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ANU Africa Network
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This website was established in 2013 by David Lucas, and renovated and relaunched in 2020 as part of a project to increase awareness of Africa and African studies in the ANU and the ACT, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Another outcome of that project was a major research report, published in August 2021, African Studies at the Australian National University and in the Australian Capital Territory, analyzing the past, present and future of the study of Africa at the Australian National University and the wider Australian University sector.
The major innovation on this updated website is the creation of the ACT Africa Expert Directory which lists experts on Africa from institutions around the ACT, primarily the ANU. We will continue to curate this list, offering a key resource for media, government and non-government organizations seeking expert facts and opinions on Africa. Individuals can request to be added to the list by contacting the website managers.
Another notable addition is the expanded directory of PhD theses on Africa produced in the territory’s universities, a solid measure of the vitality of the study of Africa in the city of Canberra.
Reviewing these directories, it is revealing to note that the vast majority of research on Africa is produced by disciplinary experts (environmental scientists, economists, demographers, etc.) rather than area studies experts. This means that the study of Africa is woven into the fabric of the research culture of the ANU and the ACT’s other universities in ways that are not necessarily apparent.
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The Wrestlers of Khartoum, Sudan: An Embodied Material Culture of Virility
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Congratulations to Dr Paul Hayes, who recently graduated from the PhD program of ANU’s anthropology department. Paul’s dissertation, “The Wrestlers of Khartoum, Sudan: An Embodied Material Culture of Virility” is available to download here.
Paul also co-produced a short film, Lions of Khartoum: Sudan’s Wrestlers After a Revolution.
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DFAT short course on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Africa
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This is a DFAT Professional Short Course. Although applications for this course have already closed, Additional courses (soon to be advertised) will be open to participants from other African countries in 2023.
FOR INFORMATION ONLY
This forthcoming course is available to participants from the following countries from region 2 : Algeria, Burundi, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda
Conveners: Dr Steve Crimp & Dr Matthew Colloff
‘Africa is highly sensitive to both existing climate variability and projected climate change. As a result, governments, industries and communities throughout Africa will be increasingly required to respond to and mitigate the impacts of climate change.’
The ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions (ICEDS) has developed this intensive 6‑week online course to provide professionals employed in government, non-government organisations (NGOs) and the private sector in Africa with a synoptic and contextual understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation options.
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ANU’S Africa Collection
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Bernie Baffour and David Lucas recently visited Claire Sheridan, Senior Collections Advisor, ANU, and she has given this update on the largely forgotten ANU African Collection:
‘The ANU Collections team recently re-located the London Collection of African Artefacts (primarily containing material from Nigeria, Ghana and Benin, collected between 1901-1920 by Arthur London) from Kioloa Coastal Campus to the ANU Campus in preparation for conservation work, cataloguing and re-boxing. Our next step will be to start a research project on the Collection’s provenance and assess the significance of this material so that we can determine the future of this Collection at the ANU.’
