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CAS Research Projects 23Sep2026

CAS Seminar Series - Overview of CAS staff research projects

Overview of CAS staff research projects followed by live online screening of special UoE lecture by Professor Tendayi Achiume.

23 September 2026
15:30 - 18:15
CAS Seminar Ghana-Togo Borderlands 30Sep2026

CAS Seminar Series - Political Belonging in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

In the wake of the 2016 national elections in Ghana, the issue of cross-border voting triggered a nation-wide debate. But who exactly constitutes the electorate? Who is a national, who is a foreigner, and how are these distinctions identified in the Ghana-Togo borderlands?

30 September 2026
16:00 - 17:30
CAS Seminar Rwanda's Rise 07Oct2026

CAS Seminar Series - The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise

Drawing on a decade of research and more than 580 interviews, this innovative political economy case study explores Rwanda's bold attempt to transform its economy after the 1994 genocide into one of the most rapidly growing countries in Africa.

07 October 2026
16:00 - 17:30
CAS Seminar Socialist De-Colony 15Oct2026
15 October 2026
15:00 - 16:30
Centre of African Studies

CAS Seminar Series - Socialist De-Colony

Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of colonialism across the African continent and the world's first Black socialist state.
CAS Seminar The Adventure 04Nov2026
04 November 2026
16:00 - 17:30
Centre of African Studies

The Adventure: Violent Borders, Illegal Migration, and the Uncertain Quest for Life in Morocco

This ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a “migration crisis” and a “sub-Saharan problem” in politics of migration. The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility.

CAS Seminar African Climate Futures 18Nov2026
18 November 2026
15:30 - 17:00
Centre of African Studies

African Climate Futures

African Climate Futures shows how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present. Scientific climate scenarios forecast bleak futures, with increased droughts, floods, lethal heatwaves, sea level rises, declining crop yields, and greater exposure to vector-borne diseases. Yet, African climate futures could also encompass energy transitions and socio-economic revolutions, transformed political agency and human subjectivities, and radically reparative more-than-human climate politics.
CAS Seminar Singing the Party Line 25Nov2026
25 November 2026
16:00 - 17:30
Centre of African Studies

Singing the Party Line: Ideological dissonance and commitment after rebellion in Burundi’s CNDD-FDD

This presentation examines how ideological change is produced and internalized in rebellions that become ruling parties, using the case of Burundi’s CNDD-FDD. While existing scholarship documents post-war ideological shifts, it has paid little attention to how these transformations are transmitted to and negotiated by rank-and-file members, often in contexts of cognitive dissonance between wartime commitments and post-war realities.