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Photo of Louis Chude-Sokei, an older black man wearing a dark blur shirt and black shoes sits with hands folded in front of him on the steps of a brick building. A red sign on the building reads "Boston University College of Arts and Sciences; African American Studies Program"
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Composite image of book covers of the following books: Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid (1990), Aye, and Gomorrah, by Samuel R. Delany (1967), The Women, by Hilton Als (1996), Black No More, George S. Schuyler (1931), The Wine of Astonishment, by Earl Lovelace (1982, Corregidora, by Gayl Jones (1975)
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Black Panther in his titular movie, fighting off helicopters
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April 18, 2019
Louis Chude-Sokei
Arts & Culture

Louis Chude-Sokei Wants African American Studies Program to Be a Central Place

April 26, 2018
African Studies

60 Seconds of Blackness

February 21, 2018
Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda
Humanities

Telling the Truth about Rwanda

January 31, 2018
1) Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center, with Amadou Ndiaye, an Ajami and Arabic bookseller in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Ablaye Diakité
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October 5, 2017
Brian Woerner is equally at home offering a tasting at Follow The Honey in Cambridge or working with locals in Tanzania to help produce a sustainable supply of organic honey.
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Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.
African Studies

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March 20, 2017
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Arts & Culture

Challenging Assumptions about Africa’s Exploding Youth Population

July 21, 2016

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