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Collection: African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 23 January 2025

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

Tuesday 4 March 2025

17:30 - War in the Congo: Rebels, Rwanda & Resources
His Excellency Mr. Ndolamb Ngokwey (Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩)

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)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Monday 12 May 2025

15:00 - African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)

Thursday 16 October 2025

15:30 - Bridge Contracts for Mobile Money in Kenya
Jonathan Greenacre (Boston University)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

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)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 30 October 2025

15:30 - Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

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)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 13 November 2025

15:30 - Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
Joanna Allan
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

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)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Tuesday 25 November 2025

17:00 - The Rhodes Legacy at Oxford and beyond; and the Zimbabwean sculpture exhibition at St Mary’s university church (Speakers TBC)
Various Speakers

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)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 4 December 2025

15:30 - The Town and Gown in Ibadan: Re-exploring the Legends of Mbari
Olutayo C. Adesina (University of Ibadan)
African Studies Centre Research Seminars

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