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

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