Africa Table
About
The Center for African Studies hosts its weekly lecture series Africa Table every Wednesday from 12:00-1:00 pm in 123 Encina Hall, 615 Crothers Way on Stanford's Campus.
Africa Table has been held on the same day, at the same time for over 30 years, hosting speakers from around the world on topics ranging from hip-hop to public health, generating lively discussions. Over the years CAS's growing number of students, faculty, staff, and community members has flourished. We look forward to welcoming you to learn with us at one of Stanford's most successful and attended lecture series.
Student Reflection
"My favorite event hosted by CAS is the weekly Africa Table. I have learnt a lot from speakers on many different topics about and related to various countries and communities within Africa. Africa Table has been a great opportunity to learn outside of class. I like that I can get up to date on academic, social, and political developments on the continent and simultaneously have a midweek check in with my favorite people on campus. One of my favorite Africa Table talks was about the colonial era looting of art from the Senufo region in West Africa to Europe. There is so much about Africa that I have learnt at Africa Table that I would never have the opportunity to learn elsewhere. The food is always fantastic as well."
-CHARLES MULEMI, B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE ‘17
Past Events
This lecture is based on my current book manuscript, Requiem for a West African Caliphate: A Social and Intellectual History of Islamicate Societies in Hausaland and Bornu, c.
The twentieth century was the age of institutions for children and youth, when standardizing legal, medical, scientific, and social definitions of childhood and youth became a global phenomenon.…
Dr. Chapdelaine will address pressing questions such as: What barriers do Black women face in the ivory tower? How can institutions better support their success and well-being?
The construction of gender and sexuality in North Africa has been profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism, particularly in Algeria.
This session will be based on my most recent book, Wealth, Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality , which discuss how African rulers and people expressed…
Focused on calls for pedagogies of resistance to reimagine pathways towards more dignified and humane urban livelihoods, I will share a sequence of collaborative experiments over the last decade…
Join us for a special Africa Table session featuring graduate students' work, including presentations by Zahra Fazal and Venolia Rabodiba.
There is a Rwandan saying, "When you are well, you belong to yourself. But when you are sick, you belong to your family."
In this presentation I discuss spatial strategies through which capitalism continues its accumulation through invisible and devalued work of social reproduction…