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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 continen... Read more

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Unmasking Africana in British Art

Unmasking Africana in British Art

ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor

5 Mar 2019

36mins

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What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau

What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau

ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo Abstract: This talk presents a critique of aid discourses of success and failure as ... Read more

25 Jan 2019

45mins

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The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, Power and Mobilisation under Ethnic Federalism

The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, Power and Mobilisation under Ethnic Federalism

Louise Aalen, Bergen University, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series on 2nd February 2012.

6 Feb 2012

39mins

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Growing up in the New South Africa

Growing up in the New South Africa

Rachel Bray (Independent Scholar, Oxford) gives a talk for the African Studies seminar series on 7th March, 2013.

11 Mar 2013

1hr 18mins

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The ANC in Exile

The ANC in Exile

Stephen Ellis (Free University, Amsterdam) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series on the African Nat... Read more

25 Feb 2013

31mins

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Crisis and displacement; different solutions for different kinds of displaced

Crisis and displacement; different solutions for different kinds of displaced

Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.

22 Jul 2013

22mins

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Transactions: Revisiting how domination worked in colonial Africa

Transactions: Revisiting how domination worked in colonial Africa

ASC seminar by Florence Bernault (Sciences Po)

5 Nov 2018

1hr 1min

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The British Army and Mau Mau, 1952-56

The British Army and Mau Mau, 1952-56

Huw Bennett (Aberystwyth University), gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series on the British Army and... Read more

4 Feb 2013

1hr

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Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd

Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd

Jonny Steinberg, (African Studies/St Antony's) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series.

8 Nov 2011

45mins

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When We Speak of Nothing (book launch and discussion)

When We Speak of Nothing (book launch and discussion)

ASC seminar by Olumide Popoola and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf. For the last seminar of Michaelmas Term, we were joined by author ... Read more

30 Nov 2018

1hr 12mins

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Student activism in an era of decolonization

Student activism in an era of decolonization

ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck la... Read more

24 Jan 2019

23mins

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Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa

Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa

Dr Susan Williams (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London)gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series ... Read more

23 Jan 2012

41mins

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'Now we are all workers.' The remaking of marginality on the streets of Addis Ababa's inner city

'Now we are all workers.' The remaking of marginality on the streets of Addis Ababa's inner city

Marco Di Nunzio (Université Libre de Bruxelles) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series on 7th Februa... Read more

13 Feb 2013

44mins

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Kenya's Somalia Invasion: Security, Development and Humanitarian Assistance in Eastern Africa

Kenya's Somalia Invasion: Security, Development and Humanitarian Assistance in Eastern Africa

Professor David Anderson gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on 23rd February 2012.

24 Feb 2012

53mins

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Surviving on the Margins: Youth and the Underground Oil Economy in the Niger Delta

Surviving on the Margins: Youth and the Underground Oil Economy in the Niger Delta

Paul Ugor (Birmingham) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series on 10th May 2012.

15 May 2012

54mins

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Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle

Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle

Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8th March 2012.

12 Mar 2012

35mins

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Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform: Politics, Production and Accumulation

Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform: Politics, Production and Accumulation

Phillan Zamchiya (International Development/St Antonys), gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series.

18 Nov 2011

44mins

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Buganda Nationalism in the 21st Century

Buganda Nationalism in the 21st Century

Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault, Research Associate, Cambridge, gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series.

5 Mar 2012

45mins

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Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria

Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria

In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat ... Read more

30 Oct 2019

19mins

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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

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

Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First re... Read more

6 Nov 2019

53mins

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