Jacques-Phillipe Potteau, North African and Hindoo Bombay, from Darwin’s collection of anthropological photographs, drawn from a set made at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie,...

Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009

Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, introduces his book 'Poor numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it'. This event...

Collection: Centre of African Studies

Institution: Centre of African Studies

Created: Mon 3 Jun 2013

This event was jointly hosted by the Centre of African Studies and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights on November 6th 2019. The discussant was Dr Adam Branch.

Collection: Centre of African Studies

Institution: Centre of African Studies

Created: Thu 7 Nov 2019

This event was part of the Michaelmas Term Public Seminar Series on the theme of 'Archaeology, Heritage, and the decolonization of Africa’s Past'.

Collection: Centre of African Studies

Institution: Centre of African Studies

Created: Tue 12 Nov 2019

A talk by Dr Deborah Potts, part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.

Collection: Centre of African Studies

Institution: Centre of African Studies

Created: Fri 22 Jan 2016

A talk given as a part of the Michaelmas Term 2017 seminar series ' Rethinking African Studies. Histories and Futures of Knowledge Production on Africa'

Collection: Centre of African Studies

Institution: Centre of African Studies

Created: Wed 18 Oct 2017

CGHR interviews Dr Duncan Omanga (Moi University; Visiting Fellow, Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge). Dr Omanga's research looks at the use of social media by...

Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Thu 23 Jun 2016

Chris Boonzaaier (University of Pretoria): The Role of Traditional Knowledge in the Management and Sustainability of Built Heritage Resources

Collection: African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 16 Jun 2015

Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

Interview with Luisa Nativi. In this inteview Luisa Nativi performs and translates a number of songs and tales of the Karamojong (Uganda)

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

Deux thèmes de l’épopée de Soundjata qui sont typiques pour la version de Kéla: l’histoire de la libération de Nagana Tiriba par l’ancêtre des Diabaté, et l’histoire de l’achat...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

This aetiological narrative establishes the crab’s origin and its moral significance for the present. Narrated to children, it is a cautionary story that suggests identification —...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

In this fragment Dr. Datey-Kumodzie recollects the historical migration of the Ewes and offers songs related to the festival. The organization of the Hogbetsotso festival is...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

In this inteview Luisa Nativi performs and translates a song about a woman complaning for marrying a man whom she did not want to marry (Karamojong, Uganda)

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

This tale treats competition within the family and, in particular, betrayal among brothers. It explores the contradiction inherent in peer-relationships within the family:...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

The Swahili song Kijiti, whose text was composed by the famous taarab artist Siti binti Saad (1898-1950) to express her anger about the abuses committed against women that often...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011

At the beginning of the interview, the interviewee made it clear that he was a repository of a very special, secret knowledge that no other researcher could reveal and that he was...

Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 8 Jun 2011