Workshop 1: Learning the art of flexibility    The Poetry in the Primary Classroom project began in January 2021, with an ambitious plan to provide an enriching Continuing Professional Development course to primary school teachers on African and Diaspora...

Image: Voter in Tanzania, 2018. Author Madjika87. Source Wikimedia Commons   How are African countries dealing with elections during Covid-19? Already there have been three elections in Mali, Burundi and last week in Guinea. Tomorrow Tanzania goes to the ...

  The COVID-19 pandemic provides a stress test for all countries, but also for relations between them. In a webinar organised by the Overseas Development Institute, RAS director Nick Westcott joined a panel alongside Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (Mayor of Freetown)...

      Watch this post conference video on the Impact of COVID-19 on BAME lives chaired by RAS Chair  Zeinab Badawi, with keynote speaker Professor Kevin Fenton.   This event was hosted by RAS Council member Dr Titilola Banjoko and Professo...

RAS Director, Nick Westcott, highlighted the importance of China’s response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa when he participated in a panel discussion on the prospects for China-Africa relations at the US-China Series online conference l...

‘Our justifiable concern about the pandemic in the UK must not make us insular and inward looking’ Our chair Zeinab Badawi writes in the FT about the doctors from Africa saving British lives in the #COVID19 pandemic, including her family member an...

Watch RAS Chair Zeinab Badawi delve into the history of Africa for a brand new series on BBC News Africa.   This series is unprecedented, ambitious in scope and is based on a unique project, overseen by UNESCO known as the GHA: the General History of Afri...

Dear members and friends,   Like everyone, the Royal African Society has been impacted by the coronavirus Covid-19. I thought it sensible to let you know how we will be operating and what we will be doing as long as the emergency lasts.   Fortunatel...