Tuesday, September 9, 2025The Transformative Power of African KnowledgeBy Dan Rubinstein Photos by Brenna Mackay Carleton University’s new partnership with South Africa’s University of Zululand is much more than a formal agreement to work on research projects together. The two universities, whose leaders signed a memorandum of understanding in a ceremony on the Carleton campus on Sept. 3, are unlocking the... MoreMonday, July 21, 2025Carleton Expands Research and Educational Partnerships in AfricaBy Dan Rubinstein A delegation from Carleton University visited South Africa and Uganda in late May on a partnership building trip — a significant step towards Carleton’s goal of expanding international research and educational collaborations and an acknowledgement of Africa’s increasing importance on the global stage. The trip embodies... MoreWednesday, July 16, 2025Daystar University’s School Of Communication hosts a live seminar on post-colonialism, youth agency and creative writingSoc Students and Faculty flanking Prof. Otiono after the seminar By Leeroy Wuone [Nairobi Campus, Friday 27th June, 2025] On Thursday 26th June 2025, Prof. Nduka Otiono, a Nigerian Canadian creative writer led a live seminar on post-colonialism, youth agency and creative writing for Communication students taking Audio Production course at the... MoreTuesday, May 27, 2025Voices of the African Diaspora: Building the Africa We WantI remember the red soil of Tamale, my hometown in Ghana and our elders’ stories of past kingdoms. Years later, I stood on Carleton University’s campus in Ottawa, a humble student carrying those African dreams. In the cold Canadian winter, as I studied Economics far from home, I realized that being African in Canada... MoreFriday, April 4, 2025Carleton University and Partners Organize Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Restorative Development in AfricaFrom May 20-22, 2025 hundreds of scholars, community elders, youth leaders and other stakeholders in the development community will converge at the Imperial Beach and Resort Hotel, Entebbe for the maiden edition of the International Conference on Indigenous knowledge systems and restorative development in Africa. The conference is being organized... MoreTuesday, March 11, 2025Cati Coe awarded SSHRC funded Open Research Area 8 (ORA 8) AwardCati Coe has been awarded a major research award as a member of a multinational team of researchers under Open Research Area 8 (ORA 8) initiative coordinated by SSHRC in collaboration with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK).... MoreWednesday, February 26, 2025Celebrating Black History MonthCarleton Hosts a Conversation on Black Flourishing with President Wisdom Tettey In honour of Black History Month Carleton faculty, staff and students gathered for a thought-provoking discussion on Black flourishing in Canada. The event, Breaking Free from the Past and Advancing Black Flourishing in Canada: Some Reflections, featured an... MoreMonday, November 11, 2024QES: Giving West African Women ‘the room to write’QES: Giving West African Women ‘the room to write’ …Mentoring the Next Generation of Innovative Leaders and Community Builders By Segun Fatuase ‘Fear the female gender’ has gone beyond a wise-crack, going by the leaps and feats women are achieving on the African Continent and globally these days. It is now trite to echo... MoreMonday, September 9, 2024Carleton University hosts Mastercard Foundation Research TeamCarleton University hosts Mastercard Foundation Research Team Carleton University recently hosted key members of the Mastercard Foundation Research, Learning, Knowledge and Impact Evaluation team at the office of the Vice President, Academic, Professor Pauline Rankin. The meeting afforded the opportunity for the two organizations to review the... MoreTuesday, August 6, 2024African communities have a lot of knowledge to shareAfrican communities have a lot of knowledge to share: researchers offer alternatives to Eurocentric ways of doing things The dominance of western methodology in research conducted in Africa continues to preoccupy academics. The result, they argue, has been the silencing of Indigenous knowledge. Indigenous ways of knowing are not making the... MoreThursday, July 25, 2024FLIGHT 302 LEGACY AWARDFLIGHT 302 LEGACY AWARD In memory of the victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed near Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, claiming the lives of all 157 people aboard. Victims represented 35 nationalities, including 18 Canadian citizens, as well as permanent residents and others with ties to... MoreThursday, July 25, 20242024 A.B.L.E Scholarship Program Application2024 A.B.L.E Scholarship Program Application Rose Fortune Scholarship-Peter Butler III Scholarships The Association of Black Law Enforcers (A.B.L.E.) is excited to partner with the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Provincial Police Association to host its 32nd Annual Scholarship and Awards Gala! A.B.L.E. created its Scholarship Program to... MoreMonday, June 3, 2024Nineteen scholars honour Carleton’s Professor Nduka OtionoNineteen scholars honour Carleton’s Professor Nduka Otiono In the heart of Ottawa, within the esteemed halls of Carleton University, Nduka Otiono is not merely a colleague, but a beacon of inspiration. His literary contributions have transcended borders; his words weave a tapestry of cultural understanding that has enriched us all. Recently,... MoreFriday, May 24, 2024Empowering African Youth Through Indigenous KnowledgeEmpowering African Youth Through Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous knowledge across Africa holds valuable insight into sustainable growth and development, yet has often been left out of mainstream discourse. In response, a groundbreaking partnership is underway to harness this wisdom and foster youth entrepreneurship in Indigenous communities. Led... MoreFriday, April 5, 2024Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba appointed as series editor of Anthem Impact in Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, the Principal Investigator of the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network, is appointed as series editor of Anthem Impact in Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development. This will allow the members of the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network (https://africaindigenousresearch.com/) and other academics to... MoreFriday, February 23, 2024Second Cohort of QES Advanced Scholars West Africa ProgramCarleton Announces the Second Cohort of QES Advanced Scholars West Africa Program Carleton University’s Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Advanced Scholars West Africa (QES-AS-WA) program is pleased to announce the selection of nine scholars for its second and final cohort in the current funding cycle. The selection of the nine distinguished West... MoreFriday, February 9, 2024Move as a collectiveMove as a collective Carleton PhD student Sarah George starts off a special issue on Black Radicalism for the Briarpatch magazine with an interview of decades-long activist Adrienne Coddett. George is a recent recipient of the Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and will continue to explore the experiences of African, Caribbean,... MoreFriday, February 9, 2024African Studies Alumni – Mugoli Samba, Editor, Apple NewsMugoli Samba, Editor, Apple News Having completed a combined undergraduate degree in Journalism and African Studies at Carleton in 2018, Mugoli Samba now works as an editor at Apple News, holds a Canadian Church Press Award, and received an honourable mention from the National Magazine Awards. Her reporting has appeared in the Globe and... MoreWednesday, February 7, 2024Indigenous knowledge and entrepreneurship in AfricaBreaking new grounds in research on Indigenous knowledge and entrepreneurship in Africa Riding on the wings of Indigenous knowledge, I am privileged to be leading a continental initiative to study how to unlock sustainable solutions for employment and entrepreneurship for African youths in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda in... MoreWednesday, February 7, 2024Sounding Indigenous in South AfricaSounding Indigenous in South Africa: Music and Performance Heritage in Khoisan Revival Dr. Lyndsey Copeland of Carleton University in Canada and Dr. Lee Watkins of Rhodes University in South Africa received a competitive grant from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to fund a collaborative research project... MoreMonday, February 5, 2024Inaugural Flight 302 Legacy AwardTwo Carleton Anthropology Ph.D. Students Receive the Inaugural Flight 302 Legacy Award The Institute of African Studies at Carleton University congratulates Carleton Anthropology PhD Students - Ugochukwu Okoye and Chikezirm Nwoke- who have been awarded the inaugural Flight 302 Legacy Awards. The scholarship, valued at $10,000, was established to... MoreFriday, August 18, 2023Institute of African Studies Emerging Scholar ConferenceThe Institute of African Studies is proud to announce the inaugural Emerging Scholar Conference in Canada, marking the first-ever gathering of its kind. This annual event aims to foster and develop an engaged intellectual community among undergraduate students, graduate students, emerging scholars, and community scholars in the fields of African... MoreFriday, August 18, 2023IAS Annual Newsletter – New IssueOn this occasion of the first anniversary of my appointment as Director of Carleton's Institute of African Studies (IAS), it gives me great pleasure to introduce this new issue of the IAS Newsletter designed as an annual round-up to keep readers abreast of notable activities, events, and developments within and around the... MoreFriday, August 4, 2023The coup in Niger – CTV News interview with Samuel Ojo OloruntobaIn this interview, Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies talks about the coup in Niger and the implication for democracy in the West African region of the Continent. He also talks about the recent ECOWAS ultimatum and threat to intervene. The coup in Niger: CTV News interviews Samuel Ojo... MoreMonday, July 31, 2023Ghana 2023 Study Abroad in picturesThis 2023 summer study abroad course titled Urban & Rural music in Community: Participatory music-making in Ghana was taught at the West African Cultural Exchange Centre in Dagbamete, which is founded and directed by Kwasi Dunyo. This course immersed students in the vibrant musical culture and community life in Dagbamete, an Ewe village in... MoreFriday, June 30, 2023Institute of African Studies Welcomes QES-AS-WA Scholars to CarletonThe Institute of African Studies at Carleton University is celebrating the long-awaited start of a new research acceleration project aimed at supporting West African women in academia. The project — titled Wurin ta na yin rubutu, which translates from Hausa to “her own room to write” — seeks to counter the institutional prejudice and... MoreMonday, June 12, 2023BGInS Students Travel to GhanaIt was an experience of a lifetime for 12 Carleton University students enrolled in the Institute of African Studies annual Study Abroad course, cross-listed this year with the music program’s experiential learning course, Urban and Rural Music in Community. The students say the 18-day adventure in Ghana has changed their worldview and they will... MoreTuesday, May 30, 2023Carleton’s Institute of African Studies Launches Collaborative PhD with Specialization in African StudiesBuilding on the success and mandate of the Institute’s research vision and sustained interest in graduate studies in the field of African Studies, we are excited to announce the commencement of the collaborative PhD with Specialization in African Studies. This program is a first of its kind at a graduate level in Canada. The... MoreMonday, April 17, 2023Professor Chambi Chachage wins Connection Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).Congratulations Professor Chambi Chachage on the Connection Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).... MoreSunday, February 26, 2023Institute of African Studies celebrates new home in Dunton TowerOn February 17, Carleton’s Institute of African Studies (IAS) welcomed faculty members, students and members of the university and broader Ottawa communities to celebrate a landmark moment. The launch event — which featured live music from the Institute’s own Instructor Kathy Armstrong and was attended by several High Commissioners of... MoreWednesday, February 1, 2023Celebrating Black History Month: Sarah George is Creating Safe Spaces for the Next GenerationSarah George is a student, staff member and instructor at Carleton. She was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in the United States and Canada. After earning her Bachelor of Arts at Mount Royal University, George joined Carleton’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, where she completed her master’s with specialization in African Studies and... MoreFriday, January 27, 2023The Launch of IAS’ New Space & the Pius Adesanmi Resource CentreWe are excited to invite you to the mini launch of our new IAS office on the 17th Floor of Dunton Tower with a get-together on Friday, February 17th. Date: February 17, 2023 Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Venue: DT 1728 The highlights of the evening include: Opening remarks by Dean of FASS, Prof... MoreTuesday, October 25, 2022Beyond Resettlement Conference ProgramSeptember 28, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the first group of Ugandan Asian refugees to arrive in Canada after being expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin. This was Canada’s first major resettlement of non-European and largely non-Christian refugees in the postwar period. To consolidate power in Uganda, after leading a military coup in 1971,... MoreTuesday, July 26, 2022Profs. Nduka Otiono and Audra A. Diptée appointed as Faculty Advisors on Anti-Black Racism and Black InclusionAs part of Carleton’s commitment to implement the Scarborough Charter, and in support of building faculty-specific initiatives, we are truly pleased to appoint Profs. Audra A. Diptée (History) and Nduka Otiono (African Studies) as Faculty Advisors on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion, effective July 1, 2022. Profs. Diptée and Otiono will... MoreFriday, June 17, 2022Dr. Nduka Otiono – New Director at IASDr. Nduka Otiono a beloved faculty member of the Institute of African Studies has been appointed the next Director of the Institute. The appointment takes effect on July 1, 2022 for a three-year term. This announcement was delivered by Prof. Pauline Rankin, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University. Reacting to the... MoreLoad More →