Forthcoming events

30th March - Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self. Some anthropological reflections

3rd-4th June - Cadbury Workshop 2019: Law, Custom, and Urban Property in Africa

22nd May - Global Urbanism @ Bham

22nd May - Fage lecture 2019 - Propositions of the (non)urban: dancing the future away

2nd May - Materials of African literatures

12th December - Putting Satan at the Centre: Rethinking Contemporary Global Christianity in Nigeria and Beyond

5th December - Ambivalent belonging: Born-again Christians between Africa and Europe

28th November - 'Bora Uhai': Performing Digital Vernaculars in Kenya

21st November - Air pollution in East Africa: urbanization and inequalities

14th November - African commercial organization on the Gold Coast in the 17th century

7th November - Imperative Conditionals; Black Speculative thought and the co-designed futurity

31st October - Mining, waste and environmental thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000

24th October - The Gold Route to Timbuktu: Tracing Medieval Trans-Saharan Camel Caravan Networks from Morocco to Mali

17th October - The (other) property ladder: Taxation and the construction of analogue property rights in Lagos

10th October - From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing fantasies and new experiences in the South African Lowveld

3rd October - School Design in Africa: Issues and Challenges for 21st Century Learning

11th-13th September - ASAUK conference 2018

13th April - Writivism at five and the Future of African Literature

10th-12th April - Between Slavery and Post-slavery

19th March - Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity: Métis and Claims to/of French Citizenship in Twentieth Century Colonial Francophone Africa

14th March - Prophets, Evangelists, and Missionaries: Trans-Atlantic Interactions in the Emergence of Nigerian Pentecostalism

7th March - Hackers of the Heart: Cons, Virtual Intimacy, and the Sorcery of the Internet in Abidjan

28th February - The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics Since 1950

21st February - Bureaucracy from Below: Stabilising Land Rights after Zimbabwe's Land Reform Program

7th February - Making Concessions: Power and Ecstasis in the Congolese rainforest

31st January - Colonialism, Political Transition and Politics of Redress in Nigeria

24th January - Today We Become: Echoing the Past to Negotiate the Landscape of Postcolony

17th January - The Suffering Subject: Flogging Scandals in Colonial Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public Sphere, 1912-1933

10th January - Indirect Rule, the Mission Encounter and Witchcraft in Colonial South-eastern Congo, 1910-1960

10th November - Re-thinking Sunjata: epics, oral literature & translation in West Africa

9th October - Africa Writes Pop-Up Birmingham With Chinelo Okparanta, Jowhor Ile and Olumide Popoola

19th April - Gender, violence, and the children born of war in Northern Uganda: new directions in research

12th-14th November - Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects in African history: rethinking historical evidence and its interpretation

21st-23rd May - Cadbury Conference 2015: Money Judgments

25th March - Becoming local citizens: migrants, the politics of difference and agrarian clientelism in the Gambia

18th March - Zambia's commemoration of Livingstone in 1973: Kaunda, humanism and the politics of the uni-party state

11th March - role of discourse in Zimbabwe's current succession politics

25th February - Black power in Caribbean context

11th February - Alioune Diop and the 1966 Festival mondial des arts nègres: cultural ideology under pressure

4th February - Nyerere in Scotland: the roots of Ujamaa?

28th January - Christian divine healing, zionism, and British imperial networks in Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1896-1914

10th December - Slavery and Freedom in colonial Sierra Leone, 1898-1956

3rd December - Niger's natural resources: blessing or curse?

26th November - The Fage Lecture 2014

19th November - Getting rich in rural Hausaland

12th November - Structure, function, and text of Iregun music in Yagbaland, Kogi State, Nigeria.

29th October - Dokta Waziri Omari Nyange: fifty years of intervention in Tanzanian nation building

22nd October - Oil and rural infrastructure development

15th October - Be graceful, patient, ever prayerful': negotiating femininity, respect and the religious

8th October - Contemporary dance, self and social mobility in urban Senegal.

26th March - How archaeology contributes to African history and interdisciplinary research: evidence from Benin

12th March - War in Northern Uganda: background and effects

5th March - Economy and Colonial History: German Togo and the Cotton Project

26th February - From Tuareg nationalism to Jihad: changing patterns of militancy in Mali

5th February - Black Gold in Ghana: socio-economic implications for women in the oil communities

29th January - A murder and its aftermath: land, race and violence after Apartheid

22nd January - South Africa, 1960-1: from 'Wind of Change' to armed struggle

15th January - Heroic Imperialists in Africa: the promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870-1939

11th December - Hiding in plain site: drone culture or sensing Africa remotely

4th December - Re-thinking race and class in twentieth century South Africa

27th November - War in Northern Uganda: background and effects

20th November - Youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta

30th October - Class and informal economic restructuring

23rd October - East African railways and harbours 1945-60: labour resistance to a 'crisis of accumulation'

22nd October - Adapting to Climate Change: Coping with the Effects of Weather Changes in Rural Sierra Leone

9th October - French perceptions of Algerian society at the onset of colonial conquest (ca.1840-1860)

2nd October - The price of death: understanding the township funeral industry in South Africa

4th September - Panel Discussion

4th-6th September - Crossroads in African Studies

17th May-18th June - The Cadbury Conference 2013: African newspaper cultures

19th March - Hiding in plain site: drone culture or sensing Africa remotely

5th March - Urban slums in Durban, South Africa

22nd February - Postgraduate Workshop: sites of memory

5th February - Round Table: focus on sources

30th January - The rule of fear: state violence in colonial Kenya, 1952-1955

23rd January - Round Table: focus on the Danford Collection

15th January - "The idea of the nation was superior to race": transforming racial contours, social attitudes, and decolonizing French Empire from La Réunion 1946-1973

8th January - Conundrums of cash: wage rhythms, wealth circulation and the ethics of the economy on the Zimbabwean-South African border

27th November - Yesterdays slaves: politics of belonging and struggles for citizenship amongst the Gando of Benin

20th November - Property and labour in Faya-Largeau, Northern Chad

6th November - Famine and post-slavery society in tunduru, Tanzania 1929-1963

23rd October - Trajectories of activism: contemporary anti-slavery movements (Niger, Mauritania, Mali and the Parisian diaspora)

16th October - African warfare in Bahia and Cuba 1807-1844

9th October - Memories of slavery and resistance to the slave trade in Northern Ghana: The kanbon (foreign enslaver) in time and space

26th September - Migration and emancipation in West Africa's labour history: the missing links

4th September - The 'invisible people': Hratin of Mauritania and Southern Morocco

21st March - Power and Powerlessness: Africa's Capital Cities