The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar
In this seminar we hosted Antonia Witt of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Their lecture is titled The African Union and Post-Coup In...
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The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on th...
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20 of 93 episodesThe Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in K...
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Pr...
The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and...
An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford,...
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled:...
Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department.
Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana
For this seminar we hosted George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). Professor Bob-Milliar's lecture is title...
Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya
For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his research and fieldwork experiences with th...
Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way...
To the Volcano and Other Stories
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal...
The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context
Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the fourth of f...
Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta
David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the third of five papers delivere...
Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt
Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the second of five papers delivered...
Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire
Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the first of five papers deli...
Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria
Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria.
Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in...
Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Ob...
The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch)
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio Marco Di Nunzio speaks about his new book, The Act of Living. The book explores the relation between develo...