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

First-year doctoral student in international studies, Yasir Zaidan, pens an article titled “Sudan’s transitional national security” on how Sudan’s revolution is going through a tough transition following the removal of ex-President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir two years ago.

New York, NY – 14 December 2020 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-eighth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French at the University of Washington, for Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders. Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries, published by the University

Yasir Zaidan, a first-year doctoral student in international studies at the Jackson School, writes an opinion piece about how recent imposed punitive measures against Ethiopia over a dam could plunge an entire region into chaos. Zaidan’s research focuses on the Horn of Africa and Red Sea security. Read full piece

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Statement by the African Studies Association on Police Violence and Racism in the United States

Congratulations to Francis for his continuing to propel our world forward – featured in this May 25 article for his help to Ghana in the COVID-19 response: “Mr Francis Abugbilla, a 33-year-old Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Student, has supported the Zebilla Hospital in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region with (PPE) and

Photo: Francis Abugbilla interviews Avraham Yago, leader of the Etz Hayim Synagogue in Abidjan, C’ôte d’Ivoire By Francis Abugbilla On September 19, 2002, a failed coup d’état in Côte d’Ivoire transformed into a military-political conflict that ravaged the country and divided it into two zones from 2002-2007. When elections in 2010 resulted in the victory