Center for African Studies Events

Friday, April 3, 2026

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  Timbuktu Talks - "Return to Success": New Paradigms of Islamization in Senegambia

  2:00 pm

  319 Greg Hall

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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  Freedom on the Horizon: Transmarine Marronage in the Lesser Antilles, 1824–1848

  12:00 pm   01:30 pm

  Conference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Genetic Genealogy Inference among Kassena Ghanaians and Their Diaspora Multiple Generations after Mass Transatlantic Human Trafficking from Africa

  12:00 pm   01:00pm

  Room 108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 16, 2026

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  “Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter”

  4:00 pm

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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  Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tārīkh Ibn Al-Mukhtār of The Songhay Empire and The Tārīkh al-Fattāsh of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi

  12:00 pm   01:00pm

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture