Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diasproa
“Alufa Rufino, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.”
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesJoão Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Brazil, and particularly Bahia, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas, Nupes, and Yorubas who, once in Brazil, were involved in several slave revolts. […]
Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United StatesAbstract: Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East […]
Africa Diaspora Forum Kenda Mutongi
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora Presents the Africa`~Diaspora Forum lecturer Kenda Mutongi About this Event Kenda Mutongi teaches a wide range of courses in African history, world history, and gender history. She is the author of two award-winning books: Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago UP, […]
Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesIn the 1920s in New York the jazz cabaret was seen as offering what the writer Eric Walrond called “Africa undraped”, and its sound was the tom-tom. This talk will explore the period’s fascination with that instrument and with what it might signify, focusing on two texts entitled Tom-Tom, both of which offer to associate contemporary Harlem with “Africa”, in one or another of its manifestations.
Artist-in-Residence: Taiye Selasi
19 Washington Sq. North New York, NY, United StatesA writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, born in London and raised in Boston, now living in Rome and Berlin, who has studied Latin and music, Taiye Selasi is herself a study in the modern meaning of identity. In 2005 she published the much-discussed (and controversial) essay "Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What Is an […]
The African is a Country-CSAAD Dialogues: “AfroMexico”
Panelists Dr. Doris Careaga Coleman Dr. Etienne Mulumeoderhawa Mufungizi Josiane Moukam Hosted By Ebony Bailey Online:YouTube.com/africaisacountrytv
338 BCE and the Transformation of Ancient Afro-Eurasia
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesThe second half of the 4th c. BCE witnesses a series of dramatic transformations throughout Afro-Eurasia, foremost among them a rapid escalation in state formation processes and the emergence of new (or newly aggressive) territorial empires. Concentrating on the 330s BCE, this lecture will pair a thick description of these transformations with an attempt at […]
Critics of the Oyo Empire and Atlantic Modernity in the Age of Revolution: Rethinking Black Atlantic Historiography with Archaeology and Òrìṣà Archives
NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003, New York, NYDecember 4th, 2023 5:30 pm -7:00 pm Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall Register here for in-person Attend via Zoom here In this talk, Ogundiran will discuss the debates and dialogues that happened in the Oyo Empire (West Africa) in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about rights and privileges, marginalization and power, and politics of difference […]