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The Africa Programs at the Center for Africana Studies provides members of the University of Pennsylvania, local, national, and international communities with information on faculty, researchers, activities, and programming on historical and contemporary Africa.
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This intensive one-week course of study is taught by standing Penn faculty and exposes students to major intellectual and cultural themes and currents in 19th, 20th, and 21st century African and African Diaspora studies.
Click to learn moreThe international conference organized by the Center for Africana Studies in collaboration with the Provost’s Office, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology and the Marginalized Populations Program on ‘Everyday Lives of Instability in the Global South’ will focus on the tactics, strategies, and coping mechanisms that people and communities have developed in the face of the contemporary crisis of (social, economic, and political) instability—manifesting as uncertainty, precarity, insecurity, and/or vulnerability.
Upcoming Events
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
Joshua Bennett
In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for the Obamas, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-…
Africana Studies 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium
Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self
Sherie M. Randolph, Brendane Tynes, Shaka McGlotten
The Department of Africana Studies invites you to our 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, "Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self”.
For reasons of space, we encourage community…
Brave Testimony 2025
Dancing on the Shore: Poems from Migration Letters
M. Nzadi Keita
M. Nzadi Keita's third book, Migration Letters: Poems, reflects on her upbringing and coming of age as a Black working-class woman in Philadelphia (originally Lenapehoking). Keita straddles the…
