Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria.   Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria

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 continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Africa. Alongside the vibrant doctoral programmes, the MSc in African Studies, inaugurated in 2006, is already recognised as Europe's most prestigious and successful training programme in its field.

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In this seminar we hosted Antonia Witt of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Their lecture is titled The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar.

The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar

In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in  Kenya’s Western Highlands".

The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in  Kenya’s Western Highlands

In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in  Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs.

Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in  Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs

In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled:  The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution

The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution

In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, as they discuss their lecture titled An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War.

Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria

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