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....

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.    ...