Algerian author Kamel Daoud's first novel, Meursault, Contre-enquête, first published in Algerian in 2013, and translated into English in 2015 by Other Press, turns Albert Camu's classic work, The Stranger, on its head.
Operation Crossroads Africa is a US-based voluntary organization that sponsors cross-cultural exchanges and small-scale service projects in Africa.
In 1952, Ousmane Sembéne, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE!, a feature-length HD documentary, tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema,” the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give African stories to Africans.
The Film: Using never before seen archival footage, and interviews in South Africa and the United States, filmmakers Larry Shore and Tami Gold tell the unknown story of Robert Kennedy's 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of Apartheid.
The Institute for Recruitment of Teachers will be hosting an Information Session for prospective applicants at Columbia College this Monday, October 26 from 5-6:30pm in 754 Schermerhorn Extension.
The subject of the second Princeton African Humanities Colloquium (PAHC) to be held at Princeton University on November 13-14 is African Memory and The Crisis of the Present.
"Les jeunes et l'entreprise démocratique en Afrique" by Mamadou Diouf is currently featured in the Huffington Post-France, as part of a feature on the Villa Gillet "Mode d'emploi - festival des idées," where Professor Diouf will be presenting in November.
Volunteer Opportunity: King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS) Hosts Private Dinner at the United Nations for ADISCO
New scholarships from study in the 2016-17 academic year are available for students from African countries undertaking either a one-year MPhil in International Relations and Politics, or a three-year PhD on a topic related to the research themes of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights.
Princeton in Africa (PiAf) is a non-profit organization that offers yearlong post-graduate fellowship opportunities with a variety of organizations working across the African continent.
Rutgers will be presenting a lecture series in the month of October by Abdalla Uba Adamu, Professor of Mass Communications, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
Join Columbia SIPA's Economic and Political Development concentration for lunch and a discussion on sustainable farming.