Track Changes: Debating Africa’s Needs
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) […]
March 2015
In the News: Higher Education in Africa
posted by Akosua Adomako Ampofo
An African Higher Education Summit was recently held in Dakar from March 10-12. The three-day continental summit focused on revitalizing higher education for Africa’s future. The […]
The Pretence of Neutrality: Religion and the Implementation of Programmes on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
by Brenda Bartelink
In the past decade sexuality has become a centre of contestation and cultural encounter between African and “Western” actors in African societies. Initially tied to contestations over the […]
Track Changes: Asking Questions about Gendered Representations of Culture, Religion and Violence
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) […]
Opportunities: Fellowship for Young African Women Leaders, CODESRIA Textbook Programme, and others
Call For Applications: 2015 MILEAD Fellowship For Young African Women Leaders
The Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa hereby announces its annual call for applications for the 2015 MILEAD […]
In the News: The U.S. Role in Somalia’s Ongoing Humanitarian Saga
posted by Bangirana Albert, Cilas Kemedjio, and Cecelia Lynch
George Monbiot, in a piece for The Guardian, with the incendiary title of “The careless, astonishing cruelty of Barack Obama’s government,” […]
The African Studies Association of Africa: Its Place in History and the Academy
In October 2015, the African Studies Association of Africa will host its first international conference at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria on the theme “African Studies in the Twenty-First Century: […]