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Thursday, September 5, 2019

Akwaaba!

Whether new or returning to Carleton, the Institute of African Studies extends to you a very warm Akwaaba! We look forward to seeing you on the 4th  floor of Paterson Hall, where you are always welcome. Christine Duff, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of French Interim Director, Institute of African... More

Friday, August 9, 2019

Insight Development Grant awarded to IAS member Dr. Logan Cochrane and UNBC colleague Dr. Nathan Andrews

The Institute of African Studies congratulates Dr. Cochrane and Dr. Andrew for being granted an Insight Development Grant from SSHRC. More than 800 million people face food insecurity around the world, a figure that has risen in recent years. The private sector -­ from smallholder farmers to multinational corporations ­- are critical in ensuring... More

Friday, August 9, 2019

Keeping a promise: Queen Elizabeth Scholars & Climate Change mitigation and adaptation

In his latest blog, A. Kusi-Appiah, QE scholar lauds the achievements and importance of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship program, as a viable program for dealing with climate change and social transformation with Africa as a focus. He goes on to pay a tribute to the originators of the program as visionaries of extraordinary geniuses.... More

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

African Studies Twins Graduate Together

Congratulations Kenneth & Kennedy on your graduation! A lot of people were doing double takes during Carleton University’s June Convocation. Several sets of twins crossed the stage to receive their diplomas at this year’s ceremonies from June 10 through 14. We caught up with three of them. What’s it like to go to university with... More

Friday, May 24, 2019

New volume of IAS Journal: Nokoko 7 now available!

The latest volume of the IAS Journal - Nokoko has just published. Volume 7 of Nokoko focuses on Elections and Electoral Politics in Africa: Movements Forward, Backwards or Nowhere? Nokoko is an open-access journal promoting dialogue, discourse and debate on PanAfricanism, Africa, and Africana. Nokoko brings forward the foundational work of... More

Monday, May 13, 2019

IAS listed in latest Gender and Mining Encyclopedia

The latest edition of the Gender and Mining Encyclopedia recognizes Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies (IAS) as one of the eight “Gender and ASM” institutions globally working on gender and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Produced by the German bilateral donor GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and... More

Friday, April 5, 2019

Lessons from Rwanda: New Book Explores the ‘Media-Genocide Nexus’

When the Rwandan genocide was underway, one of the prevailing views in the western media was that the country was too small, too under the radar and “too far away” for the global community to intervene. The violence in Rwanda was written off by many as “tribal warfare” as the massacres spread across the... More

Friday, March 22, 2019

5th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Call for Abstracts

The Call for Abstracts for the Institute of African Studies's 5th Annual Undergraduate Conference is now open! With the theme of "Globalization, Media and the African City," the goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a platform for emerging researchers with an interest in Africa and the pan-African diaspora to share knowledge and... More

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Professor Pius Adesanmi Memorial Fund

To honour the memory of our late Director, Professor Pius Adesanmi, a fund is being established which will support students and continue his life’s work. For further details, please click... More

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Nduka Otiono is co-editor of a proposed poetry collection in honour of Professor Pius Adesanmi

IAS’s Dr. Nduka Otiono is a co-editor of a special call for submissions for poetry in honour of our late Director, Professor Pius Adesanmi: Wreaths for a Wayfarer: A Poetry Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019). Along with Nigerian author and poet (and doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta) Uchechukwu Umezurike, Dr. Otiono... More

Friday, March 8, 2019

IAS Adjunct Firoze Manji writes on Emancipation, Freedom or Taxonomy? What Does It Mean to be African?

Racism after Apartheid, published this month by Wits University Press (South Africa), brings together contributions from a dozen public intellectuals from around the world that address the nature and foundations of racism internationally, but also includes a section devoted to the persistence of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The book... More

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Kagiso Lesego Molope’s Place in Canadian Literature

Kagiso Lesego Molope, a Film Studies graduate student at Carleton, had a pair of novels named to national best books lists last year. Read her story... More

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