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Seminar

Global Music Campus (GMC)

The Africa Institute Library

Scholarly Conferences

March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960

March 9 - 12, 2023

Sharjah - Africa Hall

Seminar

Open Conversation between Gnawa and Capoeira (Sharjah Biennial 15)

Gallery 1 & 2 courtyard, Al Mureijah Square

Seminar

Ambivalent memories of imperial legacies

The Africa Institute Library

Music Performances

Bait Al Oud Orchestra

December 7 - 8, 2022

Sharjah

Scholarly Conferences

Western Sudan Community Museums Project

Sharjah

Visit us at the Focal Point Art Fair 2022

November 25 - 27, 2022

Sharjah

Country-Focused Season

Song of the Pharaoh: Book Launch & Performance

Accra - Ghana

Book Conversations

A Decolonial Feminism

The Africa Inst. Sharjah

Music Performances

Elisabeth Efua Sutherland

Sharjah

Music Performances

M.anifest

Sharjah

Fati’s Choice poster

Film Screening + Talk

Fati’s Choice

March 8 - 10, 2022

Online

Shasha Program

Film Screening + Talk

Afro-Arab Cinema program

Online

Scholarly Conferences

Global Ghana: Sites of Departure/Sites of Return

March 8 - 10, 2022

Sharjah

The Otolith Group

Scholarly Conferences

Envisioning a Post-cinematic Pan-Africanist Aesthetics

Africa Hall - Sharjah

Country-Focused Season

Global Ghana: In Search of Africa’s Black Star

October 27 - 29, 2022

Accra, Ghana

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Country-Focused Season

Global Ghana: Sites of Departure/Sites of Return

March 8 - 10, 2022

Sharjah

JGPACA film program Featured Week 4 Eng

Film Screening + Talk

Week 04 | Continuity and Change

Online

JGPACA film program Featured Week 2 Eng

Film Screening + Talk

Week 02 | Cinema Cultures in Africa

Online

GLOBAL GHANA INAUGURATION

Country-Focused Season

GLOBAL GHANA: Inaugural Program

Sharjah

JGPACA film program Featured Week 1 Eng

Film Screening + Talk

Week 01 | Foundations of African Cinema

Online

Book Conversations

A History of Arab Graphic Design

Online

Book Conversations

The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon

Online

Music Performances

Mohamed El Amin

Online

Film Screening + Talk

Idrissou Mora-Kpai

Online

Film Screening + Talk

I’m Not Your Negro

Online

Film Screening + Talk

Jihan El-Tahri

Online

Film Screening + Talk

Manthia Diawara

Online

Film Screening + Talk

John Akomfrah

Online

Artist Talk

Aïda Muluneh

Online

Talking-about-Trees

Film Screening + Talk

Talking about Trees

Sharjah

Modern Sudanese Poetry

Book Conversations

Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology

Sharjah

Axis-of-Solidarity

Scholarly Conferences

Axis of Solidarity : Landmarks, Platforms, Futures

Tate Modern, London, UK

Somi

Music Performances

Somi

Sharjah

5 plus 1 rethinking-abstraction

Scholarly Conferences

5-plus-1 : Rethinking Abstraction

Africa Hall - Sharjah

Lisa Simone

Music Performances

Lisa Simone

Sharjah

Peter Adjaye

Music Performances

Peter Adjaye (aka AJ Kwame)

Sharjah

Music Performances

Mulatu Astatke

Oumou Sangaré

Music Performances

Oumou Sangaré

Sharjah

Youssou N'Dour

Music Performances

Youssou N’Dour

Sharjah

About The Africa institute

The Africa Institute is an interdisciplinary academic research institute dedicated to the study, research and documentation of Africa, its people and its cultures; its complex past, present and future; and its manifold connections with the wider world. It is a globally oriented institution with a focus on the humanities and social sciences that will have a postgraduate studies programme offering both masters and PhD degrees with the aim of training a new generation of critical thinkers in African and African diaspora studies.

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