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A festival of films by the Rainbow Collective film company, dealing with human resilience, economic development, exploitation, racism and resistance Hosted by Leeds University School of Media and Communication, Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, Centre for African Studies, Centre for Global Development, Dept. of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Tuesday October 27th,...
Leeds University Centre For African Studies and the Centre for Global Development host Amazulu The Children Of Heaven + Bafana Tuesday 27th Oct 6pm, Worsley Medical LT (7.35) Amazulu Velabahleke (Come with a Smile) High School in Umlazi township outside Durban may be the only school in the country that starts at 06h30am and finishes...
LUCAS Seminar - all welcome: Tom Penfold (University of Johannesburg), ‘Black Consciousness in South Africa’. Thursday 15 October, 4-5.30pm (Michael Sadler Building LG10)
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Annual Lecture 2015 Wole Soyinka - 'Narcissus and other Pall Bearers: Morbidity as Ideology' Thursday 8 October, 5.15pm Conference Auditorium 1, University of Leeds This is a free event and all are welcome (no need to book in advance) Supported by the School of English For further...
This one-day workshop will explore the interaction between cultural creativity and politics in Africa. Through discussions of novels, poetry and other cultural expressions, it will explore the relationship between the state, political movements and people engaged in cultural projects. York-based Malawian author Jack Mapanje will read extracts from his prison memoir And Crocodiles Are Hungry...
Recent years have seen impressive levels of economic growth in many parts of Africa, with a new discourse of ‘Africa Rising’ coming to displace the widespread pessimism of the late twentieth century. 2015 is also the year in which countries across the continent will be scrutinised regarding their achievements or failures in relation to the...
LUCAS Annual Lecture: Prof. Pat Manning, ‘Africa and its Diaspora as a Metaphor in World History’ Pat Manning is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History and Director, World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He is in addition the current President of the American Historical Association, the Director of the Collaborative for World-Historical...
LUCAS seminar with Professor Katrin Voltmer (School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds).
LUCAS seminar with Dr Fred Mudhai (Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Global Media and Communication, Coventry University).
LUCAS Spring seminar - 'Music Piracy in West Africa: Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’?' With Christiaan De Beukelaer (Lecturer in Cultural Management, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and PhD Candidate, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds) This paper addresses the struggle to make money from music in Burkina Faso and Ghana. According to most music...