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  • Africa Past and Present Podcast: African Sports Studies (ep 30)
    Check out this podcast from Matrix: the Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Hisotry at MSU!   "In this episode, Dr. Gerard Akindes discusses his experience playing and coaching basketball in West Africa and Europe, and evaluates the prospects of the new Basketball Africa League. He considers the role of "electronic colonialism" in a changing sport media landscape and then reflects on his work advancing African scholarship through research publications and through Sports Africa, a coordinate organization of the U.S. African Studies Association that he co-founded in 2004."   Here is the link: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/afripod.aodl.org__;!!HXCxUKc!hObxORTy0n-bBMe5kVD4_jKz5Dofcp-uVBmltNqs7GdwfilTm7c19FREo-3gvmKNhw$   This podcast can also be found on Apple podcast and similar outlets. 
    By: Madeleine Futter
    Monday, Aug 16, 2021
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  • Governing the Pandemic in Large Cities: From the BRICS and Beyond
    The African Cities and Internationalization Group hosted by the African Center for the Studies of the US presents Governing the Pandemic in Large Cities: From the BRICS and Beyond     Date: 22-23 October 2020 Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Johannesburg Time
    By: Elaina Lawrence
    Monday, Aug 16, 2021
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  • Africa's rapid economic transformation
    Check out this article co-authored by Thom Jayne, Adesoji Adelaja, and one of AAP's co-directors, Richard Mkandawire.   The article provides a powerful message of hope for Africa. In spite of wars, famine and poverty they argue that Africa has made major strides in living standards, there is clearly a new generation that provide promise for the transformation of the continent. The underlying message is that they have in the making a cadre of African entrepreneurs that are delinking from the past.   Click on the link below to read more:   https://www.rural21.com/english/current-issue/detail/article/africas-rapid-economic-transformation.html
    By: Elaina Lawrence
    Monday, Aug 16, 2021
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  • AAU Virtual African Academic Diasporic Homecoming Side Event
    On 29 September at 12:30 PM EDT, the AAP, will be hosting a side event webinar on "Building women research leaders from African Institutions – Sharing perspectives" during the Association of African Universities Diaspora Conference.   The event will be moderated by one of our very own co-directors, Dr. Jose Jackson-Malete, and she will be joined by panelists: - Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL - Professor Barnabas Nawangwe, Vice Chancellor of Makerere University - Ms. Millicent L. Liani, DELTAS PhD Fellow, Center for Capacity Research at LSTM - Dr. Welore Tamboura, Lecturer from Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako   Click on the link below to register:   https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oHfxIxvZRFK4igInnmb8jw?fbclid=IwAR3E-EEjSk-O0pPKUNrhIRtrLz4q2MIhSK1DAi09NkO1nPek7_ATvAT2af4
    By: Elaina Lawrence
    Monday, Aug 16, 2021
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  • ANNOUNCEMENT African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshop: Call for Applications
    ACIP Workshops are intended as annual occasions to identify and address critical themes, fundamental questions and pressing practical issues concerning public culture. For instance, Workshops might focus on particular notions and issues related to publics, visuality, museums and exhibitions, art, performance, representational or institutional forms from methodological, practical, and theoretical vantages. They might examine forms and practices of public scholarship and the theories, histories and systems of thought that shape and illuminate public culture and public scholarship. Workshops should encourage comparative, interdisciplinary and cross-institutional interchange and reflection that brings into conversation public scholarship in Africa, creative cultural production, and critical theory. Workshop budgets will vary depending on proposed plans; the maximum award is ZAR 60,000.   https://africanstudies.org/asa-news/january-2015-asa-news/african-critical-inquiry-programme-workshop-call-for-applications/">https://africanstudies.org/asa-news/january-2015-asa-news/african-critical-inquiry-programme-workshop-call-for-applications/ 
    By: Amy Jamison
    Monday, Aug 16, 2021
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