Join the editors of '#AfricanStudies Now: Critical Approaches to Racialization and #IdentityPolitics in Francophone Contexts' for an online roundtable discussion on their book.
⏰ Thurs 2 April, 12-1:15 pm (Chicago/CT)
📍 Online, hosted by @NU_PAS
🎟️ http://bit.ly/3O8XNnK
📗 OUT NOW 📘
3 essential new editions of Ifi Amadiume's classic works on matriarchy, religion, culture, power, democracy and imperialism in Africa.
https://bit.ly/4aqUkcX #AfricanStudies #GenderStudies
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️ Former Editor-in-Chief @timglawion.bsky.social (2019–2023) highlights an article from his tenure that stood out for the engagement it generated and its contribution to ongoing debates on knowledge production in #Africanstudies.
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@sagepub.com
Check out this interview with Dr. Ray, the AASR Researcher of the Month, as he reflects on his academic journey, research interests, and recent Book.
#AASR #AfricanStudies #ResearcherOfTheMonth #AcademicResearch ##AfricanHistory www.a-asr.org/aasr-researc...
My former colleague Hamza Diman @unibayreuth just published his wonderful book:
Hamza Diman (2026): "Fuelwood, Lomé and the State: 1907-2025", Langaa
If you are interested in the history of #energy #wood #fuel #africa #WestAfrica #togo #Lomé you should definitely read this!
Order it here […]
Photo by Simone Both for NEMO Kennislink
🌍 Vijf redenen om Afrika te bestuderen!
In een nieuw blog voor #FacesOfScience beschrijft alumnus Tycho van der Hoog de redenen waarom je #Afrika moet bestuderen tijdens je Bachelor of Master studie.
🔗 Lees hier het hele blog: buff.ly/AMXoPob
#AfricanStudies #SlimKiezen @unileiden.bsky.social
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
Former Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Arriola (2019–2023) highlights three articles from his tenure that stood out to him for their conceptual clarity, empirical strength, and timely contributions to key debates in #Africanstudies.
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CC: @giga-hamburg.de
Join the editors of '#AfricanStudies Now: Critical Approaches to Racialization and #IdentityPolitics in Francophone Contexts' for an online roundtable discussion on their book.
⏰ Thurs 2 April, 12-1:15 pm (Chicago/CT)
📍 Online, hosted by @NU_PAS
🎟️ http://bit.ly/3O8XNnK
📚 Browse our Spring–Summer 2026 Catalogue
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💥 Use code CATS2026 for 25% off.
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#History #Architecture #Art #MigrationStudies #GenderStudies #Religion #Literature #AfricanStudies #Philosophy #Archaeology #Psychology #SocialScience #ReadUP
Series Spotlight 🚨 Anthem Africology Series – a powerful collection foregrounding African voices, agency and ideas across global contexts. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/47zmkyut #AfricanStudies #Africology #GlobalAfrica #BlackScholarship #AcademicSeries #AnthemSeries #AnthemPress #SeriesSpotlight
Celebrating Africa Spectrum at 60 🎉
➡️Former Editor-in-Chief @grauvogelj.bsky.social (2018–2022) highlights articles from her tenure that impressed her for their strong empirical grounding & for raising important ethical questions for Global North-based #Africanstudies scholars.
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🚀 Global Africa Translation Fellowship 2026
💰 $1,000–$5,000
🌍 Open to Global South
📝 Non-residential
📚 Translate African texts
📅 Deadline: March 12, 2026
🔗 Apply Here: wp.me/p23f03-dA3
#Translation #AfricanStudies #Fellowship
📗 OUT NOW 📘
3 essential new editions of Ifi Amadiume's classic works on matriarchy, religion, culture, power, democracy and imperialism in Africa.
https://bit.ly/4aqUkcX #AfricanStudies #GenderStudies
What can the #coffee industry reveal about the history of #Angola? Jos Velmer explores African farmers’ active and early role in shaping the coffee economy and how it was increasingly constrained by settler colonialism. #AfricanStudies Read the blog > buff.ly/OqK3eOm
New in #AfricanStudies 📚
Southern African Queer & Trans Narratives in Digital Landscapes https://bit.ly/4ttILJs
Crises, Displacement & Foreign Aid in the Horn of Africa https://bit.ly/4cjtyUX - covers Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia
#AfricaBooks #LGBTQ #ForeignAid
An introduction, I'm sociologist (B.A.) and historian (M.A. & Ph.D.), working on the global history of the 19th century from the perspective of #Africa and West Asia. My works combine different disciplines such as #AfricanStudies, #OttomanStudies, #IslamicStudies, and #GlobalStudies.
✨ February is #BlackHistoryMonth
📚 Discover our list of books in African Studies
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🎉 Special offer
Use discount code BOOKSALE26 and enjoy 50% off select print books in Postcolonial Studies
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#AfricanStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AcademicBooks #ReadUP
Last call!
Chapter proposals for Beyond the Periphery due tomorrow.
Showcase African innovation, leadership & agency in global higher ed.
Submit by Jan 31
👉 forms.gle/rWKbpLqo7Jrs...
#CFP #HigherEd #GlobalEducation #AfricanStudies
#mining #mininghistory #mineralextraction #climatecrisis #history #multispecies #flora #fauna #southernafrica #africanstudies #ASCL
My review of Frédérick Madore's book on Christian & Muslim student activism in Togo and Benin (1970-2023) is out in JMAS. He offers valuable documentation of faith-based organizing and elite formation in West African universities. #AfricanStudies #ReligiousStudies
🌍 African Climate Futures – Recording Out Now
A powerful conversation with Carl Death, Kelechi Anucha and Jade Munslow Ong on how climate futures are imagined and contested across Africa.
🎥 Watch the YouTube recording: youtu.be/G1Au8apzo0w
#AfricanClimateFutures #ClimateJustice #AfricanStudies
📢 New book exposes the human toll of Kenya’s property boom. Dr Peter Lockwood @manchester.ac.uk explores how Nairobi’s rapid expansion is reshaping family life and land on the city’s edges.
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/h...
#SoSSResearch #AfricanStudies #PoliticalEconomy
Poster für den Internationalen Workshop: Understanding Linguistic Difference: Speakers and their agendy, awareness and language ideologies, 23.-24. Januar, Johannes Gutenbeerg Universität, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Forum 6, kleiner Übungsraum
Am Freitag und Samstag findet bei uns der Internationale Workshop "Understanding linguistic difference: Speakers and their agency, awareness and language ideologies" statt!
Wenn ihr Teilnehmen möchtet, leiten wir die Anmeldung gern weiter!
Programm ⬇️
#Linguistik #Linguistics #AfricanStudies
✨New Open Access Book Series Coming Soon: 'Contemporary African Studies in Commerce, Law and Management'
📘 First volume expected: Fall 2026
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/49uosDL
#OpenAccess #BookSeries #Africanstudies #law #commerce #management #ReadUP
📢 Call for Applications
ACIP Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards 2026
For African PhD students enrolled at South African universities (humanities & humanistic social sciences).
💰 Up to ZAR 50,000
🗓️ Deadline: 1 May 2026
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/students/acip.html
#PhDFunding #AfricanStudies #SouthAfrica
A display of books on a blue tablecloth, focusing on colonial and urban studies in Africa and the Congo
At the Congo Research Network PhD Days at UCLouvain!
📚 Discover our collection of Congo & African Studies books and explore new perspectives in African research.
👉 Browse the titles: lup.be/lup-book-cat...
#CongoResearch #AfricanStudies #ReadUP
"Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana" by Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
www.rutgersuniversit...
#MediaStudies #FilmStudies #AfricanStudies #RaceStudies #EthnicStudies #IndigenousStudies #CulturalStudies #Decolonization
The Transsion Approach Translating Chinese Mobile Technology in Africa Author: Miao Lu
Happy Pub Date to THE TRANSSION APPROACH: Translating Chinese Mobile Technology in Africa by Miao Lu!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
#AfricanStudies #AsianStudies #Communication #InternationalAffairs
ALT 45 is open to submission! This issue titled Writing African Cities will focus on how literary texts mediate & refract urban worlds in #Africa, and the ways authors bring to life the environments of African cities. Deadline Nov 2026. For more info ➡️ buff.ly/eb15cwb #AfricanStudies
