On April 6, 2022, the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University hosted United States Ambassador to Nigeria and BU alumna Mary Beth Leonard (CAS ’84) for a Policy Leaders Forum on U.S. diplomacy in Nigeria. Following the forum, Amb. Leonard visiting the African Studies Center, presented in ASC Director Michael Woldemariam’s Africa […]
Last Thursday, the ASC hosted its 32nd Annual Bradford Morse Distinguished lecture featuring Zekeria Salem, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University. The lecture was titled, “Islam and the Post-Colonial State in Africa: The Formation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960-2022).”
A video recording of the recent Walter Rodney Lecture Featuring Assistant Professor of African American Alden Young is available now. Watch “After the Developmental State: Hajj Hamad and the Geopolitics of the Horn of Africa” here. A synopsis of Alden Young’s Rodney Seminar by Pamela Icyeza through the GDP Center is available here.
The recording of our last Walter Rodney Lecture of the semester is now live on our YouTube Channel. Click here to watch Pan-Africanism in the Epics of Chaka Zulu and Sundiata Keita by Babacar M’Baye.
The recording of our last Walter Rodney Lecture of the semester is now live on our YouTube Channel. Click here to watch Projecting Life: Boko, Learning and Religiosity on a University Campus in West Africa by Abdoulaye Sounaye.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Language Theater Night 2021. After nearly two and a half semesters of non-traditional learning, it was great to see everyone’s faces and to see how our collective hard work and dedication has paid off! The votes are in and….the Igbo group has won first place! Congratulations! They were closely followed by the […]
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 […]
We hope you have had a great start to the semester and have been enjoying our events! If you missed either of our first two Walter Rodney Lectures of the semester, you can now watch them on our Youtube channel! Please subscribe to be notified of our new uploads. Youth, Pop Culture and Terror Warfare in […]
Two new event recordings have been uploaded to our YouTube channel! Subscribe to be notified as soon as we upload. Democracy’s Preludes: Citizenship and Contentious Politics in Egypt and South Africa | Marcus Walton Re-Modeling the Christianization of Egypt | David Frankfurter
Students, faculty, and staff filled the ASC last Tuesday for the Spring Student and Faculty Mixer. Director Fallou Ngom and Assistant Director Eric Schmidt led everyone in brief introductions and then gave a short presentation on the FLAS Fellowships, for which applications are now open. After the presentation, prospective applicants got to hear from current and former FLAS […]