Baraza Recap: Dr. John Straussberger, Florida Gulf Coast University

Baraza: March 3, 2023 Dr. Straussberger is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration. His publications include: “Storming the Citadel: Decolonization and Political Contestation in Guinea’s Futa Jallon, 1945-1961.” Journal of African History (2016) and “Fractures and Fragments: Finding Postcolonial Histories on Guinea in Local Archives.” History in Africa (2015). Dr. John (Trey) Straussberger, Assistant Professor […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Lamya Khalidi, Université Côte d’Azur

Baraza: February 3, 2023 Dr. Khalidi is CR1 researcher at CNRS and alumnus of the UF in Dar es Salaam study abroad program. Her publications include: “Survival kit for the afterlife or instruction manual for prehistorians? Staging artefact production in middle Neolithic cemetery Kadruka 23, Upper Nubia, Sudan.” Antiquity (co-author, 2021); “9000 years of human lakeside adaptation […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Anna K. Mwaba, Smith College

Baraza: January 20, 2023 Dr. Mwaba is assistant professor in the department of government and earned her PhD at UF. Her recent writings have largely focused on public engagement: “Addressing a pandemic on a continental level.” Africa Is A Country (2020); “The African Union called on Congo to suspend its election’s results. That’s unprecedented.” The […]

Baraza: April 22, 2022

Professor Benneta Jules-Rosette is a distinguished professor of sociology and the African and African American Studies Research Center director at the University of California, San Diego. She also served as the President of the Society for Africanist Anthropology of the American Anthropology Association. Professor Jules-Rosette is also in charge of the Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Students Essay […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Saida Hodžić March 25, 2022

Baraza: March 25, 2022 This week’s special baraza was also the keynote lecture for the SEAN (Southeast Africanist Network) annual meeting, held by Centre for African Studies. The speaker was Dr. Saida Hodžić, from Cornell University on the topic of “From (In)security to Abolition: African Perspectives on Ruling Imaginaries.” Dr. Saida Hodžić is associate professor […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Witulski (March 4, 2022)

Dr Christopher Witulski is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and earned his PhD at UF. He is also the author of Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco (2019); The Gnawa Lions: Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music (2018); and “Light Rhythms and Heavy Spirits: Entertaining Listeners through Musical and Ritual Adaptations in Morocco.” Ethnomusicology Forum (2016), among others. […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Moorman, “Angolan Radio in Five Songs”

Dr. Marissa Moorman is a professor in the Department of African Cultural Studies, in University of Wisconsin. Her publications include: “Luanda Humms and Buzzes: Urban Soundscapes, Club Music, and Dance, 1960-present.” In Hossfeld, et al. (eds.) Ten Cities: Berlin, Bristol, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kiev, Lagos, Lisbon, Luanda, Nairobi, Naples (2020); Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, […]

Baraza Recap

Dr. David Rifkind is a director of the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. As he shared in his brief introduction, he has been contributing extensively through his professional works, publications, and ongoing book and architectural projects. His training informs his professional work as an Architect, his concerns about sustainability, resilience, and climate […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Cleveland

On April 16th, 2021, The Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled, “Servers, Safaris, and Social Ascension: African Labor in the Tourism Industry of Colonial Mozambique, 1890-1975”. The presentation was given by Dr. Todd Cleveland, associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas. His publications include: Following the Ball: The Migration of African […]

Recap: Baraza with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

On April 9th, 2021 the Center for African Studies, the Islam in Africa Working Group, the Center for Global Islamic Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Henry Luce Foundation presented: A Baraza with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah. The title of the Talk was “Christian-Muslim Encounters: The Nigerian Experience” Matthew Hassan Kukah is the bishop of […]

Recap: Baraza with Álvaro Luís Lima

On March 26, 2021, The Center for African Studies presents hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “Partners in Crime: The Dog in the Art of Post-apartheid South Africa”. The presentation was given by Dr. Álvaro Luís Lima, an assistant professor of art history here at the University of Florida. His publications include: “The Place of Socialism […]

Recap: Baraza with Cheikh Thiam

On March 19th, 2021, the Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “COVID-19, Coloniality, and the Limits of Western Arrogance: Thoughts from Africa.” The presentation was given by Dr. Cheikh Thiam, the academic dean for Africa South of the Sahara at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. His publications include: “Negritude Africentered: […]

Baraza Recap with Ambassador John Campbell

On March 5th,2021, The Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “How Should the Biden Administration Engage with a Rapidly Declining Nigeria – and Does it Matter?”. Dr. Brenda Chalfin Director of the Center for African Studies and Dr. Villalón, Dean of the International Center at UF welcomed the speaker. Ambassador John Campbell […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Katherine Luongo

On February 26th, 2021, the Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking”. The presentation was given by Dr. Katherine Luongo, a professor of History at Northeastern University. Dr. Luongo is a specialist in the anthropological history of Kenya. Her work focuses on legal systems in colonial […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Nana Osei-Opare

On February 19th, 2021, the Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “We Became Ghanaian: The Archive, Race, and the USSR.” The presentation was given by Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, an Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Fordham University, New York City. He currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled, Ghana’s Cold War: […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Folashade Soulé

Dr. Anita Spring, Dr. Lina Benabdallah, and Dr. Agnes Leslie organized this event as part of the Africa-China working group symposium. On February 12th, 2021, the Center for African Studies with the China-Africa working group hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “African Agency in the Pandemic Time: Reflecting on Africa-China Relations”. The presentation was given by […]

Recap: Baraza with Oumar Ba

On February 5, 2021, Dr. Oumar Ba from Morehouse College, presented “Peace, Democracy, and Prosperity for All: Africa and the International Legal Order” at the Center for African Studies weekly Baraza. Dr. Ba is assistant professor of political science and earned his doctorate at UF. His publications include: States of Justice: The Politics of the […]

Recap: Baraza with Joel Hartter

Joel Hartter, from the University of Colorado, presented “Local People and the Global Conservation Imperative: Perspectives from the Albertine Rift” at the 01/29/2021 Baraza. Dr. Hartter is an associate professor of environmental studies and earned his doctorate from UF. His publications include: “More Robust Local Governance Suggests Positive Effects of Long-term Community Conservation.” Conservation Science […]

Recap: Baraza with Alex Thurston

On January 22, 2021, the Center for African Studies held its first Baraza of the year titled, “Northern Nigerian Intellectuals, Sudan, and the “Eclectic Style” in Contemporary Islamic Thought.” The presentation, given by Dr. Alex Thurston, functioned as the keynote of the “Remapping the Study of Islam and Muslim Cultures in Nigeria” online workshop. This […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Bencherif

Dr. Bencherif is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sahel Research Group at UF. His Baraza lecture on December 4, titled, “Tuareg Women in the Northern Malian Conflict: Ambivalence and Layers of Symbolic Violence” focused on the role women play in the Tuareg political landscape. Dr. Bencherif explained that in Tuareg societies there are two main […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Adrienne Strong

Dr. Strong’s presentation was based on her recently published book “Documenting Death Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania.” She began her presentation by discussing the problem of maternal mortality at large. Sub-Saharan African and South Asian countries bear the burden of these deaths globally at approximately 350,000 deaths a year. Dr. Strong […]

Recap: Baraza with Paul Landau

Dr. Landau is professor of history. His publications include: “The M-Plan: Mandela’s Struggle to Reorient the African National Congress.” Journal of Southern African Studies (2019); Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 (2010); and Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (co-edited, 2002). Dr. Landau’s presentation “Operation Mayibuye and the Limits […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Matiangai Sirleaf

On Friday September 11, Dr. Matiangai Sirleaf (University of Maryland) presented, “Africa, COVID-19, and Responsibility.” Sirleaf is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law. She writes and teaches in the areas of global public health law, public international law, international human rights law, international criminal law, post-conflict and transitional justice, and criminal law. Her most recent publications in this area […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Meghan L.E. Kirkwood

On Friday February 28, Dr. Meghan Kirkwood gave a Baraza lecture titled, “Social Documentary Photography in the Twenty-first Century: The Ernest Cole Award and the Legacy of Struggle Photography in South Africa.” Dr. Kirkwood is assistant professor of art at Washington University—St. Louis and earned her doctorate at UF. Her publications include: “Land as Natural […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Marloes Janson

On Friday February 14, the Center for African Studies and the Center for Global Islamic Studies hosted a Baraza with Marloes Janson (University of London). Dr. Janson is a reader in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Her publications include: “Studying Religious Pluralism in Yorubaland: A Tribute to J.D.Y. Peel.” Religion and Society: Advances in Research […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Tasiyana Javangwe

On Friday January 31, Dr. Tasiyana Javangwe gave a Baraza lecture titled, “‘Dis/eased Others’ – Identity and Agency in Literary Representations of Migrants of African Origin.” Dr. Javangwe is associate professor in the Department of English and Communication at Midlands State University. His publications include: “Colonial heterotopia as metanarrative in White Rhodesian writing: A post […]

Recap: Workshop on Media and Public Islam in Africa and Elsewhere

Keynote Lecture with Dr. Asonzeh Ukah On Thursday, the “Media and ‘Public’ Islam in Africa” Workshop began with a presentation by Asonzeh Ukah (University of Cape Town). His presentation, “From the Excess to the Apocalyptic: Media and the Production of Religious Surplus in Africa,” pointed to the last three decades following the liberalization and deregulation […]

Recap: Baraza with Peter Alegi

On April 20, Peter Alegi (Michigan State University) gave a Baraza lecture titled, “Shaka’s Progeny: Youth Football and Masculinity in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.” The presentation focused on the Izichwe Youth Football Program in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The program was founded in 2010 by Reynold Thabo Dladla, a footballer (African Wanderers, AmaZulu Royals) who began coaching after his […]

Recap: Baraza with Ann Wainscott

On March 30, Dr. Ann Wainscott gave a Baraza lectured titled, “Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror.” Dr. Wainscott is assistant professor of political science and earned her Ph.D. from UF in 2013. Her publications include: “Religious Regulation as Foreign Policy: Morocco’s Islamic Diplomacy in West Africa” Politics and Religion (2018); Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on […]

Recap: Baraza with Danny Hoffman

Danny Hoffman, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Washington, outlined the central argument and ethnographic context of his new book, Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia. The book is light on the ethnography typical of an anthropological monograph and instead places the ruined forms of four Monrovian buildings at its center. […]

Recap: Baraza with Chipo Dendere

On Friday afternoon, Chipo Dendere gave a refreshing presentation exploring the role that social media played in former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe’s, resignation. In her talk titled “The Revolution will be Retweeted,” Dr. Dendere juxtaposes participatory media and military powers to highlight the complexities within the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d’état. She argues that an uneasy union of […]

Recap: Baraza with Fallou Ngom

Dr. Fallou Ngom, Boston University, gave a Baraza lecture on March 2nd titled “The Odyssey of Ajami in Muslim Africa.” Dr. Ngom is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Center. His publications include: Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (co-edited, 2010); “Ajami Scripts in the Senegalese Speech Community.” Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies (2010); and Oral and […]

Recap: Baraza with Xolela Mangcu

On Friday afternoon, Xolela Mangcu gave an energetic exposition of his forthcoming biography of Nelson Mandela. Mangcu is professor of sociology and visiting scholar at the Wilson Center. A supporter of the Black Consciousness Movement and long-time critic of Mandela, the self-proclaimed “unlikely biographer” described the paradoxical figure of South Africa’s first Black president. In his talk […]

Recap: Baraza with Cherif Keita

Dr. Cherif Keita (Carleton College) presented “Renegade Missionary to Liberation Hero: Reverend William Cullen Wilcox in South Africa,” at Baraza on February 16. Dr. Keita discussed a project he has been working on for 18 years, which connects the stories of Reverend William Cullen Wilcox, Ida Belle Wilcox, John Dube, and Nokutela Dube. Dr. Keita became […]

Recap: Baraza

Dr. Trevor Orchard (University of Pittsburgh) presented on “Type 1 Diabetes in Rwanda: Challenges, Progress, and More Challenges,” on February 2. Dr. Orchard opened his lecture by covering background information on Youth Onset Type 1 Diabetes touching on his work with the Pittsburgh Diabetes Complications Study. He argues that everyone with Type 1 Diabetes experiences complications, […]

Recap: Baraza with Peter Schmidt

On January 26, Peter Schmidt (University of Florida) gave a presentation titled, “What is Community Archaeology? Reclaiming the Past in Africa to Remake the Future.” The lecture focused on three community archaeology projects in Northern Tanzania. The first project focused on the Kaiija Shrine Tree or “Place of the Forge,” a sacred shrine dedicated to iron working. […]

Recap: Baraza with Shobana Shankar

Shobana Shankar (History/Africana Studies, SUNY Stonybrook) gave a Baraza lecture on Friday January 19 titled, “Afro-Dravidianism: A Senegalese-South Indian Muslim-Hindu Enchantment.” Her lecture centered on how Afro-Dravidianism became a post-colonial project, and how religion acted as a way of doing politics. The lecture was divided into three parts, the first identifying Leopold Senghor’s intellectual path leading […]

Recap: Baraza with Randall Cantrell

On Friday January 12, Randall Cantrell (Housing and Community Development, University of Florida) gave a lecture titled, “Housing and Community Development in Niamey and Niger: Young Migrants’ Hope for their Present and Future.” Cantrell is a former peace corps volunteer and is currently an International Center Global Fellow. His lecture focused on how young, low-income males migrating […]

Recap: Baraza with Elizabeth DeVos

Dr. Elizabeth DeVos is associate professor of emergency medicine and medical director for international emergency medicine education at University of Florida in Jacksonville. Her lecture, “Emergency Medicine in Africa: Building Systems to Meet Sustainable Development Goals,” addressed what emergency medicine is, why it is important globally, and what methods are used in training. Emergency medicine in Sub-Saharan […]

Recap: Baraza and Dance Performance with Elisabeth Efua Sutherland

Center for African Studies Artist-in-Residence: Elisabeth Efua Sutherland The Center for African Studies was pleased to host Fall 2017 Visiting Artist Elisabeth Efua Sutherland. Sutherland is an artist, dancer, choreographer, playwright, and director, based in the West African nation of Ghana. Sutherland holds a B.A. in Theatre from DePauw University (USA) and an MA in Performance Arts from Brunel University […]

Recap: Baraza with Rebecca Hardin

Dr. Rebecca Hardin from the University of Michigan presented “Elemental Design, Environmental Health and Sustainable Technology at Gabon’s Schweitzer Hospital,” at the most recent Baraza on Friday October 27. Her research concerns human/wildlife interactions, social and environmental change, wildlife management, tourism, logging, and mining especially in Central African Republic and the western Congo basin. She is a frequent contributor […]

Recap: Baraza with Christopher DeCorse

Dr. Christopher DeCorse is a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University. He works in historical archaeology, focusing on the impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade and colonialism in West Africa. His presentation at the October 20 Baraza, “European Forts; African Landscapes: West Africa during the Slave Trade,” was the Center for African Studies 26th Annual Distinguished Lecture […]

Recap: Baraza with Jeffrey W. Paller

Jeffrey W. Paller from the University of San Francisco presented “Everyday Urban Politics: Leadership and Civic Life in Ghana,” at our most recent Baraza on Friday October 13. Dr. Paller received his PhD from University of Wisconsin, completed a post-doc at Columbia, and was a lecturer at Bates College. His research focuses on urbanization and urban […]

Recap: Baraza with Jacob Dlamini

Dr. Jacob Dlamini, gave a Baraza presentation last Friday, September 29 titled, “Safari Nation: A Transnational History of the Kruger National Park.” Dr. Dlamini is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex […]

Recap: Baraza with Samuel Nyamuame

Dr. Samuel Nyamuame from Binghampton University gave a presentation titled, “Traditional Music in Ghanaian Churches: Transformations, Problems, and Recommendations” at the first Baraza of the semester on Friday September 22. Dr. Nyamuame is visiting assistant professor in the departments of music and theatre. He earned his PhD in ethnomusicology at UF where he worked with Agbedidi Africa […]

Recap: Baraza with Noah Salomon

On Friday April 7th, Noah Salomon gave a Baraza presentation titled, “For Love of the Prophet: The Art of Islamic State-Making in Sudan.” Dr. Salomon is Associate Professor of Religion, and Director of Middle East Studies, at Carleton College. The talk supplemented material that can be found in Dr. Salomon’s new book, For Love of the […]

Recap: Baraza with Ch. Didier Gondola

On Friday, March 31st, Ch. Didier Gondola gave a Baraza presentation titled, “Buffalo Bill in Kinshasa: Westerns, Masculinity, and Violence in the Tropics.” Dr. Gondola is Professor of History at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). The talk focused on Dr. Gondola’s new book, “Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa” (Indiana University Press, […]

Recap: Baraza with Rudolf Gaudio

On Friday March 24th, Rudolf Gaudio gave a Baraza presentation titled, “Islam in Africa, Africa in Islam: The Sexual Politics of Religion and Race.” Dr. Gaudio is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY)- Purchase College. The talk focused on stereotypes of race, religion, and sexuality in Nigeria, and how place or country/region/city of […]

Recap: Baraza with Delia Wendel

On Friday March 17th, Delia Wendel gave a Baraza presentation titled “Building Peace? Spatializing Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda”. Dr. Wendel is an interdisciplinary scholar and design practitioner, currently working as lecturer of urban planning and design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The talk focused on the role spatial and structural, public and private, conceptions […]

Recap: Baraza with Emily Burrill

On Friday March 3rd, Emily Burrill gave a Baraza presentation titled “There Are Always Laws That Are Not Practiced: The Limits and Possibilities of Marriage Laws in West Africa.” Dr. Burrill is the Director of the African Studies Center and Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. […]

Recap: Baraza with Daniel Mains

On Friday February 17th, Daniel Mains gave a Baraza presentation titled “Governing Three-Wheeled Motorcycle Taxis in Urban Ethiopia: States, Markets, and Moral Discourses of Infrastructure.” Dr. Mains is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Oklahoma. The talk focused on the politics of governing baja (3-wheeled motorcycles) in Hawassa, Ethiopia as […]

Recap: Baraza with Kathleen Klaus

On Friday February 10th, Kathleen Klaus gave a Baraza presentation titled “Claiming Land: Institutions, Narratives, and Political Violence in Kenya.” Dr. Klaus received her PhD in Political Science from Wisconsin University in 2015 and is currently the Buffett Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. The talk introduced Klaus’ book project which is focused on the […]

Recap: Baraza with Nancy Rose Hunt

On Friday January 27th, Nancy Rose Hunt gave a Baraza presentation titled, “Harm: A Useful Concept for African Historical Studies?”. Dr. Hunt is Professor of History and African Studies at UF, coming here after many years at the University of Michigan. Her most recent book, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Duke University Press), was […]

Recap: Baraza with Susan Cooksey, Rebecca Nagy, and Alissa Jordan

Note: The summary of this Baraza was graciously written by Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, a Doctoral Candidate in the Political Science Dept. at UF. On Friday January 20th 2017, Susan Cooksey, Rebecca Nagy, and Alissa Jordan presented their research on contemporary art scene in Accra and Kumasi. The presentation was based on a field research that the three […]

Recap: Baraza with Farooq A. Kperogi

On Friday January 13th, Farooq A. Kperogi gave a Baraza presentation titled, “Citizen Journalism and Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora.” Kperogi is Associate Professor of Journalism & Emerging Media in the School of Communication & Media at Kennesaw State University. He also writes two columns a week for the Daily Trust, a prominent newspaper in Nigeria, as well […]

Recap: SCAD with Netty Carey

On Monday January 9th, Netty Carey (MA student, Anthropology) gave a presentation to the Social Change and Development in Africa Working Group. Her talk, titled, “‘We are in the air’. Land Claims and Liminal Space on Ghana’s Volta Delta”, discussed the interactions between an Italian-Ghanaian company, Trasacco, and the local community as plans are underway to construct […]

Recap: Baraza with Bernard Dubbeld

On Friday December 9th, Dr. Bernard Dubbeld gave a Baraza talk titled, “PostApartheid Predicaments of Youth: A View from the Countryside.” Dr. Dubbeld is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology in Stellenbosch University. Currently he is also a Visiting Scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the […]

Recap: Baraza with Joshua Grace

On Friday November 18th, Dr. Joshua Grace gave a Baraza presentation titled “African Motors: Garages, Oil, and Austerity in Tanzania.” Dr. Grace is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. The talk, derived from a near-complete book manuscript, focused on the history of the auto repair industry in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial Tanzania using […]

Recap: Baraza with Carlton Jama Adams

On Friday November 4th, Carlton Jama Adams gave a Baraza talk titled, “Adaptive Ambivalence: African Workers in China and the Struggle for Recognition and Agency.” Dr. Adams is Chair and Associate Professor of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York (CUNY). He is trained in Psychology and the […]

Recap: Baraza with John McCauley

On Friday October 28th, John McCauley gave a Baraza presentation titled “Ethnicity and Religion as Sources of Political Division in Africa.” Dr. McCauley is Assistant Professor of Government & Politics at the University of Maryland – College Park. The talk presented an experimental design to test whether ethnicity or religion create greater social and political divisions in […]

Recap: Baraza with Anita Hannig

On Friday October 21st, Anita Hannig gave a Baraza presentation titled “Mistaken for Strangers: Injury, Kinship, and Belonging Among Fistula Patients in Ethiopia.” Dr. Hannig is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. The talk focused on obstetric fistula, a condition which develops as the result of an obstructed delivery, as it affects Amhara women […]

Recap: Baraza with Lisa Cliggett

On Friday September 30th, Lisa Cliggett gave a Baraza presentation titled, “Chronic Liability: Living on the edge in a Zambian park buffer zone.” Dr. Cliggett is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. The talk focused on the cycles of access and alienation experienced by the Gwembe Tonga populations living along the lakeshore of Lake […]

Recap: Baraza with Abe Goldman

On Friday September 16th, Abe Goldman gave a Baraza presentation titled “Tropical Africa as Perpetrator & Victim of Global Climate Change: Africa and the Political Economy of Carbon.” Dr. Goldman is Associate Professor of Geography, and former Director of the Center for African Studies, at UF. The talk focused on Tropical Africa (i.e., sub-Saharan Africa with the exception […]

Recap: Baraza with Awewura Kwara

On Friday September 9th, Awewura Kwara gave a Baraza presentation entitled, “Building Academic Partnership for HIV/AIDS Care and Research in Ghana.” Dr. Kwara is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine in the College of Medicine at UF. Dr. Kwara recently joined the UF community this year from his previous […]