Abiol Lual Deng serves as the Communication and Policy Specialist for the Center for African Studies and the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at UC Berkeley. In this capacity, she spearheads digital strategy and dynamic storytelling initiatives designed to elevate the Center’s profile as a premier hub for African Affairs in the Bay Area and beyond, as well as showcase the achievements of the Scholars.
With over 15 years of experience in global public policy across Africa, Europe, and North America, Ms. Deng offers a unique, multicultural, and multilingual perspective on the...
Professor Hall's research is focused on the intellectual and social history of a region of West Africa called the Sahel, which straddles the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. It encompasses the modern countries of Mauritania, Mali and Niger. Most of the research that he has carried out has been based in and around the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, in a sub-region of the Sahel called the Niger Bend. He has worked in Timbuktu because it is the site of remarkable collections of written sources in Arabic from across the Sahel and further a field in the Muslim world. His work is located...
