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Friday, December 10, 2021

UN appoints IAS Adjunct Research Professor, Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba as a member of Africa Knowledge Network

Congratulations to IAS Adjunct Research Professor, Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba who was recently appointed as a member of the newly launched African Knowledge Network by The United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN-OSAA). The Knowledge Network was established with the purpose of leveraging existing knowledge and expertise to support... More

Friday, November 26, 2021

The Role of African Publishing in the Knowledge Production Ecosystem | Celebrating Mkuki na Nyota @40

Join us as we celebrate the intellectual and creative contributions of Tanzanian publisher Mkuki na Nyota. A distinguished panel of speakers will consider the important work that Mkuki na Nyota has done over the last 40 years while addressing critical debates about how infrastructures of producing and disseminating knowledge shape which voices,... More

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Childhood in African Diaspora Literature

  Come listen to excerpts from Christopher Ouma's book on childhood in African Diaspora Literature. Christoper's book examines how experiences of childhood are capable of inaugurating contemporary and diasporic modes of re-imagining Africa. In this conversation, he sheds light on the childhood experiences of the 1960s through to the late... More

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Music & Blackness in Morocco

On November 17, 2021 at 1:00pm Eastern, Professor Cynthia J. Becker will be discussing her latest Book - Blackness in Morocco In this groundbreaking book, Cynthia J. Becker addresses the historical consciousness of subaltern groups and how they give Blackness material form through modes of dress, visual art, religious ceremonies, and musical... More

Friday, November 5, 2021

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono (Laurier Poetry) Paperback – October 19, 2021

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics. The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's... More

Friday, October 29, 2021

Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle

Join us on Wednesday November 3, as Emily Bridger talks about her latest Book - Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle While there have been many books on South Africa’s liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women... More

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Female Fear Factory – Book Launch

Join us tomorrow Wednesday October 13, as Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola talks about her latest Book - Female Fear Factory “The Female Fear Factory is the latest book from award winning academic and public intellectual Pumla Dineo Gqola. The book is an exploration of the pervasiveness of gender-based violence, and a clarion call for renewed... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Emily Everett wins Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) 2021 essay contest!

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Friday, August 27, 2021

A Celebration of the Life of Douglas George Anglin (1923 – 2021)

Margaret and Deirdre Anglin invite you to join in A Celebration of the Life of Douglas George Anglin (1923-2021) Date: Saturday, September 18, 2021 Time: 11:00 am (Eastern Daylight Time, Toronto, Canada) Venue: Online Zoom (Event will be recorded). Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91878133010?pwd=TVpNejEzeEcvSEZ2cTNtM2ZJdkJLZz09 Meeting ID:... More

Friday, June 18, 2021

Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Edited By Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma is out!

Congratulations to Professor Nduka Otiono on the publication of Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Edited By Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Canada and Chiji Akọma, Villanova University, USA. This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from... More

Friday, June 11, 2021

Carleton’s Professor Nduka Otiono elected Vice President of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS)

Congratulations to Nduka Otiono on his election to the role of Vice President of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), announced at the annual general meeting of the Association held virtually on June 9th as part of the just concluded annual conference. By this election, Professor Otiono is slated to succeed the newly... More

Friday, June 4, 2021

Anthropology & African Studies’ Emily Hersey wins CASCA award for most outstanding Master’s student of 2020-2021

The Institute of African Studies is delighted to celebrate Emily Hersey who graduated from the collaborative MA in Anthropology with a specialization in African Studies and has been awarded the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) award for most outstanding graduating Master’s student of 2020-2021 with an MA in Anthropology this last year at... More

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