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

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 15:30 - Book talk: The African in the Making of Cuban Art
  Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz (Indiana University and University of Cape Town)

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 15:30 - Book talk: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
  José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 15:30 - Philanthropy, Business Elites and New Forms of Political Contention in West and Central Africa
  Corentin Cohen (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 15:30 - ‘Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: The Loyalties of Professionals’ (Book Launch)
  M.T. Howard

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 15:30 - The RDA: the Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement in Black French Africa
  Lyn Kouadio (University College, Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 15:30 - Researching Reconciliation and Repression in 1960s Kenya
  Niels Boender

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:30 - “God Can’t Bless You If You Work for Someone Else”: Informality and Entrepreneurship in Urban Zambia
  Kristina Pikovskaia (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:30 - Extractives-led Development and state-building in Botswana? A Historical Political Economy of Post-colonial Botswana’s Engagement with De Beers and Regional Geopolitical Insecurity
  Jorich Loubser

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 15:30 - Doing research on, in and around state buildings in Africa: Reflections from Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
  Innocent Batsani-Ncube (University of London)

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 15:30 - 'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
  Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 15:30 - Forging Global Black Identities: Pan-African Consciousness and the Transnational Lives of Second-Generation Africans in the UK
  Mikal Woldu (SOAS)