Dr. Adeshina Afolayen (Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria): “The Aesthetics of Afrobeat,” via Zoom.

Dr. Shorna Allred (Department of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill): “Narratives of the Black Belt: Early Insights from ‘Storylines of Environmental Justice’,” Graham Memorial, Room 039, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Letitia Guran (Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill): “Insurgent Hughes: Reckoning with Racism Before and During the Cold War,”109 Battle Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Ph.D. Program in Africana Studies Department of African, African American & Diaspora Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   The Department of African, African American & Diaspora Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill is proud to announce the launch of … Read more

Please check out the AAAD courses that are being offered in Fall 2024. Our course catalog features information about over three dozen classes that cover a wide range of topics concerning African, African American, and Diaspora history, arts, politics, languages, … Read more

Congratulations to AAAD faculty member Shakirah Hudani regarding the recent publication of her monograph, Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda (University of Chicago Press). Also, congratulations to AAAD faculty members Samba Camara and Mohamed Mwamzandi …

Please join us for the African Language Fair, 2-4pm, March 27, in the FedEx Building, Room 4003. This is our annual celebration of the cultural richness and linguistic diversity of Africa and its diasporas. This event will include student performances, … Read more

  The Global Africana Review is the Department’s academic journal comprised of UNC undergraduate students’ research. The inaugural issue was launched in Spring 2017. An electronic version of the journal can be found in the Carolina Digital Repository, along with …