African Studies Centre

African Studies Centre

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African Studies Centre episodes

November 08, 2011 Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd
Jonny Steinberg, (African Studies/St Antony's) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series.
46 min
October 31, 2011 The Ecology of Conflict: Human-Wildlife Conflict on the Hwange National Park Boundary, Zimbabwe'
Andrew Loveridge (Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology) gives a talk for the St John's College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences).
19 min
October 31, 2011 Climate Change and Conflict in Sudan: what if development is not the answer to save Darfur?
Harry Verhoeven (Politics/St Cross) gives a talk for the St John's College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences).
19 min
October 31, 2011 Ethnic violence, water scarcity and managing resources to promote peace
Karen Witsenburg (Both ENDS and Max Plank Institute for Anthropology) gives a talk for the College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences).
24 min
October 27, 2011 Cruising through Uncertainty: Mobile Phone Practices and the Politics of Respect in Southern Mozambique
Julie Archambault (African Studies/St Annes College), gives a talk for the African Studies Centre.
47 min
October 27, 2011 ORENGA Special Lecture - Fashola's Lagos: the man, the method, the megacity
Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, gives a special lecture for the African Studies Centre.
28 min
June 22, 2011 Witchcraft and the Colonial Life of the Fetish (African History and Politics Seminar)
Professor Florence Bernault (Wisconsin) presents her work on the historical role of 'fetish' and 'witchcraft' in colonial Africa and the historical development of their linguistic uses.
51 min
June 22, 2011 'Rubber Will Not Keep in this Country' - Failed Development in Benin, 1897-1921 (African History and Politics Seminar)
Dr James Fenske (Oxford) presents his ongoing research on the history of the rubber trade in Benin, and presents a comparative study to other areas of rubber trade in West Africa.
57 min
June 22, 2011 The Politics of Legal Pluralism: the Case of Community Policing in Mozambique and Swaziland (African Studies Seminar)
Helene Maria Kyed (DIIS) looks at the role of community policing in Mozambique and Swaziland.
1 hr
June 01, 2011 Worldliness, Citiness, Postcolonial Life and Thinking from the South
Achille Mbembe, Professor of Social Theory, University of Stellenbosch, gives the second 2011 Africa Studies Annual lecture on 26th May 2011.
47 min

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The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on the…

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