This three-day conference will celebrate the academic career of Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne on the occasion of his retirement from the Departments of French and Philosophy at Columbia University.
Prof. Séverine Autesserre appeared on Deutsche Welle TV to discuss the escalating situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Institute of African Studies is excited to announce the launch of two $1,000 student fellowships supporting travel, research, and study in Africa, including language study. One fellowship focuses on general research in Africa, while the other is dedicated to China-Africa projects.
Meet Naa Atswei Laryea, a senior at Barnard College majoring in Africana Studies. For Naa, studying abroad on the African continent was always part of the plan. "I knew it would enrich my studies and give me the chance to learn alongside other African students," she shares. Last spring, she turned that dream into reality with a semester at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
Dates: March 7-22, 2025
The GoDown Arts Centre, Dunga Road / Dundori Road, Industrial Area, Nairobi, Kenya
Works and insights of AbdulFatah Adam, Cave Bureau, Deqa Abshir, Elsa MH Mäki, James Muriuki, Peterson Kamwathi, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.
Organized in collaboration with partner and guest curator Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Abenezer Amanuel is a senior at Columbia College, majoring in Computer Science with an interest in African studies.
Meet Malick Gai, a final-year Master of International Affairs (MIA) candidate at Columbia SIPA. Malick specializes in Human Rights with a focus on Technology, Media and Communications, and Africa. Originally from The Gambia, his journey is a testament to resilience and dedication. After spending a decade as an asylum seeker in Hong Kong, Malick earned his undergraduate degree in International Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Mamadou Diouf, the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and former Director of the Institute of African Studies, was recently quoted in a New York Times article, "80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France."
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dr. Cécile Feza Bushidi on November 12, 2024.
Dr. Bushidi joined the Barnard faculty as Assistant Professor of Dance in 2021. Her groundbreaking research focused on dance in East, Central East, and Central Africa before the 1970s, examining the complex interrelation between corporeal practices, political cultures, ideologies, societies, and political economies. At the time of her passing, she was completing a book on dance, culture, and politics in colonial Gikuyuland (1880–1963).
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At Columbia SIPA, we are fortunate to have exceptional students like Jordanna Yochai, a Master of International Affairs (MIA) candidate specializing in International Security Policy with a regional focus on Africa.
Elleni Centime Zeleke joined MESAAS and the Columbia University community in 2018, after completing her Ph.D. in the history of social and political thought at York University in Toronto in 2016. Her 2019 book, Ethiopia in Theory: Knowledge Production and Social Change, 1964-2016, attracted wide admiration both for its suggestive analysis of the history and afterlife of the Ethiopian students’ movement of the 1960s and 70s, and for its examination of the uses to which social science—and knowledge more broadly—can be put in the service of both emancipation and repression.
Indeed, her…
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Written by Hisham Aidi, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Filmed and edited by Sophie Schrago “Sister Aisha: Queen Mother of Harlem” tells the story of Aisha al-Adawiya, a prominent community leader and anti-war activist who for decades has served as a bridge between Columbia and Harlem. Sister Aisha, as she's known, moved to Harlem from Eufaula, Alabama in 1961 to pursue her dream of being a jazz vocalist. She was part of the music scene in the West Village in…