African Studies Annual Lecture
African Studies Annual Lecture
The African Studies Centre traditionally invites a distinguished academic to present the African Studies Annual lecture in Trinity term at St Antony’s College. On this page you can find further information and listen to podcasts of past annual lectures.
Annual Lecture 2018 - We are sorry to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances this event is cancelled.
Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (Vice Chancellor and Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the United States International University-Africa)
The Africa rising narrative-where now?
Investcorp Building Hall, St Antony's College, 8th June 2018
Annual Lecture 2017
Jacob Dlamini (University of Princeton)
Dying to forget: History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 16 June 2017
Annual Lecture 2016
Quman Akli (Research Fellow, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law)
Engineering a culture of constitutionalism: lessons from Somalia’s journey in constitution building
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 17 June 2016
Annual Lecture 2015
Winnie Byanyima (Executive Director of Oxfam)
Is Africa Rising? A Personal Reflection
St Antony's College
Annual Lecture 2014
Professor Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize Laureate)
Literature, the African Condition and My Life
The Sheldonian Theatre, 5 May 2014
Annual Lecture 2013
Professor Wale Adebanwi (UC-Davis)
‘What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony’
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Anthony’s College, 14 May 2013
Annual Lecture 2012
Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard)
"Diaspora and Spiritual Awakening: Religion and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Life of Kwame Nkrumah."
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 22 May 2012
Annual Lecture 2011
Professor Sarah Nuttall (University of Stellenbosch)
"City, Art, Motion: Rethinking the "Now" in Johannesburg"
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 26 May 2011
Professor Achille Mbembe (University of Stellenbosch)
"Worldliness, Citiness, Postcolonial Life and Thinking from the South"
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 26 May 2011
Annual Lecture 2010
Dr Jonny Steinberg (South African writer and scholar)
"Development as an Alien Culture: the purposes of governance in South Africa"
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 11 June 2010
Annual Lecture 2009
Professor Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University)
"Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal"
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 26 May 2009
Annual Lecture 2008
Professor Jean Comaroff (University of Chicago)
"Detective Fictions: in pursuit of sovereignty in the postcolony"
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 3 June 2008.
Annual Lecture 2015
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam
Is Africa Rising? A Personal Reflection
St Antony's College
