The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) is happy to announce the opening of applications for Faculty […]

ATLANTA—The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) at Georgia State University has received a grant of more than […]

Please join the Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) on Wednesday, December 8th, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) for the first […]

The College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University seeks a dynamic leader to serve as the inaugural executive director of its new Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora

The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora participated in the Second Annual Atlanta Global Studies Symposium, held virtually […]

The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has partnered with Georgia State University (GSU) to provide a structured collaboration platform, called the […]

On February 5,2021, CSAD joined the kick-off event for the new Race Beyond Borders initiative “Understanding Race as a Global […]

On February 2, 2021,  CSAD hosted an engaging discussion formally introducing the center to GSU’s student body, in collaboration with […]

On, January 28, 2021, CSAD co-sponsored the Diversity Dialogue series “Georgia State University's Role in the Future of Atlanta - […]

The Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta, in partnership with the Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora,  presents […]

The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) and the Georgia State University Library have partnered with the […]

The Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora (CSAD) joins Atlanta, the nation, and the world in celebrating the life of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, our 17-term conscience of the Congress and lionhearted peacemaker and trumpeter for justice.

At the moment of this center’s launching, we find ourselves at the juncture of three overlapping pandemics: the global spread of the COVID-19 virus, which has exposed the rampant racial health inequalities that ravage our public health system; the economic downturn spawned by the virus’ spread and indexed by the unprecedented unemployment and negative GDP; and the social unrest and protests brought to a boil by the state-sanctioned violence towards unarmed African Americans by police among which are the latest, George Floyd and more recently Rayshard Brooks.

From President Mark Becker & Provost Wendy Hensel to Georgia State students, faculty and staff, June 9, 2020:

University community,

We wrote to you last week condemning the senseless deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, in addition to those of Breonna Taylor and countless other African Americans.

The senseless killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd have brought forward understandable pain and anger about racism and violence against black Americans. There is no place for racism and violence in our society or at Georgia State.

Georgia State Department of African American Studies Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice Conference.

ASC Director, Dr. Gladys M. FRANCIS, is an honorary Keynote Speaker at the official opening ceremony of the Leadership and Power Conference “Know your gaze and position – colonialism within the arts” organized by the Art Council of Norway and Norwegian Minister of Culture.

The Africana Studies Center (ASC) is the co-sponsor of the international symposium “Black Female Bodies, Body-Memory: A Genealogy of Resistance” taking place at the Mémorial ACTe (MACTe) Museum in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on November 26, 2019.

The Africana Studies Center’s Artists and Activists Series is receiving Toni K from Ghana/Russia. She will discuss issues pertaining to “Pop culture, gender, race and social justice” 1909 25PP

The Africana Studies Center’s Artists and Activists Series is receiving Ingrid CETOUT (International Cooperation Consultant for the Regional Council of Guadeloupe). Her lecture and workshop “French for Business Opportunities in the Francophone World” will take place at the SCE Ballroom https://wlc.gsu.edu/2019/10/28/french-for-business-opportunities-interactive-workshop-featuring-guest-speaker-ingrid-cetout/.

ASC is co-sponsoring with France-Atlanta 2019 Education Series Karmen UNTERWEGNER’s lecture on methods for: “Bringing humanitarian affairs in French-speaking countries to the classroom.” Unterwegner is an Associate Director for the Guinea Worm Eradication Program at the Carter Center. 1909 25 PP

ASC is contributing to the GSU Multicultural Center’s panel discussion “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle” .

ASC is co-sponsoring a dynamic workshop with critic and curator Oulimata GUEYE (from Senegal/France): “Issues of Gender and Race in Afrofuturism and Afrocyberfeminism.” The event is co-sponsored with the French Consulate, Duke University and GA Tech.

Congratulations to Dr. Tiffany KING who recently published her book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Don’t miss her book talk!

ASC welcomes its 2019-2021 Graduate Research Fellow Adélie GEOFFROY from the Université des Antilles pôle Schoelcher Martinique.

Congratulations to ASC’s Affiliate Dr. Lia T. BASCOMB who recently published her book In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity. Use this discount code to buy her book!