African Studies Centre

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.

Episodes

The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar

May 21, 2021 • 44 mins
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.
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The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands

March 12, 2021 • 53 mins
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".
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Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs

March 5, 2021 • 34 mins
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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The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution

February 24, 2021 • 52 mins
In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
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An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)

February 11, 2021 • 40 mins
In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, as they discuss their lecture titled An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War.
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Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa

February 4, 2021 • 57 mins
In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled: Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa.
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Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek

November 30, 2020 • 61 mins
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department.
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Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana

November 19, 2020 • 46 mins
For this seminar we hosted George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). Professor Bob-Milliar's lecture is titled Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana.
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Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya

November 5, 2020 • 42 mins
For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his research and fieldwork experiences with the Dagahaley Refugee Camp.
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Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation

October 23, 2020 • 55 mins
For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation.
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To the Volcano and Other Stories

October 16, 2020 • 40 mins
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
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Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia

January 30, 2020 • 49 mins
In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal affect our view of the state and governance.
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The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context

December 14, 2019 • 30 mins
Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the fourth of five papers delivered at this workshop on 16 May 2019. ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ is the sixth research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University of Oxford. It focuses on the intersection between mining and cultural production i...
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Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta

December 14, 2019 • 29 mins
David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the third of five papers delivered at this workshop on 16 May 2019. ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ is the sixth research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University of Oxford. It focuses on the intersection between mining and cultural production in Central, Western ...
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Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt

December 14, 2019 • 28 mins
Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the second of five papers delivered at this workshop on 16 May 2019. ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ is the sixth research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University of Oxford. It focuses on the intersection between mining and cultural production in Central, Western an...
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Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire

December 14, 2019 • 35 mins
Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. This is the first of five papers delivered at this workshop on 16 May 2019. ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ is the sixth research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University of Oxford. It focuses on the intersection between mining and cultural production in Central, West...
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Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria

November 13, 2019 • 34 mins
Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria.
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Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

November 6, 2019 • 53 mins
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion.
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Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria

October 30, 2019 • 19 mins
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also analyzes how these strategies could be improved for the betterment of the community as a whole. Most fast growing cities across Africa are experiencing the negative impacts of the convergence of urbanisation and climate change. Climate change itself exposes individuals, communities, co...
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The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch)

July 13, 2019 • 54 mins
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio Marco Di Nunzio speaks about his new book, The Act of Living. The book explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live...
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