Fall 2023
October 3rd: Derek Peterson (University of Michigan), ‘Fighting Apartheid in Idi Amin’s Uganda’
October 10th: Edgar Taylor (Makerere University), 'Country Music in Uganda: Histories of Listening and Performance'
October 24th: David Cohen (University of Michigan), ‘History Comes to Us in Fragments’
November 7th: Africa Workshop Lecture - Laura German (University of Georgia), ‘Land governance, Environmental management, Politics of knowledge’
November 14th: Joseph Kachim (UMAPS/University of Cape Coast), ‘Assemblies of God Mission and Colonial Development among the Konkomba of Northern Ghana, 1931-1960s’
November 28th: Abigail Meert (Albion College)
December 5th: Africa Workshop Lecture - Carmela Garritano (Texas A&M University), ‘The Energy Imaginaries of Recent African Cinema’
Winter 2024
January 23rd: Africa Workshop Lecture, Hannah Chadeayne Appel (University of California Los Angeles), ‘Transnational Capitalism and Finance, Debt, the extractive sector’
January 30th: Bonny Ibhawoh (McMaster University), ‘Historical Atrocities and the Politics of Memory’
February 6th: Sauda Nabukenya (University of Michigan), ‘From Subjects to Citizens with Rghts: A Legal History of De/colonization
and Nation-building 1950-1970’
February 13th: Brian Klein (University of Michigan), ‘The Boom-and-Bust Life: Cultivating Belonging on Madagascar’s Extractive Frontier’
February 20th: Africa Workshop Lecture - Christina Collins (Indiana University), ‘Social, Cultural, and Economic Impact of Multinational Alcohol Companies in Ethiopia’
March 5th: Sarah Van Beurden (Ohio State University), ‘Congo Crafted: Histories of Making (1880s-1980s)’
March 12th Africa Workshop Lecture - Oumar Ba, Professor (Cornell University), ‘The Long 1948: Human Rights, Humanity, and the Pacification of Madagascar’
March 19th: Okechukwu Charles Nwafor (Wesleyan University), ‘Memorial Photographs in Nineteenth Century Lagos: of a Cult of Attention and a Robust Visual Culture’
March 26th: Carina Ray (University of Michigan), ‘Sexual Panic and the State in Colonial and Post-Independence Africa: An Extended Comment’
April 2nd: Comfort Mtotha (University of Michigan)
April 9th: AHAW Year-end Farewell (All Africanists welcome)