Project 1808 is seeking student interns for social media, entrepreneurship, web design, and grant writing for Fall 2016. Project 1808 seeks to assist in community development projects in Sierra Leone. Its mission is to promote …
Year: 2016
Cultural Dialogues and a Carousel of Feelings
Nafissatou Tine has worked as a lawyer for almost five years, during which she created a website designed to act as a reference guide for Senegalese law practitioners and service providers. She has also been …
UW-Madison team studies Africa’s female peace-builders
The Center for Research on Gender and Women was established in 1977 as part of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, to advance knowledge about gender women both in the US and globally. Aili …
YALI is Real
Peter Anomah-Kordieh K. has over seven years of experience in various fields in the disability development sector, and disability rights in particular. Currently, Peter K. is a program officer and human rights advocate for the …
Happy Father’s Day, Barack Obama
Obinna Ebirim of Nigeria has over four years’ experience in public health, clinical health, political technical assistance, social media health advocacy, youth development and leadership. He is currently a senior program officer for International Vaccine …
African Studies Program seeks interns for communications and office management
The African Studies Program is seeking students to fill two internship positions. The Communications Intern will gain on-the-ground experience in social media and to produce original content in consultation with our center’s leadership team. The …
A Much Anticipated Arrival
Meagan Doll is the Mandela Washington Fellowship program coordinator at UW-Madison and a recent graduate of the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The African Studies Program office has known for just over …
UW-Madison releases names, bios of African leaders to visit campus
The African Studies Program has released the names and biographies of 25 young African leaders who will spend six weeks on the UW-Madison campus as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship. The fellowship, sponsored by …
Get to know our Mandela Washington Fellows!
This summer, the African Studies Program will host 25 emerging African leaders through the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), sponsored by the U.S. State Department. President …
UW professor retraces footsteps of decades-old Liberian expedition
Edge Effects, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spotlights the 1926 expedition of a Harvard scientific team in Liberia and the …