Africa

This short film will explore issues of press freedom, censorship, and satire in the Republic of Guinea.

Bhiken Naik, Fall 2024 CGII GPOD Research

The main objective of this project is to report on the state of research and safeguarding of Amazigh intangible cultural heritage.

CGII funding is contributing to a project addressing Swahili women’s roles from 600-1600 CE on the East African coast in the realms of agricultural production, cuisine, cultural transmission, craft production, and leadership.

My archaeological research in western Zambia studies daily life and interactional histories in ‘in-between’ places between emergent state systems in southern Africa from the 8th to the 18th centuries CE.

Ganiyu Jimoh, Digital Art in Africa, Postcolonial Resistance, Analog-Digital Fusion

My research project explores the artistic and cultural manifestations in which contemporary Muslim women define their body space to defy internal, traditional restrictions and external, orientalist Western gazes.

Our proposed project investigates two community-led initiatives to develop infrastructure to support community-based research.

Nemata Blyden, Jasper Conner, Elizabeth Ellcessor, Fall 2024 CGII Center Grant Research

My project explores the archaeology of the Swahili in Zanzibar Tanzania, during the Portuguese and Omani colonial occupations of the 16th-20th centuries CE.