Congratulations to Dr. Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi for the prestigious African Studies Association Book Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Associate Professor in the Department of History, whose amazing book: Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City won the prestigious African Studies Association Book Award!

Written from a digital humanities perspective, her book uses historical sources, maps, and walking cartography to offer new ways of seeing nineteenth-century Lagos, West Africa’s most populous city.

CABA 2025 Recap!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) this Saturday! It was truly inspiring to celebrate the outstanding authors, illustrators, and publishers who bring Africa’s rich stories, histories, and cultures to life for young readers around the world.

HU African Indigenous Knowledge and Languages Conference 2026

University of the Free State (UFS) honours Prof Robert R. Edgar

October 24, 2025 | News South Africa

Reflections for Crossing the Waters: Before the Dakar–Gorée Swim

This weekend in Senegal, Ania Ueno, our Communications & Media Manager at the Center for African Studies, will join hundreds of swimmers in the annual Dakar–Gorée Swim—a powerful event that bridges athletic challenge with profound historical reflection. The crossing from Dakar to Gorée Island carries deep symbolic meaning, tied to memory, resilience, and the African diaspora’s enduring ties across the Atlantic. 

African Languages Translation Initiative - Cloned

Read Africa Fall 2025

Akwaaba: Welcome to Ghana - Reflection from Twi Immersion Program

By Ashley Agyeman, Undergraduate Student, Political Science 

A Tribute to our Founding Director, Professor Mbye Cham

The Center for African Studies and the African Studies community at Howard is profoundly saddened to report the passing of our Founding Director and Distinguished Professor Mbye Cham at the age of 78. A pioneer filmmaker and Professor of African Literature and Film, Dr. Cham spent his entire teaching and scholarly career at Howard University and leaves an indelible imprint on African Studies at our institution.

CFP for Robert R. Edgar International Conference

On the occasion of honoring the legacy of Professor Robert R. Edgar, Conference organizers invite scholars, emerging and established, to propose papers and presentations for a conference at the University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. The conference will be titled: "Legacies of Immersive Social History: Past, Present and Future: A Conference in Honour of the Life, Work and Communities of Robert R. Edgar"

Paper proposals due: 31 July 2025