Africa News from the Centre of African Studies, University of London,
February 2015 |
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Miners Shot Down (South Africa, 2014, dir. Rehad Desai)
Film Screening, part of 'South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour'
Thursday 5th February, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country's first post-apartheid massacre. South Africa will never be the same again. We will be joined for a post-screening discussion with James Nichol - the lawyer representing the mine workers' families at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry. Chaired by Ben Fine (SOAS).
Please bring change - there will be a collection for donations to the Marikana Support Campaign.
Creating a Creative Economy in Côte d'Ivoire: The role of new performance spaces for popular music
Africa Seminar: Anne Schumann (SOAS / Wits) & Caspar Melville (SOAS)
Monday 9th February, 5.15pm, Room 4429
Within twelve years of its emergence as a musical style in Yopougon, Abidjan in 1991, the fame of zouglou music soared across borders and continents. Zouglou music is predominantly locally produced and recorded, and pirated CDs and VCDs dominate the market. These informal modes of circulation have contributed to the diffusion of zouglou music, while at the same time undermining the financial viability of the Ivoirian music industry. Concerts and performances have remained as a major source of income for Ivoirian artists. Yet until recently Ivoirian artists (especially of the genres zouglou and coupé décalé) performed primarily via play-back (i.e miming to a sound track). Performances were hampered by the lack of appropriate venues and the high cost of existing venues. However, recently there has been a new development: many new maquis (open air restaurants) have opened as new affordable performance spaces in which artists perform live, rather than via play-back. This paper will examine these new performance spaces in the Ivoirian music economy as well as the role of cultural entrepreneurs in reviving Abidjan as an African creative city.
African Christianity Rising: Stories from Ghana (Ghana, 2013, dir. James Ault)
African Christianity on Film - Screening & Director Q&A with James Ault
Thursday 19th February, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre
Christianity's explosive growth in Africa is part of a startling reversal: Christianity is no longer the religion of the West. The film documents how especially through Pentecostal and Charismatic practices, Christianity in Ghana has become increasingly popular by becoming increasingly African—that is, becoming rooted more authentically in local cultures.
Media Representation and Africa: whose money, whose story?
CAS 50th Anniversary Conference
Friday 20th February, 9am-6pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
A diverse selection of high-profile speakers drawn from academia and the media industry will address questions of representation, narrative and institutional funding with regards to Africa in the media. This one-day conference aims to take the debate forward beyond the 'Africa Rising' vs the 'desperate continent' discussion and look at current and future trajectories in commissioning, producing and reporting both outside and within the continent. Bringing together those working in the areas of documentary, news reporting, television drama and fictional film, this event promises to develop angles for debate and provide a range of views from those working in front of and behind the camera.
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CAS Annual Lecture, delivered by Yinka Shonibare (MBE, RA)
Save the date: Wednesday 13th May 2015, 6.30pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Further details to follow.
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Inaugural Lecture of Professor Friederike Lüpke:
'Language Diversity, African Style'
11 February 2015, 6:00pm Live Music, 6:30pm Lecture
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London
Africa is one of the hotspots of linguistic diversity. Yet, very little is known about the interplay of its many languages at the level of the individual and of society. The lecture will explore this interplay of multilingualism in West Africa, and reflect on how this helps us to understand linguistic diversity in the wider world. This lecture presents the layered patterns of African multilingualism, focussing on the interaction of spoken and written registers, languages of wider communication and locally confined languages, and multilingual practices and essentialist ideologies.
World Radio Day
13th February 2015. 6pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre & Suite
13th February 2015. 6pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre & Suite 13th February is UNESCO's World Radio Day, a day to celebrate radio as a medium, to improve international cooperation between broadcasters, and to encourage major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information, and free, independent and pluralistic media. The topic of the 4th World Radio Day is Radio and Youth. To celebrate, a talk at SOAS will present some of the latest research and projects using Radio in Public Health, Political Participation, Education and Freedom of Expression and Communication in Africa and Worldwide. Development Communication Trade Fair & Seminar
Organised by SOAS Radio, the Centre of African Studies, University of London and the Communication for Development Network.
SOAS AFRICAN HISTORY SEMINAR
TERM 2, 2014-15
Seminars will be held in room B101, Brunei Gallery, 17.00 – 18.30
4 February 2015
Philip Gooding (SOAS): The Coast and the Lake: Islam, Ritual and Identity in the Lake Tanganyika Basin, c.1830-1890
18 February 2015
Shantelle George (SOAS): Recreating Orisha Worship in Twentieth-Century Grenada
TRIO DA KALI (FROM MALI) in RESIDENCY at the SOAS MUSIC DEPARTMENT,
FEB 23-25, 2015 (supported by the Aga Khan Music Initiative)
The Music Department is proud to announce that the Aga Khan Music Initiative (Aga Khan Trust for Culture) are presenting a residency at SOAS of TRIO DA KALI, a new and brilliant group from Mali. The three musicians of Da Kali hail from the Mande culture of West Africa, from a heritage of distinguished griots (specialist hereditary musical artisans). Long-term collaborators, the artists aim to bring to the forefront neglected repertoires and performance styles of the griots, celebrating some of the African continent's finest, most subtle and sublime music. The format of the trio recreates the kind of ensemble that would have been heard in Mali's pre-colonial times. Lassana Diabate is originally from Guinea and is one of Africa's greatest balafon (22-key xylophone) players an astonishing virtuoso. (The balafon is many centuries old). Hawa Kasse Mady Diabate, the singer of the Trio, is the daughter of leading traditional vocalist Kasse Mady, from whom she has inherited a powerful and expressive voice and a lyrical repertoire. The youngest member of the group, Mamadou Kouyate, plays bass ngoni (lute) and brings to it the talent and creativity of his father, award-winning world music star Bassekou Kouyate. Trio Da Kali were created in 2013 in order to take part in a collaboration with the world-famous Kronos Quartet, which debuted in the USA in 2014, to great critical acclaim.
- MONDAY 23rd February, room G52 , 1 – 3pm MUSIC WORKSHOP
- TUESDAY 24th February, 22 Russell Square, room T101, 12-2pm MUSIC SEMINAR
- WEDNESDAY, 25th February, room G52, 11.30-12.30 DA KALI IN CLASS (Please note: this is only available to registered members of the class)
Further details about the above events here
For further details of Da Kali's tour and concert venues, visit http://www.makingtrackslive.org.uk/trio-dakali
TRIO DA KALI IN CONCERT in LONDON: Sunday 22 February, 8pm
Rich Mix, London E1
Please note: Free entry for SOAS Music Department students (please register in advance for free entry by emailing info@kapa-productions.com)
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) Lecture:
Race and Religion, Religion as Race: Muslims in South Africa from Slavery to Post-apartheid
Professor Gabeba Baderoon (Stellenbosch University)
25 February 2015, 3pm – 5pm, L67
Since the colonial period, South African popular culture has trained a fascinated gaze on Muslims, but an insistently picturesque view has occluded the history of slavery and displacement through which they first entered the country. In this talk, Professor Baderoon argues that the presence of Muslim slaves during 176 years of slavery at the Cape Colony crucially shaped codes of race and sex in South Africa. She explores the relation of Islam and race from the colonial period to post-apartheid.
Dirty Familiars: Mediated Encounters in African Cities
18 February 2015, 3pm – 5pm, L67
Professor Stephanie Newell (University of Sussex)
Focusing on printed/published accounts of strangers and neighbours in African cities, this paper will suggest that the category of dirt has a long history of use in anti-cosmopolitan urban discourses and hate-speech, dating back at least to the colonial period, and that, when used to interpret the tastes and consumption practices of cultural strangers, dirt marks both a failure of interpretation and a visceral acknowledgement of that failure on the part of the beholder.
SOAS SUMMER SCHOOL
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The Centre of African Studies is running two courses for the 2015 SOAS Summer School: This introductory course will provide the participants with an overall understanding of the African continent. With a diverse range of sessions ranging from History and Politics to Languages and Music, the course will give an in-depth knowledge of the main academic areas of study of this vast and diverse continent.
Find out more This introductory course will provide the participants with overall understanding of the transnational nature of the modern world as it relates to migration and migrants, and related issues in the field of anthropology, politics, cultural studies, development and globalisation. The programme of study employs a multidisciplinary approach, with both teaching from academics and workshops delivered by diaspora professionals. Find out more
Applications are open to all, and the courses are suited to professionals who want to gain more knowledge of the region and for students interested in studying at SOAS, or who are interested in visiting Africa in the future. |
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Events and Seminars in the UK |
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The African Studies Centre organises a lively programme of seminars, workshops and international conferences. At least three research seminars on Africa meet each week during Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms:
Thursday 5 February 5pm, Pavilion Room, St. Antony's College
'A Man of Good Hope' - Book Launch
Jonny Steinberg in conversation with Martin Meredith about Jonny's new book on migration and xenophobia
- Horn of Africa Seminars, Tuesdays at 5pm, African Studies Centre, MT 2014
Tuesday 3 February 5.00 pm, in the Seminar Room, at African Studies Centre - Zeremariam Fre (UCL/PENHA) Challenges to Pastoralist Livelihoods in the Horn (followed by reception for PENHA 30th anniversary)
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Annual events include:Podcasts of past seminars and events hosted by the African Studies Centre are available both on the Oxford University Podcasts Website and on iTuneU.
Upcoming Events:
Conference on Darfur
21st February 2015 in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Anthony's College.
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South Africa Discussion Group - Tuesdays, 5pm
10 February Reading: Samantha Vice, 'How Do I Live In This Strange Place?' Journal of Social Philosophy 41(3), 2010, pp. 324-242.
(In 2010 South African philosopher Samantha Vice published a provocative essay on the ethics of being a white South African. The seminar consists of a discussion of the essay and those who attend should read it beforehand.)
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
Enquiries: jonny.steinberg@africa.ox.ac.uk
Cambridge Centre of African Studies Seminars
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Gender in Africa seminar series:
Female Sexuality as Capacity and Power? Re-Conceptualizing Sexualities in Africa - Dr Signe Arnfred Rosklide University
Feb 9th, 5pm
'Women use our Strength in the House'; Savings Clubs and Social Mobility In South Africa - Professor Deborah James (LSE)
Feb 16th, 5pm
More information and abstracts for all the seminars can be found here.
Leeds Centre of African Studies Seminars
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London School of Economics
LSE Entrepreneurship – Entrepreneurship Matters public lecture
Tuesday 3 February 2015, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Mthuli Ncube
Chair: Professor Alnoor BhimaniProfessor Mthuli Ncube, Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank, will look at the challenges facing leaders who must identify development needs and priorities for an entire, rapidly evolving continent. He will discuss the future of Africa and the global opportunities this brings, as well as his own experience of being an entrepreneur in Africa. This event is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required. Email entrepreneurship@lse.ac.uk to request a ticket.
Film Screening: The Awra Amba Experience
Department of Media and Communications Event
Wednesday February 4th 2015, 5.30-8.00, Tower 1, TW1.G.01
The Awra Amba Experience is an interactive documentary telling an inspiring and hopeful story about an Ethiopian village, that has dared to re-imagine and put into practise a new societal model. An online, cinematic experience allows audiences to explore the story through an immersive, 360° tour of the village, where they meet the community's inhabitants and learn about their way of life in short films, infographics and photo stories, as well as connect with the community through an online discussion platform. Chair: Dr Shakuntala Banaji, LSE, Media and Communications Please RSVP with Dr Shakuntala Banaji (s.banaji@lse.ac.uk)
Shifting African digital landscapes
Tuesday 17 March 2015, 6.30-8pm, New Theatre, East Building, LSE
Speaker: Dr Sean Jacobs, The New School
Chair: Dr Wendy Willems, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
Developments and changes to the online media sphere point to interesting possibilities for how Africans are engaging in the global public sphere. Whether via irreverent Youtube prank videos, blogs, Instagram, song remixes, or producing independent online media (such as the Nigerian-focused Sahara Reporters), among others, and addressing topics such as homosexuality, gender relations, economic relations, African subjects are taking their place more and more as audiences and agents, rather than as receivers of aid and information.
Sean Jacobs is on the faculty of The New School in New York City and the founder of the popular Africa is a Country blog (http://africasacountry.com/). He holds a PhD in Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London. His research focuses on the relationship between politics and popular culture. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of African Media Studies and African Journalism Studies. A former Fulbright and Commonwealth Scholar, he has held fellowships at The New School, Harvard University and New York University. Jacobs was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and spent his formative years under Apartheid.
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King's College London
African Leadership Centre (ALC) Public Seminar: Ebola in Africa: Can the African Union handle the challenge? By Semiha Abdumelik
Room K4U.12 King's Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, Wednesday 11th of February 2015, 11.00- 12:00 The Ebola crisis in West Africa has generated a great deal of discussion and debate recently. However there has been little focus on the response of the pan-continental organisation, African Union (AU), to the situation from an institutional and normative perspective. The speaker shares insights on the approaches and mechanisms that have been deployed by the AU in an attempt to manage the Ebola crisis as well as its regional implications amidst the complex challenges facing the African continent. Speaker: Semiha Abdumelik Chair: Dr. Eka Ikpe
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Birkbeck College
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JEFCAS, the Africa Centre at the University of Bradford is pleased to announce a follow-up Panel debate on Ebola by Prof. John Wright entitled;
'Ebola: experiences in a global emergency: the case of Sierra Leone'
Location: Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford, Richmond Road Bradford, BD7 1DP
Date and Time: Mon 9 Feb 2015, 17:45 - 19:30hrs.
John Wright recently returned from Sierra Leone where he led a team of NHS Volunteers tackling the Ebola Crisis. John is the Director of Bradford Institute for Health Research and a clinical epidemiologist with a background in hospital medicine and public health in the UK and in Africa. He established and leads the Bradford Institute for Health Research, a major centre for applied health research. He is the Clinical Director for the Improvement Academy and leads a number of NIHR programmes on patient safety and quality improvement. John led the team of NHS volunteers working in the Sierra Leonne during the Ebola crisis.
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Royal African Society Events
My Watch - Book Launch with Olusegun Obasanjo
Wednesday 11 February 2015, 5:15-7:00PM, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
We are delighted to host Former President Olusegun Obasanjo as he launches his autobiography 'My Watch'. Join the Former President and Richard Dowden as they discuss his life in service from his time as the country's military ruler in 1976 to his presidency which ended in 2007. This event launches the former president's explosive autobiography which is currently banned in Nigeria on the eve of a crucial and closely fought presidential election.
Olusegun Obasanjo's My Watch is a memoir of a lifetime spent in service to country. This book follows in the steps of his previous memoirs, My Command and Not My Will. My Watch spans large expanses of time, from the pre-colonial Owu history, to early Abeokuta and the last throes of an independent city state at turn-of-the-century colonial Nigeria. The memoir explores the early life of its author, his civil war experience and his stewardship of the transitional government of 1976-1979 as well as his second appearance on the national scene as a civilian president on Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999.
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Beyond Ebola: The H2B2 Cross-disciplinary Challenge
Thursday 23 April 2015, at 1000-1700, Queens Building Lecture Theatre (Q170) Royal Holloway
What could your research contribute to the response to future disease outbreaks?
At this event, Royal Holloway's Health, Human Body and Behaviour (H2B2)
cross-disciplinary programme challenges you to think outside the box about
what your research area – be it rapid genomic sequencing, cultural
anthropology or participatory video – could contribute to the understanding of,
response to and management of, outbreaks of serious infectious disease.
Abstracts and suggestions for presentations or interactive group activities to: Jennifer.Cole.2013@live.ac.uk by 28 February 2015
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Institute for the Study of Slavery annual public lecture 2015
Provisioning the slave trade: the supply of corn on the 17th-century Gold Coast
Professor Robin Law, FBA, FRSE, FRHistS, Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling
Wednesday 11 February 2015, 5.30-7pm A2, Highfield House, University of Nottingham
Followed by a drinks reception at Highfield House Cloister
All are welcome: attendance is free.
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Southern African port towns and the shaping of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms in the early 19th century.
A seminar by Dr Heloise Finch-Boyer, National Maritime Museum.
Senate House Library, London.
Wednesday 11 February, 13:00-14:00
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British Library
Open Day for Doctoral Students interested in Asian & African Studies. The event will take place on 27 February 2015. I would be very grateful if you could pass this information on to your doctoral students and any colleagues with students who may find it relevant.
The days are designed to introduce new PhD students to our collections and how they access them. They also provide an opportunity to meet our expert staff and fellow researchers in their field. In addition to an understanding of the Library's collections, the students gain a wider introduction to the information landscape in their field and research opportunities opening up in digital information environment. Numbers are limited and, as these events are very popular, we do encourage early booking. For further details and to book, please see our website. Places cost £5.00 and this includes lunch. |
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El Anatsui: SELECTED WORKS
12 February - 28 March 2015
Private View on Wednesday, 11th of February, 2015, 6.30pm
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Prints in Counterpoint: An exhibition by Atta Kwami
13 November 2014 - 31 May 2015
World Museum Liverpool
A vibrant and colourful display of sixteen lino prints by theGhanaian artist Atta Kwami. Kwami is an artist, scholar and curator based in Ghana and the UK.
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'1:54 Pop-Up' in New York City
15 – 17 May 2015.
Led by Koyo Kouoh, 1:54 NY Forum will, as usual, comprise of a full programme of talks and panel discussions to explore critical topics pertinent to contemporary African art today. Parallel to the fair and forum, 1:54 NY Public Programme will offer a wide range of social events and engagements – more details to be announced shortly.
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Call for Contributors – IAM Intense Art Magazine
IAM – Intense Art Magazine, the first bilingual (EN/FR) publication dedicated to women in art from Africa and its Diaspora, is looking for blog contributions related to art events, artists' works and careers, and art institutions. Format of the contributions can take the form of reviews, interviews, portraits, or short format videos. Language of choice: English or French.
SOAS students interested in contributing can send an email to IAM Magazine - info@iam-africa.com - including a short CV and short cover email.
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CALL FOR PAPERS – Africa Research Day 2015
The third Africa Research Day will be hosted by the Africa Research Students Network (AfNet) on Monday, March 16, 2015 at SOAS. We welcome presentations from PhD students conducting research on Africa or Africa-related themes. Presentations and discussions will be organised into the following thematic panels:
Governance, Globalisation and Politics: history, policy formulation, trade and aid, state-society relations, gender and representation
Environment and Sustainability: political ecology, natural resource management, local knowledges
Culture and the Arts: identity, history, cultural and creative industries/practice
Development: health, education, interventions, policy, local experiences
Peace and Conflict: external interventions, peace-building, post-war recovery, post-conflict states
The Research Day is an excellent opportunity for current PhD students to share their research with peers working on similar topics or in similar fields. It will allow participants to share ideas, get feedback on work in progress, and make connections.
Deadline: February 15, 2015
For more information and to submit abstracts, please email afnetlondon@gmail.com.
University of Cape Town July School
29 June – 10 July 2015
This programme was first launched in 2013 and last year included 144 participants from 44 countries. The programme has been designed to bring together students and professionals from Africa with colleagues from around the world, to generate unique insights into the challenges and opportunities in Africa today, guided by some of the world's leading academic thinkers and most experienced practitioners in the field. Participants follow intensive, two-week courses in economics, management, media, geography and politics, and share knowledge and perspectives based on their experience at international universities, multi-national firms, large development organisations and small NGOs.
The university-level programme is suitable for current students and for professionals from around the world who have a specific interest in Africa and its role in the world. The July School also offers an early bird discount of £100 for applications received by 31st March 2015, and a limited number of bursaries are also available to African applicants to the LSE-UCT July School.
Deadline: 15th May 2015.
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Call for Papers - Postamble - multidisciplinary journal of African Studies
TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, TRANSFORMATION AND THE HUMANITIES
Buoyed by discussions that have been circulating in African Studies and elsewhere in the Humanities, we want to stimulate modes of knowledge-production that challenge disciplinary boundaries. In addition, we want to investigate whether this challenge constitutes a transformation and, if so, what the consequences of that transformation might be.
We invite submissions that engage critically with these (or other) debates around transdisciplinarity and transformation and the Humanities, or else that practice/perform transdisciplinarity/transformation in their Humanities research.
Full academic papers, book reviews, interviews, photographic essays and other formats (scholarly or creative) are welcome.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 February 2015
Article submissions: 3 000 – 8 000 words; reviews: 1 000 – 2 000 words;
creative essays: 1 000 – 8 000 words.
Send abstracts and full submissions to the Editorial Collective: postamble@gmail.com
Please see our website for submission guidelines
Anglo-Somali Society Meeting, Wednesday 25 February 2015
5.30pm for 6pm at the YMCA Indian Student Hostel, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ
AGM and presentations about The UK Somali Community: Psycho-social Issues and the Law
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Conferences in the UK & Abroad |
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India
CFP: African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group
Theme: Theatre and Performance in African/Caribbean Cultures of Democracy
International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) Conference, Hyderabad, India, 5-10 July 2015
For the 2015 meeting of the African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group of IFTR, we call for papers that respond to the wider conference theme with African and Caribbean perspectives. Our theme, "Theatre and Performance in African/Caribbean Cultures of Democracy," is concerned with that which links ideas and practices of democracy to the cultural domain of human life, i.e., to the matrices of human interaction in which signifying (especially, creative-expressive) practices inform and facilitate how people make, shape and understand the world around them. How, for instance, does theatre and performance (including the power relations and structures within theatre and performance making itself) replicate, reinvent, represent, reinforce, challenge or undermine democratic ideas and practice in African and Caribbean societies?
Deadline: 15th February 2015
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Africa
CFP: ASAUK Writing Workshop
University of Dar es Salaam in February 2015
The African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) and the College of Social Sciences at the University of Dar es Salaam (CoSS UDSM) in Tanzania invite applications to attend two day writing workshop for early career scholars to be held at the University of Dar es Salaam on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th, February 2015.
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Connections and Disconnections in the History and Cultures of Eastern Africa
30-31 March 2015, BIEA, Nairobi
Confirmed speakers include: Bing Zhao, Monika Udvardy, Chapuruhka Kusimba, Thomas Hakansson, Kathryn De Luna, Daniel Branch, Sarah Longair, Pamila Gupta, Gerard McCann, Salvatory Nyanto
This conference will explore the place of Eastern Africa within global approaches to the study of the region's past and present. The fields of history, archaeology, anthropology and literature have all witnessed a global turn in recent years. The global paradigm is fast became a common point of entry to study of the region, particularly among European and North American scholars. This conference will include discussion of such research, but also consider the methodological and intellectual challenges presented by this approach to the study of Eastern African societies in the past and present.
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CFP: Anya Fulu Ugo: African Arts Conference Series of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
24-27 June 2015, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Theme: African Art and Artists After the Millennial Turn (A Conference of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Honour of El Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu)
We invite panel proposals from Nigerian, African and world scholars that view contemporary African art and artists from multiple, all-inclusive perspectives, especially, but not restricted to, humanistic studies. We seek to challenge the low level of interdisciplinary discourses within Africa itself on the subject of its contemporary cultural production. For example, how might we critically engage African visual art through the multiple lenses of mass communication, theatre and film studies, linguistics, literary studies, music, economics, anthropology, history and international relations, archaeology, tourism and museum studies, political science, etc.?
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Deadline; 15th February 2015
CFP: Postgraduate International Conference at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
10 and 11 August 2015.
Theme: Changing Landuse, Resource conflicts and Environmental Implications on African Landscapes.
The Department of History, University of Warwick and the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam invite papers across disciplines that engage with concepts of changing land use, resource conflicts, indigenous knowledge, beliefs, and environmental implications. We wish to host a 2-day conference for postgraduate researchers working on African Landscapes. The conference will be held in Dar es salaam, Tanzania on 10th and 11th August 2015. The conference aims to create networks among early stage researchers and bring about discussions across disciplines covering political science, history, archaeology, religion, geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and development studies to mention just a few. The conference will allow participants in their 2nd, 3rd and 4thyears of doctoral research to share part of their works in progress. In so doing, we anticipate that participants will broaden their understandings of multi/interdisciplinary approaches in studying African landscapes.
Deadline: 20th March 2015
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The Southern African Historical Society, 25th Biennial Conference - "Unsettling Stories and Unstable Subjects"
The 25th Biennial Conference, hosted by the Department of History, University of Stellenbosch, 1-3 July 2015.
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Cultures of Struggle: Song, Art, and Performance in Popular Movements"
University of Johannesburg on 29-31 May 2015
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UK
Spirit Possession and Mental Health
9th March 2015, THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE
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CFP: Anthropology in London Day 2015: Anthropology on the Move
Monday June 15, 2015 at UCL
This year's Anthropology in London conference invites paper and panel proposals that explore movement in the broadest sense, including movement of objects, people, ideas, cultural practices, and narratives; the structures, discourses, and practices that aid or obstruct such movements; the movement of bodies in dance, ritual, and performance; and anthropological theory and practice 'on the move', in step with a changing world.
Deadline: Monday 2nd March 2015
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'Victorian Travel and Imperial Spaces'
University of Kent, 15th and 16th May 2015.
Victorian Travel and Imperial Spaces is an interdisciplinary conference which will explore the crucial relationship between travel and imperial spaces in literature, history, the arts and cultural studies, in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras.
We welcome abstracts and panel proposals (250 words) for 20-minute papers, from any of these disciplines.
Deadline: 28th of February 2015
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African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present
7 February 2015; 10:30am–5pm, The Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, University of York
This one-day colloquium hosted by the Department of English & Related Literature, University of York, UK, with the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden, is dedicated to exploring historical and contemporary African and diasporic 'travel writing' and black travel and textual cultures. The event builds on the growing attention given to the vibrant, but understudied, area of African and diasporic travel texts and contexts, rather than the more established critical arena that interrogates largely white travel accounts about black subjects and territories.
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CFP: Twelfth Cadbury Conference: Money Judgments
21-22 May 2015, University of Birmingham.
Deadline 1 March 2015
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Researching Africa Day 2015
16th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop on Saturday, 7th March 2015, 09:00 - 17:45, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Every year, Researching Africa Day brings together post-graduate and early career researchers from across a range of disciplines. The Day offers an opportunity to discuss research strategies and approaches, to develop ideas in a constructive, stimulating, and engaging envi-ronment, and to network with other researchers. The 2015 Researching Africa Day will bring together post-graduate and early career researchers to reflect imaginatively on where African welfare is found, who provides it, and why.
Theme: Imagining Welfare in Contemporary Africa: Interdisciplinary Reflections
There are an inordinate number of institutions involved in sustaining, securing, and improving African lives: international donors, global policymakers, humanitarian interventions, scientists, governments, activists and families. Implicated in this work are particular constructions of the 'good' life in Africa, as well as ideas about who is responsible for safeguarding and providing it. How is it that African lives become a project for development, democracy or global citizenship? What can we learn from current and past interventions?
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Landscapes, Sources, and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation
12-14 November 2015, Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and Centre of West African Studies (CWAS), University of Birmingham (UK)
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African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present
7 Feb 2015, University of York
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CFP: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions
13-16 July 2015, Liverpool, UK
Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and historical specificities expressed and projected through material and immaterial heritage. However, in geopolitical terms and through everyday mobilities, people, objects and ideas flow backward and forward across the ocean, each shaping the heritage of the other, for better or worse, and each shaping the meanings and values that heritage conveys. Where, and in what ways are these trans-Atlantic heritages connected? Where, and in what ways are they not? What can we learn by reflecting on how the different societies and cultures on each side of the Atlantic Ocean produce, consume, mediate, filter, absorb, resist, and experience the heritage of the other?
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Deadline: 15th December 2015
CFP: LSE Africa Summit: Innovative Governance in Africa
Friday, 17th April 2015, London School of Economics and Political Science
This one-day intensive Research Conference will explore strategies for and implications of Innovative Governance across the African continent and how new technologies and approaches are shifting the idea of Africa in the world.
This conference will present diversified insights into emerging opportunities and challenges for Africa and provide a platform for engagement between African and international researchers, development professionals and policy practitioners concerned with governance today.
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Deadline: 29th December 2014
CFP: Congo Research Network 3rd Conference
African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK
11th & 12th June 2015
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CFP: African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability
15 May - 16 May 2015, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT Cambridge
'Heritage in Africa is increasingly employed as a vehicle for development. The desire to make heritage pay is palpable. Can one really put the onus on Africa's past to not only be self-sustaining but also to fuel development? How can Africa's heritage be used to shape and secure a sustainable future for the continent? This conference aims to explore the ways in which heritage can promote, secure or undermine sustainable development in Africa, and in turn, how this development affects conceptions of heritage in Africa'
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The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2015
16 - 19 June 2015, Bristol
Organised by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, USC Dornsife, LA, California
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CFP: Yorkshire African Studies Network Conference 2015
Family, Community and Livelihoods: Perspectives from Africa
19 May 2015, University of Sheffield
In this one-day conference, we seek to go beyond statistics and national indicators to understand contemporary African societies in rich detail and at the local level. In particular, the conference will explore community and neighbourhood dynamics, family relations, parent-child relations, intergenerational relations, child rearing practices, work opportunities and livelihood choices, and how these are evolving in the context of changing socio-economic and political conditions.
Deadline: 31st March 2015
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Europe
CFP: 2nd International Conference Africa and the Indian Ocean - Lisbon, 9-10 April 2015
Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean
The AEGIS Collaborative Research Group on Africa in the Indian Ocean welcomes applications to participate in the forthcoming Thematic Conference.
Please, send an email with your name, proposed title and short abstract to aioconference2015@gmail.com
Deadline: 31 January 2015
CFP: Urban Property, Governance and Citizenship in the Global South
23-26 June 2015, Copenhagen.
This conference addresses the dynamic relationships between property, governance and citizenship, and their concrete manifestations in various mutually constitutive processes of property making, state making and citizen making
Deadline: 15th February 2015
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CFP: Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa
28th-30th May 2015, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven
Prof. Dr Abdoumaliq Simone, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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CFP: ECAS 6: 'Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt'
8th-10th July 2015
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USA
CFP: 58th Annual Meeting, "The State and Study of Africa". (African Studies Association)
November 19-22, 2015, San Diego California
Presentations may focus on the theme of "The State and Study of Africa" or on broader social science, humanities, and applied themes relating to Africa. We strongly encourage the submission of formed panels.
Deadline: 5th March 2015
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CFP: Africanizing Technology
Wesleyan University, March 5-6, 2015
Africa has long been a space of technological innovation and adaptation despite popular Western media depictions to the contrary. In fact, Africa is at the center of global technology stories such as the history of nuclear proliferation (Hecht, 2012). Recently scholars have documented novel uses of contemporary media technologies on the continent, as well as older adaptations of hi-fi stereo systems, all of which have had rich and complicated social impacts (Larkin, 2008; Jaji, 2014). Artisans and industrial workers have also created new technological cultures, while many African medical professionals have responded to technologically 'poor' environments by improvising basic solutions (Livingston, 2012). Africanizing Technology aims to highlight and interrogate these and other technology stories on the continent from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Deadline: January 20, 2015.
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Roots/Heritage Tourism in Africa and the African Diaspora: Case Studies for a Comparative Approach
An International Conference organized by FIU's African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS)
12th – 14th February 2015
Conference programme now available
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CFP: ACLA African Language Literature: In the Garden of the Mother Tongue: African Language Literature
The American Comparative Literature Association 2015 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 26-29 March 2015
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CFP: Africa Conference at the University of Texas- Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights
3rd-5th April 2015, The University of Texas at Austin
Deadline: 30th November 2014
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University of Chicago African Studies Workshop Spring Conference
The Age of Infrastructure - The Infrastructure of Age
May 15, 2015
The African Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago invites papers exploring the complexities of age and infrastructure in African studies, with a particular interest in examining the points of intersection between the two. In what way do age and the conflicts that emerge around it structure social forms in African societies? How do such forms and conflicts intersect with the infrastructures of African life? And how does attention to the intersections of age and infrastructure in Africa shed new light on the meaning of citizenship in African societies, the consequences of neoliberal globalization, and the ways in which ordinary people struggle to forge meaningful modes of sociality across the continent?
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Leventis Nigerian Post-Doctoral Fellowship at SOAS
The Centre of African Studies of the University of London invites applications from Nigerian academics to take part in a scheme of collaborative research funded by the Leventis Foundation.
Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016.
Next deadline to apply: 31 March 2015
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Call for Applications: Oxford CALLALOO CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
We invite submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for admission consideration for this weeklong workshop, which will be hosted by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) at Oxford University, July 12-18, 2015.
Deadline 15th March 2015
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The 2015 Commonwealth Foundation grants
We award funding for sustainable development projects that contribute to effective, responsive and accountable governance with civil society participation.
• Open to civil society organisations (CSOs)
• Up to £30,000 per year
• Multi-year funding available (up to three years)
• Delivered in Commonwealth Foundation eligible member countries
Grant projects must focus on one or more of the following:
• Strengthening the ability of CSOs to use creative expression for participatory governance
• Enhancing the capacity of CSOs, networks and alliances to engage in par-ticipatory governance
• Facilitating interaction and constructive engagement in governance
• Building a culture of learning and knowledge sharing
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Applications should be made through the online form on our website, where other resources to assist the process are available to download.
Deadline: 29th January 2015
SOAS Scholarships & Fellowships
Governance for Development in Africa Initiative (GDiA) at SOAS
- PhD Scholarships
- MSc Scholarships
- Residential School in Africa (in London, UK)
Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016
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Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentships for MRes Politics with Language, MSc Research for International Development, MA Anthropological Research Methods, MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali
The Canon Collins Scholarships at SOAS – open to Masters students from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for students from African Commonwealth countries applying for: MSc Development Studies, LLM in Law, Development and Governance, MSc Development Economics, MA Social Anthropology of Development, MA Music and Development
The Culture of Resistance Scholarships for Masters students in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, from the following African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Ferguson Scholarships for African taught Masters students in African Studies, International Studies and Diplomacy & Social Anthropology of Development
Santander Taught Master's Scholarships for African students from Ghana
SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Arts & Humanities - (for any full-time taught masters programme in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Language & Cultures (for the full-time MA Postcolonial Studies, MA Cultural Studies, MA Comparative Literature, MA Linguistics, MA Applied Linguistics & Language Pedagogy, MA Language, Documentation and Description, MA Translation Theory and Practice (Asian and African Languages)
SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (for any full-time master's programmes in the Department of Development Studies, Economics, Law, Politics, International Studies and Financial & Management Studies, in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy and in the the Centre for Gender Studies)
William Ross Murray Scholarship for an LLM student from a developing country
External scholarships
British Institute in Eastern Africa Graduate Attachment Scheme for recent graduates with an interest in further studies in Africa
British Council - The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is an international programme under which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. The CSFP was established at the first Commonwealth education conference in 1959, and over 26,000 individuals have benefited. CSC offers Masters and PhD scholarships as well as Fellowships and distance learning scholarships
- Mansion House Scholarships for training and work experience in the United Kingdom's financial services industry, open to postgraduate Nigerian students.
Other Universities
University of Sheffield West African Merit Scholarships for students from Benin, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Guinea Bissau
University of Bath Steve Huckvale Scholarships for students in Africa – taught masters students from Africa who are intending to study Engineering or Management
Bournemouth University UKEAS Nigeria Scholarship for Nigerian nationals on full-time postgraduate courses |
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Mo Ibrahim Foundation Programme Manager
Full time, nine month contract (extension possible) £22,000 - £29,000, depending on experience
Deadline: Monday 9th February
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Freelance Web Content Editor
The Caine Prize for African Writing
The Web Content Editor role is a new position. The Web Content Editor will be part of a small team, working with the Director, a designer, and our PR agency. Based near London Bridge this is an exciting opportunity to develop the Caine Prize's online presence with the aim of enhancing audiences, attracting readers and encouraging entries to the Prize.
Remuneration: up to £5,000 per annum dependant on experience (equivalent 1 day per week)
Deadline: 15th February 2015
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Three year PhD studentship: Mobile money and young people's wellbeing in Africa
University of Bath. Applications are invited for a full-time University studentship to work at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences.
This project will develop existing research on mobile money and microfinance within CDS and link this to research on wellbeing and young people within the Centre. It is an exciting opportunity to engage with leading researchers in these fields.
Deadline: 12th February 2015
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2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship on Islam in Africa
Stanford University, California
We invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral position for a scholar working on Islam in Africa in any time-period and region and in any discipline. Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by the time of appointment on September 1, 2015. The recipient may not be more than three years beyond the receipt of doctoral degree by the time of the appointment. Scholars trained in disciplines other than History (including, for example, Art History, Political Science, and Music) whose work engages in historical analysis are welcome to apply.
Deadline: 27th February 2015
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The Academy of Peace and Development (APD) was established in 1999 as a research institute in Somaliland. Since its inception, APD activities have focused on peace-building, democracy and good governance. APD's participatory methods encourage consensus building among key actors with respect to strategic political, social and economic issues, leading to practical, policy-oriented recommendations and guidelines.
The Academy is offering 7 fellowships for duration of either 3, 6 and one year to researchers interested in pursuing research related to APD's work in Somaliland.
All fellows will receive individual support from the Academy to settle in, to deal with local authorities and paperwork, and to find accommodations.
All interested candidates should send their CV with a cover letter explaining their research interest toxirsi_law@hotmail.com (Mohamed Farah, Executive director) and munabotswana@gmail.com (Muna Hersi, Senior researcher)
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♦ Adonis &Abbey Publishers Ltd, P.O. Box 43418, London, SE11 4XZ:
1. African Renaissance: a bi-monthly, multidisciplinary international journal published since 2004, has launched a book programme. Under the programme, the journal, which is a cross between an academic publication and any higher-end policy oriented report, will publish every year 5-6 books based on contributions to the journal. The book programme has already started (see some of the titles in "Forthcoming Titles below). Usually an editor is appointed to edit each volume, and the editor asks authors of selected contributions to update/expand/beef up/revise their contributions -as the case may be. For previous issues of African Renaissance, see:
http://adonisandabbey.com/show_journal1.php?list_journals=1
2. African Journal of Business of Economic Research, a peer-reviewed academic journal, which made its debut in January 2006. The journal is published three times a year. Also 1-2 books are to be published each year from the contributions to the journal. For details of the current edition, please see: http://adonisandabbey.com/show_journal1.php?list_journals=2
3. Review of Nigerian Affairs is a quarterly, multidisciplinary online journal, which is a cross between an academic publication and any quality, policy-oriented features magazine. The journal brings together different perspectives on current issues in Nigerian politics, economy and society.
4. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID)
AJSTID is a multi-disciplinary and refereed international journal with a special focus on science, technology, and innovation in developing economies, with a special reference to Africa. It has been established on the basis of the recognized role of innovation in the development of economies and on the relative absence of research in the area, particularly in the case of Africa. AJSTID seeks to encourage research along three broad streams. This first is the role of science, technology and innovation in the process of industrial growth and development. The second stream concerns the broader area of socio-economic development. The third invites work exploring the inclusion of innovation and knowledge in cross border integration processes particularly in Africa. AJSTID will solicit submissions on both these research streams at various levels: firms, sectors/ industries/clusters, regions and countries.
5. African Performance Review is a triennial journal of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) dedicated to publishing, disseminating and encouraging high quality research and information on theatres and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.
♦ African Affairs, Journal of the Royal African Society
African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It publishes articles on recent political, social and economic developments in sub-Saharan countries. Also included are historical studies that illuminate current events in the continent. Each issue of African Affairs contains a substantial section of book reviews, with occasional review articles. There is also an invaluable list of recently published books, and a listing of articles on Africa that have appeared in non-Africanist journals. www.afraf.oxfordjournals.org
♦ Africa Confidential
Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with the in depth news on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent. Our track record owes much to our comprehensive network of local correspondents and the connections that we've built up throughout Africa since we started publishing back in 1960.
http://www.africa-confidential.com
Africa-Asia Confidential
Africa-Asia Confidential was first published in November 2007, by the same group that owns Africa Confidential, Asempa Limited of Cambridge. The newsletter was founded in response to the growing political and economic relations between Africa and Asia – and by the need to understand the implications for Africa. Using the resources that Africa Confidential has accrued in 50 years of covering the continent, Africa-Asia Confidential is also developing a new network of correspondents to supply the same kind of detailed and exclusive information for which Africa Confidential has won its reputation. www.africa-asia-confidential.com
♦ African Journal of Political Science
The AJPS is published by the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), with the aim of providing a platform for African perspectives on issues of politics, economy and society in Africa. It is published 2 times a year - in June and December, and targeted at the social science community, policy-makers, and university students. Contributions are in either English or French. With effect from the year 2000, it will be published in Arabic by the Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University, Egypt.
♦ African Studies Journals, Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group:
1. African and Black Diaspora
This is the first academic journal that directly addresses the needs of scholars working in the important field of African Diaspora studies. It advances the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute this distinctive interdisciplinary study of the deterritorialised and transnational nature of the African and Black Diaspora. The journal publishes research articles, commentaries and book reviews. All articles will be peer-reviewed. Authors interested in contributing should contact one of the three Editors. A special issue Navigating African Diaspora: Crossing, Belonging and Presence, is in preparation.
2. African Identities, 2 Issues per year, Print ISSN: 1369-6815, Online ISSN: 1469-9346
With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalisation, "otherness" and difference, the journal explores how African identities, either by force of expediency or contingency, create layered terrains of (ex)change, decentre dominant meanings, paradigms and certainties. For more information visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CAFI
3. African Studies, 2 Issues per year, Print ISSN: 0002-0184, Online ISSN: 1469-2872
Rooted in a long tradition of scholarship, African Studies provides an inter-disciplinary forum for conceptual and empirical writing relevant to Africa, and that contributes to international dialogue and debate. For more information visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CAST
4. Development Southern Africa
Development Southern Africa offers a platform for expressing views and encouraging debate among development specialists, policy decision makers, scholars and students in the wider professional fraternity and especially in southern Africa. The journal publishes articles that reflect innovative thinking on key development challenges and policy issues facing South Africa and other countries in the southern African region.
5. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
ENAJS is the premier international peer-reviewed journal for the critical analysis of journalism scholarship, education and practice in all its facets in Africa. The purpose of the journal is to foster a better understanding of journalism, media studies, and mass communication as research areas in the comparative context of Africa and the Global South, and to build links between these academic fields and the media professions. The journal's focus is on Africa, but its academic interest and scope is transnational.
6. Ethnic and Racial Studies
Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. Ethnic and Racial Studies, published ten times a year, is the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. The journal provides an interdisciplinary academic forum for the presentation of research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.
7. Journal of African Cultural Studies
The Journal of African Cultural Studies is an international journal providing a forum for perceptions of African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to African scholarship. It focuses on dimensions of African culture including African literatures both oral and written, performance arts, visual arts, music, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender.
8. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
This journal publishes the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, together with articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. Submissions: For details on how to submit a paper to Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies go to www.informaworld.com/jems
9. Journal of Contemporary African Studies
The Journal of Contemporary African Studies (published four times a year, in January, April, July and October) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change throughout the African continent, as well as the location of Africa within the global political economy. Its scope extends across the social sciences, as well as encouraging articles relating to the social dimensions of the wider humanities, sciences and the environment. It welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature, as well as those offering careful analyses of developments at national, regional and continental level. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics.
10. Journal of Southern African Studies
JSAS is an international publication for work of high academic quality on issues of interest and concern in the region of Southern Africa. It aims at generating fresh scholarly enquiry and rigorous exposition in the many different disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, and periodically organises and supports conferences to this end, sometimes in the region. It seeks to encourage inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives and research that reflects new theoretical or methodological approaches. An active advisory board and an editor based in the region demonstrate our close ties with scholars there and our commitment to promoting research in the region.
11. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies
Published since 1974, Politikon is the official journal of the South African Association of Political Studies. It focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world's leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntington, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa's leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa's constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999. Recent articles have looked at the negotiated transition from apartheid to democracy, aspects of identity politics in post-apartheid South Africa and issues of democratic consolidation.
12. Review of African Political Economy
ROAPE is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression and struggles against them, whether driven by global forces or local ones such as class, race, community and gender. It sustains a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa in the context of capitalist globalisation.
13. Journal of Eastern African Studies
The Journal of Eastern African Studies is the international publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, published three times each year. It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries. It seeks to foster inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives, and research employing the most significant theoretical or methodological approaches for the region.
14. South African Journal of International Affairs
The SAJIA is an outward-looking International Relations journal. While taking a South African and African perspective, articles are comparative, and address issues of global importance. Published since 1993, SAJIA has become a leading South African journal publishing original and review articles on international relations involving and affecting Africa. The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation focusing on South Africa's and Africa's international relations. SAIIA provides cutting edge analysis and promotes balanced dialogue, thus contributing to effective policy making on issues critical to Africa and its engagement in a dynamic global context.
15. The Journal of North African Studies
The Journal of North African Studies is a forum for scholars of and from the region. Its contents cover both country-based and regional themes, which range from historical topics to sociological, anthropological, economic, diplomatic and other issues. It is the first academic journal in English to analyse the historic and current affairs of what has become an important and coherent region of the Mediterranean basin, which is also linked to the Middle East and Africa.
♦ International African Institute
1. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. For further details see http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=afr.
2. Africa Bibliography
Africa Bibliography has became available as a searchable online database from February 2011. The online bibliography has been developed by the IAI together with Cambridge University Press. Six volumes from 2004/5 to 2009/10 (current volume) were being published initially. It is anticipated that back volumes from 1984 will be added in due course during 2011 and 2012. Subsequent new annual volumes will be published in both online and print formats. For further details see http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFB.
3. International African Library series
For updates on new volumes visit:
http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/publishing/library.html 4. African Arguments the Book SeriesAfrican Arguments is a series of short books about Africa today. Aimed at the growing number of students and general readers who want to know more about the continent, these books intend to highlight many of the longer-term strategic as well as immediate political issues confronting the African continent. The series is a collaboration between Zed Books, The Royal African Society, The International Africa Institute, The Social Science Research Council and Justice Africa.
♦ Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 2,600 citizens and organisations - academics, policy makers, social activists, women's organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators who together produce insightful, sharp and thoughtful analyses and make it one of the largest and most innovative and influential web forums for social justice in Africa. Pambazuka News also publishes podcasts, videocasts and book. To view online, go to http://www.pambazuka.org/.
♦ Postamble is a postgraduate journal of the Faculty of Humanities located in the Centre for African Studies and published bi-annually online. Postamble is committed to featuring original post graduate student work of a high academic standard which is of value to the promotion of multi-disciplinary study of Africa within the university environment. Postamble is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes general, as well as thematically focussed special issues. For more information visit: http://postamble.org/
♦ The Africa Report:
A monthly Journal, The Africa Report has established itself as the international publication of reference dedicated to African affairs. It is the guide used by decision makers to anticipate economic and political changes in Africa and relied upon for the expertise of an independent editorial team in its surveys, sector reports and country focus published in each issue. Its recognised high-quality coverage of the African business environment is combined with the widest pan-African and international circulation.
EDITORIAL SERIES
♦ AEGIS/Brill Book Series: Call for proposal
With the AEGIS Series (published by Brill) AEGIS provides a venue for the publication of works drawn from the lively and expanding community of scholars with interests in Africa and its Diaspora. The AEGIS Series aims to publish books within the broad fields of study within the humanities and social sciences that would bring new approaches or innovative perspectives to the topics discussed. Titles comprise works that could also reflect established debate within African Studies if they provide new insights. Both individually-authored works and edited collections on focused themes will be considered. The first volume (Is violence inevitable in Africa?) appeared in 2005. The AEGIS series will publish two books a year. Potential authors should first submit a proposal using the guidelines found at http://www.brill.nl/downloads/Manuscript-Preparation.pdf.
♦ Africa in Development Series (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)
While African Development remains a preoccupation, policy craftsmen and a multiplicity of domestic and international actors have been engaged in the quest for solutions to the myriad problems associated with poverty and underdevelopment.
This series is designed to encourage innovative thinking on a broad range of development issues. Thus its remit extends to all fields of intellectual inquiry with the aim to highlight the advantages of interdisciplinary perspective.
The series welcome proposals from collected papers as well as monographs from recent PhDs no less than from established scholars.
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