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Shifting Alliances and Dynamic Threats in the Sahel

The Sahel, a vast swathe of semi-arid land stretching across Africa, grapples with a confluence of crises. Focusing on Burkina […]

Asia and Africa in Emerging World Order: Opportunities and Contested South-South Cooperation

Africa of today is global Africa It is deeply connected with developed, emerging, and developing countries worldwide. Africa’s emergence as […]

Epidemiological Legacies and African Medical Systems

Across the African continent, the disease “epidemic” has been an influential organizing construct within everyday life, both historically and today. […]

Feminist Amefricanity: Resistance and Representation in Contemporary Cultural Production

In 1988, Afro-Brazilian anthropologist Lélia Gonzalez advocated for a paradigm shift in her essay “A Categoria Político-Cultural de Amefricanidade” (“The […]

Political Economy of Development

This panel examines topics related to the political economy of development in contemporary African economies. Political Economy – especially macro- […]

Women and Gender in pre-1800 (West) Africa

I am seeking two-three presenters and a chair and/or discussant for a panel that broadly addresses women and gender in […]

Africa, Sustainable Development and Global Waste Disposal

In 2015, the United Nations adopted The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as a universal call to action to end poverty, […]

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] (Author Meets Critic Roundtable) Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa

Extended deadline: March 22 Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant […]

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] “Maji ni Uhai. Water is Life:” Indigenous vs. Colonial Epistemologies of Water

Extended deadline: March 22 Across the African continent processes and technologies of nineteenth-century European imperialism, especially land treaties, weaponized rivers, […]

Globalization and the Lives of Women in Africa

The 1980s IMF’s and World Bank’s Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) sort to orient developing economies toward the market. It is […]
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