News & Events

African governments generally have been less successful in implementing industrial policies - historically and in the contemporary period - compared to other developing country regions. During the ASC seminar on 4 June, Lindsay Whitfield (Roskilde University, Denmark) will talk about the conditions under which industrial policies are successfully implemented and will identify the politics that make those conditions possible. Focus is on Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. You are all very welcome!

The new ASC research project 'Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History' will be presented on 9 April. In this project, the ASC works together with the University of Ghana at Legon and the University for Development Studies in Tamale & Wa. The project aims to develop alternative views on the position of Northern Ghana, in particular the regions of Dagomba and Gonja, in the context of long-term processes of change and social-economic and political inclusion and exclusion. 

Visiting fellow Christopher J. Lee (University of the Witwatersrand) will talk about his new book Unreasonable Histories during the ASC seminar on Thursday 26 March. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa - contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia - from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence, Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native.