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
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
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.
Speaker: Stephany Ursula Yamoah, Deputy Director of Dance, National Theatre of Ghana
Celebrate the end of Fall Quarter with the Center for African Studies before your winter break. Enjoy good conversation, music and delicious Singaporean food from Shiok!
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series. This week CAS summer research award recipients will present on their respective studies.
No Africa Table this week. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
See you on November 29 for our next Africa Table.
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.
Come find out about Undergraduate opportunities such as the Haas Service Fellowship, SGS Fellowships, UAR grants, the BOSP Cape Town program and other ways to study or work in Africa!
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.
Speaker: Steven Press, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.
Chitja Twala is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS). He received his PhD in 2010 from UFS. Twala is currently collaborating with Prof.
Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.