News Archive
Trans-Saharan Elections Project
The Trans-Saharan Elections Program (TSEP) will entail a series of academic and professional exchanges so as to comparatively examine voting and elections in the U.S and six African countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal). For more information about TSEP, click here en Français
June - August 2011
SCALI 2011 Schedule - Now Available
The complete schedule for the 2011 SCALI session is now available. Click here.
June - August 2011
UF to Host Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI)
The Center for African Studies at the University of Florida, in cooperation with the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, will host the national Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) in 2011. SCALI is a program of the Title VI National Resource Centers for Africa and the Association of African Studies Programs. Read More
June 2011
JAMBO! A Free and Exciting Program for High School Students
This exciting free two-week program will introduce a select group of high school students to an African language and contemporary Africa. During the two weeks, the focus will be on Swahili, a language that is widely spoken in Central and Eastern Africa. Students will be immersed in learning the basics of the Swahili language as well as contemporary issues of African culture through videos, popular music, poetry, drama and dance. For more information contact Dr. Agnes Leslie aleslie@ufl.edu
April 2011
Slavery, Social Justice and Islam in West Africa - Workshop
Muslims in Africa and elsewhere have long cultivated complex lines of debate about the morality of slavery and about social inequality more generally. These debates in turn had significant implications for slave and post-slavery societies. This workshop is intended to explore the role of West African Muslim intellectuals in developing, promoting or critiquing social norms that affected the practice of slavery, the legal-status abolition of slavery, and the legacies of slavery in the region. Read More
May 2010
CAS Students Receive Fulbright-Hays Awards
Five doctoral students received dissertation research funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Read More
