Awa Maïga is a Master of International Public Affairs (MIPA), Candidate at UW-Madison, The La Follette School of Public Affairs. She is the former Executive Director at Leading Change Africa, the current president of Leading Change …
Africa in Our Lives
Africa In Our Lives: Katie Krueger
Katie Krueger is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches Marketing in the Digital Age and Consumer Behavior. She graduated from UW-Madison Wisconsin School of Business with her MBA in Entrepreneurship. …
Africa In Our Lives: Mosa Leteane
Mosa Leteane is a Fulbright Scholar from South Africa. She is a Law graduate from the University of the Free State. As a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, Mosa is passionate about education, leadership, and law. Her research is aimed …
Africa In Our Lives: Joel Baraka and Anson Liow
Joel Baraka is a former King Morgridge Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (’22) who graduated with a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering degree and currently working full-time as a project engineer for CG Schmidt Inc. Anson …
Africa In Our Lives: Representative Samba Baldeh
Representative Samba Baldeh is the Wisconsin State Representative in the 48th Assembly District. What is your background? I am a native of The Gambia, in Western Africa. I emigrated to the States a little bit over …
Africa In Our Lives: Kimberly Rooney
Kimberly Rooney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian, and her research focuses on representations of the School in sub-Saharan African novels written in French and the de/coloniality of this specific educational …
The 2022 Jordan Prize Winner
Vincent R. Ogoti is Andrew W. Mellon Public Humanities Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in African Cultural Studies and History. He was the inaugural African Studies Program Fellow at UW-Madison and a Fulbright Fellow at …
Africa in Our Lives: Ayodeji Adegbite
Ayodeji is a Ph.D. student in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses generally on the history of health, infectious diseases, and environmental and social change in Africa. …
Africa in Our Lives: Kevin Wamalwa
Kevin Wamalwa is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and African Cultural Studies. He was a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year, and he is currently a Teaching Fellow for Africa 277: An …
Appreciating African Studies Teaching Fellows: Vincent R. Ogoti
The African Studies Teaching Fellows program gives students the opportunity to develop and teach an online course for the International Studies major. As part of the program, fellows receive pedagogical training and support as well …