Center for African Studies Colloquium Series

Fall 2025

The Center for African Studies Colloquium Series invites lectures, book talks, and panels given by prominent Africa-focused scholars. These colloquia present the latest in Africanist and Afro-diasporic thought, drawing together with inter-campus partnerships across the Bay Area, the wider UC System, and the work of Africa-based thinkers, that is scholars living and working in Africa. The Annual Lecture is a special-guest colloquium, held once a year.

Thursday, November 13 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm | 340 Stephens Hall
Sultan Conference Room

Khumisho Moguerane, University of Johannesburg

Dr Moguerane is an historian of the British Empire, with a doctorate from Oxford (2014). Her research focuses on Tswana-speaking African elites in South Africa between the 1880s and 1950s, demonstrating how generations of one family negotiated colonialism and early phases of African and Afrikaner nationalism. Dr Mogeurane held a ORISHA scholarship at Oxford, an Oppenheimer scholarship, and was a Beit scholar

- Light refresments will be provided. -

The Center for African Studies Colloquium Series will continue in Spring 2026.