Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar we hosted Antonia Witt of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Their lecture is t...
The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: I...
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Be...
The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teach...
An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow...
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amste...
Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department.
Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this seminar we hosted George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). ...
Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his re...
Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate Univer...
To the Volcano and Other Stories
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyz...
The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Commu...
Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. T...
Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This...
Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' worksho...
Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Societ...
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
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues...
Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in ...
The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch)
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio Marco Di Nunzio speaks about his new book, The Act of Living. The b...
Joao Lourenco's reform agenda in post Dos Santos Angola: Ambiguities and asymmetries
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar with Rui Verde
Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. Dr M...
The earth compels: Forces of destruction and creation in the history of African popular culture
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Karin Barber delivers keynote lecture for 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communiti...
Unmasking Africana in British Art
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor
The politics of distribution in Ethiopia's 'developmental state'
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Tom Lavers A growing literature highlights the pursuit of 'double-digit growth' and i...
Public health and gender: Assumptions, disjunctures in practice, and implications for HIV prevention within marriages in Kenya
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Roseanne Njiru In Kenya, marriage is a significant contributor to adult HIV infection...
What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo Abstract: This talk presents a critique of aid discourses of suc...
Student activism in an era of decolonization
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre a...
When We Speak of Nothing (book launch and discussion)
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Olumide Popoola and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf. For the last seminar of Michaelmas Term, we we...
Burma Boys: World War II, memory and popular culture in central Nigeria
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Oliver Owen (Oxford) This ongoing research showcases oral history work with surviving...
Fashioning Africa at Brighton Museum
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Edith Ojo (Brighton based arts freelancer) & Nicola Stylianou (MoDa, Middlesex Univer...
Making Somaliland: Popular culture, identity and national consciousness
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Yusuf Kajura Serunkuma (Makerere University) Exploiting the craft and aesthetics of p...
Transactions: Revisiting how domination worked in colonial Africa
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Florence Bernault (Sciences Po)
Gender, Spectacle and Nation-making in Post-WWII Nigeria
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
ASC seminar by Judith Byfield (Cornell University). Byfield offers a riveting narrative of the unexp...
IAB Inauguration and Lecture by Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Yemi Osinbajo inaugurates the ASC's new International Advisory Board with a lecture on 'The Cha...
Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of Darfur
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Suad Musa kicks off a new term of ASC seminars by launching her new book. Al-Hakkamat Baggara women ...
Democracy in Africa
14 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Booklaunch of Democracy in Africa which provides the 1st comprehensive overview of the history of co...
African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising?
02 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, gives the 2015 Annual Lecture for the Af...
Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa
25 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Joint Seminar of the African Studies Centre and Reuters Institute. Speakers; Catherine Gichuru (Edit...
African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces
18 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark, gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Based on ethn...
African Studies and Horn of Africa Seminar: South Sudan Crisis Roundtable
18 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Roundtable discussion looking at the ongoing crisis in South Sudan Chair: Jason Mosley, Chatham Hous...
'Live Dangerously Brothers': Liberia's Ex-Combatants and their place in the post war city
28 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, gives a talk for the A...
What are friends for? Friendship and Public life in the post colony: African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2013
13 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Wale Adebanwi, Associate Professor, African American and African Studies, University of California-D...
Transitional justice in the Somali setting
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, gives a talk for the Horn of Africa sem...
State-building in Somali Studies: Future framework
22 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.
Insider-outsider and gendered dynamics for Somali researchers in Somalia
22 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.
The evolving role of Islamist groups in Somali politics
22 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.
Crisis and displacement; different solutions for different kinds of displaced
22 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.
Growing up in the New South Africa
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Bray (Independent Scholar, Oxford) gives a talk for the African Studies seminar series on 7th...
The return of garrison rule in the Ethiopian Ogaden, 2006-2012
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Hagmann (Roskilde University) gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series on 28 Febru...
Human rights in Africa: opportunities and challenges
07 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture 2013. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Righ...
The ANC in Exile
25 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Ellis (Free University, Amsterdam) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar serie...
'Now we are all workers.' The remaking of marginality on the streets of Addis Ababa's inner city
13 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Di Nunzio (Université Libre de Bruxelles) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar...
The British Army and Mau Mau, 1952-56
04 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Huw Bennett (Aberystwyth University), gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series on ...
2012 Annual African Studies lecture. Diaspora and Spiritual Awakening: Religion and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Life of Kwame Nkrumah
22 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard) gives the 2012 Annual African Studies Centre Lecture.
Surviving on the Margins: Youth and the Underground Oil Economy in the Niger Delta
15 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Ugor (Birmingham) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series on 10th May 2012.
Somalia after the London Meeting: How Much Difference Does a Day Make?
08 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Hammond (SOAS) gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series. In association with the Ho...
Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle
12 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8t...
Buganda Nationalism in the 21st Century
05 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault, Research Associate, Cambridge, gives a talk for the African Studies Ce...
Kenya's Somalia Invasion: Security, Development and Humanitarian Assistance in Eastern Africa
24 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Anderson gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on 23rd February 2012.
The Legitimation of Criminal Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: international, national and localised courts
21 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nikki Palmer (Oxford) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series on 8th February.
The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, Power and Mobilisation under Ethnic Federalism
06 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Aalen, Bergen University, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series on 2nd February...
Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa
23 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Susan Williams (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London)gives a talk for the African Studies Ce...
The Killing Fields: The Impact of the Global Arms Trade on Africa
29 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Feinstein gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on the arms trade and its impac...
Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform: Politics, Production and Accumulation
18 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Phillan Zamchiya (International Development/St Antonys), gives a talk for the African Studies Semina...
Potency and the Role of the Environment in KhoeSan medicine
18 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Low, African Studies, Oxford, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series.
African Local Knowledge: Natural, Biomedical and Supernatural Ideas about Livestock Health
18 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Brown (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine) and William Beinart (African Studies/St Anto...
Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd
08 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Jonny Steinberg, (African Studies/St Antony's) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar S...
The Ecology of Conflict: Human-Wildlife Conflict on the Hwange National Park Boundary, Zimbabwe'
31 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Loveridge (Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology) gives a talk for the St John's Colle...
Climate Change and Conflict in Sudan: what if development is not the answer to save Darfur?
31 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Verhoeven (Politics/St Cross) gives a talk for the St John's College Colloquium on Environment...
Ethnic violence, water scarcity and managing resources to promote peace
31 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Witsenburg (Both ENDS and Max Plank Institute for Anthropology) gives a talk for the College C...
Cruising through Uncertainty: Mobile Phone Practices and the Politics of Respect in Southern Mozambique
27 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Archambault (African Studies/St Annes College), gives a talk for the African Studies Centre.
ORENGA Special Lecture - Fashola's Lagos: the man, the method, the megacity
27 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, gives a special lecture for the African Studies...
Witchcraft and the Colonial Life of the Fetish (African History and Politics Seminar)
22 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Florence Bernault (Wisconsin) presents her work on the historical role of 'fetish' and 'wi...
'Rubber Will Not Keep in this Country' - Failed Development in Benin, 1897-1921 (African History and Politics Seminar)
22 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr James Fenske (Oxford) presents his ongoing research on the history of the rubber trade in Benin, ...
The Politics of Legal Pluralism: the Case of Community Policing in Mozambique and Swaziland (African Studies Seminar)
22 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Helene Maria Kyed (DIIS) looks at the role of community policing in Mozambique and Swaziland.
Worldliness, Citiness, Postcolonial Life and Thinking from the South
01 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Achille Mbembe, Professor of Social Theory, University of Stellenbosch, gives the second 2011 Africa...
'City, Art, Motion: Rethinking the "Now" in Johannesburg' (Annual Lecture 2011)
01 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Nuttal, Research Professor, Department of English, University of Stellenbosch, gives the first...
Ethnicity, Power and Kinship. Female Chiefs in Tanzania, 1870-1940
23 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Heide Schmidt, Professor of African Studies, University of Vienna, gives a talk for the African Stud...
Pan-African Solidarity in the Central African Federation, 1953-1963 (African History and Politics Seminar)
17 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Zoe Grove, PhD student at Keele University, presents her research on the history of the Central Afri...
How to Build a Successful Opposition Party in Africa (African History and Politics Seminar)
17 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sata, President of Zambia's leading opposition party, the Patriotic Front (PF), presents a t...
Women, Sports and Societies in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African History and Politics Seminar)
13 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Women's Sport in Africa conference (University of Oxford, 7 Mar 2011), Prof. Nauright...
Support Democracy Abroad: The Record in Africa
14 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nuffi...
The Fischer Lecture: Human Rights and the Law in South Africa (African Studies Seminar/Rhodes House Trust)
06 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
George Bizos SC, human rights lawyer and defense barrister for Nelson Mandela, gives the 2011 Bram F...
Politics and Genocide: Rwanda (African Studies Seminar)
06 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Omar McDoom (London School of Economics) looks at a single community in southern Rwanda, using sp...
Encountering Islam in Eastern African: Transnational History and Imperialism, c. 1880-1930 (Global and Imperial History Research Seminar)
09 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Anderson (Oxford University) examines the tumultuous history in the Jubaland area of southern ...
The case of the slave ship Progresso: the Royal Navy, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Cape (African Studies Centre Seminar)
09 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Harries examines the surprising role the Cape played in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the...
Dambisa Moyo Lecture (African History and Politics Seminar)
01 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dambisa Moyo, the internationally renowned author and economist, presents material from her books, D...
100 Years of 'Struggle' Between the Polity and the Market in South Africa (African History and Politics Seminar)
29 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'A Luta Continua! Reflections on 100 Years of "Struggle" Between the Polity and the Market in South ...
20 Years of Multi-Partyism in Kenya (African Studies Seminar)
25 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A roundtable discussion examining the current state of Kenyan politics, twenty years after it change...
Development as an Alien Culture: the purposes of governance in South Africa
26 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jonny Steinberg gives the 2010 Africa Studies Centre Annual lecture held on 11th June 2010, Nissa...
Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal
16 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the i...
Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony
05 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jean Comaroff gives the 2008 African Studies Annual Lecture on the situation in South Afri...