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...
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...
"I Give You Half the Road " presented by Dr. Carol Spindel. Dr. Spindel discusses and reads passages from her book titled, I Give You Half the Road: Life Stories, Meaningful Lives in Ivory Coast. ...
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles, presented by Prof. Charles Piot and Kodjo Nicolas Batema. The speakers examine Togolese individuals who apply for and attempt to game the US Diversity Visa lottery. ...
Struggle to Survive: The Story of the Abayudaya Jewish Community, presented by Rabbi Gershom Sizomu who is the first native-born black rabbi in Sub-Saharan Africa, first chief rabbi of Uganda, and a member of the Ugandan Parliament, Rabbi Sizomu...
"From Yellowstone (USA) to Bimbia (Cameroon): Land and Wellbeing in Global Nodes in Africa and the USA." Dr. Emmanual Nuesiri (African Leadership University (ALU) Mauritius) discusses the "global idea about a specific form of land management regime, with constraints on human freedom, having...