🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

A new exhibition has landed in our Centre & Library! Explore these brilliant collages of photo-copied Zambian archival material from the Royal Commonwealth Society Collection held at Cambridge University Library. The workshop was put on by Cambridge Visual Culture fellows Sana & Kerstin. 🔗 in bio for more!

Following a successful trial of Africa Commons, we have acquired permanent access to the rich database of nearly 600,000 digitized items. loom.ly/GLmYXQU African Studies Library - Cambridge University #africacommons #africanstudies #cambridge #cambridgeuniversity #digitialresources #archives #africa

'Sex'-on-the-rocks: Geometric rock art & musical expressions amongst the African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers in search of 'balance', 'harmony' Dr Catherine Namono, African Studies Visiting Fellow 22/04/2024, 13.00-15.00, Gatsby Room, Wolfson College bit.ly/3Q3wOIs

The CfA is open for our Visiting Research Fellowships! Apply by Friday 31 May 2024.

Join African Studies for the Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies. This year we are excited to have the esteemed Professor Amina Mama with us from UC Davis. Register to attend in person eventbrite.com/e/the-audrey-r…… or via our livestream eventbrite.com/e/the-audrey-r…

📢New digitised collection! Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library is complete! 7000+ images have been added to the collection page, selected from 23 archive collections & more than 40 print items 🔗 in bio for more!

📰 Did you know we have several periodical magazines and journals on display in the library for you to peruse? Come check them out! A full list can be found on our website (link in bio)

Siyabonga Njica talks about his work investigating the history of exiled South African writers and artists - gatescambridge.org/about/news/exc… Cambridge History Darwin College African Studies Lucy Cavendish College GatesCambridgeAlumni

One week to go!!! Book your place for the Memorial 2007 Annual Lecture with Professor Sir #HilaryBeckles and hosted by Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Wed 2 October 2024 from 6:30pm-9pm UK time. Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU. shorturl.at/CnPNi #PostColonialism

📢Our departmental seminar series kicks off next Tues 15 October at 12.30 in the Sociology Seminar Room. Join us to discuss the problem of white normativity. Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Duke University Chair: Professor Patrick Baert, Cambridge University bit.ly/3TQj45G

📣 Frontiers of Faith network inaugural event 'Buddha Remoulding: Discourses, adaptations, and futurities of an emerging religiosity in Madagascar' a 3-year ethnographic study presented by Xuefei Shi (CHR Michelsen Institute, Bergen) 17 October at 2pm crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/43612

📜We’ve accepted pamphlet correspondences from HMSO with East & South Africa c. 1921-26 donated by Leo Amery & his son, Julian. Both father & son were war correspondents with Leo having covered the Boer War. 🖇️Click the link in our bio to view the list and to request a viewing!

'Assembling Shaolin in Zambia: African trainees programme, cultural heritage, and philanthropy' A presentation by Hangwei Li (German Institute of Development and Sustainability) A hybrid event by the Frontiers of Faith network on 7 November at 2pm crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/43775

Welcome Dr Siyabonga Njica, who joins Cambridge History & Lucy Cavendish College as Research Fellow in Global African History funded by the Isaac Newton Trust. This 3-year post will advance his work on African & diasporic intellectual histories, developed African Studies hist.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-siyabo…

📢Upcoming event! Displacement, War and the Future of Sudan 🗓️ 10 Dec 2024 🕕 6 - 8:30pm 📍Warburg Auditorium, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB Sharath Srinivasan will be a panellist in this high-profile event that seeks to bring new insights to Sudan's urgent displacement emergency.

Friday Lecture: 'Explaining Sudan’s Catastrophe: From Popular Revolution to Coup, War and Famine' Sharath Srinivasan analyses Sudan’s descent into a war that is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Friday, 28 Feb 2025 - 1.00pm All details here: lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2…

💫 Cambridge Festival Join us for the film premiere of Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the City of Cambridge 🗓️ 28 March 6-7.30pm 📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DD crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/40837

Calling African researchers in the humanities and social sciences! We are accepting applications for our CAS Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025-26 until 30 May 2025.

Join us at Emmanuel College for the Audrey Richards Lecture in African Studies on Tuesday 27th May at 5pm. All welcome.