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.
2012
January
13/01/12
- Oral Literatures in African Societies: Contexts of Growth and Decline
Professor Jean Darive; Chaired by Professor Graham Furniss
19/01/12
- Book Launch: The Struggle for Modern Nigeria: The Biafran War 1966-1970
Kaye Whiteman, Frederick Forsyth and Dipo Salimonou
31/01/12
- Jeremy Lefroy, MP - TBC
Jeremy Lefroy, MP
February
02/02/12
- Documentary Screening: Duniya Juyi Juyi (How life goes)
Hannah Hoechner; Chair: Professor Murray Last
A doc-drama by and about Almajirai, directed by Abdullahi Yahayo Sa'ad (Kano, Nigeria 2011)
03/02/12
- Direct Lexical Elicitation: Notes from the Field
Bonny Sands , Northern Arizona University
07/02/12
- Book Launch: Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State
Mary Harper (author); Rageh Omaar; Mohammed Adow; Chair: professor Ioan Lewis
09/02/12
- What do we know about urbanisation in sub-Saharan africa and why does it matter?
Deborah Potts; Discussant: Michael Walls
This is the first of a series of seminars organised by the Centre of African Studies on the African city.
13/02/12
16/02/12
- Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages
Please refer to the programme
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
22/02/12
- Why are the main means by which urban dwellers avoid hunger ignored?
David Satterthwaite
23/02/12
- The Poetry of Belonging: Epiphanies and Shades in a Digital World
Chris Zithulele Mann; Chair: Professor Jeff Opland
23/02/12
- Urbanisation without Infrastructures in African Cities: Who Fills in the Gap?
Adriana Allen (DPU/UCL); David Sutterthewaite (discussant)
March
01/03/12
- Participatory governance in African cities
Barbara Lipietz; Susan Parnell
This event is part of the Africa Seminar series on the African City, organised by the Centre of African Studies.
02/03/12
- Book launch: "Britain and Africa under Blair" and "Civil War and Democracy in West Africa"
Julia Gallagher and David Harris
05/03/12
- 'Our Own Correspondents' - Working as a Foreign Correspondent
Mary Harper and Richard Hamilton
06/03/12
07/03/12
- Framing the African City: The Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF) as Mediascape
Lindiwe Dovey; Discussant: Carli Coetzee
This seminar is part of the Africa Seminar series on the Africa City, organised by the Centre of African Studies
08/03/12
10/03/12
- Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Africa Conference 2012
Various
A one day conference on the potentials of economic development in Africa, and the role of entrepreneurs and governments.
10/03/12
- Conference: Entrepreneurship and Development in Africa
Various
A 1-day conference organised by the Centre of African Studies, University of London in association with Sub-Saharan Consulting Group
15/03/12
- Mining in Tanzania: Who gets the benefits?
Alan Roe, Debbie Bryceson and Jesper Jønsson
April
24/04/12
- Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan and Its Impact
H.E. Berhanu Kebede, Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the United Kingdom
The Ambassador will highlight the Plan’s impact on the country’s past and future development and the benefits it brings in terms of regional peace and security.
Rescheduled
May
08/05/12
- HIV/AIDS in Africa - has biomedical innovation changed the game?
Prof Alan Whiteside, Hein Marais
15/05/12
- The First President: A life of John L Dube, Founding President of the ANC
Heather Hughes (author); Professor Shula Marks
23/05/12
- Dyad - Sculptures by Sokari Douglas Camp
Sculptures by Sokari Douglas Camp
23/05/12
- What Picasso knew: Highlighting Contemporary African Art
Sokari Douglas Camp
Annual Lecture 2012
24/05/12
29/05/12
- New African Energy - The Ripple Effect
various
Cross sector investment prospects from the continent’s new Oil and Gas discoveries
and renewable energy developments.
29/05/12
- What does it mean to be African in the 21st Century
Kwame Glevey; Chaired by Chege Githiora
Talk and book launch.
30/05/12
- The Plight of Widows. Africa Women's Experience
Dr Nwanne Onyemenem; Chaired by Chege
31/05/12
- Sudan and South Sudan: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr Safwat Fanous (University of Khartoum); Dr Laqm Akol (SPLM-DC)
July
07/07/12
- Building The Africa-Gives Platform
Hon Chuka Umunna MP; Herman Chinery-Hesse
"Africa-Gives" will network young Africans in the diaspora to share their experiences of Africa and will inspire a new generation to seize the growing opportunities in a fast changing continent. it will provide connections and support to allow you to further development in Africa.
The "Africa-Gives" Conference is an AFFORD initiative, in collaboration with the Centre of African Studies, SOAS
September
11/09/12
- Book Launch: Region-building in Southern Africa
Chris Saunders, Dawn Naga, David Simon
October
04/10/12
- Of Agency and Entitlement: A Feminist Analysis into Violence against Sex Workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Sehin Teferra Ayele (SOAS, MIF Fellow)
11/10/12
18/10/12
- Illuminating the darkness. Blacks and North African in Islam
Habeeb Akande (author); Chair tbc
26/10/12
November
07/11/12
- Food security - is Business the answer? Where does the power lie – with the producers or consumers?
Perez Ochieng, CEO, Sacoma (Sahara communities abroad); Chaired by Dr Michael Jennings (SOAS)
Food security - is business the answer?
Where does the power lie – with the producers or consumers?
12/11/12
- Book Launch: Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal
Cleo Cantone (SOAS, author); Louis Brenner (SOAS); Geoffry King (SOAS)
24/11/12
- Religion and Diaspora: African Migrants' Religious Networks in Britain and Europe
The list of speakers is confirmed in the programme
This one-day event brings together African Muslim and Christian religious practitioners with historians, anthropologists and scholars of religion
29/11/12
- Contemporary Art in Nigeria
Dr Edewor Uyoyou Nelson (Nigeria sculptor/Leventis Visiting Fellow)
December
06/12/12
- Democracy and Media in Tanzania
Ananilea Nkya (Executive Director of the Tanzania Media Women’s Association), Ben Taylor (Daraja)
06/12/12
- Frameworks for Africa-UK Collaboration in Research: The Nairobi Report and Beyond
Professor Graham Furniss (Pro-Director for Research nad Enterprise, SOAS)
