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Earlier this month, ACS faculty and students gathered in Dr. Harold Scheub’s honor for the reading of his Memorial Resolution by Prof. Matthew Brown. Dr. Scheub was a leading scholar in African oral traditions and …

Graduate student Nneoma Onwuegbuchi has been selected to receive the 2024 Tejumola Olaniyan International Student Travel Award, sponsored by the Tejumola Olaniyan Foundation through the generosity of Prof. Olaniyan’s family. The award, intended to support …

ACS graduate student and teaching assistant Mwita Muniko has accepted a position as Teaching Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University, where he will join the faculty in the fall.  

The University Academic Planning Council (UAPC) has approved the proposal to establish an undergraduate Certificate in Arabic Language and Culture in the Department of African Cultural Studies within the College of Letters & Science, effective …

Ainehi Edoro has received the Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Ainehi’s project was selected for a one-semester REI Fellowship during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga, King of Kongo, written by John K. Thornton and translated by African Cultural Studies Chair and Professor Luís Madureira, is now available for online purchase. Madureira translated letters contained in …

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Undergraduate student Audrey Thibert, who was selected as the 2023 University of Wisconsin Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow, has recently published several impressive articles completed using her own reporting work performed in Tunisia last …