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NYU - Center for the Study of Africa
  • Mission
  • People
    • Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2024)
    • From the Director
      • Descent into Deceit
      • George Lamming
      • Kamau Brathwaite
      • A Time for Martyrs
      • Trial By Media
      • Djibril Niane
      • Tsitsi Dangarembga
      • Africa, the African Diaspora, and COVID-19: Some Resources
    • Guest Contributors
      • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • Events
    • All Events
    • CSAAD Afro-Asia Project
    • Africa~Diaspora Forum
      • 2024-2025 Africa~Diaspora Forum
      • 2022-2023 African Diaspora Forum
      • 2019-2020 Africa Diaspora Forum
      • Past Africa~Diaspora Forums
    • CSAAD Media
      • Photos of Past Events
  • Engagements
    • CSAAD 2025 – 2026 Post Doctoral Fellowship
    • CSAAD 2025 – 2026 Pre Doctoral Fellowship
    • Postdoctoral Fellowship
      • CSAAD Fellowship 2024-2025
      • CSAAD Fellowship 2023-2024
      • Past Fellowship Recipients
    • CSAAD Distinguished Scholar
      • 2022-2023 Distinguished Speaker: Carole Boyce-Davies
      • 2019-2020 CSAAD Distinguished Scholar: Verene Shepherd
      • Distinguished Speakers Series February 12, 2019: Toyin Falola
    • The Africa~Diaspora Institute for Social Studies Teachers
      • The Africa~Diaspora Institute for Social Studies Teachers 2023-2024
      • The Africa~Diaspora Institute for Social Studies Teachers 2022-2023
        • The Africa~Diaspora Institute for Social Studies Teachers Material
    • CSAAD Artist-in-Residence
      • Artist-in-Residence February 2020: Taiye Selasi
      • Past CSAAD Artist-in-Residence
        • Artist/Scholar-in-Residence February 2019: Tsitsi Dangarembga
    • CSAAD Conferences
      • African Worlds in the 21st Century
      • African and Diasporic Feminist Linkages and Solidarities Conference
      • CSAAD-ASWAD Medial Meeting May 2-3, 2019: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND NEW YORK CITY
        • Call for Proposals: Black Internationalism and New York City
  • Archive
    • The Ties That Bind (2024 Post-Doc Conference)
    • Aligning African Worlds
      • Reports
    • Book Talks
    • Diasporic Africa in Dialogue
    • Faculty Brown Bags
    • Past Events
      • Newsletter Archive
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Meet the People

Director

Michael A. Gomez

Administrator

Ariell DaSilva Christian

Advisory Board

Ousseina Alidou

Ousseina Alidou

Awam Amkpa

K. Anthony Appiah

K. Anthony Appiah

Monique Bedasse

Renee Blake

Renée Blake

Manthia Diawara headshot

Manthia Diawara

Michael Dinwiddie

headshot Dr. Jackson

Fatimah L.C. Jackson

Fred Moten

Nyarko Yaw

Yaw Nyarko

Olugbenga Ogedegbe

Olugbenga Ogedegbe

Benjamin Talton

Photo by Alice Proujansky

Deborah Willis

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NYU - Center for the Study of Africa
The mission of the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) at NYU is to advance cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora in ways that bring that scholarship into sustained conversation.
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