Following the battle of Antietam (Maryland), Colonel Robert Gould Shaw is offered command of the United States' first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. With junior officier Cabot Forbes, Shaw puts together a ...
The 2020 edition of Black History Month (BHM) kicked off at the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar on Wednesday February 5th in the afternoon with the screening of the film Remastered: the ...
Book Launch: La Codification des danses africaines: Revue de l'art et perspectives de recherche
(Proceedings of the International Symposium, April 25,26,27, 2018, Ifan, Dakar)
On Tuesday, January 21st in the afternoon, the West African Research Center (WARC), ...
A few months ago, the talk of the town was the decision made by a number of catholic private schools to prohibit the wearing of the veil among school girls as a sign of ...
The Nasiha is an epistolary text written by the religious leader Cheikhna Cheikh Saad Bouh to his brother Ma El Ainin who, in the 19th century, was engaged in a Jihad warfare between Morocco ...
A few months ago, a grant was awarded by the US Embassy in Senegal to a group of local young women entrepreneurs for a training over several weeks to give them the knowledge, know-how ...
The french-born author, Fabrice Jaumont, can most certainly be ranked among the world greatest experts of the working and operation of philanthropy with American foundations. His research activities focus on the role of American ...
This book published by the University of California Press in May 2019 is the result of the research project conducted a few years ago by anthropologist Katie Kilroy-Marac presently associate professor at the University ...
This panel discussion was held by WARC on Thursday October 20th, 2019 in collaboration with the Senegalese Social Forum (Forum Social Sénégalais), an active member of the senegalese civil society. Chaired by Dr Divine ...
The main conference room of the West African Research Center (WARC) was packed full on this afternoon of Wednesday, August 21st and this aptly befitted the occasion. A tribute was to be paid to ...