Happy Africa Day to AFSAAP Members, On 25 May 2025, we celebrated Africa Day—a day commemorated by Africans around the world as a reminder of the continent’s enduring aspirations for political, social, and economic liberation. The day marks the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (now...
Dear colleagues Do you research or do any work on or in Africa, are you engaged with and have interest in African communities, students and studies, in Australasia and the Pacific or globally? If yes, you are cordially invited to attend the online Africa Day Indaba...
Dear ARAS community, I am honored to step into the role of Editor-in-Chief for ARAS and wish to thank Geoffrey for the support during the transition period but more importantly for running the journal successfully during his tenure as EiC. The updated details of the journal editorial team are here,...
Please join us for the next AFSAAP Drop-In Meeting on the 9th of October at 2 PM AEST on the subject of Justice and Peace! The meeting will be introduced and hosted by Professor Helen Ware of the University of New England (UNE). The goal is...
The last few years have proved quite isolating for everyone and particularly difficult if you are working on a continent that you can no longer travel to. In a bid to keep the conversation going (and enthusiasm up!), we will be holding a meeting on...
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC 43rd Annual Conference University of New England, Armidale, NSW December 3rd to 5th, 2020 Call for Papers The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) calls for proposals for preorganized panels, roundtables, thematic conversations, and individual papers for...
Academic engagement At the beginning of 2013 I embarked on a graduate program at the University of Queensland, specialising in GIS and Environmental Management. This program was funded by AusAID, Australian government funding that was intended to prepare me for my PhD studies at an Australian...
The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), a network of academics, students, consultants, activists, diplomats, artists, community leaders, and others who share a mutual interest in the promotion of African Studies in the region, founded in 1978, includes among its aims the...
AFSAAP recently put out a Statement of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) on the Stereotyping of African Australians/South Sudanese. KayaFM spoke to AFSAAP Secretary Edson Ziso to talk about the root of the stereotyping and lived experience of Sudanese people in Australia. You can...
South African President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma has had a torrid presidency, surviving numerous attempts to have him ousted from power. He is back again in the news, but this time the mounting pressure on him to quit is nothing like his presidency has seen before....