News

2019

• • Nelson Mandela Winter lecture series continues with talks exploring the roles of African Grandmothers and the Nigerian Civil War

2018

• • Graduate Student Conference on Africa
  • Nelson Mandela lecture series continues in Brantford with talk exploring China’s deepening presence in Africa
  • Traffic, hoodies and the Kabaka: Limits to inclusive urban planning in Kampala
  • Sexual abuse in the United Nations
  • Abdul Raufa Mustapha and progressive scholarship

2017

• • African culture in Puerto Rico
  • Africa and Puerto Rico: Reflections on Loiza and Hacienda La Esperanza
  • A Tshepo Mandela lecture, "Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Re-Imagining Human Rights in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding"
  • South Sudan's refugee crisis and ideas for a way forward
  • President Trump, UN Ambassador Haley and Africa
  • Reflections on current drought in East Africa

2016

• • Dancing to the beat of West African History: Cultural Preservation in Loiza, Puerto Rico
  • Slavery in Puerto Rico: A visit to Hacienda La Esperanza
  • Afro-Puerto Rican culture through Samuel Lind
  • Trump and Africa: Views from the African Studies Association of the USA
  • Trump and Africa II

2015

• • The Syrian refugee crisis: global community or global incongruity?
  • Human rights and disability in Africa: A case study from Ghana, 2008-2014
  • Stigma, discrimination and social exclusion of the mentally ill in Ghana
  • Slavery in West Africa: Review of Abina and the Important Men
  • The Neoliberal promise: Rhetoric and reality
  • Meningitis outbreak in Niger

2014