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...
Lecture Spotlights
Decentralization and Challenges of a Fragmented Territory: The Rural Commune of Kalabancoro, Mali Speaker: Dr. Baba Coulibali ...
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...
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. ...