Last month, Eric Schmidt and his Music of Africa class welcomed Ben Paulding, who directs the Fafali Ghanaian music ensemble at Brandeis University and is a member of the Boston-based Afropop band Kotoko Brass, for a socially distanced kinka drumming workshop. The students substituted household objects for instruments and recorded themselves playing. Each student’s recording was edited together to create a music video, with […]
The African Studies Library is running a pilot program for Adam Matthew’s AM Explorer. Check it out and let the African Studies Librarians know your thoughts at asl@bu.edu. Adam Matthew’s AM Explorer is a cross-collection search of the entire corpus of Adam Matthew’s digitized arts and cultural heritage material in subjects including, area studies, cultural […]
Did you know? BU is a member of the Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) and has access to collections both digitally and for interlibrary loan request. For information on how to search and access CAMP collections, please refer to this ‘how to’ guide: https://library.bu.edu/camp_access and contact us at asl@bu.edu for any questions. Here is a […]
Issoufou Mahamadou, President of the Republic of Niger, visited the African Studies Library at Boston University on April 3 to officially dedicate a new archive of Nigerien research materials. More