Following the Covid-19 pandemic, 91亚色 launched a new research cluster titled Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities 鈥 Response, Recovery and Resilience. The cluster is made up of Black scholars from five 91亚色 faculties who have been working to understand how structural inequalities influence the way that Black communities experience, respond to and recover […]
Cynthia Kwakyewah, a professor in the Department of Social Science, has written an article for The Conversation examining how the long history of resource exploitation in Ghana has caused extensive harm to the environment and the wellbeing of its citizens. She discusses her research into how oil, gas and mining companies have acted exploitatively, and […]
31 awards were presented to LA&PS students across a number of diverse fields of study, including African Studies, Law & Society, Criminology and more.
Author: Uwafiokun Idemudia (Professor of African Studies and International Development Studies) Contributor: NNenna Okoli (PhD Candidate) 鈥淢ost countries have anti-trafficking laws, policies and programmes to prevent human trafficking. There are also international treaties to address the problem. Yet it鈥檚 still thriving. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and control of a person using force […]
Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Sesay, winner of the International Studies Association鈥檚 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award for 2021 for his new book Domination Through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa. From the International Studies Association鈥檚 press release: 鈥淭his year鈥檚 winner, Mohamed Sesay鈥檚 book Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in […]
With the African Studies program of LA&PS as the intellectual hub and The Tubman Institute as host, the Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities Research Cluster aims to explore and interrogate the intersection between鈥痵tructural and social injustices that drive vulnerability鈥痑nd black communities鈥 experiences in鈥痬itigation, response, and recovery from severe epidemics 鈥揵roadly defined as persistent and […]
The Racialized Students in Healthcare virtual lecture series is sponsored by the OHTN and provides workshop series on Indigenous Education, HIV Clinical Care, HIV research facilitated by HALCO and HIV Pharmacy Care. Our facilitators include: MaryAnn from the Native Women Resources Centre, Dr. Gordon from Unity Health, Stevia Arthur from BlackCAP, Alex Vincent from Cabbagetown Community Health Centre and […]
鈥淥rphaning Africans: Displacement Set in Motion鈥 This is the major event for this academic year by the African Studies Program in collaboration with Founders College. The program is bringing to the 91亚色 community Haile Gerima who is a prominent filmmaker and Howard University academic on Africa and the African diaspora. Serving as interlocutor is Professor […]
A virtual event will be held to celebrate recent publications by Annie Bunting, Lisa Drummond, Carlo Fanelli, Les Jacobs, Jaime Llamb铆as-Wolff, Vanisha Sukdeo, and Douglas C. Young. This event will take place on聽Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Zoom. Each of the books is available for purchase at the hyperlinks provided with […]
