• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Thursdays 3.30pm
• Web Address: https://africanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/all-events
• Organising department: Centre for African Studies

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 15:30 - Bridge Contracts for Mobile Money in Kenya
  Jonathan Greenacre (Boston University)

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 15:30 - Political belonging in the Ghana-Togo borderlands: citizenship and the vote at the margins of the state
  Nathalie Raunet (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 15:30 - Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
  Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago)

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 15:30 - Does Ethnic Stacking Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ascriptive Loyalty for Coup Proofing
  Kristen A. Harkness (University of St. Andrews)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 15:30 - Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
  Joanna Allan

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 15:30 - Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana
  Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana/London School of Economics and Political Science)

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 15:30 - The Soldier, the Activist, and the Writer: On Telling a Family Story of Colonial Afterlives
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 15:30 - The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
  Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)