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Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter, Heart of innocence, 2021 #WomensArt

Reminder: Our #OpenCall for 2025 applications for Senior and Postdoctoral #Fellowships is now open! 🗓️Deadline: October 1, 2024. Visit our website for eligibility and application details. theafricainstitute.org/institute-prog… #sharjah #africanstudies #africandiaspora #residencies

📷 AfricanStudiesCentre AfricanStudiesCentre Apply for the Africa Thesis Award 2024! Are you interested in Africa and is your master's thesis on a related subject? Your thesis will be published in the ASCL's African Studies Collection. ascleiden.nl/content/africa…

#HappyBirthday to #JamesBaldwin (1924–1987). Did you know he and #MayaAngelou (1928–2014) were friends? She discusses their friendship in this blog post. We are home to the collections of Baldwin and Angelou #SchomburgCenter #NYPL #Baldwin ow.ly/pov750SOg62

A deep dive awaits in September 2024! 📘🌊 While we all hold our breath, you can pre-order your copies of Siphokazi Jonas' 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐀 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 now from siphokazijonas.com 💙 🇿🇦 South Africa only (Limited copies available) #WeepingBecomesARiver

The Freudian Research Seminar Series #CfP We are excited to announce the Freudian Research Seminar Series. We welcome papers from PhD students and Researchers that explore the themes of our forthcoming exhibition: Women&Freud. Deadline: Nov 15 Email: [email protected]

Lebanon-born photographer Rania Matar, known for her images of women of her home country #WomensArt

Friends, I am happy to share that The Africa Institute will from November 14 to 16 hold a major conference in honor of the distinguished Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire who went to be with the ancestors in March 2020. The conference will be held under the theme "New Directions

🔔 Reminder! Applications for the next round of USF Seminar Series Awards funding are now open! Don't miss the deadline—17th February 2025. Visit the USF website for more details and spread the word! #USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies ow.ly/cCnS50Ug4zR

In 'Liberating Masculinities,' Kopano Ratele posits that all masculinities are working models, and some models might be more unworkable given the prevailing structural conditions. #HSRCReads loom.ly/8qDd1dU HSRC Press

Workshopping 📝 Exploring 🧶 Envisioning 🌍 Refining Visions of a Transformed Future. The #AfricaCharter Steering Committee is in Accra Association of African Universities developing a #theoryofchange for the Charter to guide its programme of work and explore the visions for global systems of #scholarship

The next AEH special issue will be prepared by Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD from Howard University and Mariana Candido from Emory University The call for papers is out! We welcome abstracts for papers in English, French, and Portuguese by February 15th. View the CFP here... dropbox.com/scl/fi/nhzat2u…

🔥 Banned on publication, now in English for the first time. Shaaban Robert’s Rosa Mistika is a groundbreaking Swahili classic—unflinching in its portrayal of womanhood, desire, survival, and the brutal double standards that shape a young girl’s fate.

Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera’s first US solo show opens at Boston’s waterfront, exploring race and class in striking contemporary art. 🎨 theconversation.com/zimbabwean-art… 💻 Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Harvard University University #ArtsCultureAndSociety

In October 1945, the Fifth Pan-African Congress convened at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester, uniting African and Caribbean leaders and activists in their call for an end to colonialism and racial injustice. Attendees included future African presidents and prominent

Kofi Annan embodied diplomacy & compassion — serving as UN Secretary-General, championing human rights, mediating global conflict, and always advocating that peace isn’t merely an ideal but a responsibility. His legacy lives on in every effort towards justice and unity.

A dear friend of mine just bought this old edition of July's People by South African Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer. Isn't there something special about old editions and their covers! Or different editions of a favourite novel or book? Small preciousness. 🎉

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Ksh-2490 📍Links Arcade first floor-Nyali,Mombasa 0712 295 414

We are deeply concerned by reports of Operation Dudula visiting schools seeking to unlawfully deny undocumented foreign national children access to education. Attempting to block any child from accessing education is illegal and violates the Constitution which guarantees the