Africa in Our Lives

The Department of African Cultural Studies is welcoming Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell as an incoming graduate student this upcoming fall. Rebecca graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts and is beginning her …

Jules is a joint Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography in the College of Letters & Science and Environment and Resources at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She researches the political ecology of …

Marie-Josée Paula Houénou was a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who has now returned to Madison through a YALI Continuing Connections Travel Award to work with Valerie Stull of the Global Health Institute. Houénou is a legal …

Kathryn Mara is a graduate student in African Cultural Studies at UW-Madison interested in language, cultural practices, and representations of violence, particularly in an East and Central African context. In this AFRICA IN OUR LIVES, …

Maame Amma Brewoo is a senior undergraduate majoring in International Studies with certificates in Digital Studies and African Studies. She was born in Accra, Ghana, and immigrated to Madison, Wisconsin with her family at age …

Drew Bantlin is a PhD candidate at the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His studies center around lion ecology, behavioral ecology, and practical management of wild spaces. In this AFRICA IN OUR LIVES, Bantlin …

Rising junior Lauren Sorensen always knew she wanted to study abroad, but it was not until she began taking African Studies courses that she settled on Senegal. She was recently awarded the Boren Scholarship, which …