Come downtown for a celebration of creative self-expression through multimedia arts. The evening's events at NorthStar Church of the Arts will include a fashion procession, a live performance by Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, a...

The connection between infrastructure and anxiety about the movement of people has a long history in Africa, from the segregating imperatives built into early colonial urban planning to the "slum clearance" initiatives of the more recent past....

Inequalities and the Erosion of Social Cohesion in South Africa

Come join Duke's Fuqua School of Business for the Business in Africa Club Conference taking place on Saturday, March 30th. The theme for this year’s conference is " Disruptive...

Older than South Africa's oldest political organisations or independent churches, a triad of prison gangs, the 26s, the 27s and the 28s, have been flourishing in carceral institutions since the late nineteenth century. Several generations of...

The Pendulum in Motion

Seven years since the Arab Spring, the prospects for Middle East democracy have diminished markedly. Popular forces mounted uprisings but most didn't follow through. Authoritarians regrouped and reorganized...

Join us for a reading by Romeo Oriogun, winner of the 2017 Brunel University Prize for African Poetry. Oriogun's work claims space for innovative queer writing in contemporary Nigeria. Oriogun has been described as " a hugely talented,...

Join us for the final screening of the African Film Festival, The African Who Wanted to Fly. First discovering Kung Fu after watching the film Big Boss, a young Gabonese child sets off for China at the age of just 15. Under the tutelage of Grand...

Award-winning filmmaker, Rumbi Katedza, is known for her films addressing political violence, migration (Asylum), and gender (Playing Warriors) in documentary and fiction. In her presentation she will screen extracts and discuss her 2 films, The...

Join us for the third screening of the Fourth Annual African Film Festival, Foreign Body. In the film, a young Tunisian woman arrives illegally in France following her escape from Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution. As she struggles to adapt to her new...