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Islamic Africa Seminar: Book Discussions

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The Islamic Africa Seminar will be discussing the book Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria and the introduction of Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks. Please join us for a fruitful discussion on Muslim...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Lessons for Central Asia

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Lessons for Central Asia Before the Belt and Road Initiative became the heart of Chinese foreign engagement, China was already active in Africa. The lessons it learned in building railways, ports, and diplomatic...

Ctr. for African Studies: Careers in Africa Panel and Mixer

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Undergraduates are invited to enjoy food from the African continent as we hear from a diverse guest panel who have worked in various African countries. An informal mixer, following the panel discussion, will offer an excellent opportunity to continue...

Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Pre-Modern Eastern Africa

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On Tuesday, 12th October at 5pm in Sever 113, Prof. Kusimba will deliver a lecture, “Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Pre-Modern Eastern Africa”. What is the relationship between technological innovation and urbanism in Eastern and...

South Africa Partners: Mandela Day at the Massachusetts State House

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More information please visit: https://www.sapartners.org/mandela-centenary. ORGANIZER: South Africa Partners

Designing the South: Emerging Accounts of Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Collaboration Between Africa and China

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Presenter: Seyram Avle, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst From the height of the copy-cat manufacturing years to the current era of big tech represented by the likes of Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, etc...

B.U. African Studies Center: Walter Rodney Seminars: "Pioneers of the Field: South Africa's Women Anthropologists"

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Boston University’s weekly Walter Rodney seminars are held Mondays in the B.U. African Studies Center. This week’s seminar features Andrew Bank, Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape, presenting "Pioneers of the Field: South Africa's...

CAS: African Studies Workshop - Foreign military aid in building postcolonial states in francophone West Africa 1958-1974.

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Riina Turtio has recently completed a PhD in International History at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Her PhD dissertation approached the wider topic of decolonization and state-building in francophone West Africa by analyzing Guinean, Ivoirian and...

History of Global Capitalism Seminar: Toby Green, "Africa and the Global History of Capitalism: Repairing a History of Omission"

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"Africa and the Global History of Capitalism: Repairing a History of Omission" Toby Green, Senior Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture, Kings College London Graduate Student Commentator: Oliver Lazarus, PhD Candidate, History of Science...

Harvard in West Africa Project seeks to expand Harvard’s presence in Ghana and Senegal

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Harvard in West Africa (A PIFIE-Funded Project) Through a three-year grant from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Education (2015-2017), the Harvard in West Africa Project seeks to expand Harvard’s presence in Ghana and Senegal, two...

Hutchins Center: "Where There is Fire, There is Politics": Material Life and Ungovernability in Urban South Africa | Kerry Chance

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Kerry Chance Independent Scholar in Anthropology Fellow’s Bio "Where There is Fire, There is Politics": Material Life and Ungovernability in Urban South Africa Free and open to the public.

Ctr. for African Studies: The Problem of Widows: Making and Unmaking Marriage in Rural West Africa

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Joanna Davidson is an Assistant Professor at Boston University. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include cultural conceptions of knowledge, anthropological engagements with development, and the politics of storytelling. Dr...