The Australasian Review of African Studies (ARAS) invites submissions for a special issue to be published in December 2026 titled The status and future direction of African Studies in the Australasia and Pacific region. This special issue is aimed primarily at African Studies scholars, research...
ARAS is constantly seeking articles in the field of African Studies and welcomes contributions from all over the world. Submissions must be relevant to the discipline of African Studies which means centering research on African ways of knowing and giving Africa agency in all components...
Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his wife Njeeri Thiong'o...
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...
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....