Kenya

Understanding the Horn of Africa

Introduction

From 2005 to 2013, the Center for African Studies undertook two projects, Understanding Sudan and Understanding the Horn of Africa, to provide university-level curriculum addressing issues affecting countries in the Horn of Africa: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. The United States Department of Education provided funding through the Title VI...

Andrew Wojtanik

Political Science

Grady Killeen

PhD Student
Economics

Tamara Kerzhner

PhD Candidate
City & Regional Planning

Dan Miswa Basil

PhD Student
Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Gwyneth Miner

Economics

Ezera Research for African Students

Application Instructions and Forms (link)

ONLY UC BERKELEY PH.D. STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE

Emeka Kalu Ezera, Graduate Student Instructor and doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, was killed tragically, July 12, 1990 in an automobile accident while traveling in Nigeria.

Born on April 30, 1959, Emeka was the first of four sons of Professor Kalu and Mrs.Onuma Ezera, who came...

James Bartolome

Professor
Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Elizabeth Burns Dyer

Center for African Studies

Dr. Dyer specializes in African history, performing arts and theater history. She received her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. During her research on the political history of theater in Kenya, she collaborated with a number of Kenyan playwrights and theater groups. Her work offers new insights into the role of theatrical productions as political critique.

Sahara Farah Abdi

Fellowship Recipient, Alumna
Mathematics