For those who missed our recently concluded 2019 ASAA in Nairobi or for those who simply want to relive the exciting discussions, you can catch video coverage of the plenary proceedings below. Thank you to Joe Muburi and team at the African Film Centre for filming and to Dr. Bitange Ndemo for facilitating the livestream.
| Online registration opens: | March 8, 2019 |
| Online Registration closes: | September 22, 2019 |
*After September 22, participants will have to register on-site at the conference.
Participants who wish to be included in the conference brochure should please register by this date
We invite you to attend the upcoming African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) biennial conference from October 24 – 26, 2019 to be held at United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
The aim of this year’s conference is to invite and initiate a scholarly stocktaking of the knowledge produced by Africans in Africa and the Diaspora in various forms—from scholarly work to artistic expressions—and to examine representations and current African realities and emerging futures with African knowledges. In other words, by stocktaking accomplishments and challenges facing African peoples globally, we hope to address the ideological basis of the current disproportions in the distribution of worth, power and wellbeing affecting Africans and diasporic Africans.
We invite scholars, artists and activists to look at old representations, Afrocentric counternarratives, and the futures that Africans and Africans in the Diaspora imagine and want for themselves. It is an opportune time to critically challenge both dominant discourses on Africa and the inherited structures of knowledge production that still constrain our African imaginations.
Register here to participate in the conference.
The African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) was established in 2013 during the climax of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, to promote Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora. The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary African Studies professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective.
The first biennial conference was held at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan in October 2015. The second biennial conference took place at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana in October 2017. The ASAA also mounted a panel during the African Studies Association conference held in Washington, D.C. in November 2016.
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