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What the ‘s—hole’ debate gets wrong about Africa By Beth Elise Whitaker and Christopher Day Monkey Cage – Analysis, The Washington Post, January 18 at 7:00 AM Americans from across the political spectrum were quick to respond to President Trump’s alleged reference last week to Haiti and nations in Africa as “shithole countries.” Democrats called […]

HAITI: Caribbean Dignity Unbowed* by Professor Hilary Beckles 13 January 2018 The democratic, nation-building debt the American nation owes the Caribbean, and the Haitian nation in particular that resides at its core, is not expected to be repaid but must be respected. Any nation without a nominal notion of its own making can never comprehend […]

Graduates, Faculty, and Family Members [December 4, 2017] FALL 2017 GRADUATES: AFRS MAJORS First Name Last Name Justin Bridges-Thompson James Covington Astou Dieye Derrick Glover Briana Laws Erikka Martin Janay McAllister Brittany Moss Ashely Robinson Lela Rucker Gabrielle Small Nicole Smith-Galloway Sarah Teumer Shon Tillett John Walson Joshua Wright FALL 2017 GRADUATES: AFRS MINORS First […]

The African Studies Association—a scholarly organization composed of over 2,000 university academics based in the United States, Europe and Africa – is outraged at President Trump’s characterization of African states as “shithole countries.” He is widely reported to have made this comment in conversation with members of Congress. It is shocking that such crude racist […]

“UNC Charlotte at the Intersection of Black Studies in the Carolinas” February 22-23, 2018 Thirteen years ago, the Department of Africana Studies was reconfigured as an integrated academic unit with a focus on the global, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the historical and contemporary experiences of Africa-descended populations worldwide, with emphasis on […]

AFRS Newsletter 2017

UNC Charlotte’s Africana Studies Department is at the forefront of the discipline, cultivating collaborative opportunities across campus. And, it is earning accolades for its efforts – most recently, the National Council for Black Studies bestowed its Sankore Institutional Award upon the department. Named for the 14th-century university in Timbuktu (present-day Mali), the Sankore Institutional Award […]

The Department of Africana Studies was recognized by UNC Charlotte’s Office of Assessment and Accreditation on April 10th for its “effective use of assessment results for improvement in Students’ Learning Experience”.

Dr. Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor, has released a new memoir that focuses on his recent itineraries in the Global South and North America. In At Home, Away from Home: A Memoir (Cissus World Press, Milwaukee, 2017), Ojaide provides reflections on the plight of the former African colonial subject and now postcolonial citizen caught […]

Africana Studies faculty, Dr. Honoré Missihoun, has received the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship (CADFP) to conduct collaborative research and graduate student teaching/mentoring at the University of Jos, Nigeria. His project will focus on the areas of Eco-Feminism and Eco-Criticism in the Environmental Literature of Francophone Africa and the African Diaspora. Dr. Missihoun’s award marks the […]