Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge

Where: Parker’s Piece, Marquee 3, Row B, Stall 4
When: Tuesday 08 - Wednesday 09 October, 10am - 4pm

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Opportunity: Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South | Cambridge Interfaith Programme CIP is pleased to be partnering with the Faculty of Divinity and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) to invite applications for funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South under the theme Religious Boundaries.

Caius Fellow Dr Bronwen Everill explores how Africa became a site of repeated economic experimentation in her forthcoming book Good Intentions.

The Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge University of Cambridge and 1973 Lecturer in History at Caius, Bronwen explores how visitors to Africa have tried to “fix” perceived problems they have encountered since the end of the slave trade until the present day.

She presented the work in the Gloria Carpenter Annual Lecture, titled Good Intentions: Slavery, Abolition, and Inequality in the Modern World, at Selwyn College last month, discussing how misunderstandings about Africa have played a regular role in the shaping of ideas about how economies should function, what the role of the economy in society is, how governments could intervene in the economy, and what makes people work.

Interventions, with good intentions, were followed by a cascade of further interventions as humanitarians, policy experts, and business leaders tried to address issues, as Bronwen explains.

“A lot of them had limited benefits. One of the problems with the idea that any of them was going to be a silver bullet is that when they do have a limited benefit, that isn’t necessarily accounted for in the next generation’s interventions,” she says.

“Every generation wipes the slate clean and tries to start from scratch. Every time it needed to be a new big winning idea, rather than slow gradual development.

“The main takeaway is that throughout it doesn’t bear any resemblance to what people on the ground are wanting. It’s about other people’s priorities, rather than being a ground up idea.”

Full story on the College website.

📰: https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/good-intentions-exploring-economic-fixes-africa | Link in bio

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Our Annual Audrey Richards Distinguished Public Lecture in African Studies will take place on Tuesday 31st May at 5pm BST. Places are still available for the livestream. Register on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-audrey-richards-distinguished-annual-lecture-in-african-studies-tickets-336260794087?keep_tld=1

Book Launch for Contesting Catholics This event explores the competing Catholic political and historical projects that circulated and clashed in late colonial Uganda.

Our latest seminar series, held in conjunction with The Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry, begins on Monday 25th January at 3pm UK time. All are welcome to attend. To join the mailing list to receive the Zoom links and seminar papers, please click here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=RQSlSfq9eUut41R7TzmG6e-mD3YwPglHjgGcpYVYEbxUM0hMV1NVR1JIS1VUS01KVVFaOUlHQlA3NS4u

Over the years many wonderful, talented students have graduated from our MPhil in African Studies programme. But Gerald is undoubtedly the person who has overcome the biggest hurdle to join us, and is one of the most incredible and inspiring individuals we've ever met. It would heartbreaking if pandemic related financial cuts put paid to his hopes of pursuing a PhD at Manchester this year. Please help to fund Gerald if you can.

Meet the Ghanaian student who deserves PhD funding: an interview with Gerald Arhin Gerald in college.KAYLA PINCUS Gerald Arhin is an unstoppable force against all odds. Despite his visual impairment, Gerald has trailblazed a path from a rural town in Ghana to the Univer