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Thursday, September 5, 2019

Akwaaba!

Whether new or returning to 杏吧原创, the Institute of African Studies extends to you a very warm Akwaaba! We look forward to seeing you on the 4th 聽floor of Paterson Hall, where you are always welcome. Christine Duff, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of French Interim Director, Institute of African... More

Friday, August 9, 2019

Insight Development Grant awarded to IAS member Dr. Logan Cochrane and UNBC colleague Dr. Nathan Andrews

The Institute of African Studies congratulates Dr. Cochrane and Dr. Andrew for being granted an Insight Development Grant from SSHRC. More than 800 million people face food insecurity around the world, a figure that has risen in recent years. The private sector -颅 from smallholder farmers to multinational corporations 颅- are critical in ensuring... More

Friday, August 9, 2019

Keeping a promise: Queen Elizabeth Scholars & Climate Change mitigation and adaptation

In his latest blog, A. Kusi-Appiah, QE scholar lauds the achievements and importance of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship program, as a viable program for dealing with climate change and social transformation with Africa as a focus. He goes on to pay a tribute to the originators of the program as visionaries of extraordinary geniuses.... More

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

African Studies Twins Graduate Together

Congratulations Kenneth & Kennedy on your graduation! A lot of people were doing double takes during 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 June聽Convocation. Several sets of twins crossed the stage to receive their diplomas at this year鈥檚 ceremonies from June 10 through 14. We caught up with three of them. What鈥檚 it like to go to university with... More

Friday, May 24, 2019

New volume of IAS Journal: Nokoko 7 now available!

The latest volume of the IAS Journal - Nokoko has just published. Volume 7 of Nokoko focuses on Elections and Electoral Politics in Africa: Movements Forward, Backwards or Nowhere? Nokoko is an open-access journal promoting dialogue, discourse and debate on PanAfricanism, Africa, and Africana. Nokoko brings forward the foundational work of... More

Monday, May 13, 2019

IAS listed in latest Gender and Mining Encyclopedia

The latest edition of the Gender and Mining Encyclopedia recognizes 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Institute of African Studies (IAS) as one of the eight 鈥淕ender and ASM鈥� institutions globally working on gender and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Produced by the German bilateral donor GIZ (Gesellschaft f眉r Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and... More

Friday, March 22, 2019

5th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Call for Abstracts

The Call for Abstracts for the Institute of African Studies's 5th Annual Undergraduate Conference is now open! With the theme of "Globalization, Media and the African City," the goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a platform for emerging researchers with an interest in Africa and the pan-African diaspora to share knowledge and... More

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Professor Pius Adesanmi Memorial Fund

To honour the memory of our late Director, Professor Pius Adesanmi, a fund is being established which will support students and continue his life鈥檚 work. For further details, please click... More

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Nduka Otiono is co-editor of a proposed poetry collection in honour of Professor Pius Adesanmi

IAS鈥檚 Dr. Nduka Otiono is a co-editor of a special call for submissions for poetry in honour of our late Director, Professor Pius Adesanmi:聽Wreaths for a Wayfarer: A Poetry Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019). Along with Nigerian author and poet (and doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta)聽Uchechukwu Umezurike, Dr. Otiono... More

Friday, March 8, 2019

IAS Adjunct Firoze Manji writes on Emancipation, Freedom or Taxonomy? What Does It Mean to be African?

Racism after Apartheid, published this month by Wits University Press (South Africa), brings together contributions from a dozen public intellectuals from around the world that address the nature and foundations of racism internationally, but also includes a section devoted to the persistence of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The book... More

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