In the Jackson School’s spring lecture series, Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region, the African Studies program was to partner with Latin American and Caribbean Studies to host Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro speaking on indigenous Blackness and queer politics in Garifuna communities in New York. Watch the Lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq0jxEjoRY

The African Studies program finished the 2020-2021 academic year with an amazing 1-day symposium organized by Jackson School Ph.D. candidate Francis Abugbilla and Communications Ph.D. student Meagan Doll.  Panels featured current “works-in-progress” from Africanist graduate students around campus at different stages of the Ph.D. process.  Given the challenges of research under current conditions, the symposium provided an opportunity for students

Burkina Faso fighters seek protection with spiritual rituals By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press APRIL 29, 2021 — 8:40A OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Antoine Ouedraogo didn’t run when Islamic extremist fighters killed his colleagues only feet away from him in northern Burkina Faso. Instead, the 53-year-old says, he simply recited a secret word and became invisible. Continue

Monica Rojas-Stewart, Ph.D.; Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Dance Submitted by Lisa Kwak on February 25, 2021 – 5:12pm To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight a different Black dance artist in the