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AFRS and GESP are collaborating
About GESP
"The Global Engagement Scholars Program (GESP) is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their Global competency through participation in academic, cio-curricular and international engagement activities. The GESP is coordinated by the Office of International Programs and the Department of Global Studies...
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Virtual Advising: Find Your Advisor
Undergraduate Advisor
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Call for Papers
The University of North Carolina, Africana Studies Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program invites you to submit a proposal for our 2020 symposium.
Theme:...
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Speaker: Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards
Assistant Professor, Duke University's School of Medicine and Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
"Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Health Issue"
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Tanure Ojaide, the Frank Graham Porter Professor of Africana Studies, is co-recipient of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
Awarded by the Lumina Foundation, the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize given biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. Soyinka, who presented the honor at a gala in Lagos, Nigeria, is a...
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The People of the River: Identity and Environment in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). The book is a social and environmental history of Africa-descended people in Brazil's Amazonian forest. It is a story of the difficult journey from slavery to peasantry, and how Black Amazonians used their environment to forge new overlapping identities as citizens,...
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Dr. Akin Ogundiran has been named editor-in-chief of the highly ranked African Archaeological Review, the oldest continent-wide journal in African archaeology.
