Invitation to Join Author Meets Critics Panel
March 21, 2022
The Author Meets Critics panel launches a new book published by Rowman and Littlefield. Bantu Authorities: Apartheid’s System of Race […]
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Annual Meetings
Environmental Sustainability in Africa
March 21, 2022
This paper investigates the nexus between environmental justice as a concept, the indigenous people of southern Nigeria’s understanding of this […]
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Disturbing Gazes and Synesthetic Discomfort in sub-Saharan Africa
March 10, 2022
This panel considers the use of disgust in postcolonial cultural productions from/about sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on disturbing cultural productions (comics, […]
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African(a) Traditions vis-à-vis Western Philosophy & Esotericism
March 08, 2022
Majoritarian currents of Euro-American esoteric thought (e.g., Spiritualism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, Ceremonial/Crowleyan Magick, Neo-Paganism, Chaos Magic, etc.) frequently overlook, oversimplify, and/or […]
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Women and Gender in Collective Memory and Sites of Public History
March 08, 2022
I am seeking 2-3 presenters and a chair and/or discussant for a panel that examines gendered representations of the past […]
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Youth in Africa
March 07, 2022
Youth make up a majority of the growing population across many African countries, and therefore are increasingly a focus of […]
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New Horizons in Knowledge Production: Emerging Scholars and the Frontlines of African Studies Research
March 07, 2022
Octavia Butler’s famous quote, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” captures the ongoing tension […]
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African Neoliberalisms: New Transformations and Configurations of the Relations between Labor and Finance
March 03, 2022
The term ‘neoliberalism’ has become synonymous with the historical trajectory that saw the ‘end’ of labor and the dominance of […]
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“Preventing”/”Deterring” African Migration: a focus on local actors and reception
March 03, 2022
Throughout Africa, funded by the international agencies, the European Union, and the African states themselves, campaigns against emigration flourish from […]
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Migration: [Un]Welcome African immigrants to East Asia
March 02, 2022
A different perspective to examine the causes of African immigration to Asia, taking into consideration the differences between an African […]
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