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The West African Research Association (WARA), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, is pleased to announce support for young West African scholars through its Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowship program. This program reflects our joint commitment …

The Aspire Grant Program provides competitive research grants of up to $5,000 USD for African graduate students and early career professionals working in the areas of biodiversity, conservation and environmental sustainability in the Congo Basin …

Date: April 14 at 4 pm Place: Van Hise Room 114 You are invited to attend “The Forms of Naked Agency and Genital Cursing” by Prof. Naminata Diabate (Cornell University). This talk tracks the changing …

First drop-in advising for students interested in learning more about the FULBRIGHT US STUDENT PROGRAM opportunities kicks off in less than an hour! Connect between 11 am & 1 pm at https://go.wisc.edu/FUSPadvising – and learn …

The University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a one-year (with the possibility of renewal), full-time, appointment-stream (non-tenure-stream) postdoctoral fellowship centered on African Studies, beginning August 2022. Learn more…

Date: April 12, Van Hise 499 Join the African Cultural Studies Department for a workshop led by Prof. Naminata Diabate (Cornell University) on the looming limits of postcolonial criticism as an explanatory framework. Please note …

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program (FUSP) is designed to give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master’s and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience. Most grantees plan their own programs. …

We are thrilled to announce that Africa at Noon will be back in person on March 30th at 206 Ingraham Hall. Our first in-person guest speaker will be Tony Chafer, a Professor of African and …