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• Prof Cheeseman discusses Trump and the prospects for electoral violence with the New York Times
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• What’s Distinctive About the Mess Jacob Zuma Has Made - NY Times Article by Prof. Jonny Steinberg
• The Governor of Kaduna State was at the African Studies Centre to declare that 'Nigeria requires a new elite consensus'
• Chief Aare Babalola discussing sustainable education in Post-colonial African States at the African Studies Centre
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• Is Britain Still Relevant to Africa?
• ASC Alumnus publishes Dissertation in JEAS
• Professor David Pratten presents showcase at the British Academy
• The British Academy Summer Showcase: Dr. Zoe Cormack on arts in South Sudan
• Mr Anthony Kirk-Greene (1925 – 2018)
• A.H.M Kirk-Greene: Tributes
• Call for papers - Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and the African Diaspora
• African Studies Centre to Inaugurate International Advisory Board
• Ivor Agyemang-Duah appointed to University of Oxford's Africa Board
• Beit Postgraduate Scholarships now available at African Studies
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• Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowships 2017
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• Dr Janey Messina joins SIAS
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• Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
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• SIAS Winter Newsletter
• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 22nd Feb 2018 – University Deadline 23rd March 2018)
• Newton International Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 1st March 2018)
• The Robin & Nadine Wells Scholarship
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018/2019 - Expression of Interest Deadline 31/08/2018
• Seminar: ‘Knowledge production in colonial and post-colonial history’
• New DPhil in Area Studies Launched at Oxford
• Modern South Asian Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term Week 7: West Africans in World War 2 India (Oliver Coates, Cambridge)
• Militant Masks: Youth and Insecurity in the Niger Delta
• Film Screening - Life is Wonderful: Mandela's Unsung Heroes
• Book Launch: Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment
• Just announced: AfOx-ASC Fellowship
• Anthony Kirk-Greene Memorial
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• ASC Seminar - Student Activism in an Era of Decolonisation
• Nigeria in Transition Workshop – Call for Papers
• Making a Difference on the African Continent: Reflections from Zimbabwe (Book Launch)
• ASC Seminar - What's in a Label? Western Donors’ Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau
• ASC Seminar - Unmasking Africana in British Art
• ASC Seminar - Public Health and Gender: Assumptions, Disjunctures in Practice, and Implications for HIV Prevention within Marriages in Kenya
• ASC Seminar - The Politics of Distribution in Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
• ASC Seminar - Observations and Reflections from Overland Expeditions across Western, Southern and Eastern Africa
• ASC Seminar - Minority Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Expected Divergence
• Nigeria in Transition: Panel on the Nigerian Elections
• Horn of Africa: The politics of performative violence in Mogadishu: new media and spatial struggles for Somali sovereignty
• South Africa Discussion Group: The Crisis in South African Higher Education: thoughts from a war zone
• African Studies Seminar: Teaching Africa
• South Africa Discussion Group: Mapping Xenophobic Violence: Dangers, Pitfalls and Ways Forward
• Lunchtime event: Monrovia Football Academy
• African Studies Seminar: Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: How Sedentarist and Nomadic Metaphysics Simultaneously Challenge and Reinforce (Dual) Citizenship Claims for Liberia
• South Africa Discussion Group: Genealogies of intersectionality: theorising race, class, gender and sexuality in South Africa
• Symposium: Drugs, Politics and Society in the Global South
• Horn of Africa: Panel discussion - The changing faces of Ethiopia’s “rural” communities: evidence from Ethiopia WIDE
• South Africa Discussion Group: Is the decline of the ANC really such a good thing? Politics after the end of one-party dominance
• African Studies Seminar: ‘Mau Mau and Rastafari: Kenya’s War in Jamaica at the End of Empire
• Horn of Africa: Modernist architecture and the global politics of heritage management: the case of Asmara, Eritrea
• South Africa Discussion Group: An unarmed Struggle: The ANC's battle for health in exile
• African Studies Seminar: The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991
• Horn of Africa: Power, contested institutions and land: repoliticising analysis of natural resources, conflict and peacebuilding in Darfur
• South Africa Discussion Group: Is voter turnout higher if people know an election is close? Experimental evidence from the Johannesburg 2016 elections
• South Africa Discussion Group: They go out to be seen": space, place and recognition in Johannesburg nightclubs
• African Studies Seminar: Cholera and the Politics of Disposability in Harare's High-Density Townships
• South Africa Discussion Group: The unravelling of the ANC
• African Studies Seminar: ‘Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa’
• African Studies Seminar: Book Launch: ‘The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa, 1960-1999’
• South Africa Discussion Group: A Forum for Reason: South Africa’s Constitutional Court
• African Studies Seminar: Understanding Zimbabwe: from Liberation to Authoritarianism
• Horn of Africa: Ethiopia and Eritrea: an enduring animosity? Discussion and book launch for Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s most repressive state
• South Africa Discussion Group: Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution in South Africa
• African Studies Seminar: “Clean my Chinese wife”: Intimacy and identity politics of Nigerian migrants in Southern China
• African Studies Seminar: Book Launch: Writing a new history for South Sudan: whose history and for whom?
• Horn of Africa: What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM): Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
• South Africa Discussion Group: The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist
• African Studies Seminar: Lagos temporalities: Negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony
• South Africa Discussion Group: History, biography - and how do you solve a problem like Mandela?
• African Studies Seminar: Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
• South Africa Discussion Group: Defining the Middle Class in South Africa - a vulnerability-based approach
• African Studies Seminar: Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
• Latin American Centre Seminars: Co-hosted with the African Studies Centre and the China Centre: The impact of China in developing countries: Latin America and Africa compared
• Horn of Africa: Discussion and book launch *POSTPONED*
• African Studies Seminar: Anthropology as Vulnerology? Reading Possibility into the City's Sutures
• Researching Africa Day: Studying Africa, Studying Anywhere: Area Studies for an Interconnected World
• Horn of Africa: Religion and ethnicity as venues of opposition in Ethiopia
• African Studies Seminar: Decolonial Citizenship: African Women’s Political Practices in Contested Spaces
• SIAS Careers Day
• Horn of Africa: “A people, united in struggle… is reborn”: Anya-Nya propaganda and Israel’s involvement in Sudan’s first civil war, 1969-1971
• African Studies Seminar: How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
• South Africa Discussion Group: The State of South Africa: A Discussion
• African Studies Seminar: An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
• African Studies Seminar: Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
• South Africa Discussion Group: Race and Non-Racialism in the Making of South Africa’s Democratic Order
• African Studies Seminar: Bars, Branches, Stereos and Choppers: Innovation in Election Campaign Technologies in Tanzania
• Consumerism and the Pragmatics of Race in the Making of Apartheid
• South Africa Discussion Group: From Party to Alliance: The Making of South Africa’s Opposition
• Reflections on studying and teaching law in a post-colonial world
• African Studies Seminar: From the Zariba to the Museum: Violence, Globalisation and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century South Sudan
• Book Launch: Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique
• Horn of Africa: Panel discussion: State Formation
• South Africa Discussion Group: “The Least Successful Guerrilla Army of all time”? Umkhonto we Sizwe and its historians
• Horn of Africa: Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
• South Africa Discussion Group: How to steal a city - factionalism and state capture in a metropolitan municipality
• African Studies Seminar: Urban spirituality in Central and Southern Africa
• Oxford Africa Annual Lecture: Dying to forget: History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa
• African Studies Seminar: Ndinga i Sinsu: A Quest for Kongo Art
• Horn of Africa: The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
• African Studies Seminar: Words and Deeds: African Migrants in Europe
• South Africa Discussion Group: The Glory Days of Morris Isaacson: The Rise and Decline of Soweto High Schools under Bantu Education
• African Studies Seminar: China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
• Special Event - Astor Lecture: Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?
• Professor Jane Guyer ''Pathways in Thought, Career, and Changing Times''
• Astor Lecture 2017: ‘Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties’
• Horn of Africa: Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
• South Africa Discussion Group: Comrades and Casspirs: Township Violence on the Rand, 1990-94
• African Studies Seminar: Economic globalisation, poverty and human trafficking in Nigeria
• Horn of Africa: The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
• Migration and the Ripple Effect: How Chinese Mobility Prompts African Mobility
• African Studies Seminar: The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia
• African Studies Seminar: Citizens for Justice; struggles against violence and predation in wartorn South Sudan
• Horn of Africa: Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
• South Africa Discussion Group: Transformative Tensions: The Possibilities and Limitations of Transforming the Lives of South Africa's Poor through the Constitution
• African Studies Seminar: Book Launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
• African Studies Seminar: Why is the Horn different
• South Africa Discussion Group: Update and discussion on land reform in South Africa with reflections on Zimbabwe
• African Studies Seminar: Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
• Modern Israel Studies Seminar: Israel/Africa: identity, culture and politics
• South Africa Discussion Group: Discussion on Zimbabwean politics - led by Miles Tendi and Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
• African Studies Seminar: Taking normative politics in Africa seriously: can we conceptualize "accessibility" as a political value? Case studies from Southwest Nigeria
• South Africa Discussion Group: The struggle for human rights in Zimbabwean mining
• African Studies Seminar: From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
• South Africa Discussion Group: Discussion on South African politics
• African Studies Seminar: Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
• Modern Israel Studies Seminar: Israel: India's Looking Glass - African Migration to Israel - Chronicle of a Failure Foretold
• South Africa Discussion Group: The productivity of unemployment in urban South Africa
• African Studies Seminar: Affective Communities: Letter Writing and Politics in Independent Kenya, 1963-75
• South Africa Discussion Group: 'State of Mind', a film and discussion on mental health in Zimbabwe - produced and led by Hopewell Chin'ono - CANCELLED in solidarity with the strike
• African Studies Seminar: 'The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of civic engagement - CANCELLED due to the severe weather conditions
• Researching Africa Day: Researching Africa Day 2018
• African Studies Seminar: Assessing the African human subject through social science experimentation and Randomized Control Trials CANCELLED in support with the UCU strike
• Tackling Governance, Development and Security Challenges in Nigeria - Public Lecture by Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria
• Horn of Africa: Horn of Africa seminar - Popular mobilization, protest
• Horn of Africa: Constitutionalism, ‘developmentalism’ and popular demands in Ethiopia: exploring the common denominator
• South Africa Discussion Group: UMTETELI WA BANTU AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIAL PUBLICS IN 1920S AND 1930S SOUTH AFRICA
• The Search for Sustainable Education in Post-colonial African States by Chief Afe Balalola
• African Studies Seminar: Three perspectives on Nigerian migration
• Horn of Africa: Support or subvert? Assessing devolution's effect on central power during Kenya's 2017 presidential rerun
• African Studies Seminar: The tree for living well: the socio-cultural significance of enset in southern Ethiopia
• Horn of Africa: Under construction: struggles over governance, labor and technology in urban Ethiopia
• African Studies Seminar: Uneven Accountability in the Wake of Political Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s Ashes and Archives
• Horn of Africa: Regional pastoral livestock trade and trends in the Horn of Africa
• South Africa Discussion Group: Patronage, power and political markets in South African municipalities
• Horn of Africa: Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics
• AfriSoc 60th Anniversary - Pan Africanism: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
• Oxford University Africa Society 60th Anniversary Celebration
• South Africa Discussion Group: ‘The Welfare Consequences of Labour Market Volatility: The South African Case’
• Talk by Chairman Stan Shih on Si-nnovation Island
• Art Heritage, Resilience and Humanitarianism in South Sudan
• South Sudan Museum Network
• Nigeria in Transition Workshop
• ASC Seminar - Book Launch: “The Act of Living. Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia
• The 2019 African Studies Annual Lecture
• Distinguished Speaker Seminar: H.E. John Mahama
• Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and African Diaspora Conference
• Book launch: Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
• Prof Manthia Diawara will be the ASC Annual Lecture speaker
• Marking the 25th Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
• Comparing the Copperbelt Research Seminar
• ASC Seminar
• Guest Lecture by Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, 6th President of Mauritius
• Talk by Dr Max Price
• Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and African Diaspora Conference
• Conversation with the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
• Democracy and elections in contemporary Africa - article on the visit of Former President Mahama
• President Mahama's visit in Nigerian newspapers
• ASC 2022 Newsletter
• Talk by Prof Marwala, Vice Chancellor, University of Johannesburg
• David Damtar
• Statement on the Racialisation Conference
• ‘Remembering Rwanda’ wins University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Award for outstanding public engagement with research
• Protecting Our Oceans: The Seychelles Experience
• African Studies Seminar- Ruth First's Red Suitcase:In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory. Book Launch: Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
• African Studies Seminar-Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria
• African Seminar Studies. Book launch of State and Society in Nigeria
• African Studies Seminar- Rethinking (Post-) Work through Racial Capitalism
• African Studies Seminar- Ethnography for Digital Natives? Rethinking Form and Content in a New Text on Contemporary Angola
• African Studies Seminar- Making Theory from the Periphery: Notes from a Practical Attempt to Decolonise Research
• African Studies Seminar- Book Launch: Shadows of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the ANC, 1943 to 1996
• African Studies Seminar-Forgetting Westgate?Rectified Sites of Violence and Politics of Memory in East Africa's ' War on Terror'
• 20 Years of Democracy in Nigeria: 1999-2019
• Dr Tunde Decker
• Liz Fouksman's new interview at Open Democracy
• Danny Faure President of Seychelles Speaks at St Antony's College as part of the African Leaders Lecture Series of the African Studies Centre
• Miles Tendi published "The Motivations and Dynamics of Zimbabwe’s 2017 Military Coup" in African Affairs
• Marcia C. Schenck
• Film Screening: Swallow - Food Security in Nigeria's Changing Climate
• Miles Tendi published "From Zimbabwe to Bolivia: what makes a military coup?" in The Conversation
• A Post-Anthropocentric Politics: Can Neo-Materialist Theory Provide Effective Solutions To the Problems of Global Mining
• African Classics: Translating texts, translated contexts
• "20 Years of Democracy in Nigeria: 1999-2019" Conference event
• Miles Tendi published "Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements"
• Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia. (Winner of the 2019 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year)
• Book Launch: The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Solomon Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker
• Can Technology Facilitate Justice for Crimes Against Humanity? A Case Study on Digital Evidence in the DRC
• Mozambique Elections 2019: Pernicious Polarization and Democratic Decline
• Researching Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Impact, Analysis and Challenges
• Nairobi in the Making: Landscape, Time and Urban Belonging
• Political Economists, Dollars and the Strategic Power of Business in Sudan
• Broken Cities: an Africanist View on the Global Housing Affordability Crisis
• The Future of Area Studies Roundtable
• Professor Miles Tendi has published the book "The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe"
• 50th Anniversary of the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Theodor Herzl’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - Africa and Africans in Early Zionist Thought
• Dr Portia Roelofs
• Statement on Recent Events
• The African Studies Centre offers condolences to Mr Alex Duncan
• Historical Appendix to the Report of the Oriel College Commission on the Rhodes legacy
• Dean of Oxford Saïd Business School, Peter Tufano and ASC’s Director, Wale Adebanwi, interview Sudanese-British billionaire businessman, Dr Mo Ibrahim, on Africa and the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Nigerian Rail Heritage: Past, Present, Future e-Exhibition
• Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
• Technocracy, Populism and good governance: what Nigeria can teach us about the global crisis of democracy
• Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya
• Maryam Aslany
• (Un)dressing the nation: Power, Dress and Sexuality in Malawian Popular Art
• Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana
• Lawino's People: The Acholi of Uganda by Okot p'Bitek, Frank Knowles Girling
• South Africa After the Rainbow
• Tomáš Žák
• Through Wind and Ice: Communicating the Climate Crisis
• His Highness Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
• Anthropology After Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations
• Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share
• Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
• An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War
• The History of Public Preaching and Public Sound in Northern Nigeria
• The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
• Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
• The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
• Oxford Minds Lecture - Power: how does it work in the global economy?
• Big Tent Live Event: Prof Homi K. Bhabha
• No Upcoming Events
• Comparing the Copperbelt project: ‘Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities’
• African Studies Centre Annual Lecture. From Below: New Youth Politics in Africa
• **** CANCELLED*** The Struggle for Gender Equality in South Africa’s Road to Democracy
• War, Memory and Poetry
• Researching Africa at the Foreign, Commonwealth
• The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar
• Book Launch: Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocractic State
• *** CANCELLED *** Continuity and Change in USA-Africa Policy
• Idi Amin and the Idea of Africa
• Call for papers: Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop
• Guy Futi, DPhil in Area Studies (Africa) publishes along with Jamie McLeod 'Covid-19 Impact on E-Commerce Africa by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa'
• Conference: Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa
• 'Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa' edited by Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock
• Rui S Verde
• Professor Jonny Steinberg
• Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
• Joanna Nayler, MSc in African Studies (2016-2017) has published in JEAS
• Nomtha Gray, MSc in African Studies (2018-2019) has published in Review of African Political Economy Journal
• African Studies Awards 2020-2021
• Honorary Research Associate
• Geoff Coombs (MSc. 2016) has recently launched NshoNam
• Wale Lawal (MSc 2018-19) publishes new issue of Republic
• Professor Wale Adebanwi
• 'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt'
• African Studies Centre Research Seminars Michaelmas Term 2021 Term Card
• African Studies Centre Research Seminars: ‘No Longer the Sunshine City’: Economic Informalisation and the Crisis of Urban Modernity in Harare, Zimbabwe
• African Studies Centre Research Seminars: 'Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese concession (1911-1940)'
• Rethinking Area Studies: Examining the role of African Studies in the Global North
• African Studies Research Seminar: Moral economy and beyond: Gold, gold mining, and contesting mineral wealth in mid-twentieth century Asante (Ghana)
• African Studies Research Seminar: Security Issues in Southern Africa
• Stephen Embleton named inaugural James Currey Fellow
• New book published: The Arc of the Possible: A Memoir by Waziri Adio
• African Studies Research Seminar: Colonial Niger Delta and Intra-Regional Conflicts in Selected Nigerian Plays
• African Studies Research Seminar: Instrumentalising disorder as political practice: Digital performances and politics in Kenya
• African Studies Research Seminars: Geographies of Resistance and Repression in Cameroon
• CANCELLED:African Studies Research Seminars: From Internet Stoppage to Cybercriminals: The Nexus of Infrastructural Harm and Political Violence in Cameroon
• Webinar with Miles Larmer and Sacha Hepburn
• Bright Gyamfi , MSc in African Studies (2016-2017) has published in JAAH
• More events next term
• Hilary Term 2022 Term Card
• African Studies Research Seminar: Extractives in Turkana, Kenya
• African Studies Research Seminar: Activism and Researching Activism - Protesting Policing in Nigeria
• African Studies Research Seminar: Youth Mobilisation in the 2021 Zambian Election
• African Studies Research Seminar: Women’s Rights Activism in South Africa and Zimbabwe
• African Studies Centre Seminar: Queer Politics
• Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Covid-19
• Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Corruption
• Tinashe Mushakavanhu
• The African Writers Series and the Future of African Writing
• Stephen Embleton
• James Currey Society Event
• Jonathan Jackson
• Awake in The Place Where Women Die: Reflections on Representations of Emotional and Physical Violence
• Radio in Southern Africa: Past and Present
• African Studies Centre Annual Lecture
• Sonny Iroche
• Mads Yding
• MSc African Studies 2021-22 Prize Winners
• James Currey Literary Festival
• ASC Seminar Series Termcard MT22
• Redesigning Democracy
• African Studies Research Seminar - Week 1
• 'A very British Way of Torture': Film Screening and Discussion with Professor David Anderson
• African Studies Seminar - Week 3
• Book Launch: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa. The National Peace Accord 1991-1994
• African Studies Seminar - Week 4
• African Studies Seminar - Week 5
• African Studies Seminar - Week 6
• African Studies Seminar - Week 8
• Student Cohort 2021-22 Photos
• African Studies Seminar Week 1
• Democracy and Human Rights in The Gambia Since 2017
• African Studies Seminar Week 2
• African Studies Seminar Week 3
• African Studies Seminar Week 7
• African Studies Seminar Week 8
• The Art of Adaptation: Collaboration Across Literature, Music, Film
• Challenges To Democracy In West Africa: Ghana's Role In Regional and International Cooperation
• Mitterand Okorie
• Rui Aristides Lebre
• Ghana’s gold mining industry and communities – cooperation with Ghana Gold Expo
• Human Security and Democracy in Ghana and West Africa
• Male Health and Wellbeing in Harare, Zimbabwe: A historical and gendered analysis of urban sexual Health
• ASC Annual Lecture - On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy
• African Studies Centre Newsletter 2024
• ASC Annual Lecture 2023 - On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy
• Dr Matthew Bunce
• MSc Prize Winners 2022-23
• Michaelmas 2023 Termcard
• African Studies Research Seminar: Disinformation on a Shoestring - Examining the Anatomy and Strategies of the Pro-State Network in the Zimbabwean Twitterverse
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• African Studies Research Seminar - Understanding the Cultural Cost of Development in South Africa
• African Studies Research Seminar - The Trouble with ‘Agency’, and How to Use the Concept More Specifically
• African Studies Research Seminar - Infrastructuring Freetown: Wharf and Railway in the Making of a Colonial Port City
• African Studies Research Seminar - When Fear is a Policy: The Angolan Case
• African Studies Research Seminar - Book launch for Beyond the Horizons: Chipembi School Blazes the Trail for Girls Education and Empowerment in Zambia (Gadsden, 2023)
• African Studies Research Seminar - Reincarnation of the Ófó̩ (Incantation) Genre in Nigerian Cinema
• CANCELLED
• Northeast Africa Forum Seminar
• Dr Raja Adnan Razzaq
• Events Assistant
• Dr Marion Wallace
• African Studies Research Seminar - week 1
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 2
• African Studies Research Seminar Term Card
• African Studies Research Seminar: Joint event with North East Africa Forum - 'Ethiopia's 'Developmental State': Political Order and Distributive Crisis' (Book launch)
• African Studies Research Seminar: The Politics of Past Visions: Decolonization, historical praxis and Ghana's celluloid film archive
• African Studies Research Seminar: African Diplomacy: Past and Present
• African Studies Research Seminar: 'Winnie and Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage'
• African Studies Research Seminar: African Literature and Cancel Culture: The Algorithmic Age of Personality
• African Studies Research Seminar: Testing for “Genuine Revolutionary Leaderships”: China’s Support of Liberation Struggles in Congo and Angola (1960-1966)
• Dr Miles Tendi
• DJ Cuppy on her Cuppy Africa Scholars Fund
• Call for Papers: Broadcasting Colonialism Conference
• African Studies Centre: Use of cookies on this website
• Lisa Kwaleyela
• ASC Annual Lecture 2024
• Amy Crane
• Guy Futi
• Professor Rebekah Lee
• Dr Doris Okenwa
• Dr Carli Coetzee
• Emma Davies
• Broadcasting Colonialism: Sight, Sound and Media Technologies in the Colonial World
• Statement on the Death of Professor Wendy James FBA
• ASC Annual Lecture 2024 – ‘Transnational Feminism in an Age of Genocide’
• Peter Brooke
• Northeast Africa Forum Seminar Series - Borderlands in focus: insights & reflections on the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia borderlands through the lens of a peace & stability programme
• Northeast Africa Forum Seminar Series - Oromo & Somali social & political movements in Ethiopia’s post-Meles era
• Northeast Africa Forum Seminar Series - The road (not) taken: infrastructure & sovereignty in the Horn of Africa
• Northeast Africa Forum Seminar Series - Book launch & discussion: The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 1 - Book talk: The African in the Making of Cuban Art
• Brittany Pembroke
• Oliver Bourton
• Meret Weber
• Jasper Gentry
• Floris Gast
• Ivan Mahoney
• Ryan Cauwenberghs
• Tom Chaloner
• Zoditu Schwind
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 2 - Book talk: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 3 - Philanthropy, Business Elites and New Forms of Political Contention in West and Central Africa
• Welcome to Dr Michael Odijie
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 4 - Book talk and launch: Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 5 - Fashion Designers as Lead Firms from Below: Creative Economy, State Capitalism and Internationalization in Lagos and Nairobi
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 6 - An Ordinary Fetishism: Scepticism and Social Creativity in Ousmane Sembene’s Xala
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 7 - Book talk and launch: British Royal Visits and Black Loyalism in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa
• African Studies Research Seminar Week 8 - From the Ground Up: Central Africa’s Copperbelt Agenda for its Minerals
• Saskia Fredericks
• Beracah Agwang
• Biraanu Gammachu
• Dr Michael Ehis Odijie
• Lena Reim
• Rainier Pilotte
• CALL FOR PAPERS: COLLECTED VOLUME - Broadcasting Colonialism: Radio, Television and Empire
• Wale Adebanwe, Senior Research Associate and former ASC Director, publishes new book
• Chiyedza Zunzanyika
• Kuln'Zu Zucule
• Ziyi Yan
• Fatuma Ahmed
• Nana-Saa Kessie
• Kendi Juma
• African Studies Centre Annual Newsletter
• Nyasha Mukonoweshuro
• Annie Gishen
• Ellie Price
• Elebetel Assefa
• Phoebe McMahon
• Mohamed Muse
• Tobi Moronfolu