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.
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.
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.
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.
The Institute of African Studies is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant and a Digital Journal Communications Officer for the Offices of the Kwame Nkrumah Chair and the Feminist Africa respectively.
Find below, links to the details of the positions.
1. Research Assistant (Application Submission Deadline: April 16, 2021)
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.
Prof. 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.
Oghenetoja Okoh is an Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University, Maryland (USA).
Dr. Edwina Ashie-Nikoi is an archivist and historian of the African and African Diaspora experience with particular interest in the ways peoples of African descent document themselves and how culture and history are traditionally remembered and represented in African/diasporan cultural systems.
