“The short life and times of Mamadou Saliou”
The short life and times of Mamadou Saliou is a heartbreaking, true story by Ndeye Debo Seck, a Senegalese English teacher. In this article, originally published in Africa […]
December 2017
“On democratic despond”
This guest post by Ebenezer Obadare, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas and Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology […]
Intersectionality, language, and global “hybridities”: Africans and critics talk back to the Humanitarian Imaginary
The CIHA Blog’s Senegal conference on Health, Healing, Religion and Gender in Africa prompted important reflections regarding the place of this conference in the work of the Blog, and about […]
L’ASAA ET LA RE-DEFINITION DES ETUDES AFRICAINES
Par: Ndeye Ami Diop*
L’écriture de l’Afrique pose d’énormes difficultés d’ordre historique et épistémologique. Le contexte de naissance des sciences sociales au moment de la colonisation semble être à […]
“Empires”: a poem of thanks by Edwin Adjei
This poem of thanks crafted by Luce Graduate Fellow, Edwin Adjei, will be presented at the closing ceremony of the 2017 CIHA Blog conference today, Saturday, December 16th in Dakar. […]
Upcoming Opportunities: Dec 2017/Jan 2018
We’d like to bring to your attention to several exciting calls for proposals/applications/nominations with upcoming deadlines. For more details and the full listing of many more interesting opportunities, please check out […]
In the News: Condemning Slave Auctions of African Migrants in Libya / Actualités: Condamner la vente aux enchères de migrants Africains en Libye
Translation by Awa Cheikh / Introduction by Angela Okune
While slavery is imagined to be reserved to history books, shocking recent coverage by CNN exposed a horrifying present-day […]