Highlight Jazz at WARC!
Saint Louis Jazz Festival: A mini jazz concert at WARC with the Wallace Roney Quintet On Thursday May 28, WARC again welcomed a large crowd, this time to enjoy the beautiful music of the Wallace Roney...
View ArticleHighlight:Book launch – Landing Savane
Le Grand Tournant du 20e Siècle: Un regard africain sur le siècle des ruptures by Landing Savané (Éditions Presses Panafricaines, Avril 2015) On Saturday afternoon, June 6, the West African Research...
View ArticleHighlight: WARC Book Club – We Read for You
Launch of the WARC Book Club “We Read for You” WARC is regularly making the news in the Senegalese capital with all the events lately featured by the Center. Indeed, there is hardly a week that passes...
View ArticleHighlight: WARC Film Screening
WARC Film Screening SEMBENE! A documentary by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman A few years ago, Professor Samba Gadjigo came to Dakar and spent long days and nights with filmmaker Jason Silverman and...
View ArticleHighlight:Samba Gadjigo/We Read for You
Ousmane Sembene: Une Conscience Africaine By Samba Gadjigo (Homnispheres, Sept 2007) From June 19 to June 25, WARC paid tribute to the Senegalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane. The international authority...
View ArticleHighlight:Dakar Institute of African Studies holds symposium at WARC
International Symposium of the Dakar Institute for African Studies: “Valorizing African Cultural Heritage and Thought in the 21st Century” (WARC, Dakar, July 3-4, 2015) A group of former students of...
View ArticleHighlight: JETS Project Networking Event
JETS Project Networking Event July 22, 2015,West African Research Center The JETS project (Jeunesse, Entreprise et Transformation Sociale/Youth, Entrepreneurship and Social Transformation) is the...
View ArticleHighlight Religion and Peace in Senegal-Columbia conference
WARC Participates in Columbia University Conference on Islam and Peace “Religion and Peace in Senegal”: Toward a Unified Strategic and Operational Framework Thanks toWARC’s new videoconferencing...
View ArticleHIGHLIGHT South African National Heritage Day
WARC hosts the South African National Heritage Exhibit The South African Embassy in Dakar selected the premises of the West African Research Center (WARC) to host the exhibit celebrating their National...
View ArticleHighlight: Symposium Race, Racism and the Construction of Black Modernities
A Symposium for Black History Month: Race, Racism and the Construction of Black Modernities A collaboration between WARA/WARC, the National Museum of African American History & Culture, and...
View ArticleHIGHLIGHT Roundtable on Islam & Peace – Columbia, Majaliss, WARC
Islam and Peace in Senegal: Perspectives offered by Sufi Traditions A Roundtable at WARC The round table opened at the West African Research Center (WARC) the morning of Thursday, March 17th. This...
View ArticleHighlight L’Afrique quel Avenir
“L’Afrique: Quel Avenir ?”[What Future, Africa?] A Roundtable at the West African Reseach Center Over 60 people from academic circles, civil society and the media filled the DAART conference on...
View ArticleHighlight Book Presentation at WARC
Book Presentation at the West African Research Center March 29, 2016 ” Tu Seras un Enseignant, Mon Fils ” by Thierno Souleymane Diop (Presses Universitaires de Dakar, 2016) The author of the featured...
View ArticleHighlight: Museum of Black Civlizations
The West African Research Center: A Key Player in Preparing the Opening of Musee des Civilisations Noires /Museum of Black Civilization All eyes are on Dakar, Senegal as we look forward to the opening...
View ArticleHighlight NMAAHC
The US Diplomatic Mission in Senegal & the West African Research Center (WARC) Join to Celebrate the Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture On the afternoon of...
View ArticleHighlight on US Election
WARC Public Lectures – Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Le Processus Electoral Américain et la Femme politicienne dans le Système Electoral Américain Steven Ekovich, Professor of History and Political...
View ArticleHIGHLIGHT Book Launch: Ahmet Diouf
HIGHLIGHT : Book Launch: Ahmet Diouf: La gens de droit maternel ou la famille matriarcale (L’Harmattan-Senegal, 2016) This Thursday, March 2, from 4pm to 7pm, the open space of the West African...
View ArticleHIGHLIGHT: Black History Month at WARC
HIGHLIGHT : Black History Month at WARC The West African Research Center’s mandate, among others, calls for the promotion of inter-cultural and cross-cultural dialogue and the celebration of the...
View ArticleHighlight : Religion in West Africa
Religion in West Africa: Cosmopolitanism, Faith Communities & the Social Fabric West Africa’s Women of God A lecture by Professor Robert M. Baum, Dartmouth College On Thursday, March 2, 2017, WARA...
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