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Podcasts from the UCLA African Studies Center — 57 episodes
African Readiness For Climate Change 2021 (Welcome Remarks)
The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice (Nnimmo Bassey)
Water Resource Management in Africa from Space (Mekonnen Gebremichael)
Natalia Molebatsi, South African Poet
"History on Trial: Mau Mau and the High Court of Justice" Caroline Elkins
“Kenyan Muslim Women Leadership in Education” Ousseina Alidou
“The Role Played by the 12 Disciples of Nelson Mandela in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle, 1960-1991”
"Private Anti-Piracy Navies and Pirate Maritime Security"
"The Missing Middle: Global Development Policy Faces a World Full of Religion"
"Exhibiting the Sacred: The Altar as Museum, the Museum as the Altar"
"From Ruga-Ruga to Askari: Intersections between African History and Military History"
Imagined Congos: Displays of Early Colonial Hegemony
Margaret Bourke-White and Dawn of Apartheid Photo Exhibit
Africans in China: some key empirical, methodological and theoretical questions
Choreographic performance and politics in 20th century Urban Senegal
Hermeneutics and African Philosophy
Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs and Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa
Media Hope and African Capacity
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Islam and the Making of the Public Space
Manthia Diawara will provide an analysis of the films of Abderrhamane Sissako and Haroun Mahat Saleh
Azmari in Hollywood
Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema
African Women in War Zones: A Feminist Perspective
Framing Biopolitics: Jo Ramaka's Cinema of Power
Locking Hoes and Horns: Ethnic Contestation in Ankole
James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Oral Tradition, Religious Syncretism and Politics: The Example of Cote d'Ivoire
African Conflict and the Paradox of Change (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Concept Analysis: Exploring Health Consideration for Aging Nigerian Immigrants in the United States (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Interrogating the Interstices of Race, Religion and Health in a Transnational Context (5th Annual AAA Conference)
The New Progress Philosophy: Addressing Development and Psychology from the Traditional Perspective (5th Annual AAA Conference)
A Myth of Benign Humanitarianism, Militarism and Womens Rights: A Case Study of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Relating Modernity, Conflict and Sexual Violence: Discourses of Violence against Women in Post-war Sierra Leone (5th Annual AAA Conference)
North African Women in Madrid: Intersections of Race, Religion and Gender and the 2004 Law Against Gender Violence (5th Annual AAA Conference)
The Colonial Hauntings of Contemporary Gender- based Violence in Conflict Zones (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Tracing the Development of the Code of Personal Status: The Tunisian Case (5th Annual AAA Conference)
The State and the Performing Arts in Zimbabwe: Friends or Foe? (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Creating New Leaders: Youth Involvement in Community Activism in South Africa (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Hating the Postcolony Properly: Hip Hop Aesthetics in Kenya (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Space and Time in Socialist Tanzania: The Dodoma Capital Project (5th Annual AAA Conference)
A Conflicted Curriculum: Student Perceptions of Gender in Kenyan Social Studies Textbooks (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Chinese Presence in Africa: Trade, Investment, Diplomatic and Cultural Ties (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Maasai Group Ranches in Kenya (5th Annual AAA Conference)
James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: The Development and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya
The Arts of "Making Do": The Artists of the Grand Rue
Narratives of Now: Opening and Keynote
Aya de Yopougon: A More Palatable Africa
Learning to Pray: Images of Violence Against Women in the Novels of Amma Darko
The Development of Tunisian Theatrical Experience: A Review of Its History from the Colonial Era to the Present
From Kuxa Kanema to Dockanema: The Re-emergence of Mozambican Cinema
Artists of the Green Sahara: Using Rock Art to Contextualize the Archaeology and History of the Sahara
Adinkra as Metaphor: Visual Representation of Akan Culture
Inscribing the Sacred: African Traditions of Arabic Calligraphy
From the Battle of Algiers to the Lyrical Battle for Ears: A Brief Introduction to Algerian Hip Hop
Cigars, Champagne, and Convertibles: Coup-decale Music and the Performance of an African Identity
Rappin' Griots: Indigenizing Senegalese Hip Hop
The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and the April 2009 Elections
US-Africa Relations Hampered by Colonial Legacy