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Yonas Demisse, Addis Ababa University .
Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30
Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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Contestations for Popular Accountability in the Contemporary Ethiopian Political Transition
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What Nigeria can teach us about good governance: how ethnography can be used for political theory
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Village identity papers and the production of moral homelands in Uganda
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Long-distance citizenship and external voting: African case studies
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The Organizational Roots of Persistent Electoral Violence in Africa
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
War, peace and political representation: An analysis of popular political thinking in Burundi (1993-2015)
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Rebel Lives, photographs from inside the Lord's Resistance Army
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Between the Moral and Market Economy: Rebel Taxation as a Technology of Governance
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Title TBC
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How do African states think about heritage? Historical and ethnographic views from southern Africa
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Sermonizing on Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Post Colonial Sub Saharan Africa
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Decolonise what? Archaeology, heritage and the elusive pursuit of locally centred African past(s)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Decolonising the Missionary Road? An Archaeology of Heritage at the Kuruman Moffat Mission, South Africa
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonizing Practice
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Co-creating “Effective” Archaeologies: Reflections from a Digital Heritage Initiative in Banda, Ghana
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Anti-Africanism in Twentieth-Century Dominican Republic'
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Out of the Shadows, and Towards a New World: The Congress of Black Writers at 50"
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
"Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James"
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Blindspots: Or, is it ethical for white people to study Africa'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Memories of Ashura: A photographic essay from Zanzibar before and after the Revolution
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Power, authority, and community participation in primary health-care centres: contrasting evidence from health facility committees in South Kivu (DR Congo) and Burundi
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Atomic Junction: The Road to Nuclear Power (documentary film, 30 mins)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Problematizing The Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin: Sierra Leone Health Infrastructure on the Eve of Ebola
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Towards a Relational Understanding of Participation in Social Health Protection
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Policy of No Policy: Disability and Technology Translation Dilemmas in Uganda
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Metabolic disorder, global health and ‘noncommunicable’ disease in Malawi
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Rethinking African Studies: The Wisdom of the Elders
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Activism and scholarship: Fahamu's role in shaping knowledge production in Africa
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
How to know Africa(s) in an age of youth hybridity
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Reframing African Studies through Languages and Translation: Overcoming Barricades to Knowledge and Knowledge Management
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Book launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The state-market dichotomy, development and transition in Africa
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Fashion as Transnational Feminist Methodology for African Studies
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Can We Decolonise the Academy from Within?
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Henri Breuil and the Imagination of Prehistory in Southern Africa
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Youth and generational conflict in South African historiography
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Epistemology and the Dance Archive in Colonial Central Kenya
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Africa as a “Dissimilar” System? Knowledge Production on Africa in the UK
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
arty politics, capital mobilization and the rise of ‘small boys’ capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
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Party Politics, Capital Mobilization and the Rise of ‘Small Boys’ Capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
'It's not my story to tell': ownership, legitimacy, and the politics of history in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
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'It's Not My Story to Tell': Ownership, Legitimacy, and the Politics of History in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
ZANU’s post-1980 legitimation strategies: post-liberation demobilization via development discourse (with book launch)
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ZANU’s Post-1980 Legitimation Strategies: Post-Liberation Demobilization via Development Discourse (with Book Launch)
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The politics of moving on: Legitimacy and contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya
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The Politics of Moving On: Legitimacy and Contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
From hidden dissent to open renegotiation and contestation: Local actors interacting with agrarian modernisation in rural Rwanda
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From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
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What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
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From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'War, displacement, and heritage: a post-conflict material culture in northern Uganda'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'Addressing the Spirit of Discernment: Pentecostal transformation of demonic objects into modern heritage in Sierra Leone
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'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive'
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'Borders, frontiers, crossroads. Making the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland'
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Building Abuja to Rebuild Nigeria
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Suburbs of distinction: middle class boundary work in Dar Es Salaam
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An inverted social contract. Development, political authoritarianism and the production of marginality in inner city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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“If there were no black people wandering about, you might think you were finding yourself in a European port.” Urban Space, race and society in the colonial port city of Matadi, DR Congo
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'Zimbabwe is my Home': Political Exclusion, Citizenship and Belonging in Urban Zimbabwe
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Comparing the Central African Copperbelts: social history and knowledge production in the Zambian copperbelt and Haut Katanga
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Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices
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Labels and definitions: reflections on urban dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Writing a history of African popular culture
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Social media and the making of the New-Baraza; mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Media influences in contemporary Rwandan dance performances
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
On folles, swageurs and other ambiançeurs; popular culture and queer extraversion in urban Congo
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The rifle, the quill, and the rosary; competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Crime fiction, mythomania, and the criminalisation of the South African state
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Disruptive listening in times of conflict: the poetics of war and citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Fertility, Gender and the Family in Twentieth-Century East Africa
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At the Cutting Edge of Transformations in Gender Relations in Zambia
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Intimacy and Inequality; Conceptualising Care Labour in Kenya
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‘Women use our Strength in the House’; Savings Clubs and Social Mobility In South Africa
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Female Sexuality as Capacity and Power? Re-Conceptualizing Sexualities in Africa
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Same Sex Cultures and Pariah Formations in North Africa
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Contesting Compliance; Tales of ‘Women's Empowerment’ from Nineteenth-Century SW Nigeria
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Fathers and Sons; Masculinity, Intergenerational Shifts and Routes of Becoming
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Diasporic Romance; Marriage, Consumerism and Ghanaian Experiences in Botswana
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Paradox of Parallel Lives; Immigration Policy and Transnational Polygyny between Senegal and France
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Cultivating Intergenerational Ideals; The Exchange of Photographs between Migrant Parents in Britain and their Children in The Gambia
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
From 'Nairobi East' to 'Little Mogadishu'; Migration and Diaspora in the History of Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Spaces of Exile and Solidarity; Conviviality, Contention and Transnational Activism for Zimbabwe 1965-1980
Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks
Decolonisation in Sudan: Development Planning and the End of 'Indirect Rule'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Roots Of Impermanence; Farm Life, Labour, And Migration On The Zimbabwean-South African Border
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Zonk! Magazine; Black Modernity and the Marketplace in South Africa
Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks
The East African Literature Bureau (EALB) and the Making of Modern East African Literature
Centre of South Asian Studies occasional events
Pakistan's Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Shafqat Mahmood, visits Cambridge University
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Mediating Voice: Writing Letters to Address the Public at a Local Radio Station in Mopti, Mali
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Hybrid Images of Political Power: The Role of Iconographic Narratives in the Ethiopian Court (1880-1935)
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
How to do Resistance with Words: Nationalism, Afrocentrism and Oratory in Abidjan's Street Parliaments
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Producing Islamic Reform: Media Practices and the Construction of Religious Authority in Niger
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Non-European Newspaper Culture in Kenya: Mumenyereri, the Daily Chronicle and the Colonial Times, 1945-51
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The Timbuktu Manuscripts: Economic, Political and Scientific Stakes. Some Reflections about a Media Buzz
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks
Restoring Leviathan? The Kenyan Supreme Court, Constitutional Transformation and the Presidential Election of 2013
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State
⚠️ Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Overlapping Sovereignties and the Politics of Legal Pluralism in Mozambique
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Transition and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Prosecution of Rape in Wartime: Evidence From Kenya, 1952-1960
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Narratives of Violence: Historicizing Representations of Child Combatants in African Conflict, c. 1980-2010
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979
⚠️ Canceled
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Culpable Identities: Homicide Jurisdiction and the Politics of Culture in Late-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Segou Fanga – Tamani Kafu: towards an archaeology of Mande political tradition (AD 1200-1850)
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
From ‘strangers’ to an ‘indigenous people’: the case of the Mbororo in Cameroon
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Joking relationships in West Africa (Senegal): from scientific canonisation to political instrumentalisations
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Northern Chad: anarchy and social cohesion, or neither?
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Colonial boundary making and local communities in the Niger-Nigeria borderland
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
One hundred years of change in Mambila religion
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Displaying the arts of the Benue River Valley, Nigeria
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Art of the Bambui fondom/Kingdom
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
A Museum for Heritage and Culture at Aba Island, Sudan
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Northcote W Thomas and Northern Edo history
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Challenge of the Traditional Collection and the possibilities of "Tribing and Untribing the Archive: the Material Record of the Thukela-Mzimkulu region, c. 1750-1910”
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Grace Note - a talk by artist ATTA KWAMI
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Origins of the Afro comb Project: 6000 years of African combs
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Slowly but Surely: Informal Workers' Quest for Labour Rights in Neoliberal Tanzania, 1995-2011
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
“Teach Yourself Citizenship!” Elections in Kenya, 1957-63
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The Neopatrimonial State in Africa: Lessons from a Comparative Overview
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The Neopatrimonial State in Africa: Lessons from a Comparative Overview
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
The Gbonhi War; Militias, Political Violence and the State in Côte d’Ivoire
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