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~	~	African Studies Seminar, Lent 2013 West Africa Research Series The Centre's weekly seminar series features the work of prominent academics. Speakers aim to interest a wide audience, and the general public is encouraged to attend. For information, click here
Lucas Keen's muscal trio Folignouma performed their rhythms and sounds from the Sahel at the Arc Cafe on Thursday 21 February. The event was a great success with a full house and delicious African food served by the cafe. A blog post about the event can be found here	Occasional Talks Monday 26 November 1-2pm Room S2, Alison Richard Building Barry Gilder will speak about his book SONGS AND SECRETS, South Africa from Liberation to Governance Compelling political memoir by ANC insider, who trained as a spy in Moscow, and the guerrilla training camps of Angola Gilder is the former Deputy Head of the South African Secret Service link to poster here	Occasional Talks Monday 26 November 1-2pm Room S2, Alison Richard Building Barry Gilder will speak about his book SONGS AND SECRETS, South Africa from Liberation to Governance Compelling political memoir by ANC insider, who trained as a spy in Moscow, and the guerrilla training camps of Angola Gilder is the former Deputy Head of the South African Secret Service link to poster here
Occasional Talks Friday 16 November at 4.30 pm Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge Professor Robert Ross, Leiden University, Institute for History, Humanities The Kat River Settlement, Cape Racism, and the Origins of South African Democracy link to poster here	Black History Month Film Screening of ‘Mandela's Dancers’ Preview Screening plus question and answer session with the film’s Director Rodreguez King-Dorset 19 October 2012 at 5pm, Seminar Room S3 Centre of African Studies, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT Download poster here	The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies - 9 March 2012 Professor Simon Gikandi "The Formation of African Intellectuals" The Keynes Lecture Theatre, Kings College, Cambridge For more information click here For pictures and report click here
Connections, Contributions and Complexity: Africa's Later Holocene Archaeology in Global Perspective McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge 21st to 23rd September 2012 Cambridge African Archaeology Group Provisional programme here Contact : Dr Matthew Davies md564@cam.ac.uk	Cambridge University Nigeria Society (CUNS) the first Nigerian Educational Development lecture series. October 6th 2012 FREE ENTRY More information here	Citizenship, Belonging and Political Community in Africa A Conference was held at the British Institute of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya on the 11 & 12 July 2012 The programme is available here, for more information please contact Dr Emma Hunter, elh35@cam.ac.uk
The Peacebuilding Process in DR Congo: Going Nowhere Slowly but Costly Thierry Vircoulon Project Director: Centre Africa International Crisis Group Monday 21 May 5pm Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT more information here	Macroeconomics from below: macroeconomics and exercise of power in Africa Béatrice Hibou Directrice de Recherche au CNRS (CERI/SciencesPo) Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Monday 14 May 2012 at 5pm, Room S1, Centre of African Studies, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT more information here	The Centre of African Studies' long-standing administrator Dorian, has retired from her post. We would like to thank her for helping to make the Centre into the lively, vibrant and welcoming place it is now and wish her all the best for the future. View celebration pictures here
Research Seminar Series, Lent 2012 The Centre's weekly seminar series features the work of prominent academics. Speakers aim to interest a wide audience, and the general public is encouraged to attend. The programme of seminars for Lent 2012, can be found here	Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Africa March 10, 2012 , London Registration and further information can be found here	Dr. Ruth Prince, our Mellon Fellow, is presenting at workshop Street-level Health workers in six African Countries, Monday April 2nd 2012, see link
Call for Papers: Citizenship, Belonging and Political Community in Africa Paper proposals are invited for an AEGIS thematic conference on the theme of 'Citizenship, Belonging and Political Community in Africa' in association with the 2011-12 Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme. The conference will take place in the Lucia Windsor Room at Newnham College, Cambridge 9.30am-6pm, on 15th March 2012. More information here Programme here	Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies Friday 19 November 2010 An audience of around 600 people gathered on Friday 19 November in the Law Faculty to listen to Professor Chinua Achebe deliver the first Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies. They came from around the country to hear one of Africa's most respected novelists and intellectuals deliver a paper which reflected deeply on the legacy of colonialism and the complex challenges faced by his own country, Nigeria, in the twenty-first century. Professor Achebe was greeted by a standing ovation at the beginning and the end of his talk, which was introduced by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who spoke of Professor Achebe's many honours and achievements. The annual lecture is generously sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Support for this occasion was also provided by Mr. Hakeem Belo-Osagie. For report 'click' here. For images 'click' here.

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