African Studies

The Centre of African Studies acts as a hub for graduate level and faculty research at the University of Cambridge.

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

💥 CRASSH at 25!
Be part of our 2026 anniversary programme!

Submit your ideas in response to our anniversary open calls for a special annual lecture and a series of funded half-day events on the theme of
'Knowledge in a Fractured World'
https://t.co/qEuHcCzXYf

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

🥳Congratulations to POLIS PhD student Abii-Tah Bih! She's won a @cambridge_su award for 'Contributions to Access & Widening Participation' for her incredible mentorship program for aspiring African postgrads.✨

#CambridgeSUAwards #CambridgeImpact

https://t.co/FnB76VDypv

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

@CGHR_Cambridge, housed within POLIS, is seeking to appoint a part-time fixed-term Centre Coordinator for 18.25 hours per week.

This is a great opportunity for an individual with comprehensive administrative experience.

Apply now: https://t.co/qKhN4VhFGS

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

This evening, join Dr Toon Dirkx, Dr Devon Curtis and Prof @sharath_sri for "A Word From Our Sponsor: The CIA and AnyaNya Propaganda in Southern Sudan’s 'Hidden War', 1969-1971"

🕠5.30-7.00PM
📍Harrods Room, Emmanuel College

@CGHR_cambridge @CASCambridge

[African Studies @CASCambridge]

Join us at Emmanuel College for the Audrey Richards Lecture in African Studies on Tuesday 27th May at 5pm. All welcome.

[African Studies @CASCambridge]

Calling African researchers in the humanities and social sciences! We are accepting applications for our CAS Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025-26 until 30 May 2025.

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

💫 Cambridge Festival
Join us for the film premiere of Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the City of Cambridge

🗓️ 28 March 6-7.30pm
📍 Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DD
https://t.co/kcXgmsC4wZ

[CGHR @CGHR_Cambridge]

Friday Lecture: 'Explaining Sudan’s Catastrophe: From Popular Revolution to Coup, War and Famine'

@sharath_sri analyses Sudan’s descent into a war that is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Friday, 28 Feb 2025 - 1.00pm

All details here:

https://t.co/Ds13qgyUUa

[CGHR @CGHR_Cambridge]

📢Upcoming event!

Displacement, War and the Future of Sudan

🗓️ 10 Dec 2024
🕕 6 - 8:30pm
📍Warburg Auditorium, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

@sharath_sri will be a panellist in this high-profile event that seeks to bring new insights to Sudan's urgent displacement emergency.

[Cambridge History @CamHistory]

Welcome Dr Siyabonga Njica, who joins @CamHistory & @LucyCavColl as Research Fellow in Global African History funded by the Isaac Newton Trust.

This 3-year post will advance his work on African & diasporic intellectual histories, developed @CASCambridge

https://t.co/hoKq3XFa7i

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

'Assembling Shaolin in Zambia: African trainees programme, cultural heritage, and philanthropy'

A presentation by Hangwei Li (German Institute of Development and Sustainability)

A hybrid event by the Frontiers of Faith network on 7 November at 2pm
https://t.co/8GCotEAqVh

[African Studies Library - Cambridge University @AfrStudiesLib]

📜We’ve accepted pamphlet correspondences from HMSO with East & South Africa c. 1921-26 donated by Leo Amery & his son, Julian. Both father & son were war correspondents with Leo having covered the Boer War.

🖇️Click the link in our bio to view the list and to request a viewing!

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

📣 Frontiers of Faith network inaugural event

'Buddha Remoulding: Discourses, adaptations, and futurities of an emerging religiosity in Madagascar' a 3-year ethnographic study presented by Xuefei Shi (CHR Michelsen Institute, Bergen)

17 October at 2pm
https://t.co/8HTX8RJRQe

[Cambridge Sociology @CamSociology]

📢Our departmental seminar series kicks off next Tues 15 October at 12.30 in the Sociology Seminar Room.

Join us to discuss the problem of white normativity.

Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva @DukeU
Chair: Professor Patrick Baert, @Cambridge_Uni

https://t.co/BCPce7FkqF

[Institute of Commonwealth Studies @ICwS_SAS]

One week to go!!! Book your place for the Memorial 2007 Annual Lecture with Professor Sir #HilaryBeckles and hosted by @ICwS_SAS. Wed 2 October 2024 from 6:30pm-9pm UK time. Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU. https://t.co/L1X3CMT1yv #PostColonialism #GlobalReparations #Slavery #Memorial2007 @SASNews @LondonU @HRC_News

[Gates Cambridge @Gates_Cambridge]

Siyabonga Njica talks about his work investigating the history of exiled South African writers and artists - https://t.co/33S0A91wS1 @CamHistory @DarwinCollege @CASCambridge @LucyCavColl @GatesAlumni

[African Studies Library - Cambridge University @AfrStudiesLib]

📰 Did you know we have several periodical magazines and journals on display in the library for you to peruse?

Come check them out!

A full list can be found on our website (link in bio)

[African Studies Library - Cambridge University @AfrStudiesLib]

📢New digitised collection!

Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at @theUL is complete!

7000+ images have been added to the collection page, selected from 23 archive collections & more than 40 print items

🔗 in bio for more!

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

Join @CASCambridge for the Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies. This year we are excited to have the esteemed Professor Amina Mama with us from UC Davis.

Register to attend in person https://t.co/yjBSVVzIw0…

or via our livestream https://t.co/9AvGxOfkKK

[African Studies @CASCambridge]

Register to attend in person https://t.co/31AcDExJHl or via our livestream https://t.co/jacZZdsvZJ