AiW Guests Interviewers: Emily Bhanu, Madeleine Butler, Madeeha Sharief, Eleanor Walker Interviewee: Dr Fiori Berhane Interview Date: 7th January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Kagiso Nko. It is part of how Joburg narrates itself, in particular to itself. Editors’ Introduction – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden. AiW note: This review of Anxious Joburg (Wits UP) was completed before our accompanying Review… Read More ›
The research theme: ‘Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies’. This year’s Cadbury programme is linked to the previous call for papers posted here for the conference ‘Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies’ at the… Read More ›
Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies 21-23 May 2020 Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) of the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Langarchiv Project Please follow the link… Read More ›
The Karin Barber Pop-Up Lab: “Generation and Regeneration” Journal of African Cultural Studies At University of Birmingham 9th and 10th September 2018 Over the course of her career, Karin Barber inaugurated the field of African popular culture studies, and has… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Social Sciences: MacMillan Center at Yale University is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in African Studies (Social Sciences and Humanities) The Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty… Read More ›
Call for Papers Law and Social Order in Africa 3rd – 4th April 2017 Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh The creation and enforcement of law and the maintenance of social order are key concerns for states, societies, and individuals across Africa. However, the way in… Read More ›
African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 15 May 2015 – 16 May 2015 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT – SG1&2 Convenors Britt Baillie (University of Cambridge, Affiliated Lecturer in the Division of Archaeology) Chris Boonzaaier (University… Read More ›
Twelfth Cadbury Conference: Money Judgments 21-22 May 2015 University of Birmingham, UK The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham invites paper proposals for the 2015 Cadbury Conference, which will focus on research on money. The keynote address… Read More ›
I’m delighted to introduce this post from Africa in Words Guest author, Louise Müller for the ‘African classics’ series. As Nara discussed last week, this series aims to give a fresh or alternative insight, giving our readers a chance to… Read More ›
There’s been an debate going in the pages of Africa Spectrum which we thought might be of interest to some of our readers (hat tip to Stephanie Newell for bringing this to our attention). In 2012, Cape Town-based anthropologist Francis… Read More ›
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