📢📢 Call for Proposals: Join a research and publishing consortium Violence, gender and power: feminist struggles around violence against women. 📅Deadline is 30th June, 2022 Find out more: feministafrica.net/wp-content/upl…

NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE – Africa, film theory and globalization: Reflections on the first ten years of the Journal of African Cinemas Keyan Gray Tomaselli marks the journal’s ten-year anniversary by exploring its origins, development and achievements. screenworlds.org/publications/o…

Dr. Katrina Daly Thompson has been appointed the Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities UW–Madison Congratulations, Katrina!

What’s the connection between #chicagofootwork and #afrobeats ? I explore this in ‘Soulcraft’ — a theorize a way to think about Blackness and Technology — appears in this groundbreaking special issue of ‘Interrogating Digital Blackness’ in SMS - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

My journal article titled UNRULY ARCHIVES: LITERARY FORM AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGINARY is out in English Literary History (ELH) published by John’s Hopkins University Press. Please read + share! muse.jhu.edu/article/856433…

Our very own Professor Mougoué made the list below 🎉 amaka.studio/explore/articl…

Join the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and WARA - West African Research Association for the WARA Midwest Regional Conference July 26–27, 2022 africa.wisc.edu/wara-midwest-c…

"Professor Ann Biersteker is one woman whose love for Kenyan languages has done marvels for their promotion, both in Kenya and overseas." Daily Nation #MSUASC nation.africa/kenya/life-and…

POWERFUL FREQUENCIES: Radio, State Power, & the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002 by @mjmoorman @OhioUnivPress "Aptly captures the multiple dimensions of the enduring power of radio in mediating different historical moments in Angola." 📖: combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821423707/… #HistoryThursdays

★ Just published a new episode of MSU Press Podcast: On Publishing with Catherine Cocks and Caitlin Tyler-Richards. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/e25aa659

We are putting together a podcast to explain how the journal goes about peer-reviewing, selecting, copy-editing, and publishing. We invite any and all questions! #demystifyingJAH #AfricanHistory #publishing #AcademicTwitter

Our very own Professor England on WPR 🎉

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Mary Sibande's dynamic sculpture "Sower in the Field" was shipped by cargo ship, train and truck from South Africa to UW–Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art as part of an initiative to celebrate #contemporaryAfricanart. African Cultural Studies @ UW Madison UW-Madison Arts African Studies Program at UW-Madison onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/exhibition/see…

Congratulations to newly-minted PhD, Dr. Sarah Gamalinda, who is also an incoming Assistant Professor of French at Lawrence University 🎉🎉🎉 Chapeau!

Our Editor in Chief Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd is currently in Berlin where she gave the keynote address at the launch of @ikontinental’s publishing house centered on translating African Books. instagram.com/p/ChtIdAqooU4/…

New book alert 🎉🎉🎉 msupress.org/9781611864380/…

RIP Jean-Luc Godard. We remember when he cast then 21-year-old Senegalese theoretician and revolutionary Omar Blondin Diop in his 1967 cult classic, 'La Chinoise'

Spanning generations, countries, genres, and forms, our editor-in-chief Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd’s feminist library collection is an intricate ode to the importance of African feminism in literature. Check out this essay on what she’d curate for a feminist archive. brittlepaper.com/2022/09/my-afr…