On International Workers’ Day (aka May Day in certain regions), ASAUK Next Generation 2020+ hosts a conversation around representations of workers in popular culture and the media. The conversation will take place online between 10 and 12 midday London and Lagos time. Across Africa, 1 May is recognised as Workers’ Day or Labour Day, and […]
The ASAUKNextGen2020+ is on Saturday 5 June at 10 am in London and Lagos, 9 am in Accra, 12 midday in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, 5 pm in Beijing; and we shall continue the International Workers’ Day conversation. Scholarship on youth across Africa pays a great deal of attention to dreams of material wealth, […]
Enjoy the sounds and sights of Lagos on one of Pelu Awofeso’s city tours. These normally take place on the Sunday after the conference, the day after the formal dinner and reception. This recording is of the 2018 tour of Eko Atlantic City. In a number of panels at the conference, scholars had expressed critical […]
Saturday 26 June 17h00-18h00 British Summer Time “Queerness is unAfrican?: The complexity of non-normative sexual and gender identities in Africa” In Africa, politicians have pushed the idea that queer sexualities were foreign to Africa and were a decadent import from the West. At the same time, in the West, the queerphobic sentiments expressed by politicians […]
A Conversation Between Joyce Nyairo and Keguro Macharia, Chaired by Eddie Ombagi What if we think of Gossip as a force, a means through which narratives and the art of narrative making can be achieved? What if we think of Gossip as a way that social and power relations are mediated? What if we think […]
Throughout August, ASAUKNextGen2020+ will be hosting regular drop-in sessions for scholars engaged in cutting edge research on university life across Nigeria, paying attention not only to the metropolitan universities but also to private universities, faith-based universities and provincial or smaller universities. If you are interested in taking part, please email campusformsbook@gmail.com.
Thursday 16 September 2021- 18:00 – 19:30 ZA time – 17:00 – 18:30 BST and Nigeria time – 19:00 – 20:00 Kenya time “Decolonising research methodologies in psychology: Social dream drawing studies of the student leadership context in South Africa” In this lecture, Dr Neo Pule will explore decolonizing research methods in the African context and within […]
This 60th anniversary year of the ASAUK’s existence, we have adopted a theme that invites reflection on the changes in knowledge production about and from Africa. Generational divides and inter-generational disappointment are critical themes in the understanding of contemporary African cultural, social, and political dynamics, and they feature in many scholarly works about and from […]
Narratives, whether official, insurgent, embodied, archival, legal, or speculative, are fundamental to the shaping of knowledge, identity, and power across the African continent and its diasporas. This conference invites participants to reflect on how stories are made, who gets to tell them, and what they do in the world. In African studies, narrative is never […]
