African Studies Centre
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African Studies Centre
The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on the continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal...
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The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar
In this seminar we hosted Antonia Witt of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Their lecture is titled The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention...
The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s We...
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: I...
The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolutio...
An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, as they d...
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled: Anusocrati...
Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department.
Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana
For this seminar we hosted George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). Professor Bob-Milliar's lecture is titled Presiden...
Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya
For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his research and fieldwork experiences with the Dagahale...
Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way in This Pa...
To the Volcano and Other Stories
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal affect our...
The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context
Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the fourth of five papers...
Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta
David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the third of five papers delivered at this...
Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt
Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the second of five papers delivered at this wo...
Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire
Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the first of five papers delivered at t...
Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria
Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria.
Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are...
Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also a...
The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch)
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio Marco Di Nunzio speaks about his new book, The Act of Living. The book explores the relation between development and...
Joao Lourenco's reform agenda in post Dos Santos Angola: Ambiguities and asymmetries
ASC seminar with Rui Verde
Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership
ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. Dr Max Price gives a topical lecture in Oxford about h...
The earth compels: Forces of destruction and creation in the history of African popular culture
Prof Karin Barber delivers keynote lecture for 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extr...
The politics of distribution in Ethiopia's 'developmental state'
ASC seminar by Tom Lavers A growing literature highlights the pursuit of 'double-digit growth' and industrialisation within the Ethiopian Peoples' Rev...
Public health and gender: Assumptions, disjunctures in practice, and implications for HIV prevention within marriages in Kenya
ASC seminar by Roseanne Njiru In Kenya, marriage is a significant contributor to adult HIV infections. Global public health acknowledges the relations...
What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau
ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo Abstract: This talk presents a critique of aid discourses of success and failure as the basis for intervention in...
Student activism in an era of decolonization
ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck launch the Africa special issue:...
When We Speak of Nothing (book launch and discussion)
ASC seminar by Olumide Popoola and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf. For the last seminar of Michaelmas Term, we were joined by author Olumide Popoola and publisher...
Burma Boys: World War II, memory and popular culture in central Nigeria
ASC seminar by Oliver Owen (Oxford) This ongoing research showcases oral history work with surviving Nigerian veterans of the British Army's 81 and 82...
Fashioning Africa at Brighton Museum
ASC seminar by Edith Ojo (Brighton based arts freelancer) & Nicola Stylianou (MoDa, Middlesex University) The Fashioning Africa project at Brighton M...
Making Somaliland: Popular culture, identity and national consciousness
ASC seminar by Yusuf Kajura Serunkuma (Makerere University) Exploiting the craft and aesthetics of popular culture—music, poetry, paintings, monuments...
Transactions: Revisiting how domination worked in colonial Africa
ASC seminar by Florence Bernault (Sciences Po)
Gender, Spectacle and Nation-making in Post-WWII Nigeria
ASC seminar by Judith Byfield (Cornell University). Byfield offers a riveting narrative of the unexpected convergence of interest between educated Chr...
IAB Inauguration and Lecture by Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
Prof Yemi Osinbajo inaugurates the ASC's new International Advisory Board with a lecture on 'The Challenges of Human Development in 21st Century Afric...
Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of Darfur
Suad Musa kicks off a new term of ASC seminars by launching her new book. Al-Hakkamat Baggara women hold an instrumental position in rural Sudan, wiel...
Democracy in Africa
Booklaunch of Democracy in Africa which provides the 1st comprehensive overview of the history of contemporary democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa and exp...
African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising?
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, gives the 2015 Annual Lecture for the African Studies Centre.
Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa
Joint Seminar of the African Studies Centre and Reuters Institute. Speakers; Catherine Gichuru (Editor, Nairobi Star, Kenya), Winston Mano (Westminste...
African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces
Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark, gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two exceptional spaces, name...