HIGHLIGHT: Book Launch: Femmes Noires Francophones (Kala-Hermann, 2020) and Gouvernance et Luttes d'Influences Politiques au Sénégal: 1960-2000 (Kala-Hermann 2020)
Kala is a new publishing house created in Senegal to promote the publication of essays and ...
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Amadou Mahtar Mbow's Centennial: Mbow's Political and Civic Engagement as testified by the National Assises (Assises Nationales) and the National Commission for Institutional Revision (CNRI)
Saturday May 15th, from 3pm to 6pm, the West African ...
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Professor Amadou Mahtar Mbow's Centennial: A High-Level Panel at WARC: Amadou Mahtar Mbow and the Re-Writing of African History
Professor Amadou Mahtar Mbow's 100 years were celebrated on March 20th at the Museum of Back ...
Book Launch:
Cheikh Anta Babou: The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration and Place Making
(Ohio University Press, Athens, 2021)
With this event held in one of WARC’s conference rooms on Thursday April 29th, 2021, the Center ...
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WARC Director the Guest Speaker for the Dakar Jambar Toastmasters Club's Open House
Students, young leaders such as those in the Madiba Youth organization (Les Madibaristes), the Social Change Factory, State Department young alumni, women's ...
Presentation: The Black Skin Business in the Black: An Anthropological Approach (by Professor Louis Mendy, Department of English, UCAD)
As a follow up to the well-attended virtual screening and discussion of the documentary Dark Girls, Real ...
Celebration of World Women's Day at WARC: Screening of the documentary DARK GIRLS (2013, 71mn)
Initially projected to take place on March 8th, the day dedicated to our mothers, spouses and sisters the world over, ...
In-person attendance with large crowds being now banned at WARC because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the West African Research Center was truly challenged as to what activity to conduct to meet the expectations of ...
On October 22nd, 2020, the Senegalese great novelist and essayist Boubacar Boris Diop and the sociologist-cum political and social leader and influencer, Marie Angelique Savané, sat together in the gardens of the West African ...
This Grant is currently OPEN for applications! The deadline is March 1, 2021.
Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowships for West Africa
The West African Research Association (WARA), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, is pleased to announce ...