Africa- general

Allan Cabrero

Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Livia Alfonsi

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Abdoulaye Sy

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Gloria Kahamba: A Public Health Leader

November 25, 2024

Portrait of Gloria KahambaGloria 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 degree in Public Health.

Gloria has always been passionate about healthcare, and...

All 5 Standards for Teaching Swahili as a Foreign Language Met at Swahili Spot Restaurant

December 4, 2024

Students learning Swahili at Swahili Spot Restaurant.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 delicacies,...

CAS Fellowship Award Highlights of 2024

October 25, 2024
Undergraduate Fellowships

Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in African Studies
David Villani, History. Les Rouges et les Noirs: French Communism, African Nationalism, and the Creation of Post-War Anti-Colonialism. Honorable Mentions Haikun Liu, Economics. Altruism of Aid: Analysis of Canadian Official Development Assistance (ODA) into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nanaama Awotwe...

Jin Xiao

CAS Visiting Scholar
Center for African Studies

Zhejiang Normal University, Host of The National Social Science Fund of China Project on China African Cooperation 2021-2024, China Agricultural University

WARA West Coast Regional Conference Paper Prize Winners

August 28, 2024

Dinah Lawan (UC Berkeley) and Mathew Ayodele (Stanford) win the top two paper prizes for the 2024 West Coast Regional Conference competition.