Categories
-
ANU Africa Network
Posted on
by
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.
-
ANU supports 2022 AAUN Forum
Posted on
by
From
https://aaun.edu.au/2021/10/aaun-annual-australia-forum-and-agm-2021-2/
‘The Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) Annual Forum and AGM 2021-22 will be held on 10-11 February 2022 at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. The Forum topic for this year is “Universities and Governments: Securities and Economic Development to 2030”.
‘We are grateful to the Australian National University (ANU) for co-hosting the AAUN Forum, and for sponsoring part of the program. ‘
-
The Australasian Review of African Studies 2021
Posted on
by
The Australasian Review of African Studies aims to contribute to a better understanding of Africa in Australasia and the Pacific. It is published by The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific.
Volume 42, Number 1, June 2021 is available at https://afsaap.org.au/resources/publication/aras/
and contains the following:
Promoting and monitoring antimicrobial stewardship using veterinary vocational schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Diafuka Saila-Ngita, Victor Ndadi Nkuembe, Jérémie Kimbuku
Mavata & Brigitte Bagnol, pp 4-22
Nigerian Colonial Investments, the Crown Agents and the Transfer of Capital to Britain and its Dominions
Dave Dorward pp 23-50
Evwie Kola Nut and its Socio-Religious Values among Idjerhe People of Nigeria
Peter O. O. Uttuh pp 51-63
Mental Health Data A Case for the African Communities in New South Wales
Daniel Kwai Apat & Wellington Digwa, pp 64-80
Book Review: Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Property, Institutions, and Social
Stratification in Africa
Adam Sneyd pp 81-83
-
Australian Aid to Africa
Posted on
by
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies has published
“What parliamentarians think about Australia’s post-COVID-19 aid program: The emerging ‘cautious consensus’ in Australian aid”
Benjamin Day, Tamas Wells
First published: 01 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.338https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app5.338?utm_source=Devpolicy&utm_campaign=9f657373ee-Devpolicy+News+Dec+15+2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_082b498f84-9f657373ee-250032321
Wiley also recommends other articles on aid to Africa at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3542
Although the Day and Wells article is of general interest, Africa gets only a couple of mentions:
page 7. Under the Abbott Government, ‘The geographic orientation of the aid program also shifted—towards the Pacific and away from Asia and especially Africa. ‘
Page 10. “Political and economic stability in the region was also a particular concern for many, who rec-
ognised Australia’s ‘special role … in relation to the Pacific’ (Int 8, Liberal). ‘In relation to aid and development, the vulnerabilities of the Pacific are there’, reflected one Labor MP (Int 2), noting the Pacific is ‘on trend to be the least developed part of the world on the human development index—worse than Africa, sub-Saharan Africa”