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The Annual Senghor-Damas-Césaire Lecturen with Wales Adebanwi, Ph. D. Thursday, Nov.2 from 5-6:30PM at Flakey Library’s Speaker’s Corner.

The CFAS Director Wale Adebanwi Featured at the Annual Senghor-Damas-Césaire Lecture

October 30, 2023

5:30PM, this Wednesday on November 1st, 2023, come to the Max Kade Center at Penn or join online for “To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua” with Courtney Morris.

Attend Courtney Morris' - "To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua"

October 30, 2023

A headshot of Grace Sanders Johnson

Grace Sanders Johnson Earns Honor for “White Gloves, Black Nation”

October 28, 2023

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Tukufu Zuberi, and Molefi Asante sit together during a debate.

Africana Studies Celebrates 50th Anniversary

October 26, 2023

Ruqaiyyah Lucas-Caldwell, CAS '24

Problem Solving Abroad

October 10, 2023

Barbara D. Savage

The Wiles Lectures 2023 will be given by Professor Barbara Savage

May 17, 2023

Anthropologist Keisha-Khan Y Perry

Anthropologist Keisha-Khan Y. Perry of Black social movements in the Americas is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.

May 17, 2023

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Remembering Harry Belafonte

May 8, 2023

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HBO Host Bomani Jones Weighs in on Gender, Economics, and More in Return of the Race and Sports Series

May 5, 2023

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Vivian L. Gadsden elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023

April 21, 2023

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Africana Studies
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 331A
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228

africana@sas.upenn.edu
Phone: 215.898.4965
Intramural Building Code: 6228

Tukufu Zuberi
Interim Department Chair

Keisha-Khan Perry
Graduate Chair

Marcia Chatelain
Undergraduate Chair

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