The department will celebrate the career and life of Professor Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja during a retirement reception in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. The event will last from 1-3pm, and remarks will be offered at 1:30pm. RSVP … Read more

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 …

Professor Mosquera Muriel joined the department in January 2024 as an assistant professor and as the Anthony Harrington Fellow. She specializes in Afro-Latin American social movements and structural inequalities at the intersection of race, class, and gender, with a focus …

Dr. Deborah Thomas (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania): “Embodied Knowledge and Modes of Repair,” Hitchcock Multipurpose Room (Stone Center), UNC-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Danielle Purifoy (Geography, UNC-CH): “Plantations are not Forests,” Battle Hall, Room 109, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Natasha Howard (Media Studies, Morehouse College): “Relationship Themes in the Work of Black Female Rappers,” Battle Hall, Room 109, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Bibi Burger (School of Languages & Literatures, University of Cape Town; NHC Fellow, 2023-24): “White and Black Plaasfeminism: Race, Gender, Land and Loss in Afrikaans Farm Novels,” Battle Hall, Room 109, UNC-Chapel Hill.