ASC Visiting Researcher Ivor Miller was recently featured in Cameroon for his work with the Cameroonian Minister of Arts and Culture to support the preservation of Ekpe cultural heritage, which plays an important role in the African diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean. Read more in The Guardian Post (in English, pg 9) and the Cameroon […]
The ASC Working Group on Land Mortgage is pleased to announce a new book, Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging, co-edited by Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton (forthcoming in January 2022). The book argues that the mortgaging of land, a risky practice usually treated as just an economic and legal contract, needs a broader […]
ASC Language Program Director Dr. Zoliswa Mali co-authored a new article out in Syntax entitled, “Two Places for Causees in Productive IsiXhosa Morphological Causatives.” Read the abstract here.
Nate Coben and Melissa K. Wrapp Many academics and activists have critiqued the mortgage industry as a central engine of global financialization. Indeed, mortgages have long been espoused as vehicles of liberalization, liquidity, and economic development. And yet in our two very different field sites—South Africa and Ireland—we saw people doing a lot of work […]
Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Stefan Dorondel Lending against real property is occurring in significant volumes globally. Homeownership remains a principal means of wealth creation for most Americans and Western Europeans. Mortgage is also an important part of land titling reforms that seek to enhance agricultural productivity and rural entrepreneurship in the Global South. The outcomes of […]
Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Boston University) and Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd (Umeå University) The interdisciplinary symposium Informal Financial Markets: Now and Then. From Pre-Banking to Bitcoin that took place at Umea University from January 21-23, 2020, brought together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the characteristics, functions and importance of informal credit markets, and the impacts of […]
The BU ASC Diaspora Studies Initiative organized and presented at ASA Local Arrangements Committee panel at the African Studies Association 62nd Annual Meeting,“Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa,” that took place in Boston, MA, November 21-23, 2019, in Boston Marriott Copley Place. The panel Building Bridges through Migration: First Generation African Immigrants discussed the challenges […]
We were delighted to welcome colleagues old and new to the African Studies Center for a reception on Oct 3. Faculty, staff, and visiting researchers shared the latest on their research and work across Africa, representing disciplines from art history to biology, international relations, technology studies, and beyond. We’re looking forward to seeing you at […]
Our NEH ʿAjamī Research Project is now live, and celebrating its website launch! The project ʿAjamī Literature and the Expansion of Literacy and Islam: The Case of West Africa that was awarded a NEH Collaborative Research Grant, aims to provide a new window into the history, cultures, and intellectual traditions of West Africa. It will […]
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