Africa News Dec 2014: CAS 50th Anniversary activities, Term 2 Events, CAS volunteer & intern opportunities, ECAS panels, Combating Ebola event etc

 

Africa News from the Centre of African Studies, University of London, December 2014 View this email in your browser   2015 marks 50 years of the Centre of African Studies, and our activities to mark this special anniversary include the events and seminars listed in the section below. We look forward to seeing you in 2015 to celebrate this landmark for the centre! Click the links below to see news about events & seminars at SOAS and other UK universities, as well as several calls for papers in conferences in the UK & abroad. At the bottom you will find listings for funding, job opportunities, and journals and book series on Africa.  News from CAS | CAS Events | SOAS Events | Events & Seminars in the UK | Art, Music & Film Conferences in the UK & Abroad | Funding & Prizes | Jobs | Journals and Book Series CAS 50th Anniversary Activities     Holy Hustlers (Botswana, 2009, dir. Richard Werbner) African Christianity on Film - Screening & Director Q&A with Richard Werber Thursday 15th January, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Exploring the relationship between population mobility & HIV risk in Tanzania Africa Seminar: Kevin Deane (University of Northampton) Monday 19th January, 5.15pm, Room 4429 Albert René: The Father of Modern Seychelles. A Biography  Booklaunch: Kevin Shillington (Author) Monday 26th January, 6pm, Brunei Suite Miners Shot Down (South Africa, 2014, dir. Rehad Desai) Film Screening, part of 'South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour' Thursday 5th February, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Creating a Creative Economy in Côte d'Ivoire: The role of new performance spaces for popular music Africa Seminar: Anne Schumann (SOAS / Wits) Monday 9th February, 5.15pm, Room 4429 African Christianity Rising: Stories from Ghana (Ghana, 2013, dir. James Ault)  African Christianity on Film - Screening & Director Q&A with James Ault Thursday 19th February, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Media Representation and Africa: whose money, whose story? CAS 50th Anniversary Conference - Register in advance via Eventbrite Friday 20th February, 9am-6pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Horses, mules and donkeys: Neglected factors in the economic development of Africa? Africa Seminar: William Gervase Clarence-Smith (SOAS) Monday 23rd February, 5.15pm, Room 4429 Yorùbá Names: how they have evolved within a century Africa Seminar: Akin Oyètádé (SOAS) Monday 9th March, 5.15pm, Room 4429 The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 2014, dir. Yaba Badoe) Film Screening & Director Q&A with Yaba Badoe Tuesday 10th March, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Fair Trade, Fair Wage? Africa Business Group Seminar: Christopher Cramer, Deborah Johnston & Carlos Oya (SOAS) Tuesday 17th March, 12pm, Room 116   SOAS Events   AfNet Research Seminar Thursday, 4th December at 5.30pm in room G07, Pearson Building, UCL. Thembi Mutch (SOAS) 'The nature of women's involvement in public affairs in Zanzibar and the role of the media' Aidan Mosselson (UCL) '"It's not a place I like but I can live with it": urban regeneration, affordable housing and the right to the city in inner-city Johannesburg. African History Seminar series 5pm-6.30pm all in G52, SOAS ·  10th December 2014, John Parker (SOAS, University of London), 'Death and the ends of life in Ghanaian history' Find out more   SOAS SUMMER SCHOOL The Centre of African Studies is running two courses for the 2015 SOAS Summer School: Understanding Africa: Past and Present This introductory course will provide the participants with an overall understanding of the African continent. With a diverse range of sessions ranging from History and Politics to Languages and Music, the course will give an in-depth knowledge of the main academic areas of study of this vast and diverse continent. Find out more Migration and Diaspora Further details to follow   Events and Seminars in the UK   Oxford African Studies Seminars   The African Studies Centre organises a lively programme of seminars, workshops and international conferences. At least three research seminars on Africa meet each week during Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms: ·         African Studies Seminars ·         African History and Politics Seminars ·         South Africa Discussion Group Horn of Africa Seminars, Tuesdays at 5pm, African Studies Centre, MT 2014 Download the Termcard Annual events include: ·         Oxford Africa Annual Lecture ·         Researching Africa Day ·         Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture at Rhodes House Podcasts of past seminars and events hosted by the African Studies Centre are available both on the Oxford University Podcasts Website and on iTuneU. Upcoming Events: Race Relations in Oxford: 1960s and present day Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th December 2014 All events are open to all, and all will lead to Q&A: no need to book, but limited capacity (first come basis)   Wed 3rd Dec at 2pm: Malcolm X in his final year, and in memory (venue: Pembroke Pichette Auditorium)   Wed 3rd Dec at 5pm: Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union (venue: Oxford Union, St Michael's St, open to all)   Thurs 4th Dec at 10am: Civil Rights Circulations (venue: Pembroke Pichette Auditorium)   Thurs 4th Dec at 12.30pm: Seeking racial equality in Oxford, 1964 and 2014 (venue: Pembroke JCR)   Find out more   Conference on Darfur 21st February 2015 in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Anthony's College. Download further information   Cambridge Centre of African Studies Seminars View  full listings      Leeds Centre of African Studies Seminars View full listings London School of Economics View full listings King's College London View full listings Birkbeck College View full listings Africa Talks - Autumn Term Programme 'Niger's natural resources: blessing or curse?' At this week's AFRICA Talk Celeste will present cutting-edge research that she has been carrying out in the last few years for her forthcoming book on oil and mineral resources in Sahelian West Africa. Join us in the Danford Room at 4:30pm, Arts Building, University of Birmingham Download the full 'Africa Talks' programme here Find out more Institute of Historical Research Christian Missions in Global History Seminars All at 5.30pm, Room 208, second floor, Senate House, London 3rd December: Missionary Millennialism and British Antislavery, 1790-1840 Professor John Coffey (University of Leicester) Joint Seminar with Modern Religious History, NB. This seminar will be held in Room 104, IHR Royal African Society Events Combating Ebola: has the media helped or hindered? The Africa APPG: Monday 8th December, 6.00pm – 7.30pm, House of Commons Panellists: Solomon Mugera – Editor, BBC Africa; Dr Titolo Banjoko – Royal Africa Society & NHS International; Dr Michael Edelstein - Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House; Tulip Mazumdar – Global Health Correspondent, BBC News. Chair Lord Chidgey – Chair, Africa APPG Find out more    Africa Research Institute Somaliland's democratic transition: Building a representative state Thursday 4th December 2014 from 5.30pm to 6.45pm Dr Michael Walls, Senior Lecturer, Development Planning Unit, University College London Reserve your place   Tedx Euston Saturday 6th December Find out more    Twenty Years of Democracy: Art and Activism in South Africa Wed 3 Dec, 9.30am to 5.30pm, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Featuring Albie Sachs – famous anti-apartheid activist, art lover, and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa – as keynote speaker, this one-day symposium on art and activism in South Africa is co-hosted by the Africa in Motion Film Festival and the University of Glasgow. This year South Africa celebrates 20 years since its first democratic elections in 1994. The arts – including music, film, theatre, literature and visual arts – have played a pivotal role in the anti-apartheid struggle and the important role of creative expression in South Africa's young democracy continues today. Other speakers on the day include Annie Menter, previous director of the WOMAD Foundation who has worked with world musicians across Africa, India, Australia and UAE; Mandla Mbothwe, acclaimed and award-winning South African theatre maker and Creative Director of ARTSCAPE Theatre Centre; and Jacqueline Maingard, Reader in Film at the University of Bristol and scholar of South African cinema. View Programme Full Price: £15.00 / Concession: £10.00  (Price includes lunch and coffee/tea, plus 60p booking fee) Book tickets from CCA box office, tel:  0141 352 4900 Book online   British Academy Emerging Prosperity in Emerging Economies, 09.00-17.30 on Wednesday 3 December (with Jim O'Neill, Mthuli Ncube, Danny Quah, Pauline Rose and others) The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, UK Martin Luther King's Dream: How Can We End Racism Today? St Paul's Cathedral, Thursday 4 December 2014, 6.30 – 8.00pm   Martin Luther King preached at St Paul's 50 years ago this December on his way to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. This event will challenge us to fulfil his dream of an equal society, one free from discrimination, intolerance, prejudice and extremism.   Speakers:  Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon OBE; Dr Heidi Mirza, Professor of Race, Faith and Culture, Goldsmiths College; Hugh Muir, The Guardian Register for tickets    Justice in Sudan and South Sudan Durham University, UK, 15-16 December 2014 The conference, organised by Durham University's Department of History, School of Law, Grey College, and the research group Islam, Law and Modernity, brings together interdisciplinary research from anthropology to international security, with panels on citizenship and civil rights, policing and state administration, land rights, international intervention and development issues, and transitional and constitutional justice. The programme hopes to encourage new conversations and innovative research on justice in Sudan and South Sudan, in collaboration with regional scholars, practitioners and institutions. Representation from regional organisations and international specialists is warmly welcomed. Find out more and register now      Art, Music & Film   On View: African Contemporary Art: Young Visionaries Wednesday 3rd December (10 am - 7:30 pm) & Thursday 4th December (10 am - 2 pm )  Mallett, Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ  Final Online Auction at 2pm UK time on 4th December, 2014 Find out more   GAFRA presents: 'POP-UP AFRICA'™ with L'association ELOWA, Benin Private View: Tuesday, 9th December 2014, 6:00pm - 8:30pm   Gallery of African Art, 9 Cork Street, London W1S 3LL Website   TIWANI Gallery Exhibition: Mirrors & Echoes: Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh 14 November – 20 December 2014 Private View: Thursday 13 November, 6:30 – 8:30pm. RSVP to info@tiwani.co.uk Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Mirrors & Echoes, a collaboration between Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh. Focussing on the interface between sound and image, Mirrors & Echoes is an immersive installation and a portrait of Lagos, the ever-changing Nigerian megacity.   Announcements   New special issue journal focussing on Boko Haram The Centre for Contemporary Islam (CCI) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, are pleased to announce the release of our most recent edition of the Annual Review of Islam in Africa (ARIA). The 2014 edition is a special issue on Islam in Nigeria. Among other things, the issue also features several pieces related to the Boko Haram crisis. Download the table of contents & editorial. ARIA, including past issues, is available in print, at a cost of USD 10 for African countries, and USD 20 for the rest of the world. To order copies of this publication, please contact the Centre for Contemporary Islam (DLLCAT004@myuct.ac.za).  Business Council for Africa The late Kaye Whiteman was an adviser to the Business Council for Africa and over the years contributed regular editorials to their various newsletters.  As a tribute to Kaye, BCA have compiled these articles in a book titled Kaye Whiteman An African Journey.  Further information is given in the attached flyer and the book on sale through BCA at info@bcafrica.co.uk for just £10.  Alternatively it may be downloaded as a Kindle e-book from www.amazon.com for $9.99.   New Book: Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa Deborah James (LSE) This anthropological study explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion—dubbed "banking the unbanked". Stanford University Press, 2014 Find out more Updates from Facebook page       Conferences in the UK & Abroad   Africa CFP: Anya Fulu Ugo: African Arts Conference Series of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria 24-27 June 2015, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Theme:  African Art and Artists After the Millennial Turn (A Conference of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Honour of El Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu) We invite panel proposals from Nigerian, African and world scholars that view contemporary African art and artists from multiple, all-inclusive perspectives, especially, but not restricted to, humanistic studies. We seek to challenge the low level of interdisciplinary discourses within Africa itself on the subject of its contemporary cultural production. For example, how might we critically engage African visual art through the multiple lenses of mass communication, theatre and film studies, linguistics, literary studies, music, economics, anthropology, history and international relations, archaeology, tourism and museum studies, political science, etc.?   Download the call Deadline; 15th February 2015   CFP: The Southern African Historical Society, 25th Biennial Conference - "Unsettling Stories and Unstable Subjects" The 25th Biennial Conference, hosted by the Department of History, University of Stellenbosch, 1-3 July 2015. Find out more  Cultures of Struggle: Song, Art, and Performance in Popular Movements" University of Johannesburg on 29-31 May 2015 Download the call Deadline: 19th January 2015   UK CFP: Landscapes, Sources, and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation 12-14 November 2015, Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and Centre of West African Studies (CWAS), University of Birmingham (UK) View the call Deadline: 31st January 2015   CFP: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions 13-16 July 2015, Liverpool, UK Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and historical specificities expressed and projected through material and immaterial heritage. However, in geopolitical terms and through everyday mobilities, people, objects and ideas flow backward and forward across the ocean, each shaping the heritage of the other, for better or worse, and each shaping the meanings and values that heritage conveys. Where, and in what ways are these trans-Atlantic heritages connected? Where, and in what ways are they not? What can we learn by reflecting on how the different societies and cultures on each side of the Atlantic Ocean produce, consume, mediate, filter, absorb, resist, and experience the heritage of the other? Find out more Deadline: 15th December 2015   CFP: LSE Africa Summit: Innovative Governance in Africa Friday, 17th  April 2015, London School of Economics and Political Science This one-day intensive Research Conference will explore strategies for and implications of Innovative Governance across the African continent and how new technologies and approaches are shifting the idea of Africa in the world.  This conference will present diversified insights into emerging opportunities  and challenges for Africa and provide a platform for engagement between African and international  researchers, development professionals and policy practitioners concerned with governance today. Download the call Deadline: 29th December 2014 CFP: Congo Research Network 3rd Conference African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK 11th & 12th June 2015 Download the call CFP: African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 15 May - 16 May 2015, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT Cambridge 'Heritage in Africa is increasingly employed as a vehicle for development. The desire to make heritage pay is palpable. Can one really put the onus on Africa's past to not only be self-sustaining but also to fuel development? How can Africa's heritage be used to shape and secure a sustainable future for the continent? This conference aims to explore the ways in which heritage can promote, secure or undermine sustainable development in Africa, and in turn, how this development affects conceptions of heritage in Africa' Find out more Europe CFP: Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa 28th-30th May 2015, Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven Prof. Dr Abdoumaliq Simone, Goldsmiths College, University of London Download the call for papers CFP: ECAS 6: 'Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt' 8th-10th July 2015 Find out more ECAS 2015 (Paris, 8-10 July 2015): Call for Papers (deadline 9 January 2015) Call for Papers ECAS 2015,  out now: http://www.ecas2015.fr/how-to-submit-your-proposal/ List of all ECAS 2015 panels: http://www.ecas2015.fr/all-panels/?nb_post=all - Publish or Perish in African Studies: New Ways to Valorize Research Convenor(s): Hartmut Bergenthum / Africa Department, University Library Frankfurt/Main & Stephanie Kitchen / International African Institute, London http://www.ecas2015.fr/publish-or-perish-in-african-studies-new-ways-to-valorize-research/ Practical information and info on registration can be found here: http://www.ecas2015.fr/practical-information/ - CFP: Contesting African Boundaries: Collective Mobilizations Across 'Borders.' In recent years, the study of borders and borderlands has been a particularly productive area of research in African studies. In particular, political scientists, anthropologists and historians have emphasized the opportunities that are afforded to borderland communities, especially through the mobilization of cross-border kinship or economic networks. They have also shown how borderlands function as zones of political and regulatory creativity. However, much of this work has centered on modern borders between nation states, most of which were imposed by imperial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather less has been done on alternative conceptualizations of borders and borderlands. This is despite the fact that Africans have understood (and continue to understand) borders in a multitude of ways: in terms of natural boundaries such as rivers or lakes, the demarcation of grazing rights, stockades around towns, and the moving frontiers of pioneer migrants. These kinds of boundaries are heavily contested in terms of their nature and validity, and the analysis of them may draw out similar themes of opportunity and constraint. This panel therefore welcomes papers that engage with the dynamics of borders and boundaries in Africa (broadly conceived) from a variety of conceptual viewpoints, and especially those that engage with the ways in which boundaries/borders shape collective mobilizations. Deadline: 9th January 2015. Contact: Phillip Gooding pg19@soas.ac.uk Find out more - CFP: Afriphone Literature: Mobilization for an African Language Literature Agenda in the 21st Century Convenor: Bodomo Adams / University of Vienna Find out more   USA CFPs: Conable African Studies Symposium Exile, Deportation, and Forced Labor in Colonial Africa Rochester, New York, April 2-4, 2015 Deadline: 15th December 2014 Find out more   CFP: ACLA African Language Literature: In the Garden of the Mother Tongue: African Language Literature  The American Comparative Literature Association 2015 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 26-29 March 2015 Find out more  CFP: Africa Conference at the University of Texas- Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights 3rd-5th April 2015, The University of Texas at Austin Deadline: 30th November 2014 Find out more  CFP: University of Chicago African Studies Workshop Spring Conference The Age of Infrastructure - The Infrastructure of Age May 15, 2015 The African Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago invites papers exploring the complexities of age and infrastructure in African studies, with a particular interest in examining the points of intersection between the two. In what way do age and the conflicts that emerge around it structure social forms in African societies? How do such forms and conflicts intersect with the infrastructures of African life? And how does attention to the intersections of age and infrastructure in Africa shed new light on the meaning of citizenship in African societies, the consequences of neoliberal globalization, and the ways in which ordinary people struggle to forge meaningful modes of sociality across the continent? Deadline: January 15th 2015 Find out more    CFP: "Journeys of Reconciliation: The New South, the New South Africa, and Nelson Mandela," SERSAS/SEAN Spring 2015 Conference, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, USA, 6 - 7 February 2015 This CFP is open to any scholarly topic and field in African and Diaspora studies broadly constructed but, following the passing of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) and the opportunity to reflect on the struggles for social justice in both America and South Africa, the organizers would particularly welcome panels and proposals that engage with considerations of how reconciliation can be seen as vital element in the Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid movements. Reflections on the role and legacy of Nelson Mandela, and those who informed his leadership in the South African liberation struggle as well as the lessons that can be drawn from these for global communities will, no doubt, form an important body of scholarly knowledge for future generations. Deadline: 15th December 2014 Find out more     Funding Opportunities & Prizes   HIGHLIGHTED: Leventis Nigerian Post-Doctoral Fellowship at SOAS  The Centre of African Studies of the University of London invites applications from Nigerian academics to take part in a scheme of collaborative research funded by the Leventis Foundation. Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016. Next deadline to apply: 31 March 2015 Find out more   NEW:  From Canon Collins: a new partnership with the Global Leaders Programme to sponsor South African students to pursue Masters degrees at the University of Cambridge, in association with the Tiso Foundation and the First Rand Foundation. Applications for these exciting new opportunities will open on 16th December. For further information, click here.  The following scholarships are now open for postgraduate study in the UK and Ireland starting in 2015:  Commonwealth Scholarships deadline 3 December Commonwealth Scholarships for Masters study at Oxford deadline 3 December Kader Asmal Fellowships for Study in Ireland deadline 19 December   Call for Applications: 2015/2016 Postgraduate Fellowships  The Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) encourages any current DPhil candidate who would like to spend a year as a visiting fellow at ULB to contact us to discuss an application for these fellowships.  Also, any DPhil students who are close to completing their thesis are encouraged to await the call for Post-Doctoral Fellowships which open next year. The Wiener - Anspach Foundation awards research grants to Oxford DPhil students and Cambridge PhD students who wish to spend up to one year at the Université libre de Bruxelles as part of their doctoral research. These non-renewable grants are open to students from all fields. Deadline: 5th December 2014 Find out more & apply  Call for Applications: THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION We conduct a special program for young African Scholars, aged 35 or younger, who have been educated and are living on the continent. This includes a methods workshop, to be held this spring in Nairobi, fieldwork research grants of $2000 each, editorial and publication help, and sponsorship at an international conference in 2016 to present the findings. Deadline: 15th December 2014 Find out more  SOAS Scholarships & Fellowships Governance for Development in Africa Initiative (GDiA) at SOAS PhD Scholarships MSc Scholarships Residential School in Africa (in London, UK) Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016  Find out more and apply Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentships  for MRes Politics with Language, MSc Research for International Development, MA Anthropological Research Methods, MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali The Canon Collins Scholarships at SOAS – open to Masters students from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for students from African Commonwealth countries applying for: MSc Development Studies, LLM in Law, Development and Governance, MSc Development Economics, MA Social Anthropology of Development, MA Music and Development The Culture of Resistance Scholarships for Masters students in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, from the following African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Ferguson Scholarships for African taught Masters students in African Studies, International Studies and Diplomacy & Social Anthropology of Development Santander Taught Master's Scholarships for African students from Ghana  SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Arts & Humanities  - (for any full-time taught masters programme in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities)  SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Language & Cultures (for the full-time MA Postcolonial Studies, MA Cultural Studies, MA Comparative Literature, MA Linguistics, MA Applied Linguistics & Language Pedagogy, MA Language, Documentation and Description, MA Translation Theory and Practice (Asian and African Languages)  SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (for any full-time master's programmes in the Department of Development Studies, Economics, Law, Politics, International Studies and Financial & Management Studies, in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy and in the the Centre for Gender Studies) William Ross Murray Scholarship for an LLM student from a developing country External scholarships British Institute in Eastern Africa Graduate Attachment Scheme for recent graduates with an interest in further studies in Africa    British Council The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is an international programme under which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. The CSFP was established at the first Commonwealth education conference in 1959, and over 26,000 individuals have benefited. CSC offers Masters and PhD scholarships as well as Fellowships and distance learning scholarships   Mansion House Scholarships for training and work experience in the United Kingdom's financial services industry, open to postgraduate Nigerian students. Tullow Group scholarship scheme for postgraduates from Ghana, Uganda and Kenya in subjects related to the oil and gas industries. Other Universities University of Sheffield West African Merit Scholarships for students from Benin, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Guinea Bissau University of Bath Steve Huckvale Scholarships for students in Africa – taught masters students from Africa who are intending to study Engineering or Management Bournemouth University UKEAS Nigeria Scholarship for Nigerian nationals on full-time postgraduate courses     Jobs   The Centre of African Studies is recruiting an intern and volunteers to support its activities in the fields of research, event management and communications.  If you are interested in being involved and are a current SOAS student, please download the job descriptions and send your application by 15th January 2015: CAS Volunteer CAS Intern   Lecturer in African Studies University College London Deadline: 30th January 2015 Find out more   University Assistant (post doc) in African languages and literatures at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna Identification number of advertisement: 5444 Duration of contract: 6 years More information  Download description     Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Study with the South African Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies Deadline: 23rd January 2015 Download further information   Postdoctoral / Doctoral research position in African Studies at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, the University of Hamburg The successful candidate will work on the project "African voices in Islamic manuscripts from Mali: a study of African languages written in Arabic-based script (Ajami)". The project is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and is attached to the CSMC West Africa research projects headed by Dr Dmitry Bondarev.  Deadline: 5th January 2015 Download the job description   Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Research and Social Justice (2 years) This postdoctoral program, generously funded by Ford Foundation, provides focused support for both research publication and concrete engagement with social justice issues and campaigns. You will be located at a Research Institute that combines cutting edge scholarly research with rich experience of supporting labour, women's, social and environmental movements, as well as progressive government institutions, engaging in struggles to change the world we live in. You will have the time and support to conduct and publish research and lay the foundation for your academic career, as well as participate in an innovative social justice program. You will participate in a collegial and progressive community of scholars. Deadline: 15th December  Download further information RIFT VALLEY INSTITUTE     ALL REGIONS   Director of Programmes - London   2014 | RVI - 2014.12.01 - JOB DESCRIPTION - DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMES.PDF | APPLICATION DEADLINE 31 DECEMBER 2014 | JOB APPLICATION FORM   The Rift Valley Institute seeks an outstanding professional as Director of Programmes. This post will involve working closely with the RVI's Executive Director and other members of the RVI senior management team to oversee the development and implementation of RVI programmes....MORE >       ALL REGIONS   Operations Manager - Nairobi   2014 | RVI - 2014.11.20 - JOB DESCRIPTION - OPERATIONS MANAGER - NAIROBI.PDF | APPLICATION DEADLINE 23 DECEMBER 2014 | JOB APPLICATION FORM   The RVI Operations Manager is a key position in RVI's Nairobi office. The Nairobi office supports the Institute's operations in the Horn of Africa, East Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, and the Great Lakes. The Operations Manager will be responsible for general office management.... MORE >       ALL REGIONS   Education Manager - London or Nairobi   2014 | RVI - 2014.11.20 - JOB DESCRIPTION - EDUCATION MANAGER.PDF | APPLICATION DEADLINE 23 DECEMBER 2014 | JOB APPLICATION FORM   The Education Manager will be responsible for the management of RVI training courses and the further development of the Institute's wider educational programme in eastern and central Africa and beyond. The RVI annual in-country training courses.... MORE >       ALL REGIONS   Intern - London   2014 | RVI - 2014.11.20 - JOB DESCRIPTION - INTERN - LONDON.PDF | APPLICATION DEADLINE 23 DECEMBER 2014 | JOB APPLICATION FORM   The RVI seeks an exceptional graduate-level intern, quick to learn new skills, to join the friendly, hard-working team in our central London office. The internship is from January 2015 onwards. The successful applicant will be supporting the Institute's.... MORE >     Journals and Book Series on Africa     ♦ Adonis &Abbey Publishers Ltd, P.O. Box 43418, London, SE11 4XZ: 1. African Renaissance: a bi-monthly, multidisciplinary international journal published since 2004, has launched a book programme. Under the programme, the journal, which is a cross between an academic publication and any higher-end policy oriented report, will publish every year 5-6 books based on contributions to the journal. The book programme has already started (see some of the titles in "Forthcoming Titles below). Usually an editor is appointed to edit each volume, and the editor asks authors of selected contributions to update/expand/beef up/revise their contributions -as the case may be.  For previous issues of African Renaissance, see: http://adonisandabbey.com/show_journal1.php?list_journals=1   2. African Journal of Business of Economic Research, a peer-reviewed academic journal, which made its debut in January 2006. The journal is published three times a year. Also 1-2 books are to be published each year from the contributions to the journal. For details of the current edition, please see: http://adonisandabbey.com/show_journal1.php?list_journals=2   3. Review of Nigerian Affairs is a quarterly, multidisciplinary online journal, which is a cross between an academic publication and any quality, policy-oriented features magazine. The journal brings together different perspectives on current issues in Nigerian politics, economy and society.   4. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID)  AJSTID is a multi-disciplinary and refereed international journal with a special focus on science, technology, and innovation in developing economies, with a special reference to Africa. It has been established on the basis of the recognized role of innovation in the development of economies and on the relative absence of research in the area, particularly in the case of Africa. AJSTID seeks to encourage research along three broad streams. This first is the role of science, technology and innovation in the process of industrial growth and development. The second stream concerns the broader area of socio-economic development. The third invites work exploring the inclusion of innovation and knowledge in cross border integration processes particularly in Africa. AJSTID will solicit submissions on both these research streams at various levels: firms, sectors/ industries/clusters, regions and countries.   5. African Performance Review is a triennial  journal of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) dedicated to publishing, disseminating and encouraging high quality research and information on theatres and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.    ♦ African Affairs, Journal of the Royal African Society African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It publishes articles on recent political, social and economic developments in sub-Saharan countries. Also included are historical studies that illuminate current events in the continent. Each issue of African Affairs contains a substantial section of book reviews, with occasional review articles. There is also an invaluable list of recently published books, and a listing of articles on Africa that have appeared in non-Africanist journals. www.afraf.oxfordjournals.org   ♦ Africa Confidential Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with the in depth news on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent. Our track record owes much to our comprehensive network of local correspondents and the connections that we've built up throughout Africa since we started publishing back in 1960. http://www.africa-confidential.com   Africa-Asia Confidential Africa-Asia Confidential was first published in November 2007, by the same group that owns Africa Confidential, Asempa Limited of Cambridge. The newsletter was founded in response to the growing political and economic relations between Africa and Asia – and by the need to understand the implications for Africa. Using the resources that Africa Confidential has accrued in 50 years of covering the continent, Africa-Asia Confidential is also developing a new network of correspondents to supply the same kind of detailed and exclusive information for which Africa Confidential has won its reputation. www.africa-asia-confidential.com    ♦ African Journal of Political Science The AJPS is published by the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), with the aim of providing a platform for African perspectives on issues of politics, economy and society in Africa. It is published 2 times a year - in June and December, and targeted at the social science community, policy-makers, and university students. Contributions are in either English or French. With effect from the year 2000, it will be published in Arabic by the Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University, Egypt.   ♦ African Studies Journals, Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group: 1. African and Black Diaspora This is the first academic journal that directly addresses the needs of scholars working in the important field of African Diaspora studies. It advances the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute this distinctive interdisciplinary study of the deterritorialised and transnational nature of the African and Black Diaspora. The journal publishes research articles, commentaries and book reviews. All articles will be peer-reviewed. Authors interested in contributing should contact one of the three Editors. A special issue Navigating African Diaspora: Crossing, Belonging and Presence, is in preparation.   2. African Identities, 2 Issues per year, Print ISSN: 1369-6815, Online ISSN: 1469-9346 With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalisation, "otherness" and difference, the journal explores how African identities, either by force of expediency or contingency, create layered terrains of (ex)change, decentre dominant meanings, paradigms and certainties. For more information visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CAFI   3. African Studies, 2 Issues per year, Print ISSN: 0002-0184, Online ISSN: 1469-2872 Rooted in a long tradition of scholarship, African Studies provides an inter-disciplinary forum for conceptual and empirical writing relevant to Africa, and that contributes to international dialogue and debate. For more information visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CAST   4. Development Southern Africa Development Southern Africa offers a platform for expressing views and encouraging debate among development specialists, policy decision makers, scholars and students in the wider professional fraternity and especially in southern Africa. The journal publishes articles that reflect innovative thinking on key development challenges and policy issues facing South Africa and other countries in the southern African region.   5. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies ENAJS is the premier international peer-reviewed journal for the critical analysis of journalism scholarship, education and practice in all its facets in Africa. The purpose of the journal is to foster a better understanding of journalism, media studies, and mass communication as research areas in the comparative context of Africa and the Global South, and to build links between these academic fields and the media professions. The journal's focus is on Africa, but its academic interest and scope is transnational.   6. Ethnic and Racial Studies Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. Ethnic and Racial Studies, published ten times a year, is the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. The journal provides an interdisciplinary academic forum for the presentation of research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.   7. Journal of African Cultural Studies The Journal of African Cultural Studies is an international journal providing a forum for perceptions of African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to African scholarship. It focuses on dimensions of African culture including African literatures both oral and written, performance arts, visual arts, music, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender.   8. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies This journal publishes the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, together with articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. Submissions: For details on how to submit a paper to Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies go to www.informaworld.com/jems   9. Journal of Contemporary African Studies The Journal of Contemporary African Studies (published four times a year, in January, April, July and October) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change throughout the African continent, as well as the location of Africa within the global political economy. Its scope extends across the social sciences, as well as encouraging articles relating to the social dimensions of the wider humanities, sciences and the environment. It welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature, as well as those offering careful analyses of developments at national, regional and continental level. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics.   10. Journal of Southern African Studies JSAS is an international publication for work of high academic quality on issues of interest and concern in the region of Southern Africa. It aims at generating fresh scholarly enquiry and rigorous exposition in the many different disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, and periodically organises and supports conferences to this end, sometimes in the region. It seeks to encourage inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives and research that reflects new theoretical or methodological approaches. An active advisory board and an editor based in the region demonstrate our close ties with scholars there and our commitment to promoting research in the region.   11. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies Published since 1974, Politikon is the official journal of the South African Association of Political Studies. It focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world's leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntington, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa's leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa's constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999. Recent articles have looked at the negotiated transition from apartheid to democracy, aspects of identity politics in post-apartheid South Africa and issues of democratic consolidation.   12. Review of African Political Economy ROAPE is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression and struggles against them, whether driven by global forces or local ones such as class, race, community and gender. It sustains a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa in the context of capitalist globalisation.   13. Journal of Eastern African Studies The Journal of Eastern African Studies is the international publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, published three times each year. It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries. It seeks to foster inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives, and research employing the most significant theoretical or methodological approaches for the region.   14.  South African Journal of International Affairs The SAJIA is an outward-looking International Relations journal. While taking a South African and African perspective, articles are comparative, and address issues of global importance. Published since 1993, SAJIA has become a leading South African journal publishing original and review articles on international relations involving and affecting Africa. The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation focusing on South Africa's and Africa's international relations. SAIIA provides cutting edge analysis and promotes balanced dialogue, thus contributing to effective policy making on issues critical to Africa and its engagement in a dynamic global context.   15. The Journal of North African Studies The Journal of North African Studies is a forum for scholars of and from the region. Its contents cover both country-based and regional themes, which range from historical topics to sociological, anthropological, economic, diplomatic and other issues. It is the first academic journal in English to analyse the historic and current affairs of what has become an important and coherent region of the Mediterranean basin, which is also linked to the Middle East and Africa. ♦ International African Institute 1. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. For further details see http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=afr.   2. Africa Bibliography Africa Bibliography has became available as a searchable online database from February 2011. The online bibliography has been developed by the IAI together with Cambridge University Press. Six volumes from 2004/5 to 2009/10 (current volume) were being published initially. It is anticipated that back volumes from 1984 will be added in due course during 2011 and 2012. Subsequent new annual volumes will be published in both online and print formats. For further details see http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFB.   3. International African Library series For updates on new volumes visit: http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/publishing/library.html 4. African Arguments the Book Series African Arguments is a series of short books about Africa today. Aimed at the growing number of students and general readers who want to know more about the continent, these books intend to highlight many of the longer-term strategic as well as immediate political issues confronting the African continent. The series is a collaboration between Zed Books, The Royal African Society, The International Africa Institute, The Social Science Research Council and Justice Africa.   ♦ Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 2,600 citizens and organisations - academics, policy makers, social activists, women's organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators who together produce insightful, sharp and thoughtful analyses and make it one of the largest and most innovative and influential web forums for social justice in Africa. Pambazuka News also publishes podcasts, videocasts and book. To view online, go to http://www.pambazuka.org/.   ♦ Postamble is a postgraduate journal of the Faculty of Humanities located in the Centre for African Studies and published bi-annually online. Postamble is committed to featuring original post graduate student work of a high academic standard which is of value to the promotion of multi-disciplinary study of Africa within the university environment. Postamble is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes general, as well as thematically focussed special issues. For more information visit: http://postamble.org/   ♦ The Africa Report: A monthly Journal, The Africa Report has established itself as the international publication of reference dedicated to African affairs. It is the guide used by decision makers to anticipate economic and political changes in Africa and relied upon for the expertise of an independent editorial team in its surveys, sector reports and country focus published in each issue. Its recognised high-quality coverage of the African business environment is combined with the widest pan-African and international circulation.   EDITORIAL SERIES   ♦ AEGIS/Brill Book Series: Call for proposal With the AEGIS Series (published by Brill) AEGIS provides a venue for the publication of works drawn from the lively and expanding community of scholars with interests in Africa and its Diaspora. The AEGIS Series aims to publish books within the broad fields of study within the humanities and social sciences that would bring new approaches or innovative perspectives to the topics discussed. Titles comprise works that could also reflect established debate within African Studies if they provide new insights. Both individually-authored works and edited collections on focused themes will be considered. The first volume (Is violence inevitable in Africa?) appeared in 2005. The AEGIS series will publish two books a year. Potential authors should first submit a proposal using the guidelines found at http://www.brill.nl/downloads/Manuscript-Preparation.pdf.   ♦ Africa in Development Series (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers) While African Development remains a preoccupation, policy craftsmen and a multiplicity of domestic and international actors have been engaged in the quest for solutions to the myriad problems associated with poverty and underdevelopment. This series is designed to encourage innovative thinking on a broad range of development issues. Thus its remit extends to all fields of intellectual inquiry with the aim to highlight the advantages of interdisciplinary perspective. The series welcome proposals from collected papers as well as monographs from recent PhDs no less than from established scholars.     Back to top   Contact     Facebook Twitter   Follow on Twitter   Friend on Facebook   Forward to Friend  Centre of African Studies, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

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