Symposium
Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Program in African Studies in partnership with The Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation are hosting the Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial celebration on September 29th and 30th.
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Africa World Lectures
A high-level platform for imagining, assessing and keeping pace with the idea, realities and futures of Africa by the continent’s finest minds. The lectures are established to bring greater visibility, from the perspective of Africa, to Princeton’s support of knowledge production about Africa. The lectures will take place in October.
Presenting the Inaugural Africa World Lectures, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor, and her mother was the first female registrar.
She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education…
10/25 Location: Richardson Auditorium Book Ticket Full Video EVENT Event Pictures Her thoughts about her fiction writing
Fellowships and Scholars
AWI aims to mobilize additional resources to enhance cutting-edge research and academic exploration in the field of African Studies. As part of this goal, AWI proudly sponsors seven postdoctoral fellows within the Program in African Studies. These scholars represent a diverse array of disciplines and research interests, each contributing uniquely to our understanding of Africa’s rich cultural, historical, and socio-political landscape.
We will host researchers and scholars from African public and private sector institutions on short term visits. Visitors will not be expected to teach; rather they will work on specific research projects alongside their sponsoring Princeton collaborators.