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21 Mar 2025

End of Course Social Event - Bridge Street, Second Floor.

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14 Mar 2025

'Update on Malnutrition in Makerere Medical School today'

Professor Nicolette Barungi

14 Mar 2025

'Cecily Williams and Hugh Trowell: Studying Malnutrition in Colonial Africa'

Margaret Bray

7 Mar 2025

'Smile, the Beloved Country? South Africa, 30 years after Liberation'

Sara Pienaar

28 Feb 2025

With MSF in Central African Republic and Chad.

Pippa Taggart

21 Feb 2025

‘African Mental Health Initiatives’

Karen Glisson, CBM Project Manager

14 Feb 2025

Bring an Africa-related Book

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7 Feb 2025

Report on 'African Futures Collections' Project

Eva Namusoke

31 Jan 2025

'The Aromatic Island of Madagascar'

Hugo Bovill

24 Jan 2025

‘The Promise of Equitable and Quality Education for all: A critical review of education provision in post-apartheid South Africa ’

Yusuf Sayed, Professor of Education, Cambridge Uni

17 Jan 2025

Opening Session - Bring a Favourite Africa Picture

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13 Dec 2024

Social Event at Bridge Street

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9 Dec 2024

African Music with Iroko Band

Jane Hollingworth

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6 Dec 2024

Members' News Items

29 Nov 2024

A Year Year Overlanding in Africa

Rajshree Shah Weston

22 Nov 2024

Development of Sport in Colonial Uganda

Steve Packer

15 Nov 2024

Electricity Supply in Africa – is the situation improving?

Neil Pinto

8 Nov 2024

Members News Items

1 Nov 2024

Review of Film ‘Dahomey’ - ZOOM ONLY


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1 Nov 2024

Update on Kenya. - ZOOM ONLY

Peter Wiles

25 Oct 2024

With MSF in Central African Republic and Chad. POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING TERM

Pippa Taggart

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18 Oct 2024

News Items - CANCELLED

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11 Oct 2024

Introductions and ideas for session by Members

Peter Woodsford

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15 Mar 2024

Has Mining Helped Economic Development in Africa?


Richard Lewney

8 Mar 2024

The African Collections Futures Project

Dr Eva Namusoke

1 Mar 2024

Identifying important sites for biodiversity in Africa:: the Key Biodiversity Area Programme

Andy Plumtre

23 Feb 2024

China in Africa

Roy Doyon

16 Feb 2024

‘Bring an African Object’- All

9 Feb 2024

For Love of Africa

John Tyson

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2 Feb 2024

Uganda Then and Now

Barbara Walden

26 Jan 2024

My first hand experience with the Maasai

Alan Brid

26 Jan 2024

The Maasai tribe, some anthropological angles and personal and modern perspectives

Peter Wiles

19 Jan 2024

Benin Bronzes

Frances Klein

19 Jan 2024

Algeria

Penny Hayman

19 Jan 2024

Members News

8 Dec 2023

South-Southwest Madagascar

Robin Farbridge

8 Dec 2023

Remembering Valerie Holt

Valerie Holt

1 Dec 2023

Buganda and the Baganda

Peter Woodsford

24 Nov 2023

‘Margaret Trowell and the Foundation of the Arts School at Makerere University, Uganda'

Margaret Bray

17 Nov 2023

‘On a medical boat on Lake Victoria with the Vine Trust’ - a general account of healthcare on the islands of Lake Victoria volunteering with the Vine Trust charity.

Kath Shore

10 Nov 2023

Scripture and the Theology of Apartheid

Andrew Day

3 Nov 2023

Migration, Rwanda Entrepreneurship

Mo Ibrahim

3 Nov 2023

Remembering Dick Grove

Dick Grove

3 Nov 2023

Film Review -’Banel & Adama’

27 Oct 2023

Key issues and agenda for Africa in Emergency Preparedness and Response in Africa for Africa

Martin Muita

20 Oct 2023

Members News Items

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13 Oct 2023

Introductions and programme for the term.

24 Mar 2023

Social Event (in Social Area on second floor at U3A)

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17 Mar 2023

Why airfreight is important to Kenyan flowers and why it has a smaller carbon footprint than other options

Chris Bishop

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Abstract

10 Mar 2023

Gorilla Conservation in Uganda in 2022

Jane Rose

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10 Mar 2023

Gorilla Conservation in Uganda in 1994

Peter Woodsford

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3 Mar 2023

African Memoir, Memory, and the Power of Family Stories

Bronwen Everill

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Reading List

24 Feb 2023

Members News Items

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17 Feb 2023

A journey through Africa - Cycling from Cairo to Capetown

Paul Bullen-Smith

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10 Feb 2023

Teberah Inquai and Ethiopian Children in Need

Peter Woodsford and Chris Wagner

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Abstract

3 Feb 2023

African Jazz

Alan Bird

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Playlist

27 Jan 2023

Experiences of Headship, educational consultancy and travel in the East African Community

Peter Wiles

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Abstract

20 Jan 2023

The Rainbow Nation: The Peopling and Peoples of South Africa. - . A sequel to his talk on Reshaping South Africa

Revd. Andrew Day, Vicar, St, Clements, Cambridge

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16 Dec 2022

Social Event - Second Floor, U3AC, Bridge Street

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9 Dec 2022

East African Attitudes to Disability and the Work of Ekisa

Michael English

2 Dec 2022

Education in Africa

Jason Pennells

25 Nov 2022

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Control in Uganda

James Whitehorn, Addenbrookes Global Partnerships

18 Nov 2022

Training the next generation of tropical ecologists

Rosie Trevelyan, CEO Tropical Biology Association

11 Nov 2022

Lemurs of the Lost World

Jane Wilson-Howarth

Abstract

4 Nov 2022

Wrap up of Cambridge Africa Day

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4 Nov 2022

Liberia and Sierra Leone

Terry Allsop

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28 Oct 2022

Reviews of 2022 Cambridge Africa Day

2022 Cambridge Africa Day

21 Oct 2022

Members News Items

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News Items

14 Oct 2022

Introductions and programme for the term.

14 Oct 2022

Remembering Guinevere Ventress

Guinevere Ventress

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25 Mar 2022

Social (arranged by Ricky) - 3pm on First Floor at Middletons

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18 Mar 2022

Faraway Finds bringing African bird sculptures to the UK

Lucio

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Presentations Valerie Holts Story

18 Mar 2022

Replacement - News Items from Members

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11 Mar 2022

Reshaping South Africa: A Cartographical Journey through South African History

Andrew Day

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Presentation

4 Mar 2022

COP26 and Africa - continued

Sheila Brookes, Chris Wagner

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Climate, Conflict & Demographics

25 Feb 2022

COP26 and Africa

Sheila Brookes and Chris Wagner

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18 Feb 2022

Filming for Social Change - http://socialfilms.org/

Dominique Chadwick

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11 Feb 2022

110 Years of a School in Uganda.

Peter Woodsford

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Abstract

11 Feb 2022

Sad News - Death of Teberah Inquai

Teberah Inquai

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4 Feb 2022

West African Music. Playlist

Alan Bird

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Commentary

28 Jan 2022

My Life is But A Weaving - an Autobiography by Rhoda Kalema. https://rhodakalema.org/

Rhoda Kalema

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21 Jan 2022

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: An introduction to The Atlas of the Transatlanic Slave Trade, David Eltis and David Richardson, 2010 -

Roy Doyon

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Presentation

17 Dec 2021

Social Event - at Bridge Street

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10 Dec 2021

Hoveraid in Madagascar

Andy Mayo

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3 Dec 2021

From Muyayi to Minister: The Rise of Bobi Wine and the Politics of Music in Contemporary Uganda

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Summary

26 Nov 2021

Born in Bechuanaland - a Biographical Note

Tim Cook

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Commentary

19 Nov 2021

BirdLife South Africa and the Kruger Challenge

Andrew Dobson

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Abstract

12 Nov 2021

The 2021 Africa Together Conference of the African Society of Cambridge University (ASCU) - reviews. - PART TWO

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Notes

5 Nov 2021

The 2021 Africa Together Conference of the African Society of Cambridge University (ASCU) - reviews. - PART ONE

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Notes

29 Oct 2021

Africa - an Overview in Photographs

Alan Bird

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22 Oct 2021

Members News Items

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Presentations

15 Oct 2021

Introductions and programme for the term.

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15 Oct 2021

Remembering Madge Quinn

Madge Quinn

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19 Mar 2021

Development in Africa

Andrew Milbourn

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Abstract

12 Mar 2021

Our Experiences in Madagascar before and after Studying Abroad

Fortunat RAJAONA and Sophie RANDRIAMAHEFASOA

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5 Mar 2021

A community connected to sea: Suakin, Sudan Trowelblazers citation

Dr. Shadia Taha

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Abstract

26 Feb 2021

A Goldmine in Tanzania

Robin Farbridge

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Presentation

19 Feb 2021

My Journey into African Contemporary Art

Ed Cross

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Abstract

12 Feb 2021

The Jonglei Canal Project through the Sudd

Ian Aikman

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Abstract

5 Feb 2021

Community Impact of Rural Schools in Uganda

Steve Hurd

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