Podcasts from the UCLA African Studies Center
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
African Readiness For Climate Change 2021 (Welcome Remarks)
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021) Welcome remarks from Dr. Andrew Apter and Ms. Annie de la Bouillerie Goeke.
The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice (Nnimmo Bassey)
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021) “The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice,” with Nnimmo Bass...
Water Resource Management in Africa from Space (Mekonnen Gebremichael)
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021) “Water Resource Management in Africa from Space,” by Mekonnen Gebremichael, Professor, ...
Natalia Molebatsi, South African Poet
12 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Natalia Molebatsi is a Pan-Africanist cultural worker who has been responsible for introducing the work of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison to the post-...
"History on Trial: Mau Mau and the High Court of Justice" Caroline Elkins
03 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The UCLA African Studies Center's Coleman Memorial Lecture will feature Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies...
“Kenyan Muslim Women Leadership in Education” Ousseina Alidou
09 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is part of the Monday African Studies Center Seminar (MASCS) organized this fall by the graduate students in the Master’s program in Af...
“The Role Played by the 12 Disciples of Nelson Mandela in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle, 1960-1991”
16 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is part of the Monday African Studies Center Seminar (MASCS) organized this fall by the graduate students in the Master’s program in Af...
"Private Anti-Piracy Navies and Pirate Maritime Security"
15 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Author John-Clark Levin will discuss how the security situation off the Horn of Africa has affected the development of private warships and its role w...
"The Missing Middle: Global Development Policy Faces a World Full of Religion"
13 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion presents Stephen K. Commins, a lecturer in Urban Planning and the Associate Director of Global Public Affair...
"Exhibiting the Sacred: The Altar as Museum, the Museum as the Altar"
13 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Professors in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts will present an analysis of Afric...
"From Ruga-Ruga to Askari: Intersections between African History and Military History"
06 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Based on a revisionist approach to military history, Michelle Moyd uncovers the intentional lives of African colonial conscripts.
Imagined Congos: Displays of Early Colonial Hegemony
26 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast of lecture given by Allen F. Roberts of UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/ Dance
Margaret Bourke-White and Dawn of Apartheid Photo Exhibit
26 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast by Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington
Africans in China: some key empirical, methodological and theoretical questions
26 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna, delivered the Coleman Memorial Lecture held annually in honor and memory of James S. Coleman, a pioneer ...
Choreographic performance and politics in 20th century Urban Senegal
25 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast of a lecture by visiting anthropology professor Hélène Neveu Kringelbach from Oxford University.
Hermeneutics and African Philosophy
25 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast of Professor Bekele Gutema, Fulbright Fellow, Howard University and Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University presenting the opening lectu...
Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs and Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa
05 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast of a public lecture by Professor Peter Pels, Leiden University
Media Hope and African Capacity
01 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Farah Chaudhry and Chip Duncan
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Islam and the Making of the Public Space
27 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. He leads Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies at the School of Internati...
Manthia Diawara will provide an analysis of the films of Abderrhamane Sissako and Haroun Mahat Saleh
26 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Manthia Diawara, NYU.
Azmari in Hollywood
22 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by filmmaker Leelai Demoz
Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema
22 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A Podcast by Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara.
African Women in War Zones: A Feminist Perspective
22 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Amina Mama, University of California, Davis
Framing Biopolitics: Jo Ramaka's Cinema of Power
21 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Akinwumi Adesokan, Indiana University
Locking Hoes and Horns: Ethnic Contestation in Ankole
31 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast by Christopher Muhoozi African Presidential Scholar, University of Michigan Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda from his public talk.
James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Oral Tradition, Religious Syncretism and Politics: The Example of Cote d'Ivoire
20 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with writer, academic, artist and author of books for young people, Véronique Tadjo.
African Conflict and the Paradox of Change (5th Annual AAA Conference)
15 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Myralyn O. A. Nartey, Doctoral Student, UCLA School of Public Health
Concept Analysis: Exploring Health Consideration for Aging Nigerian Immigrants in the United States (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Anaebere, UCLA School of Nursing
Interrogating the Interstices of Race, Religion and Health in a Transnational Context (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Diana Burnett, Yale Divinity School
The New Progress Philosophy: Addressing Development and Psychology from the Traditional Perspective (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Marvin Boateng, California Lutheran University, Department of Public Policy
A Myth of Benign Humanitarianism, Militarism and Womens Rights: A Case Study of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Amber Murrey-Ndewa, Syracuse University, Pan-African Studies
Relating Modernity, Conflict and Sexual Violence: Discourses of Violence against Women in Post-war Sierra Leone (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dayo Spencer, UCLA School of Public Health
North African Women in Madrid: Intersections of Race, Religion and Gender and the 2004 Law Against Gender Violence (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Kristina Benson, UCLA Islamic Studies
The Colonial Hauntings of Contemporary Gender- based Violence in Conflict Zones (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Beyene, UCLA Department of Women's Studies
Tracing the Development of the Code of Personal Status: The Tunisian Case (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Rayed Khedher, UCLA Department of Anthropology
The State and the Performing Arts in Zimbabwe: Friends or Foe? (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Mlalazi, Villa Aurora Writer in Exile Feuchtwanger Fellow
Creating New Leaders: Youth Involvement in Community Activism in South Africa (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Amber Reed, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Hating the Postcolony Properly: Hip Hop Aesthetics in Kenya (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Himmelman, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town
Space and Time in Socialist Tanzania: The Dodoma Capital Project (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Duncan Yoon, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
A Conflicted Curriculum: Student Perceptions of Gender in Kenyan Social Studies Textbooks (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Foulds, UCLA Department of Education
Chinese Presence in Africa: Trade, Investment, Diplomatic and Cultural Ties (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffany Man, UCLA International Development Studies
Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Maasai Group Ranches in Kenya (5th Annual AAA Conference)
14 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Willis Oyugi, UCLA Department of History
James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: The Development and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya
10 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Zeleza examines the forces and factors that led to the 2007 election violence in Kenya.
The Arts of "Making Do": The Artists of the Grand Rue
30 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Smith
Narratives of Now: Opening and Keynote
30 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
African Activist Association's Fourth Annual Conference.
Aya de Yopougon: A More Palatable Africa
29 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Bumatay
Learning to Pray: Images of Violence Against Women in the Novels of Amma Darko
29 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Shanique Streete
The Development of Tunisian Theatrical Experience: A Review of Its History from the Colonial Era to the Present
29 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Rayed Khedher
From Kuxa Kanema to Dockanema: The Re-emergence of Mozambican Cinema
29 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Cassandra Tesch
Artists of the Green Sahara: Using Rock Art to Contextualize the Archaeology and History of the Sahara
26 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
E. Bryan Cooper Owens
Adinkra as Metaphor: Visual Representation of Akan Culture
26 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Glenda Adjei
Inscribing the Sacred: African Traditions of Arabic Calligraphy
26 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Hassan Hussein
From the Battle of Algiers to the Lyrical Battle for Ears: A Brief Introduction to Algerian Hip Hop
25 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Mouna Mana
Cigars, Champagne, and Convertibles: Coup-decale Music and the Performance of an African Identity
25 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Katelyn Knox
Rappin' Griots: Indigenizing Senegalese Hip Hop
25 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Appert
The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and the April 2009 Elections
15 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with author and journalist Mark Gevisser and Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Kraft. Featuring special guest actor Blair Underwood.
US-Africa Relations Hampered by Colonial Legacy
03 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Haskell Ward, one of the UCLA African Studies Center's first and most distinguished master's graduates, argues in a campus lecture that U.S. policy on...