Africa- general

Livia Alfonsi

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Gwyneth Miner

Economics

Abdoulaye Sy

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Gloria Kahamba: A Public Health Leader

November 25, 2024
By Paul de Morais

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
By Dr. David Kyeu, PhD

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.

https://africa.berkeley.edu/news/wara-west-coast-regional-conference-june-2024#P…

Tadiwa Madenga Joins Berkeley English: New Faculty Interview

August 26, 2024
Tadiwa Madenga is a scholar of African and Black diasporic literature, gender and sexuality, and print cultures. Her research is concerned with the relationship between literature and sexuality which she traces through 20th and 21st century African book fairs and their subgenres: keynotes, book stalls, magazines, poetry.
https://english.berkeley.edu/news/new-faculty-interview-tadiwa-madenga-joins-ber…

Via digitized slave ship logs, Rocca fellow, William Carter, examines race, power — and literacy

June 12, 2024
Jason Pohl

William Carter, Geography PhD student and Rocca PreDissertation Fellow, studies centuries-old slave ship logs whose text was scrawled in nearly indecipherable cursive. Carter, who has dyslexia, has those logs translated into digital text, which he can then listen to using screen reader tools. "We're reconstructing history here," William Carter said of his geography Ph.D. research and collaboration with UC Berkeley's Disabled Students' Program.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/06/12/with-newly-digitized-slave-ship-logs-berkel…