Category: Africa

  • Generation and Regeneration: What’s Happening at ASAUK 2024

    Generation and Regeneration: What’s Happening at ASAUK 2024

    The Global Souths Hub team are looking forward to attending the 60th African Studies Association of the UK conference (ASAUK). More than 550 academics, independent researchers, media professionals and others will come together for a lively and thought-provoking 3-day event at Oxford Brookes University from Thursday 29 to Saturday 31 August 2024. This year’s conference…

  • Africa Day 2024: Empowering African Minds

    Africa Day 2024: Empowering African Minds

    Purniya Awan is a Contributing Editor at the Global Souths Hub. Her areas of interest are gender, law and development in the Global South. This blog post aims to highlight the history of Africa Day, the significance of celebrating the day and how quality education across the African continent can produce scholars fit for the…

  • Launching the Kassahun Checole Prize for Early Career Researchers in African Studies

    Launching the Kassahun Checole Prize for Early Career Researchers in African Studies

    Third World Quarterly (TWQ) are delighted to announce the launch of Kassahun Checole Prize for the best and most innovative article submitted by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) in the field of African Studies. Both African writers and all those writing on African topics are encouraged to enter the prize. Submissions are now open! Submissions are…

  • “A is for Africa”: Towards the Decolonisation of Knowledge Production

    “A is for Africa”: Towards the Decolonisation of Knowledge Production

    Sylvia Tamale, an accomplished Ugandan academic and human rights activist, presented “A is for Africa”: Towards the Decolonisation of Knowledge Production at the third annual Devaki Jain lecture series which took place at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK, on the 13th of October 2022. Below is the transcript of Tamale’s insightful lecture (first published in ‘The…