African Studies Centre

About African Studies Centre

The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on the continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Africa. Alongside the vibrant doctoral programmes, the MSc in African Studies, inaugurated in 2006, is already recognised as Europe's most prestigious and successful training programme in its field.

Publisher

Oxford University

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 May 2009

Latest episode

21 May 2021

Latest episodes

93 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 May 2021

   The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar

   In this seminar we hosted Antonia Witt of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Their lecture is titled The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar.

2. 

   12 Mar 2021

   The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands

   In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands".

3. 

   5 Mar 2021

   Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs

   In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs.

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