Ambassador Prudence Bushnell hosted an informal discussion with undergraduate and graduate students regarding careers in Foreign Service, in international affairs, working for the U.S. federal government and policy-making in Washington, D.C. Prudence Bushnell, a retired career Foreign Service Officer, served the United States government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Genocide

New publication by African Studies affiliate faculty Maya Smith Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries by University of Wisconsin Press. The study explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of first and second-generation Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, it depicts how they make sense of

African Studies professors Ron Krabill and Daniel Hoffman recently wrote these two short articles for the website Africa is a Country. The Seattle Afrikan Premier League Ibrahim Usman’s Road to Qatar

The Ottenberg-Winans Fellowship Fund was established to honor the contributions of Professors Simon Ottenberg and Edgar V. Winans to the African Studies Program at the University of Washington and to the field of African Studies. During their distinguished careers, Professors Ottenberg and Winans taught and mentored numerous students and advanced scholarship on Africa. Recipients of

Dr. Ibrahima Seck offered two lectures at the University of Washington in both Bothell and Seattle campuses, May 29 2018.  His lectures discussed the history of the German Coast in the wider context of the Atlantic slave trade and touched on many topics related to the cultural legacies of slavery in Louisiana, which showed deeper

African Studies affiliated faculty Lynn Thomas, Johanna Crane and Nora Kenworthy just published a collection of essays from their “Humanistic Perspectives on U.S. Global Health Partnerships in Africa and Beyond” project. This publication is online at *Medicine Anthropology Theory*: http://medanthrotheory.org/issue/5-2/

Last March 1st 2018 Honorable Halifa Sallah, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of  The Gambia, spoke at the African Studies program at UW on citizens’ participation and transparent elections becoming increasingly threatened by dangerous political actors around the world. However, recent democratic experiments in Africa provide important lessons about the opportunities and

UW Assistant Professor in French & Italian Studies Maya Smith published a fantastic article for Nerdist titled “Why Black Panther is Destined for Commercial Success,” touching on the Marvel Comics pop culture phenomenon Black Panther. She also met with Marcie Sillman and writer/podcast host Carvell Wallace to discuss the importance of the film in relation to the

Paul Farmer, Chief Strategist and Co-founder, Partners in Health, and Professor and Chair of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School visited the UW for a series of events on February 7 and 8, 2018. Events were sponsored by the African Studies Program and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Medical anthropologist and physician Paul

The African Studies program was proud to host Dr. Sandra Frempong’s 2018 Let’s Explore Africa Quiz Competition for grade school students in Thomson Hall on January 20th. Below are some photos of the fun!