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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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Guinean Coup/African Authors
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Guinean Coup
The piece by Ernest Akuamoah (ANU School of Politics and International Relations) on the Guinean coup is available at https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/the-coup-in-guinea-causes-and-consequences/
African Writers
On October 7th The Economist reported that Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian writer based in Britain, had been awarded the Nobel prize in Literature for 2021 for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.
Also mentioned was Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, ‘a hero of the decolonisation movement across the world and a longtime Nobel favourite’.
Obviously two authors whose works should be discussed at the ANU.
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Justice and Peace Zoom 9/10/21
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Received from African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific <afsaapaustralia@gmail.com>
‘Please join us for the next AFSAAP Drop-In Meeting on the 9th October at 2PM AEST on the subject of Justice and Peace! The meeting will be introduced and hosted by Professor Helen Ware of the University of New England (UNE). The goal is to build a group within AFSAAP who can discuss developments in this area of work.
If you have an interest in this area, have worked in post-conflict societies in the past, or would like to know more, please come along. Please share with any colleagues who might like to join us (members or not).’
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87963437558?pwd=T2t2djlFcmpuQ003b3ZQeTNld2MzZz09
Meeting ID: 879 6343 7558
Passcode: 868501
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Social aspects of educational mobility in rural South Africa
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Date & time
Tue 21 Sep 2021, 4:00pm to 5:00pmSpeaker
Mr Shao-Tzu Yu, PhD Candidate, School of Demography, ANULocation
Zoom ID: 813 8432 5598 P/W 276173‘This PhD project aims to further the extant literature on intergenerational social mobility by using a life course and network approach to study the underlying mechanisms that shape the emergence of educational inequality throughout the post-apartheid era.’
For more details see:
https://demography.cass.anu.edu.au/events/social-aspects-educational-mobility-rural-south-africa