What if African Studies was the way you imagine it to be? Listen now to the first contribution by Anne Storch from Cologne University. We hope that this is the first podcast to a diverse series that features contributions by RecAf members answering to the 'What if?' question, featuring utopian visions of African Studies, alternative imaginations of the field and its academic and mundane life realities.
Poem written by Tim Conitz on January 29th of 2020 during the Winterschool
The current events around the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. have elicited a global debate on racism and unresolved persisting inequalities. As dean and professor at the Institute for African Studies at Leipzig University, Prof. Rose Marie Beck has observed extensive student solidarity with the movement, as well as a certain insecurity concerning how to act in a responsible manner.
