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November 16, 2021

Martha Saavedra Wins 2021 African Studies Association Outstanding Service Award

September 30, 2021

Anticolonialism as Theory Symposium

The inaugural event for the Association of Postcolonial Thought, this symposium brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary body of scholars, drawing from anticolonial solidarities and epistemologies of decolonization, to build a transformative vision of postcolonial studies today. The event is free and open to the public, and no advance registration is required.

Anticolonialism as Theory Symposium

June 28, 2021

West Coast Regional Conference on West Africa 2021

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Monday and Tuesday, June 28-29, 2021
Virtual on Zoom

February 22, 2019

Daily Cal

UC Berkeley needs to support African language programs: Daily Cal Op Ed

Every semester, UC Berkeley offers many new courses. The Amharic language course offered this spring is especially noteworthy. Except for a brief pilot program in 2006, this is the first semester students are able to take a course in Amharic, one of the languages of Ethiopia, which is spoken by nearly 26 million people worldwide. The course, which only opened for enrollment the week before the spring semester, was nearly full by the end of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, just before classes started.

March 1, 2018

Why Africa Matters to U.S. National Security - An Evening with Grant Harris

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January 30, 2018

African Aesthetics - New Course Spring 2018

Ivy Mills offers a new course on African Aesthetics in the History of Art (190M) in Spring 2018.

African Aesthetics Course Flyer

December 5, 2017

ORIAS Speakers Bureau Features the Archaeology of the Swahili Coast

Picture of the Friday Mosque, Kilwa

November 16, 2017

Science and Storytelling in Gorongosa National Park

Kaitlyn Gaynor, ESPM PhD Student was a Rocca Dissertation Fellow in 2016.

My dissertation research, supported by the CAS Rocca fellowship, examines the interactions between people and wildlife in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. After decades of war, Gorongosa’s human and animal populations are recovering and rediscovering how to coexist in a changing landscape. My goal is to use science to inform management solutions for an ongoing restoration project in Gorongosa that promotes conservation and human development in the region.

October 27, 2017

MCF Scholar Facilitates Architecture Exchange with University of Khartoum

Logman Arja sent us the following report after his September 2017 trip with Associate Professor Ronald Rael to Sudan.

June 27, 2017

Urban Africa - New Course Fall 2017

Ivy Mills (Ph.D African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley) will offer a new course, History of Art 192M Urban Africa, in the fall of 2017.

February 22, 2017

Situated Brainstorming: Field Site Scoping in East Africa

Christine Wilkinson with an eagle

July 28, 2016

GSPP Washington Mandela Fellows

The Goldman School of Public Policy and UC Berkeley welcomes the Young African Leaders Initiative Washington Fellows for six weeks of intensive study on civic leadership.