Africa Table
About
The Center for African Studies hosts its weekly lecture series Africa Table every Wednesday from 12:00-1:00 pm in 123 Encina Hall, 615 Crothers Way on Stanford's Campus.
Africa Table has been held on the same day, at the same time for over 30 years, hosting speakers from around the world on topics ranging from hip-hop to public health, generating lively discussions. Over the years CAS's growing number of students, faculty, staff, and community members has flourished. We look forward to welcoming you to learn with us at one of Stanford's most successful and attended lecture series.
Student Reflection
"My favorite event hosted by CAS is the weekly Africa Table. I have learnt a lot from speakers on many different topics about and related to various countries and communities within Africa. Africa Table has been a great opportunity to learn outside of class. I like that I can get up to date on academic, social, and political developments on the continent and simultaneously have a midweek check in with my favorite people on campus. One of my favorite Africa Table talks was about the colonial era looting of art from the Senufo region in West Africa to Europe. There is so much about Africa that I have learnt at Africa Table that I would never have the opportunity to learn elsewhere. The food is always fantastic as well."
-CHARLES MULEMI, B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE ‘17
Upcoming Events
Join us for a special Africa Table session featuring graduate students' work, including presentations by Zahra Fazal and Venolia Rabodiba.
Focused on calls for pedagogies of resistance to reimagine pathways towards more dignified and humane urban livelihoods, I will share a sequence of collaborative experiments over the last decade…
Past Events
Between 1921 and 1956, French colonial governments organized medical campaigns to treat and prevent sleeping sickness.
The status of same-sex rights in many African countries has attracted considerable international scrutiny.
Mauritius is an island created by maritime endeavour and has been a critical node in the movement of people, goods, and ideas during the period of European expansion.
This talk investigates how a longstanding political and economic crisis has shaped Abdelaziz Bouteflika's rule in Algeria (1999-2019).
Zimbabwe’s local media landscape has been in dire straits since the country's independence from white minority rule in 1980.
With the invention and global dissemination of new forms of biomedical birth control in the 1960s, African health workers across the continent faced a shared predicament: they relied on…
Motunrayo Alaka is a 2020 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford, who has worked in journalism, media, investigative reporting and civil society advancement since 2005.
Celebrate the end of Fall Quarter with the Center for African Studies. Enjoy good conversation and delicious Singaporean food from Shiok!
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.
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