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2009
FIVE COLLEGE AFRICA DAY 2009
Five College Africa Day is a forum in which students, faculty and the greater community can bring you "Inside Africa"--hear about each others' research, debate important issues, learn more about Five College student groups and study abroad opportunities, witness musical and dance performances, and eat great African food!
Leave Africa Day with your hands and minds full of information on contemporary issues as well as course offerings and opportunities for study abroad
October 3rd, 2009 Information
AFRICANS ON AFRICA:
GENDER, GENERATION, and GLOBALIZATION
Senegalese political activists speak at
Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Westfield State Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
April 3-9, 2009 Information
FIVE COLLEGE AFRICAN STUDIES REGIONAL CONFERENCE
hosted at Smith College.
February 27-28, 2009 Information
2008
11/06/2008
[AC, UM, MHC, HC, and SC] THURS. NOV.6th THROUGH SAT. Nov. 16th
FILM NYC African Film Festival's Traveling Series FILMS.
African Film Festival's Traveling Series
11/01/2008
[UM] SAT. 2PM
PUBLIC EVENT at UMass.
Five College Africa Day 2008
**Africa Day 2008 Photos**
Africa Day 2008 Slideshow
**More Africa Day 2008 Photos**
More Africa Day 2008 Photos
**Reception**
AS-Reception Photos
09/13/2008
[UM] SAT. 4PM-5:30PM
MUSIC by Foday Musa Suso.
Kora music by Foday Musa Suso
02/27/2008
[SC] WED. FEB.27th THROUGH SUN. MAR. 1st
BAMAKO Film screenings and conference.
Bamako:Globalization on Trial in Africa
2007
12/09/2007
[MHC] SUN. 2-8PM
PERFORMANCE An African Folk Opera.
The Palmwine Drinkard opera
11/29/2007
[AC] THURS. 4:30PM
TALKby Robert F. Thompson.
Eshu-Elegba in the Atlantic Context
11/13/2007
[UM] TUES. 4:30PM
TALK by resident African Scholars.
African Scholars Public Colloquium
11/02/2007
[UM] FRI. 2:15PM
PUBLIC EVENT of performances and activities throughout the day.
Five College Africa Day 2007
**Africa Day 2007 Photos**
Africa Day 2007 Slideshow
11/01/2007
[HC] THURS. 4PM
TALK Talk by Makau W. Mutua.
Can the African State be Reformed?
04/19/2007
[WSC] THURS. 7PM
CONCERT with Baba Ken Okulolo and the West African Highlife Band.
Africa Alive!
04/17/2007
[WSC] TUES. 7PM
FILM La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil.
Africa Alive!
04/12/2007
[WSC] THURS. 7PM
FILM Colonial Misunderstanding/Malentendu Colonial.
Africa Alive!
04/10/2007
[SC] FRI. 7:30PM
PUBLIC TALK by Leo Villalón.
Sufi modernities: Senegalese Islam between the local and the global
04/09/2007
[WSC] THURS. 7PM
FILM Sisters in Law.
Sisters in Law
2006
11/09/2006
[UM] THURS. 4:30PM
TALK with Dr. Pius Tih.
The Psycho-Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS on families in Cameroon, with special reference to Children
11/04/2006
[UM] SAT. 12:30PM
PUBLIC EVENT Africa Day 2006.
Africa Day 2006
**Africa Day 2006 Photos**
Africa Day 2006 Slideshow
11/02/2006
[SC] THURS. 7:30PM
TALK with Apollo Amoko.
The Crisis of Postcolonial Intellectualism: Understanding Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross
10/12/2006
[HC] THURS. 4PM
TALK with Salim Lone.
9/11 and after in East Africa and the Horn: A New Crisis Emerging?
04/19/2006
[HC] WED. 7:30PM
TALK with Stephen Lewis.
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS Ravaged Africa
2005
12/07/2005
[SC] WED. 7:30PM
TALK with Caroline Elkins.
Britain's Gulag: Colonial Violence during the 'Mau Mau' Emergency in Kenya
03/29/2005
[UM] TUES. 4:30PM
TALK with Howard French.
Genocide as Routine: How African Life has come to be Ignored
PHOTO LINKS
These are photos from tabling at UMass and the Smith Conference
Tabling at UMass
Smith Conference
