Petition Update!

Things that are in the thousands:  metres in a kilometre, Islands in the salad dressing, miles that Vanessa Carleton would walk to just see you, and now, ladies and gentlemen, SIGNATURES on the ASSA's petition to regain AFRI 200:  Introduction to African Studies!  Thanks so much to the 1000+ of you who have signed it thus far!  (And if you haven't yet, we'll still be collecting signatures over the coming days, so keep an eye out!)

ASSA featured in The McGill Daily

The ASSA will be featured in the issue of The McGill Daily to be released tomorrow, Monday, November 21.  Make sure to pick up a copy!  Until then, read the article online at:

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2011/11/african-studies-fights-to-restore-introductory-course/

Resolution passed at the AUS GA!

ASSA is delighted to announce that our resolution was passed tonight at the AUS General Assembly by a nearly unanimous vote!    The original form of the resolution can be read at the link below, but please note that it was amended during the GA to include that AUS will lobby in our favour for regaining the course AFRI 200. Thank you to all of those who came out and supported us tonight!

http://ausmcgill.com/d/files/Submitted%20Question%20-%20AUS%20General%20Assembly%20November%208,%202011.pdf

November Updates

Welcome to a whole new year of African Studies!  The ASSA team is working hard this year to plan some great events for all of you African Studies majors and minors students and to work with administration on some key goals to improve our program.  Also, we are working on creating our ListServ for the year by visiting all of the African Studies' eligible classes for the semester.  If you haven't been able to put your name on a list, please email us at assa.mcgill@gmail.com so we can keep you posted on our upcoming events. This November,  save the date for a Meet and Greet with the professors of African Studies on Tuesday the 15th (more details shortly).   Best of luck with remaining midterms!

On this date in 1991, Zambia held its first multi-party elections in 23 years.  Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Zambia for more details!

U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha

Time	Thursday, February 10 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	Leacock 26
Created By	African Studies Students' Association, Ledah McKellar
More Info	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445776/ U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself, is well known..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNmxQJd3AI