African Studies Center | Michigan State University

08/20/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

Join us for a distinguished lecture featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Edda Fields-Black.

Dr. Fields-Black will discuss her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.

06/11/2026

05/29/2026

QWAQWA – A powerful silence gripped the University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus on Wednesday as renowned historian Professor Nwando Achebe delivered a hard-hitting Africa Day Memorial Lecture that challenged Africans to confront what she called the continent’s “unfinished freedom.”

05/20/2026

Michigan State University along with Candace Keller, Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture in the Department of Art | Art History | Design, partnered with Ghana's Mmofra Foundation to preserve the Willis Bell Photographic Archive. This archive is one of the most complete visual records of post-independence Ghana. More than 40,000 photographs documenting Ghana's first decades after independence have been restored, digitized, and returned to public view.

05/04/2026

05/04/2026

04/22/2026

Tomorrow, Thursday, April 23, the African Studies Center will host its final Eye on Africa series event of the semester with a virtual webinar. Dr. Jennifer Lee Johnson will present The Kabaka Multiple, or, Before God was a Man, Women were Kings.

Register for the event here: https://buff.ly/pZhaEBp

04/20/2026

Last Eye on Africa of the semester!

This Thursday, April 23:

Register here: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DG1ZSqaPRMiXW8pQeW3Eig #/registration

04/15/2026

Saturday, April 18th 🌍

Join scholars, activists, and community voices for a free, public symposium examining how historical and contemporary imperialism continues to shape Africa’s conflicts, climate challenges, migration, technology, and education.