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Thursday, April 28, 4-6pm CT, the Race, Caste and Colorism Project presents "Misalliance: Race, Caste, and the Rhetoric of Afro-Asian Comparison" with Tanya Agathocleous (english at Hunter College, at the City University of New York) and Janet Neary (english at Hunter College, at the City University of New York). Register at for this online event here. You can find the Plan-It-Purple link here.
Friday April 29, the Pan-African Students' Union meets 6:30 - 8pm in the African Studies Library (5 East Tower, Main) for the second session under the Political Education Series to continue to explore the tools that can enact change within the continent and the diaspora, with a focus on organizing. The discussion will be led again by PhD students, Patrick Owuor and Chernoh Bah, who both have experience in civic organizing. Please come and join us for what promises to be yet another thought-provoking discourse.
Northwestern undergraduates: The Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) continues to offer a virtual rendition of its programming in light of ongoing limitations to international travel. This is a unique hybrid opportunity to explore complex questions through coursework while simultaneously engaging in a meaningful internship in a virtual setting during fall quarter 2022. Students will take part in in-person coursework at Northwestern while completing a 15 hour/week remote internship in one of six country locations. Virtual internship locations include: Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Ghana, Uganda and Vietnam. Apply for Fall 2022 here, by May 1.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1:00-2:00 pm CDT (UTC -5) the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for an ISITA Diaglogues Series talk "Da'wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa" by Mara Leichtman (Michigan State University). This hybrid event will take place in person at Kresge Hall, Room 1515, Evanston. Register to participate on zoom here.

Congratulations to Amanda Logan (anthropology) on being named to the 2022 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Logan is a faculty affiliate of Weinberg’s African Studies program and environmental policy and culture program, as well as the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern. Her current research focuses on building an archaeology of food security that traces how, where and when chronic hunger emerged across the African continent. Read more about her and the award here.

Swahili Language Table will meet Mondays, 4-5pm in the Main Library's Video Theater Room. All levels of proficiency are welcome to come and use their skills! Meeting dates:
May 2
May 9
May 16
Image is of the installation piece "Nkata" (2015) by Nnenna Okore.
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 9:00 -11:00am CT (breakfast served) is a workshop dedicated to talking through big ideas, asking questions, and sharing new work in anticipation of the Global and Local Strategies of Twenty-First Century African Artists Symposium that will take place in fall 2022. During and following the workshop, participants will be encouraged to consider collaborative possibilities, either for scholarly or creative work, and to explore themes present in the upcoming symposium. Register here for this hybrid event.
Opportunities
Attention Northwestern Graduate Students: Apply for a Panofsky Award

More information available here.
Submission Deadline: May 9, 2022
 
CALL FOR PAPERS & PANELS: 15th Annual ASMEA Conference 
 
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2022
 
Call for Applications for the 2022 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies’ summer institute 

More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
CPF: The Ethics and Politics of Naming Names of Enslaved Africans in Digital Humanities
 
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
 
Other News and Events
Walter Rodney Seminar Series, Boston University African Studies Center 
Spring 2022, at 12:30 – 2:00pm Eastern Time  All events will be accessible via Zoom using this registration link.

May 2: “A Rebellion of Beans: Radical Black Ecologies of Crisis in the East of Congo,” Chérie Rivers Ndaliko (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
The Race, Religion and Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia presents the Virtual Conference: Religion and Democracy on the African Continent: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Possibilities on Saturday, May 7-8, featuring scholars of Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics, who will share their expertise on religion and democracy on the African continent. The event will feature a keynote address by Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University and author of the book, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, (Harvard University Press, 2020). The conference presentations will result in the publication of an edited volume to be made freely available next year.  Register here to join the event.
On Wednesday, May 11, 11am-12pm PDT, The Fowler Museum at UCLA invites you to Curator’s Choice: Beloved Ghana.  Betsy D. Quick, co-curator of ‘How Do You See This World?”: The Art of Almighty God; Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia; and Raymond Silverman, professor emeritus of history of art, African studies, and museum studies at the University of Michigan, join for a discussion of paintings that address Kwame Akoto's (aka Almighty God) affection for his Asante heritage, pride for his homeland, “Beloved Ghana,” and, more broadly, how such patriotism is manifest among Ghanaians today. Register here to receive a link to this online event.

"Maš(w)i a Ditoro (tsa Rona)" with works by the Batswana artist collective The Botswana Pavilion opens on Monday, 25 April 2022. "Maš(w)i a Ditoro (tsa Rona)" includes video, photomontage, sculpture, painting and photography by Sade Shoalane, LegwakanaLeo Makgekgenene, Kim Makin, Thebe Phetogo and Thero Makepe. The title of the show references the title of the 2022 Venice Biennale, "The Milk of Dreams," translated into Setswana and altered to "Milk of (Our) Dreams," highlighting a subjectivity that holds the possibility of different as well as collectively shared perspectives (real or imagined).

Visit the Sakhile&Me website for more information.

More Africa news and events:

TRIBUTES: Southwest governors pay tribute to late Alaafin of Oyo, Premium Times (Abuja), 24 April 2022

OBITUARY: Alaafin, the boxer who lost palace touch because of Fela’s mother, Daily Trust, 24 April 2022

Meet regal Alaafin’s first wife, Ayaba Abibat Nihinlola Adeyemi; how they met 65 years ago, Vanguard, 26 April 2022, 

TRIBUTE: Orlando Julius, Nigeria’s Afrobeat pioneer, lived for his art, The Conversation (Johannesburg), 22 April 2022

Mwai Kibaki: Kenyans.co.ke Obituary of a Man Who Loved Nyama Choma, Fashion & Defending His Wife, 22 April 2022

VIDEO: Former Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki dies aged 90 years, The East African (Nairobi), 22 April 2022

The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho, BBC, 27 April 2022

 ‘White hands’: The rise of private armies in African conflicts, Al Jazeera, 28 April 2022

Expert sounds alarm on fifth wave after Covid-19 curve turns upwards in SA, Daily Maverick (Johannesburg), 25 April 2022

Papa Wemba’s home transformed into museum, ZBBC (Lusaka), 25 April 2022

CAR: ‘Historic’ trial kicks off, but not without challenges, Al Jazeera, 25 April 2022

Kagame, Museveni hold bilateral talks in Uganda, The East African (Nairobi), 25 April 2022

Tanzania’s Maasai appeal to west to stop eviction for conservation plans, Guardian (London), 22 April 2022

Tribute to Yoruba god wins Rio's iconic carnival, BBC, 26 April 2022

Azmari: An Ethiopian Musician, Africa Direct Video, Al Jazeera, 27 April 2022

Nigerians react to Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, Al Jazeera, 27 April 2022

Right back at you: the Ugandan designer returning the west’s cast-offs, Guardian, 27 April 2022

Long list of unfinished business mars South Africa’s Freedom Day, The Conversation (Johannesburg), 26 April 2022

She defied the odds to lead the first all-women fishing cooperative. Now they stand to lose it all [Zimbabwe], CNN, 22 April 2022

MoMA celebrates a ground-breaking Ivorian artist who drew a new language, Quartz Africa, 25 April 2022

Yoruba kingship, culture and traditions; counteracting the “morbid symptoms”, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú, Premium Times (Abuja), 26 April 2022

Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Hits Democratic Republic of Congo, Again, Radio France Internationale, 26 April 2022

Africa: Extractive Projects Cause Irreparable Harm to Indigenous Cultures, Languages, Lives, Speakers Tell Permanent Forum, UN News, 25 April 2022

Nigerian Writer Chukwuebuka Ibeh Talks Craft and Influences with Gugu Mhulungu, Brittle Paper, 22 April 2022

Africanfuturist Author Nnedi Okorafor on Technology and Spirituality, Brittle Paper, 21 April 2022

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Pemi Aguda win 2022 O. Henry Prize, Brittle Paper, 20 April 2022

Arab Militia Kills Scores in Sweeping Attack in Sudan’s Darfur, New York Times, 24 April 2022

Binamungu showcases his new view of life and roots, The East African (Nairobi), 27 April 2022

Interrogating the marks of colonialism – A conversation between the works of art by Athi-Patra Ruga and Irma Stern, Daily Maverick (Johannesburg), 24 April 2022
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