Eye on Africa
March 23rd, 2023
Dr. Namoin Yao-Baglo
Challenges and Prospects of Public Communication in Africa: the Case of Togo
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African Tea Time
March 30th, 2023
Multi-African Countries
Global China and U.S Strategic Interests in Africa
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Newest Azikiwe Fellows Announced
African Studies Center congratulates Yetunde Alebede (Ph.D. Candidate, Curriculum Instruction and Teacher Education) and Edith Gondwe (Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources) for winning the Nnamdi Azikiwe Fellowship. The Nnamdi Azikiwe Fellowship supports international African students travel to Africa for research. The award honors former Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, a scholar and politician who led Nigeria as its first president and who invited MSU faculty to join him and other Nigerians to build a land-grant model university in Eastern Nigeria which became the University of Nigeria at Nsukka.
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Multidimensional Impacts of Environmental Change in African Great Lakes: Livelihoods, Nutrition, Gender and Trade
March 24, 2023
This AAP Dialogue between brings together AAP members and partners to identify and discuss shared problems and opportunities in order to tackle challenges common in African fisheries. The aim of this dialogue therefore is to stimulate cross border interdisciplinary thinking to tackle shared problems in fisheries science among African Great Lakes researchers and to enhance research capacity and problem solving for inland fisheries in Africa. Panelists include researchers from various universities in eastern and southern Africa, USA and the UK who have dedicated their careers to understanding Africa’s inland fisheries and addressing the challenges faced by people and ecosystems that depend on them. Register at this link
China's Foreign Aid and Investment in Africa
March 24, 2023
China has become a source of significant aid, investment, and loans for countries across the African continent. Chinese funds back a wide range of projects from transportation infrastructure to energy and minerals, medicine, agriculture, and telecommunications. How should we assess Chinese activities in Africa? Are they impacting development and economic transformation in African countries or do the critiques of exploitation and debt trap diplomacy hold some validity? This expert panel will examine the tools through which China’s economic ties to Africa are deepening and unpack the nuances of Chinese aid and investment on the continent. Reference flyer for more information
Ambivalent Technologies: Danger, Medicine, and Maternity in Malawi
March 27, 2023
Anthropology Lecture Series description: "Policy makers forty years ago embraced “appropriate technologies,” affordable devices that could substitute for “gold standard” options in poorer places. In subsequent years, the idea has been modified, argued over, denounced, and widely put into practice. Drawing on fieldwork on maternal health care in Malawi, in this talk I make four arguments about healing technologies more generally: they displace responsibility; they mark their users; they heal and harm; they can reflect divergent interests. Technologies—appropriate or not—are ambivalent. I explore the utility of these arguments in the context of mailorder self-administered medication abortion, an appropriate technology now used widely for reproductive health." Reference flyer for more information
US and African Universities Engagement Day 1
March 27, 2023
Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) is hosting a Town Hall with Paul Zeleza, Associate Provost and North Star Distinguished Professor at Case Western Reserve University. This event will provide highlights of the US Strategy towards Sub-Saharan Africa and the role that Universities and initiatives like the AAP as a US-Africa University network could play in the implementation of the strategy. The implications of expanding the AAP network to include other US and African universities will also be discussed. Register at this link
US and African Universities Engagement Day 2
March 28, 2023
Day 2 of this Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) event is a dissemination workshop (Virtual Dissemination Workshop: Diverse Black Africa (DBA) Program) for the teams that are part of the first cohort of the Diverse Black Africa (DBA) program, established in 2021 by AAP with funding from the Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion to increase the collaboration between Black faculty and administrators at MSU with African colleagues. The teams are expected to share their research, teaching, exchange, and outreach activities and discuss strategies for expanding their work. Register at this link
Digital Technologies, the Environment and the Global South
March 31, 2023
Information and Media Ph.D. Speakers Series presents Digital Technologies, the Environment and the Global South, a lecture by Hopeton Dunn, Professor of Communications Policy and Digital media at the University of Botswana. Friday March 31 in Com 145 at 11:00am EST. Reference flyer for more information
Symposium on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Africa: the History and Current Status of LGBTQ+ in Kenya
April 19, 2023
This event is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center and College of Arts and Letters and will involve two guest speakers from Kenya, i.e. Dr. Babere Chacha (Laikipia University) and Dr Mumbi Machera (University of Nairobi). Dr. Jonathan Choti will co-host the event alongside Dr. Danny Mendez of the Department of Romance and Classical Studies. Reference flyer for more information
STIAS Fellowship
Deadline: April 30, 2023
Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Study (STIAS) provides and maintains an independent ‘creative space for the mind’ to advance the cause of science and scholarship across all disciplines. It is global in its reach and local in its African roots, and values original thinking and innovation in this context. No restriction is placed on the country of origin, discipline, or academic affiliation when STIAS considers a fellowship invitation. It encourages the cross-pollination of ideas and hence gives preference to projects that will tap into, and benefit from, a multi-disciplinary discourse while also contributing unique perspectives to such a discourse. This interaction is fostered by inviting individual fellows or project teams where each team member is evaluated individually. Learn more about this fellowship
OISS Coffee Hour
Every Friday, 4-6pm EST
Spartan Rooms B&C International Center
Join the Office for International Students and Scholars for Coffee Hour, a free event where students, staff, faculty, and community members gather to connect over coffee each week. Different hosts offer educational programs, information on how to get involved on campus, and fun activities that change throughout the year.
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Student Groups & Activities
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Mosaic Multicultural Unity Center
The Mosaic Multicultural Unity Center is dedicated to uniting Spartans across difference. We offer physical space and engaged learning experiences where more purposeful interaction across difference can take place.
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African Media Program
Database of audio-visual materials and education services
africanmedia.msu.edu
Archive of Malian Photography
Digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali
amp.matrix.msu.edu
Overcoming Apartheid
First-hand accounts of this important political movement
overcomingapartheid.msu.edu
Afripod
Podcast about African history, culture and politics
afripod.aodl.org
African Activist Archive Project 
Documents, photographs, artifacts, written and oral memories
africanactivist.msu.edu
African Online Digital Library
 Free universal access to cultural heritage materials
aodl.org
Africana Collection
African Studies at the MSU Library
libguides.lib.msu.edu/africa
Exploring Africa
High quality African resources for students and educators
exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu
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Center Funding Opportunities
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Curriculum Development Grants ($3,000 summer stipends): to support faculty interested in developing a new course or seminar related to Africa or revising an extant course or seminar to include at least 25% of Africa content.
Curriculum Enhancement Grants ($1,000): for purchase of Africa related curricular materials, payment of guest speakers.
Conference Travel Grants ($1,000): to support Africanist Faculty for conference expenses.
Special Programming Grants (amount varies): to bring a guest speaker; host a panel discussion; plan a social event etc.
Strategic Partnership Grants (amount varies): to strengthen strategic partnerships with universities and other institutions of higher education and research in Africa. (a 20% matching funds from applicants' deans or department chairpersons is required).
Global IDEAS: Global Innovations in Development, Engagement, and Scholarship curates external funding opportunities for international research from a comprehensive suite of sources, along with our knowledge of the donor landscape. These opportunities are compiled in one weekly email newsletter, available only to MSU faculty, staff and students.
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