African Studies Center | Michigan State University

09/04/2026

Interested in African languages, cultures, and global communities? Explore Swahili or Zulu and develop language skills that can support your academic, professional, and personal goals. Enroll in AFR 101A Swahili or AFR 101B Zulu, or contact Dr. Sibanda at [email protected] to learn about other African language opportunities.

08/20/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

Join us for a distinguished lecture featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Edda Fields-Black.

Dr. Fields-Black will discuss her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.

06/11/2026

05/29/2026

QWAQWA – A powerful silence gripped the University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus on Wednesday as renowned historian Professor Nwando Achebe delivered a hard-hitting Africa Day Memorial Lecture that challenged Africans to confront what she called the continent’s “unfinished freedom.”

05/20/2026

Michigan State University along with Candace Keller, Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture in the Department of Art | Art History | Design, partnered with Ghana's Mmofra Foundation to preserve the Willis Bell Photographic Archive. This archive is one of the most complete visual records of post-independence Ghana. More than 40,000 photographs documenting Ghana's first decades after independence have been restored, digitized, and returned to public view.

05/04/2026

05/04/2026

04/22/2026

Tomorrow, Thursday, April 23, the African Studies Center will host its final Eye on Africa series event of the semester with a virtual webinar. Dr. Jennifer Lee Johnson will present The Kabaka Multiple, or, Before God was a Man, Women were Kings.

Register for the event here: https://buff.ly/pZhaEBp

04/20/2026

Last Eye on Africa of the semester!

This Thursday, April 23:

Register here: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DG1ZSqaPRMiXW8pQeW3Eig #/registration