The cinemas of Africa have consistently delivered some of most impressive, urgent, and engaged films in classical and contemporary world cinema. Join the CFI for this showcase of the best of African cinema’s diverse and extraordinary films and filmmakers.

Dr. Ryan Patterson, Early-career researcher and contract editor, Independent, previously at University of Bristol, UK.

When: Wednesday November 1st, 1:00-2:30pm

Where: MacOdrum Library Discovery Centre Room 482

Ryan Patterson: I am an historian of 19th century British science, technology, and culture in colonial and imperial settings. I focus on the media coverage of expeditions into Africa during the 1860s and ‘70s, charting the influence of Victorian techno-centric ideals and views of race on the re-imagining of Africa as a colonial space.

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A grandmothers’ Movement to end AIDS in Africa

Featuring: Siphalele Khumalo, grandmother with Swaziland Positive Living (SWAPOL); Cebile Dlamini, Coordinator at SWAPOL; Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, book co-author and co-founder & executive director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation Moderated by Sarah Onyango; Final Remarks by Dr. Josephine Etowa, University of Ottawa

When: Monday October 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm

University of Ottawa- Desmarias Building (12th floor- Room 12102)

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Please join us on November 2, 2017, from 3 to 5 PM to hear about learnings from a 3-year SSHRC-supported initiative that engaged the University of Ottawa and partners from the University of Jigjiga in the Somali Region of Ethiopia and a local NGO, the Organization for Welfare and Development in Action (OWDA). The research site for the partnership is Denan Health Centre established at the site of an internally displaced persons’ camp that has developed into a hub of community economic development and education that champions gender equity, youth leadership, and sustainable environmental measures.

The symposium,Towards More Equitable International Health Research Partnerships, will highlight our attempts to generate an equitable collaborative partnership, as well as the impact of development project on social transformation, health, and/or the environment.

When: Thursday, November 2, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Where: Room 4006, Faculty of Social Science Building, University of Ottawa

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On November 4, 2017, Canadian World Education Foundation (CWEF) Tanzania in collaboration with Somerset West Health Community Centre welcomes you to join in the 5th year milestone of sharing a gift of education with needy children in Tanzania! This fun-filled evening offers captivating live performances, African music and dance, and a taste of East African Cuisine.

Meet our special Guests:
Alysha Brilla is a twice Juno Award nominated artist, who will grace the stage for us on the evening! She’s a producer and an arts educator with Indo-Tanzanian-Canadian roots who just released her third album, “HUMAN”. Brilla has performed widely in Canada and internationally, including in Tanzania at Sauti Za Busara. Her new album’s first single, “No More Violence”, is currently charting in the top 10 of the CBC Top 20 Countdown and rising. Tanzania has a place in Alysha’s heart because it is where her father was born.

Mysta is an Ottawa-based Jamaican-born singer and songwriter reggae artist, who will captivate your souls with his unique talent! Featured regularly on local stations including CHUO and CKCU, his fervent performances have inspired many in Canada and around the world.

Patrick Rock, is a Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist. His music is a blend of Acoustic, Folk and Hip-hop. Patrick recently won an International Singing Competition (The Shot) and is currently working on his first album.

Cuso International is a development organization that works to reduce poverty and inequality through the efforts of highly skilled volunteers, collaborative partnerships and compassionate donors. A guest speaker from Cuso will share about their work in Tanzania as well as on Cuso’s Diaspora Engagement Program.

When: : Saturday, Nov 4, 5:00-9:00pm

Where: 18 Eccles Street, Ottawa

Tickets: $20 per person
Tables: table of 10 for $170
Purchase online on Eventbrite here

Tickets in Person? Contact: cweft4t@gmail.com or 613-869-4970

The Institute of African Studies proudly supports Octopus Books Community Classroom

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of seven other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico., An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, and All the Real Indians Die off and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans. She lives in San Francisco.

When: Monday, November 6, 7:00pm

Where: 25 One Community 251 Bank St. 2nd floor

Registration: $10

Space is limited!

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Charles W. Mills is the author of The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003); Contract and Domination (co-authored with Carole Pateman, 2007), Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (2010), and Black Rights/ White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

When: November 9th, 7:30pm

Where: Azrieli 102 With reception to follow

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Nereida Ripero-Muñiz, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Nereida Ripero Muñiz is a lecturer and researcher from Spain currently based at the University of the Witwatersrand. She studied in Amsterdam and London before taking up a lecturer position at the United States International University, Nairobi, in 2007. There she started researching the Somali community residing in the city. In 2016, she was awarded a PhD by the University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctoral thesis investigated identity construction among Somali women living in Nairobi and Johannesburg. Her current research focuses on the transnational cultural links of the global Somali diaspora. She also was the researcher behind the collaborative photography project “Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey Through Johannesburg’s Little Mogadishu” currently on display on the 4^th Floor of Paterson Hall. She also has edited an open-access e-book for this project.

When: Tuesday November 21st, 2:30pm

Where: 433 Paterson Hall (History Lounge) Carleton University

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If you are completing (or have recently completed) a four-year undergraduate Honours or Master’s degree, and are thinking of undertaking graduate-level studies, consider studying at Dalhousie University on Canada’s east coast. Dalhousie’s Southern African Student Education Project (SASEP) offers qualified black Southern Africans an opportunity to study for an internationally accepted graduate degree (Master’s or Doctoral) plus the valuable experience of living in another country. Eligible countries include South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The current application deadline is January 1, 2018 for study starting in September 2018

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la deuxième conférence de notre onzième Rentrée scientifique du CERCLECAD 2017/2018, ce samedi le 28 octobre 2017, comme d’habitude à 15H00, dans la salle C 119, du Pavillon Tabaret de l’Université d’Ottawa, située au 550, Cumberland.

La Conférence sera donnée et modérée par le Professeur Benoît Awazi Mbambi Kungua, Président du CERCLECAD: Docteur en Philosophie de l’université Paris IV-Sorbonne (avec une thèse en phénoménologie : Donation, Saturation et Compréhension. Phénoménologie de la donation et phénoménologie herméneutique : Une alternative ?, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2005, dirigée par le professeur Jean Luc Marion de l’Académie française) et titulaire d’un DEA en Théologie de l’université de Strasbourg, Benoît AWAZI MBAMBI KUNGUA focalise ses recherches pluridisciplinaires sur la quête d’un leadership éthique, intellectuel, prophétique et réticulaire, pour l’éclosion effective d’une « Autre Afrique », celle qui marche, fière, digne et debout, vers l’édification d’un avenir prospère pour ses populations malmenées par la crise économique dite pompeusement « mondiale ». Il est l’actuel président du Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur les Communautés d’Afrique noire et des diasporas (Cerclecad, www.cerclecad.org) basé à Ottawa, au Canada. Parmi ses ouvrages, signalons : Panorama de la Théologie négro-africaine contemporaine, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002 ; Donation, Saturation et Compréhension. Phénoménologie de la donation et phénoménologie herméneutique : Une alternative ?, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2005 ; Panorama des Théologies négro-africaines anglophones, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2008 ; Le Dieu crucifié en Afrique. Esquisse d’une Christologie négro-africaine de la libération holistique, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2008 ; De la Postcolonie à la Mondialisation néolibérale. Radioscopie éthique de la crise négro-africaine contemporaine, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2011. Son dernier ouvrage paru est : Déconstruction phénoménologique et théologique de la modernité occidentale : Michel Henry, Hans Urs von Balthasar et Jean-Luc Marion, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2015. Son prochain ouvrage a pour titre : Le Tournant prophétique des théologies négro-africaines contemporaines. De l’Auto- Performativité de la Deutérose, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2017.

Un moment de convivialité et de réseautage autour de beignets, de brochettes, de liqueurs et du vin, clôturera dans la joie notre conférence.