Events
The Centre's activities are diverse and many. The majority of its members are lecturers of the University of London, contributing to the teaching of undergraduate and Masters degrees and the supervision of Doctoral research within the humanities, social sciences and sciences. One of the most important functions of the Centre is to act as a forum for regional and interdisciplinary co-operation within the University of London which is predominantly organised through membership of disciplinary departments. Other activities of the Centre include representation on international and national committees for African scholarship, research and understanding; establishing and supporting funded schemes for Visiting Scholars from Africa; linking academe, government, and business through meetings, workshops and conferences promoting Africanist research and understanding, and through meetings of the Africa Business Group; raising the profile of its members for interdisciplinary research and consultancy, and much more.
In pursuit of its aims, the Centre maintains a broad range of institutional liaisons with other Africanist centres in Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Commonwealth and the United States. It publishes its own briefing newsletter, African News, with a distribution of over 800 copies, three times a year. The Centre also keeps members informed of news, events and meetings on Africa throughout the year through the e-mail group mailing system run from the Centre office.
2011
January
14/01/11
- Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths & Realities
Book launch and discussion with Ian Scoones, Robin Palmer, Sobona Mtisi, Blessing – Miles Tendi and Professor Stephen Chan
February
02/02/11
- West Africa Series: Oil & Governance
Discussion with Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Professor Jedrzei George Fryna and Anthony Goldman
08/02/11
- South Africa pushed to the limit: The political economy of change
Hein Marais and John Sender
Book Launch of South Africa pushed to the limit: The political economy of change with John Sender and Hein Marais.
08/02/11
- Africa Culture and Language Research in China
Speaker Sun Xiaomeng, Vice Dean, Associate Professor in the Asian-African Studies Institute of Beijing Foreign Studies University
10/02/11
- Talk by Aua Balde - African Human Rights System : A Lusophone Guide
Aua Balde ( Centre for African Studies ) Governance for Development in Africa Initiative Fellow
24/02/11
- Launch "Including Street Children" a collaborative research report looking at the situation of street children in Durban, South Africa
Lord Paul Boateng, Stephen Chan, OBE, Professor of International Relations at SOAS , Tom Hewitt, MBE from Umthombo Street Children, South Africa and Joe Walker, Director of Street Action.
March
03/03/11
- Health and HIV/Aids in Tanzania
Speakers Basia Zaba from LSHTM, Mike Jennings. SOAS
07/03/11
- A Just Defiance
Peter Harris
10/03/11
- Art Education in Kenya
All Tkachuk (MASK), Donal Maingi (Birbeck College, University of London), Mercy Kagia (Kingston University), Nicholas Addision (Institute of Education, University of London), Chair Chege Githiora ( SOAS, University of London)
11/03/11
- Africa - A tale of two continents and why prosperity continues to elude us The case of Zambia
Elias C Chipimo Jnr (Managing Partner and Senior partner,Corpus Legal Practitioners/ President of theNational Restoration -Party)
17/03/11
- From Herero to the Mau Mau: Litigation Repatriation Initiatives for Colonial Atrocity
Speakers: Professor David Anderson and Dr Gewald Jan-Bart. Chair: Robert Murtfeld
This panel explores the joint case on litigating reparations initiatives for the Herero Genocide in Germany South-West Africa (1904-08) and the Mau Mau Emergency in British Kenya (1952-1960).
April
04/04/11
- Zimbabwe: Women's struggle for Land Rights and New Livelihoods
Patience Mutopo (Ruzivo Trust, Harare, and University of Clogne)
05/04/11
- Ancient Ethiopian Gold Coinage- not onky a demostration of might and statehood
Professor Dr Wolfgang Hahn
06/04/11
- Book Launch The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories
Speakers: Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Rapporteur UNESCO International Scientific Committee, Slave Route Project (Paris) / Senior Fellow Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
May
14/05/11
17/05/11
- CAS & Hurst & Co. Publishers Book Launch A History of Namibia Marion Wallace
Marion Wallace, Wayne Dooling & Randolph Vigne
17/05/11
- Democratic transitions in Central Africa?
Dr Phil Clark, Zachary Lomo & Mareike Schomerus
19/05/11
- Sierra Leone - an intimitate analysis
John Birchall
19/05/11
- The European Mapping of Ethiopia, 1573-1856
Professor Christopher Clapham
June
07/06/11
- Book Launch: Season of Rains: Africa in the World
Author Stephen Ellis - Respondent Williams Wallis - Chair Richerd Dowden
16/06/11
- Leishmaniasis in Ethiopia
Doctor Pascale Kropf
21/06/11
- CAS Annual Lecture ‘Indigenous Languages and the African Renaissance’
Prof. Tope Omoniyi, Roehampton University
23/06/11
- Business in Africa: What is next?
Karen Ellis (ODI); Daniel Large (Political Consultant); Tara O'Connor (Africa Risk Consulting); Professor Tunde Ogowewo ( King's College London); Simon Quinn ( University of Oxford)
This conference will tackle the influence of government policy on the business climate, the ongoing link with India and China, the role of public sector and entrepreneurship and the role of natural resources for the future.
July
13/07/11
14/07/11
- Are there still Jews in Ethiopia?
Sybil Sheridan
September
19/09/11
October
03/10/11
- Poor Numbers? What do we know about income and growth in Sub Sahara Africa?
Morten Jerven (Simon Fraser University) & Dr Deborah Johnston (SOAS)
20/10/11
- DFID's Private Sector Work & Plans
Gavin McGillivray
The Engine of Development - Private Sector & Prosperity for Poor People, DFID's Private Sector Work & Plans
20/10/11
27/10/11
- Africa Seminar Series - The Place we Call Home & Other Poems
Professor Kofi Anyidoho
November
01/11/11
- Seun Kuti in conversation with Stephen Chan and Lucy Duran
Seun Kuti (musician), Stephen Chan (SOAS), Lucy Duran (SOAS)
03/11/11
07/11/11
- Book Launch: Everyday Heroes
Francis Mensah Williams (author); chaired by Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell
Nominated as one of the Top 20 Inspirational Females from the Africa Diaspora in Europe
17/11/11
- History and Culture of the Okun People of Central Nigeria
Clement Bakinde
History and Culture of the Okun People of Central Nigeria: Origins,
Migrations, Trade Patterns and Urbanisation
17/11/11
22/11/11
- Book Launch: Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South Africa Frontier
Author: Kevin Shillington, Chair: Wayne Dooling
24/11/11
- Ethnography and Fiction in Angola and Moçambique
Ana Maria Mão de Ferro Martinho Gale
24/11/11
25/11/11
29/11/11
- The effect of the Eurozone Crisis on successful African countries
Dr Dirk Willem te Velde
30/11/11
December
01/12/11
- Book Launch - Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers
John Markakis (author), Laura Hammond (SOAS), David Styan (Birkbeck) and Gaim Kibreab (LSBU)
06/12/11
- Democracy and Development in Nigeria: The case for partnerships that create economic opportunities
Chijioke Uzome Nwakodo (Special Advisor Planning and Policy to the Abia State Government, Nigeria)
Chijioke Nwakodo will argue that there is need to institutionalise the development process outside politics and strengthen those stakeholders that can sustain it.
09/12/11
- Violence, Memory and Commemoration: Perspectives From Southern, East and Central Africa
Tom Lodge (Limerick University), Rachel Ibreck (Limerick University), Annie Coombes (Birkbeck College)
Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series
17/12/11
- Challenges and Prospects of State-Building in Post-Secession Sudan
Abdel Wahab Al Afandi, Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani, Lutz Otte, Stefan Wolff, Peter Woodward
