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The History and Politics of Southern Africa is a three week program, to be held at the University of Zambia, Cornell’s new Global Hub partner in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The class will introduce students to the history and politics of Zambia and more broadly southern Africa. The class examines the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. It then turns to an analysis of the politics, economies, and societies of contemporary southern Africa.

Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a 2002 documentary film depicting the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of Apartheid through the use of music.

THE LITTLE ICE AGE AND THE OYO EMPIRE: AN UNFINISHED PROCESS OF RECOVERY
IN WEST AFRICA, ca. 1420-1840

This lecture is free and open to the community.

About Akin Ogundiran:

Akin Ogundiran is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the African Archaeological Review. Ogundiran’s scholarship focuses primarily on the history and archaeology of the Yoruba world, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. Ogundiran’s latest book, The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020), is the winner of the 2022 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize.

Hybrid mode / in-person at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)

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The conference will focus on the digital era as an entrepreneurial transformative prototype in Africa. Other aspects of the conference will focus on the channels utilized by Africans while navigating digital instruments, developing well-thought programs and technological innovations. Although technology is easily transferred, the context of the beneficiary nation or community has to take into account optimal application. Africans are applying technology to open all possibilities and devising ways to promote the eradication of poverty. This conference will pivot on digital trajectories and projection into the future beyond the 21st century, exhibiting African innovative competence in the digital era as part of the most critical areas of a holistic organization towards thorough and more broadly social progress.