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Colonial extractions: Race and Canadian mining in contemporary Africa

Canadian mining companies' presence on the African continent and their efforts to disempower indigenous artisanal miners are new iterations of colonial economic systems, said Paula Butler at the latest African Studies Speaker Series.

Posted: 5/31/2018

Celebrating female refugees and migrants as “women who move”

At the UCLA celebration of International Women's Day 2018, E. Tendayi Achiume discussed female refugees and migrants from the Global South as women who exert their agency to improve their lives.

Posted: 3/26/2018

“Waking Lions” depicts unseen Israelis

Speaking about her new novel at the Y&S Nazarian Center, Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen described the “unseen” Israel and the role of literature in revealing the things we don't want to know about ourselves.

Posted: 3/12/2018

From Aimé Césaire to Black Lives Matter: The ongoing impact of negritude

The latest speaker in the African Studies Center Speaker Series argued that Black Lives Matter and social media activism are a continuation of Aimé Césaire's writings on negritude.

Posted: 2/23/2018

The kola nut: West African commodity in the Atlantic world

Shantelle George presented her research to date on the kola nut's introduction into the Caribbean and its connections to African religion, medicinal practices and identity in the New World.

Posted: 12/15/2017

Erasing the intellectual divide between African American and African Studies

Jemima Pierre views slavery and colonialism as two sides of the same coin: a global process that intentionally flattened African identities into the racialized categories of “black” (in the Americas) and “native” (in Africa).

Posted: 10/16/2017

Kevin Njabo to speak in Tanzania about the Congo Basin Institute

The UCLA environmental health sciences professor was selected to give a TEDGlobal talk. "Let's stop painting Africa as a continent of darkness,” he said. “The Congo Basin Institute is that vision that gives a positive outlook of what Africa can be.”

Posted: 7/21/2017

Fowler exhibit explores Brazil's African cultural heritage

“Lineage through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil by Fran Siegel” considers the potential of Afro-Brazilians to transcend global displacement through ancestral rituals and symbolic systems that keep their connections to Africa alive.

Posted: 7/18/2017

A writer still seeking to write the defining novel

Renowned African writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o read from his recent memoirs at the 2017 James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture in late May.

Posted: 6/13/2017

In memoriam: Mark Sawyer

A UCLA professor of African American studies and political science, Sawyer died Sunday, March 26, in Los Angeles. He was 45.

Posted: 3/29/2017

Redefining Zion: Rastafarian repatriation to Tanzania

Historian Monique Bedasse recently spoke about Rastafarian repatriation to Tanzania, the emergence of self-governing Caribbean and African nations and transnational pan-African politics.

Posted: 3/14/2017

UCLA historians played key role in new PBS series on Africa

“Africa's Great Civilizations,” a new PBS series, was shaped by two historians from UCLA: Christopher Ehret (UCLA Professor Emeritus of History) and John Thornton (UCLA Ph.D. 1979, now professor at Boston University). It airs nationwide on Feb. 27, Mar. 1 and Mar. 2.

Posted: 2/24/2017

Teshome Gabriel Memorial Award is endowed

Established in 2010 at the School of Theater, Film and Television, the award has been endowed with a gift from Gabriel's widow and children. Gabriel was a long-term director of the M.A. program in African Studies and an associated faculty member with the Center for African Studies.

Posted: 12/8/2016

In Memoriam: Russell Schuh

Distinguished UCLA Professor of Linguistics and Africanist Russell Schuh passed away on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Professor Schuch was affiliated with the African Studies Center and served as faculty chair of the African Studies MA program for several years.

Posted: 11/10/2016

Funding for African Language Study & Research

The African Flagship Languages Initiative (AFLI) offers Boren Awards applicants a special opportunity to study African languages and cultures by participating in domestic and overseas language programs in Akan/Twi, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof or Zulu.

Posted: 11/3/2016

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