The Department of African Studies and Anthropology hosts regular open seminars and talks throughout the year.
Invocation of ‘Political’ Curses: Informalization of Party Politics in Ghana
Dr George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University for Science and Technology
[event in collaboration with MASH]
Wed 6 Oct 3.15pm
Labouring in Hype: Tanzanian Technologists and Digital Health in an Era of Techno-Optimism
Dr Tom Neumark, University of Oslo
Wed 13 Oct 3.15pm
Differing Agendas between Colonial Officials and Local Actors in Colonial Education Provision and Expansion in the Gold Coast,1918 - 1957
Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, University of Bristol
Struggle for Legitimacy and Control
Dr Nathalie Raunet, Free University Berlin
Annual Fage Lecture: The Time of Letters: Epistolarity and Nigerian Newsprint Cultures, 1920s-1960s
Professor Stephanie Newell, Yale University
Discussant: Professor Dame Karin Barber CBE, FBA, University of
Birmingham and London School of Economics
Michael Sata, Party Branding, and the Politics of Historical Memory in Zambia, c. 2001-2011
Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa, University of Cape Town and University of Zambia
[event in collaboration with MASH]
3:15-4:45 pm (UK) via Zoom unless otherwise stated
Please use the links provided to register in advance.