The ASC shares sad news of the passing of Yekutiel Gershoni, Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University and former President of the Liberian Studies Association. Professor Gershoni was a research fellow at the BU African Studies Center in the 1990s. Read the full announcement from the Liberian Studies Association here.
ASC Language Program Director Dr. Zoliswa Mali co-authored a new article out in Syntax entitled, “Two Places for Causees in Productive IsiXhosa Morphological Causatives.” Read the abstract here.
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 […]
ASC Affiliated Faculty Dr. Linda Heywood, Dr. John Thornton, Dr. Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Dr. Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Dr. Joyce Hope Scott participated in the Restorative Justice and Societal Repair: A symposium on February, 21, 2020. View the event agenda here.
Last week our seasoned African language instructors exchanged teaching techniques, by preforming demos during their professional development workshop. African Language Program Director, Dr. Zoliswa Mali writes about the experience. Kudos to Mwalimu Judith Mmari and Mwalimu Lamin Diallo for wonderful lessons! My Swahili and Wolof are better today than yesterday! Both are long serving language instructors, with […]
Recognizing the need to support Africa-related curriculum development nationwide, the African Studies Center at Boston University is very pleased to announce grant opportunities available to faculty at BU and higher education institutions across the United States, including community colleges, minority-serving institutions, HBCUs, and schools of education. We are offering a travel grant for participation in […]
We were delighted to welcome colleagues old and new to the African Studies Center for a reception on Oct 3. Faculty, staff, and visiting researchers shared the latest on their research and work across Africa, representing disciplines from art history to biology, international relations, technology studies, and beyond. We’re looking forward to seeing you at […]
After eight years of hard work, Dr. Tim Longman, Dr. Barbara Brown, and Adam Strom of Facing History have published Confronting Apartheid. The new e-textbook discusses apartheid, the anti-apartheid movement, and its legacies. The Title VI funded resource will serve as a valuable text for secondary school teachers to use in the classroom. For more information, visit […]
It is with great sadness that we report the death of our good friend and colleague Rodolfo Fattovich, who passed away in Rome on March 23, 2018. Rodolfo was Professor of Ethiopian Archaeology at the University of Naples, “L’Orientale” (formerly the Istituto Universitario l’Orientale) from 1974 until his retirement in 2014. Rodolfo’s distinguished career included […]
COME OUT AND JOIN US April 4th at 2 PM for this special talk by Professor Anderson!