• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: African Studies Centre (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Thursdays, 3:30-5:00
• Web Address: https://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/all-events

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - ‘China and Angola: All weather friendship or strategic partnership?’
  TBA

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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