The discussion will explore Mandela’s reconstruction of himself through his autobiography, A Long Walk to Freedom . Amongst other areas of exploration, the discussion will also consider whether this... Read more

OCAF Seminar: The Politics of Cessation in Central Africa

Georgia Cole (Green Templeton, Oxford)

14 February 2014 - 5:00pm

Conference Room, Nuffield College

African Studies Seminar: Bullets over Ballots: Electoral Exclusion, Coups and Civil Wars in Africa

Brian Klaas, Oxford University

13 February 2014 - 5:00pm

Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Horn of Africa Seminar: Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Somalia

Andy Harris (Oxford)

11 February 2014 - 5:00pm

ASC Seminar Room

Constructing Community in Early Twentieth Century South Africa: II

11 February 2014 - 5:00pm

Prof Beinart's room, ASC

Michael Ndlovu (MSc, African Studies) with/and/or Khumisho Moguerane (DPhil, History)) will discuss an aspect of his/their/her dissertation(s). The presentation will explore how some members of the... Read more

African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces

Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark

6 February 2014 - 5:00pm

Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two exceptional spaces, namely among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that... Read more

Horn of Africa Seminar: Sacred Space and Urban Geography: the Body Politics of Muhammad Ahmed al-Mahdi and General Charles Gordon, 1885-1956

Katie Hickerson (University of Pennsylvania)

4 February 2014 - 5:00pm

ASC Seminar Room

The Making of Nelson Mandela II

4 February 2014 - 5:00pm

Dahrendorf, St Antony's

This discussion will explore a moment during which the African National Congress decided to focus on one individual, i.e. Nelson Mandela, as the face of the anti-apartheid campaign, and thus the... Read more

CANCELLED OCAF Seminar: Screening of Demokarasi (a documentary on the 2010 elections in Burundi) & Discussion

Marie-Claude Dupont (CBC journalist and filmmaker)

31 January 2014 - 5:00pm

Clay Room, Nuffield College

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