African Studies

Wesleyan University’s African Studies Cluster is devoted to facilitating a deeper understanding and engagement with Africa for the Wesleyan Community and beyond. We bring together a diverse array of courses focusing on Africa, culling the interests of faculty specializing in Africa from a wide variety of disciplines. This broadly interdisciplinary cluster focuses on a large geographic region that is of great historical, cultural, political, and artistic importance and interest to American university students, not to mention American society in general. The cluster promotes interdisciplinary learning in the best of liberal arts traditions.

Spring 2023 Events

Global Education Speaker Series

Mamadou Ly, Director, ARED

The College of Education Studies is inviting you to join us along with our co-sponsors, the Fries Center for Global Studies, the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and the University Human Rights Network for the fourth Global Education Speaker in our series! We welcome Mamadou Ly who will speak about National Languages and language rights in Senegal.

Wednesday, March 29- noon-1:00 at the Fries Center in Fisk 201. Lunch will be served. To join by Zoom: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/98427845104

Public Health Microbiologist Dr Henry Meriki

A Cameroonian Scholar's Personal and Professional Journey Through Uncertain Times

Thursday, March 30

4:30-5:30

Fisk 121

Henry Meriki

From Our Blog

A Conversation with Playwright and Novelist Mohamed Kacimi, 11/29/18

ASA Indaba 2018

The ASA organized the annual Indaba with a range of interesting events and speakers before the annual Ariya Cultural Show.

Claudia Kahindi ’18 awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for Kenya

Congratulations to recent AFST grad and former African Students Association chair, Claudia Kahindi ’18, on being awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for Kenya 2019.

African Studies Minor Info Session

African Studies Minor Info SessionPlease join faculty and students at noon at Ubuntu House (34 Lawn) for a discussion of the African Studies Minor at Wesleyan. Food will be served.

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Student Profiles

Maxine Gibb '19

I am a senior ('19) from Cape Town, South Africa majoring in the College of Social Studies with an African Studies Minor. I am the current president of Wesleyan's African Students' Association and am writing my senior thesis on female youth activism in anti-Apartheid South Africa.

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Keith Mundangepfupfu '19

My name is Keith Mundangepfupfu and I am a senior from Zimbabwe, a CSS major and an African Studies Minor. I am currently the House Manager for Ubuntu House, the African student house on campus. I am also writing a thesis on the experience of queer male Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa.

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Kyllian Pather '20

I'm Kyllian Pather, proudly from South Africa. I’m a CSS major and African Studies Minor. I also designed a University Major in Race Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. I’ve been a member of the African Students’ Association from my first day and it is my home away from home. Our new Ubuntu House is a celebration of our African heritage and a space to share our culture with the university.

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Ferdinand Quayson ’20

I am a Junior from Accra, Ghana-West Africa. I am a Government Major concentrating in International Politics. A board member for the Wesleyan African Student Association, I also serve on the Advisory Board for the Patricelli Center at Wesleyan. Outside Wesleyan, I am the President and Founder of Young Achievers Foundation Ghana, an initiative working to promote access to higher education for low-income students in Northern Ghana.

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Iris Ridley '20

I am a junior from Northumberland in England. I am double majoring in Dance and Anthropology with an African Studies Minor.