Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership
  TBA

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership
  TBA

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Driving Africa's prosperity through sustainable and innovative practices
  TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
  TBA

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - "Beyond Mere Inspiration: Tackling the Challenges of Leadership in Sierra Leone"
  TBA
• 17:00 - The 2019 African Studies Annual Lecture: “Edouard Glissant and the Right to Opacity: Some Trembling Thoughts on the State of Critical Theory in Francophone Africa”
  TBA

Thursday 27 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and African Diaspora
  TBA

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Ruth First's Red Suitcase:In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory. Book Launch: Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
  Carli Coetzee
  African studies Seminar

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Book Launch: Transforming Rwanda – Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction
  This event stands cancelled. Due to a health emergency, the speaker has been advised not to travel.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jean-Paul Kimonyo (Senior Adviser, Office of the President of Rwanda; Fellow, Rift Valley Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria
  Pedi Obani (University of Benin and United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa)
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Book launch of State and Society in Nigeria
  Gavin Williams (University of Oxford), Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford), Portia Roelofs (University of Oxford)
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Rethinking (Post-)Work through Racial Capitalism
  William Monteith ((Queen Mary University of London))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Ethnography for Digital Natives? Rethinking Form and Content in a New Text on Contemporary Angola
  Jess Auerbach ((Open University of Mauritius and Stellenbosch University))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Making Theory from the Periphery: Notes from a Practical Attempt to Decolonise Research
  Nanjala Nyabola ((Independent))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch of Shadows of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the ANC, 1943 to 1996
  Robert Van Niekerk ( (University of the Witwatersrand)), Vishnu Padayachee ((University of Kwazulu-Natal))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Forgetting Westgate? Rectified Sites of Violence and the Politics of Memory in East Africa's ‘War on Terror’
  Andrea Purdekova ((University of Bath))
  African studies Seminar

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The History of Public Preaching and Public Sound in Northern Nigeria
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series