Fall Africa at Noon Update

Every Wednesday at noon — since 1973! — African Studies Program faculty, students, and community members have gathered for AFRICA AT NOON, a one-hour weekly lecture series bringing diverse African research from scholars around the …

The 2021 Jordan Prize Winner

Justyn Huckleberry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and an editor for Edge Effects online magazine. Her current research focuses on how people experience and remember conservation and extractive-industry displacement. …

Welcome Olayinka Olagbegi-Adegbite

The African Studies Program is excited to introduce Olayinka Olagbegi-Adegbite, the new Outreach Coordinator. Olayinka joins our Program from UW-Madison’s School of Education, where she recently defended her PhD. in Educational Policy Studies, with a …

Spring 2021 Africa At Noon Events

January 27 “Dimensions of Citizenship: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo” Irène Tombo,  Jordan Prize Winner Political Science PhD Candidate, UW-Madison Hosted by Scott Straus February 3 “How Deliberative Designs Empower Citizens’ …

Introducing Our 2021-2022 FLTAs

Every year, new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) join us from across the African continent so that UW students can learn languages from native speakers. As cultural ambassadors, they also welcome opportunities to engage …