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....
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...
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...
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...