African Engagement

Tobias Warner became professor of French and Comparative Literature at UC Davis in 2012 after completing his PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley under the mentorship of Professor Karl Britto. At...Read more about Reflections on the "Golden Age" of Senegalese Studies at UC Berkeley with Tobias Warner, and a New Poem by Mariama Bâ

The Maghrib Studies Initiative, a joint venture of the Centers for African Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, aims to bring together faculty and students at Berkeley with an interest in North Africa. The initiative aims to...Read more about Maghrib Studies Initiative

Former Rocca fellow Bhavya Joshi's research focuses on the utilization and delivery of reproductive health services in Kakuma refugee camp.Read more about On the Ground with UC Berkeley Public Health's Bhavya Joshi in Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp

Christine Wilkinson is a conservation scientist specializing in carnivore and urban ecologies. They received their PhD at UC Berkeley and obtained funding for their dissertation research through Rocca fellowships...Read more about Rocca Fellow Christine Wilkinson: A Leader in "Fence Ecology"

Four gifted first-year students — Daniel Ekonde of Cameroon, James Mawien Manyuol of South Sudan, Victor Ochieng of Kenya and Jennifer Ugwa of Nigeria — are this year’s...Read more about Mastercard Foundation Scholars thrive at UC Berkeley Journalism

On December 3, 2024, students studying Swahili at the University of California, Berkeley, gathered at Swahili Spot Restaurant in Oakland for an immersive cultural and linguistic experience. The event featured a buffet of East African...Read more about All 5 Standards for Teaching Swahili as a Foreign Language Met at Swahili Spot Restaurant

Gloria Kahamba was recently named among the Top 25 Women in Management Africa and was featured in 9to5Chick’s Top 100 Career Women in Africa, which testifies to the leader she has become on the African continent. She was a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at UC Berkeley, earning her master’s...Read more about Gloria Kahamba: A Public Health Leader

The LL.M. Program shares profiles of the first three LL.M. Mastercard Foundation Scholars at UC Berkeley: Hudheifa Aden from Kenya with ties to Somalia, Agbor Tabe from Cameroon, and Getachew Gayzibayso from Ethiopia.Read more about LL.M. Program Profiles First Three Mastercard Foundation Scholars From Africa

Carlos Mureithi always loved writing. He wanted to become a professional writer so that he could tell important stories. In high school he regularly wrote letters to the editor of The Standard, one of Keyna’s largest newspapers, and he decided that he wanted to pursue journalism. After spending...Read more about Carlos Mureithi: International Journalist Inspired by Climate Solutions

Nicholas Newman (MPP, 2024) conducted field research in the Pita and Labé prefectures of the Fouta Djallon in Guinea in partnership with a large rural farmer’s union. The stories shared by farmers made clear the importance of the relationship between land, debt, and social reproduction.Read more about BPPJ Article: Guinea: Where land and debt collide

The first time I scheduled a meeting with Linus Unah, a UC Berkeley alumnus with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, the meeting had to be rescheduled as Unah raced off to lead a small crew in filming the rescue of a manatee about to be sold. Such is the exciting work that Unah now...Read more about Linus Unah: Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Wildlife and Conservation Journalist

Ravina and Rushika Pattni are two exceptional women making a difference in Tanzania and beyond on the African continent. Ravina earned her bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar, majoring in Development Studies and Economics. Although she then obtained a...Read more about Ravina and Rushika Pattni: The Powerhouse Sister Duo in Tanzania

Julia Schaletzky is executive director of the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Drug Discovery Center, at UC Berkeley, which co-founded the Alliance of Global Health and Science several years ago to integrate...Read more about Julia Schaletzky Advances Biomedical Entrepreneurship in Uganda with Mastercard Foundation Faculty Grant

The UC Berkeley Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program supported this collaboration by UC Berkeley & University of Nairobi Collaboration on a six-week “Virtual Global Innovation Workshop” on biomedical equipment design for low-resource settings through a...Read more about UC Berkeley and University of Nairobi collaborate on biomedical equipment design for low-resource settings

Via a collaboration with the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and Ashesi University in Ghana, the Center for African Studies via the Mastercard Foundation...Read more about Collaboration brings 5 Ashesi University students to UCB

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

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Ivy Mills (Ph.D African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley) will offer a new course, History of Art 192M Urban Africa, in...Read more about Urban Africa - New Course Fall 2017