The UCSB Africa Initiative is an intellectual and cultural space that brings together faculty, students, community members, visiting scholars, artists and others to think, learn, teach and co-produce knowledge on, with and about Africa in new, robust ways that center African people, their ideas, and voices without merely reducing the continent and its knowledge systems into objects of study and intellection. The Center's practices are informed by the ethos of African self-liberation. Its programming is necessarily interdisciplinary, seeking to bridge divides not only between the humanities, social sciences and the hard sciences, but also the continent and its diasporas as well as theory and practice.
For more information, visit the Area Global Initiative website.