Month: April 2014


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    Seminar, Friday, 2 May 2014 at 2.30 in Seminar Room A, Coombs, ANU

        Integrating work and family life in sub-Saharan Africa Zitha Mokomane Chief Research Specialist Human and Social Development Programme Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa   The challenges of integrating work and family life are part of everyday reality for the majority of working families across the world. However much of the research…

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    2014 AFSAAP Conference

    Registration and Payment is now open for the 37th Annual African Studies Association  of Australasia  and the Pacific Conference  25 – 26 November 2014 – University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. www.afsaap.org.au 

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    The Federal Republic of Nigeria becomes Africa’s biggest economy

    The Federal Republic of Nigeria has now become Africa’s biggest economy, surpassing the Republic of South Africa. GDP for 2013 in the Africa’s top oil producer was 80.22 trillion naira, or $509.9bn as disclosed by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistic on 6 April 2014. This is good news for  Africa in general, and the Federal…

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    Happy Independence Anniversary to Zimbabwe

    The Australian National University African Students Association (ANUASA) congratulates the Government and People of the Republic of Zimbabwe on this auspicious occasion commemorating the 34th Independence Anniversary of that great country. We extend heartfelt felicitations and sincerest best wishes to the Government and gallant People of Zimbabwe. As Zimbabwe observes this historic event, we pray…

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    Executive Producer, Half of a Yellow Sun

    YEWANDE SADIKU, is a Nigerian investment banker who was keynote speaker at the 2013 African Studies Association conference in Perth (see https://afsaap.org.au/conference/conference-2013 ) As Executive Producer of the film Half of a Yellow Sun, she helped to raise financing for the film adaptation of the best selling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, directed by Nigerian…

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    UNGA declares ‘International Decade for People of African Descent’

    The 72nd plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly, on 23 December 2013, adopted a Resolution proclaiming the ‘International Decade for People of African Descent’. This decade commences on 1 January 2015 and ends on 31 December 2024, under the theme “People of African descent: recognition, justice and development”. This decade will officially be launched…

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