Africa News from the Centre of African Studies, University of London,
October 2015 |
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The Centre for Film Studies' First African Film Lecture: The Cinema and its Publics in Africa
19 October | 5:15 pm - 7 pm | Room 4429
in collaboration with the SOAS Centre for Film Studies
with Dr Litheko Modisane (University of Cape Town)
Dr. Litheko Modisane is a Senior Lecturer (Television Studies) in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town. Modisane's scope of interests includes repertoires of symbolic representations in the contemporary political public sphere in South Africa. He is currently writing a book on Nelson Mandela as a cinematic and televisual subject, particularly with regard to how meanings of liberation are constructed or deconstructed around his portrayals on film. Modisane is the author of South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centred Films, (Palgrave Macmillan (New York) 2013). The book focuses on the public lives of iconic black-centred films in South Africa, from the colonial to the post-apartheid eras. Such films, Modisane's work demonstrates, are catalysts for public reflections on social and political issues germane to anti-apartheid politics and fledgling democracies. Modisane contributes to a wide range of topics within the fields of film and television. Chair: Dr. Lindiwe Dovey
Discussant: Dr Carli Coetzee Visit the CAS website for more information
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk
This event is sponsored by the Centre of Film Studies and The Levehulme Trust _________________________________________________________________
Turning Issues into Stories
6:30pm - 8:30pm | 20 October 2015 | Russell Square | College Buildings | Khalili Lecture Theatre
Speakers will include Annie Kelly, Editor of The Guardian's Modern-day slavery in focus project and Patrick Strudwick, UK LGBT Editor for Buzzfeed News, along with experts from the British Red Cross and WaterAid.
Chaired by Sir Brendan Gormley, Trustee of One World Media and former Chief Executive of the Disasters Emergency Committee.
In partnership with One World Media, CAS is hosting an event that brings together a panel of leading NGOs and experienced journalists to share their work and insights on how to cover development issues in an engaging way. For more information, please visit the One World Media website. A limited number of student rate tickets are available. Purchase on Eventbrite
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Why so much interest in China-Africa Links?
23 October | 7 pm - 9 pm | Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
in association with the SOAS China Institute and the Young China Watchers (YCW)
The interest in China's engagement with Africa has grown fast in the past 10 years. This reflects both real trends in trade, investment and labour flows, but also a clash of perceptions about their potential impact on the development prospects of African economies and societies. This seminar will tackle the basis for these different views and how empirically-grounded work often challenges well-established perceptions about China-Africa relations.
Speaker: Dr. Carlos Oya (SOAS)
Moderator: Raffaello Pantucci (RUSI and founder of YCW)
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________
The Leventis Fellowship Seminars
5:15 pm - 7 pm | Room 4429 | SOAS, University of London
Part of the African Seminar Series 26 October : 'Spirituality and Resistance in the Niger-Delta Region, Nigeria'
Speaker: Dr Iwebunor Okwechime Chair: Charles Gore, SOAS
This paper examines the role of spirituality in the resistance struggle of the oil minorities of the Niger Delta against the Nigerian state multinational oil companies operating in the region. Much of the research has largely focused on the political and socio-economic aspects of the resistance; consequently, the place of spirituality in the armed insurgency has not received adequate attention in the existing literature.
Among the ethnic minorities of the Delta region, the Ogoni and the Ijaw are classic examples of oil-producing communities that have had to fall back on the spiritual resources of their people in the course of their resistance against the Nigerian state and the oil companies. By examining the role of spirituality in the militant struggles of the ethnic minorities of Nigeria's Delta region, the paper seeks to highlight the critical interface between spirituality and resistance.
30 November: Erotic Music and Female 'Renegade' Artistes: A Critical Study of Sexuality and Social Positioning of Women in Contemporary Yoruba Society' Speaker: Dr Adebayo Mosobolaje Chair: John Peel, SOAS
Discussant: Akin Oyetade, SOAS
Erotic music is percussion music, with foreign musical accompaniment, practised by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria for the enjoyment of the urban underclass and the wealthy elite. Its indigenous variety known as efe was popular and its practitioners comprised both men and women. On the contrary, the contemporary Yoruba male religious world, through its foreign religions, prohibits women from performing erotic music but hypocritically tolerates men. The study examines the agency of the erotic music of two prominent women 'renegade' artistes Iyaladuke Abolodefeeloju and Saint Janet in the contemporary Yoruba society governed by foreign religious strictures with a view to establishing their music as performance of power. Using womanist and agency theories to study selected song albums of the artistes, it is observed that the erotic music of the 'renegade' artistes is a domain of aesthetic revolution, women empowerment and subversion of the male religious cultural hegemony. _________________________________________________________________ Africa & Renewable Energy
21 October | 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
in association with the Business Council for Africa
The Centre of African Studies will be holding a joint event with the Business Council for Africa to highlight the issues facing the renewable energy sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is consistently confronted with power shortages; more than 620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity and it is estimated that nearly three-quarters of the electricity demand in sub-Saharan Africa will come from industrial and commercial users by 2040. Consequently, investors are examining renewable energy projects to provide a solution to the energy crisis. Africa's largest privately owned solar power plant is launching this year in Uganda, part of a plan to develop mostly renewable energy electrical power projects in 17 African countries, Reuters reports. The renewable energy sector is fast growing and has the potential to positively impact infrastructure development for the future.
Speakers: Bob Chestnut (NIES), Yacob Mulugetta (UCL), Peter Wright
Chair: Professor Rosaleen Duffy (SOAS)
Click here to register and for more information please contact the Business Council for Africa _________________________________________________________________ Other Drugs: Speculative Capital, Pharmaceutical Markets, and Hustling the Day in Nigeria
22 October 5:00 - 7:00 pm | SOAS, London | Room 4426
In association with the SOAS School of Law, the Centre of African Studies will host a research Seminar with Kris Peterson discussing her latest book "Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria" (Duke University Press). Drawing on the stories and lives of industry executives, pharmaceutical market traders, industry and academic pharmacists, drug marketers, narcotics traders, and regulatory officials, Peterson describes the making of drug chemistries and market dynamics in the aftermath of 1980s liberalization. She particularly focuses on the intertwined nature of pharmaceutical industry speculation and speculative practices found in Nigerian drug markets. Both must anticipate immense market volatility while managing new risks and chronic uncertainty. In tying market actors to both local and transcontinental economic strategies, the book resituates how we think about market making and non-equilibrium theories of neoliberalism in the postcolony and beyond. More information to come. ___________________________________________________________________________ Baraza: Swahili Conference at SOAS
31 October 2015 | 9 am - 5 pm | Room 4429
The submission of the abstract is now closed.
 Free registration will take place on the day of the conference, but a preliminary programme will be made available before the conference. Tea and coffee will be provided. This conference is organised by the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa in collaboration with the Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies. To attend the conference please RSVP at cas@soas.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________ Sudan & South Sudan Seminar Series
The Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London, and the Sudan Society of the UK are pleased to announce the Sudan/South Sudan Seminar Series 2015/2016. The series brings together academics and practitioners concerned with contemporary Sudan and South Sudan to deliver an interdisciplinary series of seminars. We shall discuss a range of legal, economic, political and cultural issues and seek insight into current and future developments in the Sudans.
All seminars will be in room 4429 from 5:15 pm - 7 pm.
16 November 2015
Arms and the Men: Who sells weapons, who uses them, who is killed by them
7 December 2015
Agricultural Potential in the Sudans: past experience and future outlook
11 January 2016
Telling the Story Their Way: The Arts & Social Action in the Sudans
15 February 2016
The Use of Law as an Instrument of Power in Sudan and South Sudan
_________________________________________________________________ Book Discussion: "Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa, 1900-1945"
9 November 2015 | 5:15 pm - 7 pm
edited by P J Havik, A Keese, and M Santos | published by Cambridge Scholars
Speaker: Philip J Havik
In recent years, the question of colonial taxation has become a topic in the academic debate on colonial empires and has led to a comparative, long-term focus on its impact in African societies. Given that former Portuguese colonies in Africa have been largely absent from this debate, this book offers new perspectives on taxation and colonial rule, and the first detailed and comprehensive study of fiscal administration. Besides dealing with the economic and financial aspects of empire, the book interprets the social experience of African populations through their interaction with colonial institutions. Based on a thorough and probing qualitative and quantitative analysis of published and unpublished data, it places taxation in a broad social context for the period between the full military control of the territories and the end of WW II. Thus, whilst engaging with ongoing debates on comparative African economic and political history, the book provides a key contribution to research on African social change.
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Chair: Professor William Clarence-Smith, SOAS
Visit the CAS website for more information
For more information contact cas@soas.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________
Will Africa Feed China? Rumors and Realities
13 November 2015 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Room G3
 Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China.
In this keynote lecture closing the two days long China in Africa Workshop, Deborah Bräutigam will discuss the myths and realities behind the media headlines. He careful research challenges the conventional wisdom: Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? And what role will China play?
Bräutigam's lecture will also explore the role of the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them.
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ________________________________________________________________ The English-Everywhere Agenda in Education in a Highly Multilingual Cameroon: towards a recipe for disaster? by Dr Seraphin Kamdem (SOAS)
23 November 2015 | 5:15 pm - 7 pm | Room 4429
SOAS University of London
This seminar will discuss the recent developments of the English-everywhere agenda in the school education system and critically present some of the pedagogic and operational challenges faced by this contentious agenda.
Dr Seraphin Kamdem holds a PhD from SOAS. His doctoral thesis focused on African languages and education, investigating multilingual adult literacy in the rural areas of Cameroon, in Africa. His initial research into adult literacy as a psycholinguistic skill and an educational activity expanded into investigating issues of social status and identities of adult learners, grassroots agency and institutional development, local ownership and community response, all mediated through literacy as an endogenous and community-based enterprise.
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk |
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|  CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Residential School 2016
Governance for Development in Africa Initiative
To be held 21 to 25 March 2016
Organised by:
Centre of African Studies, SOAS-University of London
Supported by:
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation in association with SOAS and the Centre of African Studies-University of London is organising a Residential School
21-25 March 2016 on the topic of 'Governance and Development in Africa'.
The residential school is for 20 participants who are policy makers, academics, researchers or civil society representatives from any African country who will gain, through this training, new ideas and knowledge on the broad issue of governance and development. We welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds.
Applicants should have at least a MSc degree in areas related to Governance or 5 years professional experiences in fields relevant to the theme of Governance and Development in Africa.
The official language of the School is English.
All costs for successful applicants, including economy flights, visa costs, accommodation and meals, will be covered. No per diem.
Applications should include: - 2 page max CV (including email address for correspondence)
- One reference letter (can be emailed directly by referee to ab17@soas.ac.uk)
- Proposal of max 1000 words outlining research interest and/or professional background and how the applicant will benefit from attending the Residential School
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2015
Please refer to the website for more information or contact cas@soas.ac.uk |
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| Events & Seminars in the UK |
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| "Africa at a Crossroads: Obstacles and Opportunities for Socio-economic Development"
18:00-19:30 | 19 October | J.P. Morgan, Auditorium, 25 Bank Street, E14 5JP |
In celebration of October 2015 Black History Month, the J.P. Morgan employee network group BOLD EMEA is thrilled to invite you to this upcoming event. The event aims to discuss the socio-economic and political challenges Africa faces at this exciting stage of its development. By bringing their diverse experiences of working and doing business in Africa to the fore, our distinguished panel will explore practical responses on how stakeholders can help shape Africa's future.
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Laura Hammond, Head of Development Studies at the world renowned School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
To attend, please register by sending an email to Dr Laura Hammond, laura.hammond@soas.ac.uk by 18:00 Friday, 16 October.
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Driving continued growth in Ethiopia
October 28th and 29th | The Sheraton Addis
Ethiopia, the second most populous country on the African continent has a very strong growth record. GDP growth has averaged 10% a year over the past decade, while GDP per head (on a purchasing power parity basis) has risen by almost 150% over the same period thus presenting an extensive array of opportunities for international and local players alike.
Through a series of one-on-one conversations, presentations, interviews and panel discussions The Economist Events will be exploring Ethiopia's future prospects for growth, questioning policy makers on their future plans and discussing available investment opportunities.
For list of speakers, brochure, registration and further information, click here
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Migration and Global African Diasporas - By Institute of Commonwwealth Studies, University of London
3 November 2015 | 5:15 - 7:45pm | Bedford Room (G37) | Ground Floor | South Block | Senate House, Malet Street | WC1E 7HU
How to get there
Entrance is free.
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Book Launch: One Woman's Journey into the World of Fistula
6pm - 8pm | 17 November 2015 | Brunei Gallery SOAS | Russel Square | United Kingdom
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Department of African Studies & Anthropology
Download the pdf flyer here
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Centre of African Studies Seminars at the University of Cambridge
Weekly Seminars held at 5pm on Mondays in Michaelmas and Lent Term
October 19:
Disruptive Listening in Times of Conflict: The Poet of War and Citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan
October 26:
Popular Fiction in Post-apartheid South Africa
November 2:
The Rifle, The Quill, and the Rosary: Competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali
November 9:
On Folles, Swageurs and other Ambianceurs; Popular Culture and Queer Extraversion in Urban Congo
November 16:
Media Influences in Contemporary Rwandan Dance Performances
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South African Discussion Group
Michaelmas Termcard, 2015
All events are held on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
20 October:
'The foolish build dams: the paradoxes of South Africa's nuclear disarmament', Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Oxford University
3 November:
'South Africa's Female Comrades: Gender and Student Resistance in Soweto, 1984-1989', Emily Bridger, University of Exeter
5 - 6 November
"International Conference on African Diasporas" Thursday 5 November, 5PM – 7PM | Friday 6 November, 9AM – 4:30PM, Oxford University
17 November:
'Indebtedness in South Africa: Mediating capitalism', Deborah James, LSE.
24 November:
'Democracy as Death: The moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa', Jason Hickel, LSE.
8 December:
"Crossing Boundaries 2 - Health Research Relevant to LMIC Across Oxford's Disciplines and Division", Said Business SChool
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Book Discussion: "The Development State: Aid, Culture and Civil Society in Tanzania" with Maia Green
Thursday 29 October 2015 | UCL, London
How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personal lives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention in which the main beneficiaries are those who can claim to undertake development activities. Even for those not formally engaged in the development sector, its discourses influence everyday discussion about class and inequality, poverty and wealth, modernity and tradition. With Tanzania as the country focus, the author shows how the practices of development have infiltrated not only the state at large but many aspects of people's everyday lives.
The seminar will be held in the appropriately named 'Grand Challenges Common Ground' space on the ground floor of the South Wing, Wilkins Building at UCL. To find the room enter UCL through the main gate on Gower Street and the South Wing is across the quad on your right. Any enquiries please contact Claire Mercer (c.c.mercer@lse.ac.uk) or Ben Page (b.page@geog.ucl.ac.uk)
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African Film and Social Change Conference organised by Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster In association with Royal African Society's FILM AFRICA
7th and 8th November 2015 | University of Westminster | 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Newton I. Aduaka and Tunde Kelani
African Film Conference, organised by the Africa Media Centre in association with Royal African Society's FILM AFRICA, will bring together academic scholars and practitioners to discuss how policymakers, filmmakers, and audiences are implicated in changing social relations, affecting the kinds of moving images they can make or want to be made. Key questions relate to how film screen cultures in Africa have advanced or subverted social change in Africa. See attached document for details |
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| Art, Music, Literature & Film |
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| 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Europe's leading art fair dedicated to contemporary African art will return to London for its third edition from the 15th to the 18th of October 2015. A reference to fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1:54 establishes the parameters of the fair's ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and cultural production on an international stage.
1:54 needs your support. 1:54's guided tours, lectures, film screenings, panel debates and Exhibition Catalogue create a foundation from which the creative careers of young artists, collectors, curators, gallerists and writers can be developed. Collaboration and exchange are fundamental. Such interaction allows connections to be made between different generations of international creative professionals and the general public. This is best facilitated by FORUM, a critical conversation series curated by Koyo Kouoh, where expertise and innovation is shared with the public free of charge.
Please support 1:54's kickstarter campaign as they seek to print their Exhibition Catalogues. This publication offers an unparalleled opportunity to disseminate wider voices and perspectives from the African continent.
CAS supports 1:54
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Cambridge African Film Festival
9am - 8pm | 16 - 24 October 2015 | University of Cambridge
The Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF) is the longest-running annual African film festival in the UK. Since 2002, CAFF has been screening some of the best contemporary and classic African films; increasing knowledge and awareness of African and black culture in the East of England; and providing African filmmakers with large and engaged audiences.
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The Royal African Society Present Film Africa Annual Film Festival 2015
30 October - 8 November 2015 | Venues Across London
Film Africa is the Royal African Society's annual London film festival celebrating the best African cinema from across the continent and diaspora. Established in 2011, every year Film Africa brings diverse London audiences a high quality and wide-ranging film programme accompanied by a vibrant series of events, including director Q&As, talks and discussions; professional workshops and master classes; school screenings and family activities; The Industry Forum; and Film Africa LIVE! music nights. Film Africa also recognises and supports new film making talent through The Baobab Award for Best Short Film. Click here to see the trailer
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International Conference - Artist and Empire: New Dynamics
1790 to the present day
Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium
24 - 26 November 2015
We are pleased to announce that Tate is holding a major conference in collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London and Culture at King's College London, to mark the opening of the exhibition Artist and Empire. Scholars, curators and artists from around Britain and the world will consider art created under the conditions of the British Empire, its aftermath, and its future in museum and gallery displays. Scholarship has expanded over the last two decades across a span of disciplines and locations. This conference takes the historic opportunity of the exhibition, featuring diverse artists from the sixteenth century to the present day, to bring together people to meet and share the latest research being developed around this subject. The papers, roundtables and audience discussions will consider the cosmopolitan character of objects and images, and the way geographical, cultural and chronological dislocations have in many instances obscured, changed or suppressed their history, significance and aesthetics. We will also explore how approaches to contemporary art, archives, curation and collecting can help develop new ways to look at them now.
For further information please contact the conference administrator, Jessica Knights, at jessica.knights@tate.org.uk
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Aubrey Williams: Realm of the Sun
8 October - 21 November 2015
 October Gallery, London, will present an exhibition by Aubrey Williams, introducing works previously unseen. Aubrey Williams' distinctive contribution to 20th century British art as a master of painterly abstraction is increasingly recognized; a contemporary of Alan Davie and Peter Lanyon, Williams' work invites productive comparison but has yet to receive comparable attention. Williams was an integral part of the explosion of creativity and optimism amongst Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals in London at the time. This cultural ferment was exemplified in the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), established in 1966. Williams was a founder member of CAM and participated fully in its activities.
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Online Auction: Contemporary Art from Africa and the Diaspora
20th October | 2pm (UK) 
This online auction of contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora features recognised artists, including: Cheri Samba, Julien Sinzogan, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ephrem Solomon and Owusu-Ankomah. This year the auction will also focus on work by artists from the African diaspora, including Chris Ofili, Sokari Douglas Camp and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Estimates range from £500 up to £36,000 - making it appealing to both first-time buyers and international collectors of contemporary art.
View the auction catalouge
Pictured: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Cemetery, Est.: £36,000 - 45,000 ___________________________________________________________________________
Somali Week Festival 2015
Kayd Somali Arts and Culture, in collaboration with partners is proud to present Somali Week Festival (SWF) 2015. This year's festival will run from Friday 23 October to Sunday 1 November at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG and various other venues.
Somali Week Festival is an integral part of Black History Month and offers the best of Somali arts and culture, both old and new. The festival offers a mix of events including poetry, literature, panel discussions, documentary film screenings and music. Through these different artistic forms, Somali Week Festival has explored a variety of themes in past years and has become a widely recognised and anticipated annual event in the UK. This year's festival is centred on the theme of 'space'. It's about experimenting with innovative and emerging spaces for Somali arts. It's an opportunity to reflect on the spaces we have inhabited and carved out for the arts over the years, and the spaces that are being eroded or are currently under threat, while looking forward to developing, expanding and enriching new spaces. Festival participants will be invited to explore what it means to inhabit, create, move between and beyond different artistic spaces, be they physical or psychological, public or private.
If you would like further information about Somali Week Festival, book tickets or a stall, or volunteer, please email info@kayd.org. For the latest news and updates, follow us on Twitter @somaliweekfest
Please click here to view the full programme ___________________________________________________________________________ Music for Liberia Concert
A stellar classical, African and jazz line-up, including: the Heath Quartet (string quartet), Simo Lagnawi (guembri), Renato D'Aiello (saxaphone), Rowena Calvert ('cello), Suntou Susso (kora), Deelee Dubé (vocals), Usifu Jalloh (storytelling), and more.
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Fellowships & Funding Opportunities |
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The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships
The Ibrahim Fellowships form a selective programme designed to mentor future African leaders. The fellows receive mentoring from current leaders on key multilateral institutions.
Application Process: Prospective fellows who meet the eligibility criteria are invited to apply directly to the current hosts once the application process opens. The timeline for applications is: - Process opens Wednesday, 9 September 2015
- deadline for submissions – Monday, 9 November 2015
- notification of successful candidate – Wednesday, 27 January 2016
- anticipated start date – early May 2016.
Eligibility Criteria: - National of an African country
- 7-10 years of relevant work experience
- master's degree
- under the age of 40, or 45 for women with children
- any additional criteria as set by the host.
Please visit the Fellowship website for more information and instructions for submitting an application. _______________________________________________________________
DST-NRF Fellowships for Early Career Researchers from the UK
Funding is available for Early Career Researchers from the UK to pursue academic research at South African universities or eligible research institutes. The deadline for applications is the 11th of January 2016 and details about the schemes and how to apply can be found here.
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The Studenship is available with stipend and full fees payable for EU and non-Eu/EEA candidates. Applications are due for submission by Friday 23 October 2015. Details for the application can be found here
_______________________________________________________________ Application now open for the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM 2016 Do you want to be on the organising committee for the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM 2016? Apply now!
The African Development Forum (ADF) is a one-day conference on development in Africa, which has been running at SOAS since 2012. You can see the theme and programme for this year's conference, which took place in the Brunei Gallery on Saturday 14th March 2015, on our website (click for link). We are now really excited about passing on the flame to a new committee who can build on our successes and create a successful ADF in 2016.
We are looking to recruit a team of 10 passionate and committed individuals. Even if you will not be at SOAS for the entire academic year, you may be able to be involved, as the conference usually takes place in the second term. For more information about the committee roles: please email us for the document with the full role descriptions in, at 549338@soas.ac.uk or 616857@soas.ac.uk, as it cannot be attached here.
We would encourage you to consider the roles and think about where you feel you can contribute. A variety of ideas and approaches is always welcome.
Please choose a role that you think suits you and send us a CV and cover message by email, which shows us why you suit the role you have chosen, by midnight on Friday 23rd October, to 549338@soas.ac.uk or 616857@soas.ac.uk.
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Film Africa Volunteering Opportunity - Urgent call for Application. Film Africa 2015 will take place in venues across London from 30 October to 8 November. We're looking for enthusiastic people to join our Volunteer team and help out with the following tasks: click here for more details
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