The 2019 ASAA Conference Nairobi October 24-26, 2019 The theme of African Studies Association of Africa’s (ASAA) 3rd Biennial Conference 2019 is African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities. The conference will be held for the first… 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 ›
Last month I attended a seminar day at Birmingham, ‘Teaching Difficult Subjects’ (organised by the Higher Education Academy in the UK). Although the full content of the day was fascinating (and wide ranging) encompassing genocide, holocaust and ‘war studies’, I… Read More ›
AiW guest James Smith. Nina Munk’s The Idealist: Jeffery Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Random House) isn’t a book only about Jeffery Sachs. It’s a book about the world as we would like it to be, an uncomfortable… Read More ›
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