Events this person is hosting:

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership
  TBA

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - "Here Comes Everything”: recent developments in the Nigerian novel’
  Chris Dunton
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - ‘Governing in the Shadows’ (Book launch)
  Paula Cristina Roque
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Towards a new polity in Sudan? Breaking the coup-transition cycle’: A hybrid event with Sudanese academics and activists
  Various Speakers
  African Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA: GHANA’S ROLE IN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
  Please register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenges-to-democracy-in-west-africa-ghanas-role-tickets-536012456687
  Albert Kan-Dapaah (Hon. Minister of National Security)

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - African Studies Centre, Annual Lecture - Transnational Feminism in an Age of Genocide
  Professor Amina Mama (University of California, Davis)

Events this person is organising:

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership
  TBA

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Driving Africa's prosperity through sustainable and innovative practices
  TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
  TBA

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - "Beyond Mere Inspiration: Tackling the Challenges of Leadership in Sierra Leone"
  TBA
• 17:00 - The 2019 African Studies Annual Lecture: “Edouard Glissant and the Right to Opacity: Some Trembling Thoughts on the State of Critical Theory in Francophone Africa”
  TBA

Thursday 27 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and African Diaspora
  TBA

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Ruth First's Red Suitcase:In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory. Book Launch: Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
  Carli Coetzee
  African studies Seminar

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Book Launch: Transforming Rwanda – Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction
  This event stands cancelled. Due to a health emergency, the speaker has been advised not to travel.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jean-Paul Kimonyo (Senior Adviser, Office of the President of Rwanda; Fellow, Rift Valley Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria
  Pedi Obani (University of Benin and United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa)
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Book launch of State and Society in Nigeria
  Gavin Williams (University of Oxford), Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford), Portia Roelofs (University of Oxford)
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Rethinking (Post-)Work through Racial Capitalism
  William Monteith ((Queen Mary University of London))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Ethnography for Digital Natives? Rethinking Form and Content in a New Text on Contemporary Angola
  Jess Auerbach ((Open University of Mauritius and Stellenbosch University))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Making Theory from the Periphery: Notes from a Practical Attempt to Decolonise Research
  Nanjala Nyabola ((Independent))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch of Shadows of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the ANC, 1943 to 1996
  Robert Van Niekerk ( (University of the Witwatersrand)), Vishnu Padayachee ((University of Kwazulu-Natal))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Forgetting Westgate? Rectified Sites of Violence and the Politics of Memory in East Africa's ‘War on Terror’
  Andrea Purdekova ((University of Bath))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The History of Public Preaching and Public Sound in Northern Nigeria
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Is Africa Ready for Alternative Politics? What and Who are the Alternatives?
  TBA
  Redesigning Democracy

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - ‘Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya’
  Elizabeth Cooper (Simon Fraser University)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Sardine Politics, Staged Marches, and a Phantom President: Anti/Imperial Politics and the Activist Pursuit of Social Justice in Cameroon
  Amber Murray (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - "Here Comes Everything”: recent developments in the Nigerian novel’
  Chris Dunton
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - ‘Governing in the Shadows’ (Book launch)
  Paula Cristina Roque
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Towards a new polity in Sudan? Breaking the coup-transition cycle’: A hybrid event with Sudanese academics and activists
  Various Speakers
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Curating Contemporary African Art in the Public Space in Saint-Denis (Paris)
  Riason Naidoo (Independant)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Book Launch: Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science (African Minds, 2022), by David Mills, Patricia Kingori, Abigail Branford, Samuel Chatio, Natasha Robinson, and Paulina Tindana
  David Mills (University of Oxford), Abigail Branford (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - A Responsibility to Build: The Political and Moral Economy of Quality in Addis Ababa's Construction Boom
  Marco Di Nunzio (University of Birmingham)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - CANCELLED: Making Freetown: Infrastructures of an Emerging Colonial Urbanity
  Milo Gough (University of Strathclyde)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Children and Youth in African History: Thinking Africa through Age and Aging
  Sarah Emily Duff (Colby College)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Humanitarian Fables in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Myfanwy James (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Missionary (Re)collecting from a Collapsing Empire: Museum Collections and the Dutch Spiritan Fathers in Late Colonial Angola
  Rita Almaral (Utrecht University)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Male Health and Wellbeing in Harare, Zimbabwe: A historical and gendered analysis of urban sexual Health
  Kudakwashe Chitofiri

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy
  Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Speaker Event on African Diplomacy followed by a free drinks & networking reception
  H.E. Fatou Bensouda, High Commissioner of the Gambia to the UK

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - African Studies Centre, Annual Lecture - Transnational Feminism in an Age of Genocide
  Professor Amina Mama (University of California, Davis)