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2024 Call for Co-Panelists

Party organisations in Africa: appropriating and challenging global political practices

Political parties as organisations are expected to link societies to the state. The colonial and post-colonial context in which they […]

Islam, Social Welfare and Charity in Africa

In Aminata Sow Fall’s 1979 novel, The Beggar’s Strike (La Grève des Battu), Dakar’s beggars strike to protest the plan […]

Framing Africa: The Geopolitical Discourse of Fictional African Countries and US Foreign Policy

The portrayal of fictional African countries in media often perpetuates stereotypes and misconceptions about the African continent, its people, and […]

Democracy and Dictatorship in Africa and Latin America

Democracies in Africa and Latin America share many common challenges: weak institutional foundations, dissatisfied voters, strong presidents who exploit incumbency […]

Africa’s Environment in Atlantic History

Atlantic environmental history has become an established subfield among scholars of the Atlantic world to highlight the overlaps between the […]

Gender, Sexuality and Memory

Our panel will focus on literary, visual, and other cultural productions as acts of memory and memorialization that code and […]

Fight of the Century: The Rumble in the Jungle 50 years on

In the year marking the 50th anniversary of 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle, we invite papers responding to this Cold […]

Religion and Spirituality in Africa

Are you passionate about exploring the rich and diverse religious and spiritual practices across Africa? We are seeking co-panelists to […]

Representations of Women in Third Generation African and African-American Novels

Third generation African and African-American writers are defined as those who are born within the 1960’s and beyond; whose literary […]

Competing and Coexisting Vernaculars in Science, Technology, and Health in Africa

Various individuals and groups have laid claim to expertise in scientific, technological, and medical domains in different parts of Africa […]
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