The Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) Annual Forum and AGM 2022 will be held on 27-28 October 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”. On the program from ANU, who are hosting the Forum, are Professors

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This report is from Ernest Akuamoah, Convenor, ANU African Studies Reading Group Last Friday afternoon the revived ANU African Studies Reading Group held its first meeting at the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) Building. This resumption of the group’s activities was successful in many ways. We had fifteen (15) people in attendance, including staff

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This is background information for the resumption of the Reading Group on the 12th August. See the post at https://africanetwork.weblogs.anu.edu.au/wp-admin/post.php?post=10310&action=edit  Basically  generally Africa at the ANU has gone backwards over the past decade  The quote below is from the AAUN Annual Report (see https://aaun.edu.au/annual-reports/ ) ‘Australia Africa Conference 2014 July 15-16 2014.The Australia Africa Conference

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Congratulations to Atem Atem whose Phd thesis is now available on the ANU Open Research repository.Access the thesis using this link: https://hdl.handle.net/1885/267266  The title of his work is: In the Search for the Good Life: Settlement Experiences of South Sudanese Families in Western Sydney  

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From Ernest Akuamoah ‘Hi all, After a long break, the ANU’s African Studies Reading Group resumes with its first meeting dubbed “Meet and Greet”. The goal is to bring together researchers across various academic disciplines and others with an interest in Africa, to engage in exchanging ideas and networking. In line with this, we will

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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,

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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

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From the webpage for Dr Rosey Billington https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/billington-r ‘I have also undertaken research on the phonetics and phonology of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan.’ ‘I maintain an interest in research on the phonetic characteristics of English varieties in Australia, and in creole languages of the Pacific and Africa.’ Her publications include Moodie, Jonathan

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ANU alumnus Dr Liang Chen has returned to the University of Botswana in mid-July. He spent the first semester in Gaberone teaching four courses in the Chinese Studies program there. In the second semester he plans to undertake anthropological research on in-migrants and immigrants in the Gaberone District.  Details of Dr Liang’s ANU seminar on

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‘Senator Pocock is the first territory senator not from one of the two major parties. The ACT has two Senate seats. ‘When announcing his candidacy, he said the choice to run as an independent, rather than join an established party, was an easy one, hinging his campaign on person-led politics intended to support Canberrans over

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