Presented by Prof. Laila Hussein Moustafa, Dr. Hoa Luong, and Miss Abby Fogarty, the speakers provide common practices in file management to help develop personal strategies. They also discuss where to find African and Middle East materials online, in the library, and beyond...
The talk explores the significance of Afro-Iraqi rituals within a problematic oppressive context. Afro-Iraqi rituals play two important roles within Afro-Iraqi culture: assert and sustain communal identity and resist hegemony and discrimination. The talk touches on slavery in pre-Islam Arabia and...
Dr. Andrea Brigaglia (University of Naples "L'Orientale") presents a fascinating set of talismanic tablets from Northern Nigeria and explores their relationship with a popular work of esoteric sciences locally known as Ummu Musa...
Affirming African Agencies. Dr. Chambi Chachage discusses "Affirming African Agencies" from his book, Africanizing Capital: Emergence of Black Entrepreneurs in Eastern Africa. This talk is based on chapter three that focuses on the ways in which captains of commerce and industry of...
