Book: African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

AUTHORS: Esther Mukewa Lisanza, Ph.D. and Leonard Muaka, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

The book can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/African-Languages-Literatures-21st-Century/dp/3030234789

Finding the Musical Connections between West Africa and Latin America

BY Verny Varela

IIn this essay, Verny Varela, a Spanish instructor at Howard University and a 2020 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal, highlights the many cultural and especially musical connections between West Africa and Colombia, where he was born and raised. All images and videos are courtesy of the author, unless otherwise noted.

Arabic Name Pronunciations for the Gold Road Project

Glossary of Terms: A to Z listing from The Ground on Which I Stand

The Ground on Which I Stand: Eric Gardner: Chocked to Death by NYPD Police

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It has been sixty years since the African Studies Graduate Program at Howard University was initiated. Since then, hundreds have graduated. This page is a celebration. We welcome past alumni to reconnect, by chatting on our Anniversary Discussion Board.

Virtual Summer Institute 2020 - Participant Evaluations

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #5. Edu. and Work/1931

Abstract: Focus of Lecture #5

The eloquence of the spoken word and the devotion to writing—the art of language by line—are highly valued in African American culture. You are heirs of a long tradition of peoples who equate reading and writing with the expression of self-identity, self-possession, self-empowerment, and self-esteem. Indeed, once the commitment to academic excellence is successfully cultivated, it becomes clear that there is nothing as intellectually liberating as self-expression.

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #4.Diuturni Silenti/1924

Abstract: Focus of Chpter 4 & Lecture 4.

2013 Common Text author Wole Soyinka argues that as long as the past “is fictionalized or denied, Africa is doomed to the curse of repetition, albeit in disguised, even refined forms.” The sacred space of memory, he suggests, must be preserved.

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #3.College-bred Community/1910

Abstract; Focus of Lecture 3.

Forced separation from our ancestral homelands due to enslavement threatened to dismember Africans, physically, emotionally and spiritually. These Africans—faced with deep trauma and accompanying feelings of abandonment in the unfamiliar, alien, and hostile colonial worlds of the Western Hemisphere—maintained and created memories, traditions, and communities from the rich and complex cultures of the African worlds they brought across the ocean.