{"id":11623,"date":"2018-03-05T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:15","slug":"carleton-hosts-major-african-studies-conference-march-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2018\/carleton-hosts-major-african-studies-conference-march-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Hosts Major African Studies Conference on March 1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Hosts Major African Studies Conference on March 1-2\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By Tyrone Burke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When tanks rolled through Harare in November 2017, Zimbabwe\u2019s generals insisted it wasn\u2019t a coup. But it sure looked like one. After 37 years in power, Robert Mugabe \u2013 once a revolutionary who liberated Zimbabwe from white minority rule \u2013 was ousted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in February, South African President Jacob Zuma was forced from office. Did it herald a transformative moment in southern African politics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See more <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2018\/02\/27\/carleton-hosts-major-african-studies-conference-on-march-1-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyrone Burke When tanks rolled through Harare in November 2017, Zimbabwe\u2019s generals insisted it wasn\u2019t a coup. But it sure looked like one. After 37 years in power, Robert Mugabe \u2013 once a revolutionary who liberated Zimbabwe from white minority rule \u2013 was ousted. Then in February, South African President Jacob Zuma was forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11624,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions\/11624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}