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African Studies

Composite image of book covers of the following books: Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid (1990), Aye, and Gomorrah, by Samuel R. Delany (1967), The Women, by Hilton Als (1996), Black No More, George S. Schuyler (1931), The Wine of Astonishment, by Earl Lovelace (1982, Corregidora, by Gayl Jones (1975)

Must-Reads by Black authors

For #BlackoutBestsellerList Movement, Six Must-Read Books

June 17, 2020

Black Panther in his titular movie, fighting off helicopters

Diversity

Afrofuturism in the Age of Black Panther

April 18, 2019

Louis Chude-Sokei

Computers

Louis Chude-Sokei Wants African American Studies Program to Be a Central Place

April 26, 2018

African Studies

60 Seconds of Blackness

February 21, 2018

Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda

Politics

Telling the Truth about Rwanda

January 31, 2018

1) Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center, with Amadou Ndiaye, an Ajami and Arabic bookseller in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Ablaye Diakité

Science & Technology

Libraries and Archives Meet the Digital Age

October 5, 2017

Brian Woerner is equally at home offering a tasting at Follow The Honey in Cambridge or working with locals in Tanzania to help produce a sustainable supply of organic honey.

Food & Dining

A Global Taste of Honey for Questrom Grad Student

May 1, 2017

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Science & Technology

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Marc Sommers thumbnail

Faculty

Challenging Assumptions about Africa’s Exploding Youth Population

July 21, 2016

Challenging Assumptions about Africa’s Exploding Youth Population