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Lecture Spotlights

  • Professor Robin D.G. Kelley Lecture Flyer
    "Gaza: What Would MLK Do?"
    During Black History Month, Professor Robin D. G. Kelley provides an Africana studies perspective on the Gaza-Israel war and explore Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy in relation to this issue, with the goal of raising awareness. Dr. Robin D.G. Kelly, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash...
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    Reflections on Kenya’s New Competency Based Curriculum (CBC): A Setback to Education Equity or a Panacea for Inequity?
    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...
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    Road to Qwanqwa--Establishing an All-Star Music Ensemble in Addis Ababa
    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.              
  • Improving Dairy Cattle Genetics in Tanzania
    Improving Dairy Cattle Genetics in Tanzania
    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.          
  • The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969-1995
    The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969-1995
    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
    Decentralization and Challenges of a Fragmented Territory: The Rural Commune of Kalabancoro, Mali Speaker: Dr. Baba Coulibali
    Decentralization and Challenges of a Fragmented Territory: The Rural Commune of Kalabancoro, Mali Speaker: Dr. Baba Coulibali                            ...
  • The Timbuktu Manuscripts Now
    The Timbuktu Manuscripts Now
      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...
  • Africa Ukraine
    Africa, Race and the War in Ukraine
    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).          ...
  • The Smell of Money: Fishmeal Factories and Coastal Protest in The Gambia
    The Smell of Money: Fishmeal Factories and Coastal Protest in The Gambia
    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.                   ...
  • Brown Bag Series
    Kabye Male Initiation Names as Indicators of Cultural Perceptions of Gender Differences
    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...

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