The African Studies Review together with the ASA Board launched a distinguished lecture in 2011 featuring state of the art research in African Studies.
ASR Distinguished Lecturers:
2023 James Ogude
“Decoloniality and its fissures: Whose decolonial turn?”
2022 Amina Mama
“‘The Point is to Change the World’: Imagining Pan-African Epistemic Community in the Global Neoliberal Era”
“African Voices Matter: Fifty Years of Historical Research in Southern Africa”
2019, Fallou Ngom
“Beyond Orality: Non-Europhone Sources and African Studies in the 21st Century”
“When ‘green’ equals thorny and mean: The politics and costs of environmental experiments in East Africa”
“Youth Struggles: From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter and Beyond”
2016 Peter Geschiere
“Tempting Transgressions – Same Sex Practices as a Challenge in African Studies” published as “A ‘Vortex of Identities’: Freemasonry, Witchcraft, and Postcolonial Homophobia”
“Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies”
“Integrated Yet Marginalized: Implications of Globalization for African Development”
“African Women’s Movements in the Twentieth Century: A Hidden History”
