Center for African Studies
Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures, and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge.
Professor Larémont will discuss his newly published book, offering a comprehensive analysis of the origins, evolution, and contemporary expressions of Political Islam across the Middle East, North Africa, and the broader Muslim world.
This lecture is about marriage, romantic passion, and domesticity in African popular music using the case of these artists. It places marriage at the center of the creative lives of artists, underscoring the intersections of private and public lives.
“Produced and directed by Professor Saheed Aderinto, a prolific and distinguished African historian, storyteller, and filmmaker, this documentary brilliantly accentuates the voice of women in Fuji musical tradition…It captivatingly tells the story of how women in Fuji music assertively and artfully navigated the complex layers of cultural expectations, patriarchy, love, romance, marriage, motherhood, and intergenerational and gender dynamics to become trailblazers and musical icons in a music genre dominated by men. A must-see…” --Professor Gloria Chuku (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Fela Kuti’s posthumous Grammy recognition marks a milestone for African musical innovation. This panel of publicly engaged scholars illuminates the women who shaped his world—from feminist icon Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti to the collaborators and performers who sustained the Afrobeat movement across generations.
Dr. Suad Mustafa Elhag Musa holds a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, England. She is a researcher and author of "Hawks and Doves in Sudan's Armed Conflict: Al-Hakkamat Baggara Women of " James Carey, winner of the 2019 Aidoo-Snyder Prize.
You're Invited! A documentary about the discovery, rescue, and repatriation of over 1,300 films documenting Ghana-Africa’s independence years. Presented by: The Center for African Studies (CAS), Rutgers University Co-sponsored by: The Busia Foundation International, The Department of History, The Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literature,
A book launch and conversation with Wendell Marsh and R.A. Judy. We are delighted to share that we will be hosting Wendell Marsh's launch of Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities at the Source of Knowledge bookstore. Hope you will be able to join us! Please
"In David DuBois' Eyes" Egyptian Identity and Race-Consciousness in African American Imagination In … And Bid Him Sing, a novel by David Graham DuBois, published in 1975, the author reflects on his experience as an African American intellectual in self-imposed exile in 1960s Cairo, Egypt. David was the stepson of
Spring CAS Graduate Affiliates Mentoring Event & dialogue with grad students Sponsored by The Center for African Studies, Program in Comparative Literature, and the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association Organizers: Thato Nke-Magano, Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature (Rutgers University) & Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Leiden University), and Baba Badji,
"When Stories Speak to Us, What Do They Say?" The aim of this session is to engage with the audience on the dynamics of writing short stories during the Covid pandemic that started in 2021. All of us were working and studying remotely at that time. So, when we came
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Identity in the Global Age Rose A. Sackeyfio teaches in the Department of English and Liberal Studies at Winston Salem State University. Her research and teaching are situated at the nexus of inter-disciplinary scholarship on literatures of African and African-Diaspora women, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies,
ALL ARE WELCOME TO Screening of Amina Weira’s Film ' Anger in the Wind', followed by a dialogue in the following classes: Monday, February 3 11:00AM – 1:00PM Academic Building (West) Room 6050 (Host: Marius Deffo Kahekeu, Dept of French and French Graduate Student Association) [ in-person only ] Monday,
Patrick Chamoiseau, a Martinican writer and intellectual, is one of the key figures of the literary movement of créolité.This roundtable aims to explore the themes of memory, nature, and relationality. It seeks to understand how these themes are fundamental elements of creation in Patrick Chamoiseau's work. How do these themes, often perceived as commonplaces, find in Patrick Chamoiseau's aesthetics the development of a new perspective on relationality?
