African studies

So we both went to Cass Tech, which is a really prominent school in the city of Detroit.

And for me, I had in ninth grade, a African Studies teacher, Miss Harbor.

And I really hadn't thought about Africa much, you know, I mean, we, you know, it's interesting, because I hear people say they had, you know, bad stereotypes, they heard this, they heard that I really didn't have any bad memories or, you know, I never heard anything bad.

Like, my dad was always into the music.

And I know it's 54 countries, but I didn't know what they were in ninth grade.

I was just like, oh, Africa seems like it's pretty cool, has beautiful people, cool clothes.

So I think for me, as I got older and, you know, learned more, and of course, by the time I completed that African Studies class, I knew a little bit about the history, the kings and queens, but also, you know, the political state.

And, you know, in high school was when, when we were in high school was around the Rwanda time.

Are you still broken up about George Floyd? Maybe go take a knee.

Has he started his new career as a professor at a community college? African Studies? That's what all of them wanted to do.

That's what all of these swamp guys wanted to do in the wake of George.

Mitt Romney, for crying out loud, went to the Black Lives Matter.

She's a professor.

She was the former chair of the Pan-African Studies at California State University.

And she's current, well, she's a professor.

I guess she's still chair, goes back and forth, depending on what you're looking at.

Ivan Van Surterma was born in Guyana, South America on July 26, 1935.

He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and the Rutgers Graduate School, and holds degrees in African Studies and Anthropology.

From 1957 to 1959, he served as a press and broadcasting officer in the Guyana Information Services.

During the decade of the 1960s, he broadcast weekly from Britain to Africa and the Caribbean.

He has also authored Early

America Revisited, a book that has enriched the study of a wide range of subjects, from archaeology to anthropology, and has resulted in profound changes in the reordering of historical priorities and pedagogy.

Professor of African Studies at Rutgers University, Dr.

Van Sertema was also visiting professor at Princeton University.

Thank you.

Up next, Sinan Chidi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and director of its Turkey program, and Stephen Cook, the Eni Enrico Matei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, join to help us make sense of the escalating tensions between Turkey and Israel that are playing out over Syria, whether the old U.S.-led order in the Middle East is unraveling, and what all this could mean for the East Med.

It looks like the relative level of escalation between Israel and Turkey, which we've been warning about, is really coming to a boiling point specifically inside of Syria.

Six months ago, I would have been less concerned about the idea of a military conflict between Israel and Turkey.

It's not their African-American studies program.

Their Department of Black Studies will still exist as it's existed, but they are basically decommissioning their research center for African studies specifically.

Which is part of their program of black studies, to be clear.

Like that is an institution that works both on the African-American and African side of things and tries to like, you know, fucking bridge the diaspora and interrogate the nature of slavery.

And you kind of need both in order to really be able to do that.

This is a report here from Inside Higher Ed on August 18, a couple weeks ago.

Beginning in September, Northwestern University's 78-year-old Program of African Studies will no longer be considered a research center, a university spokesperson told Inside Higher Ed.

Faculty will continue to conduct research and teach classes, but will do so under the office of the provost rather than the office of research.

Welcome to the New Books Network.

Hello everyone, I welcome you to a new episode on the new books in African Studies.

I'm the host, Mariam Ulubodi.

Today I have with me Professor Karin Barber, who is an Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

So I do thank all of them very sincerely.

Also, I'm very grateful to the staff and editorial advisors at Ohio University Press, because they were really wonderful throughout the production of this book.

And then, of course, friends and colleagues in history and anthropology and African studies who've read and commented on various drafts of this book and given me the benefits of their insights.

without them it wouldn't have been really possible to get a sense of how to go about it.