Jean Bosco Nzeyimana from Rwanda participated in the 2015 Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Mandela Washington Fellowship, a program launched by President Obama five years ago. He is one of 500 young African leaders who spent the summer in the flagship fellowship program, and underwent six weeks of leadership training and a three-day summit in …
While Edward Powe’s interest in Africa and the tropical world dates back to his graduate studies, creative endeavors like the development of his NGO and promotion of a Zulu board game suggest his interest does not run dry. Hometown: Paterson, New Jersey Field of study: Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature (with specialization in Hausa …
US Department of Education has indicated that the Fulbright-Hays DDRA competition will open in January. This program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months. Projects deepen research knowledge on and help …
Course Description If pulling off a great prank is a challenge, then profiting from it is an art. Arabic literature, comics, films, and television love to showcase the challenge and the art itself—that’s the topic of African 300, on Arabic literary culture in translation. The course will work with sources ranging from the last Iraqi …
Course Description The dawn of the new millennium was marked by a historic, global resolve to “expand hope and opportunity for people around the world” – in particular, through global commitments to development and education. What is ‘development’, and how is ‘education’ imagined in relation to and shaped by development imperatives? How do we understand …
The Capital Times featured African Studies affiliate and Education Prof. Gloria Ladson-Billings after she was ranked fifth in a national list of top scholars to influence education policy and practice. According to the Cap Times, the Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings use “a scale that looks at widely cited publications as measured by Google Scholar, number …
The University of Minnesota African Studies Initiative (ASI) at the Institute for Global Studies (IGS) along with the Center for Advanced research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) are collaborating to offer $500 stipends for educators of African Languages (including Arabic and Portuguese) in order to attend a CARLA summer institute in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. …
African Studies Program is seeking an intern to help support our communications and outreach work. The internship will give on-the-ground experience in social media and to produce original content in consultation with our center’s leadership team. It would be a great position for a creative student processing strong writing skills and an active interest in …
Eight doctoral students, including African Studies students Marguerite Heckscher and Teresa Speciale, have received U.S. Department of Education grants through the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) program. According to UW–Madison News, the purpsoe of these grants is “to deepen knowledge of areas of the world not generally included in U.S. educational programs and to …
As the semester winds down and winter break approaches, holiday shopping is now in full swing. The National Retail Federation reported that more than 151 million people shopped over Black Friday weekend alone in the United States. Fortunately, there are a variety of unique ways to share interest in Africa this holiday season, namely through …