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Call for Review Essays

The Contemporary Journal of African Studies (CJAS) has introduced a “Review Essays” section to its scope.  This will enable the journal to bring its international readership into ongoing conversations on African studies while also reflecting the journal’s efforts to remain consistent with international best practices in journal publication.  CJAS, thus, invites submissions of review essays from scholars who are interested in any subject related to the theory and practice of global African(a) studies.

Provost of College of Humanities visits Institute of African Studies

As part of his familiarity tour of the units within the College of Humanities (CoH), Professor Daniel Ofori, the Provost of the CoH visited the Institute of African Studies on Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 11:00am. The purpose of the visit was to acquaint himself with the activities of the Institute and interact with colleagues. The Director of the Institute, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata welcomed the Provost to IAS and expressed her gratitude for the visit.

Call for Films: Third Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual and Cultural Festival

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Call for Films:
Third Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual and Cultural Festival

Overview and Instructions

The Kwame Nkrumah Festival (KNF) seeks to promote and enrich 21st century pan-African ideas and culture, strengthen and deepen pan Africanism by infusing it with the liberatory power and perspectives of African feminism.

3rd Kwame Nkrumah Festival

The festival pursues pan-Africanist visions of self-reliance and liberation through culture, science and technology, on behalf of all African people, irrespective of gender, age, class, ethnicity and religion. It seeks to redress unfavorable terms of trade, that devalue the continent and its peoples while extracting its wealth and appropriating, and commodifying African culture and impoverishing our artisans, industries and creatives.

Call for Abstracts - Catalyst Regional Early Career Workshop: West Africa

The Catalyst Fellowship Initiative of the Center of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana welcome applications for participation in an Early Career Workshop. The two-day workshop aims to provide early career scholars and PhD students in the sub region the opportunity to build academic relationships and networks, disseminate their research and build capacity for a flourishing  academic career.

Promoting Gender Equitable Social Policy in Africa Post Covid-19: New Multi-Country Project Takes Off

An inception workshop has been held to mark the start of Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA), a new multi-country project led by the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, with the mission to transform -- through research and constituency building activities -- the approaches to social policymaking and implementation in Africa.

Dr. Faisal Garba

Faisal Garba is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, (UCT). He Convenes the Global Studies Programme at UCT and leads the South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub in South Africa.. His research and teaching interests radiate around inequality and migration, social movements and globalization and historical sociology.

Professor Grace Musila

Grace MusilaProf. Grace A. Musila is an Associate Professor in the Department of African Literature at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She obtained her BA (Hons) in Language and Literacy studies at Moi University and had her M.A degree in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2004. She took her Ph. D in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand.