Nigeria

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...

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.

Larry Hyman

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Linguistics: Phonology; Tonal Geometry; Bantu Languages; Comparative Bantu On-Line Dictionary (CBOLD)

Linus Unah: Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Wildlife and Conservation Journalist

April 17, 2024

A forest area in NigeriaThe 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 carries out for...

Charisma Acey

Associate Professor
City and Regional Planning

Pierre Biscaye

PhD Candidate
Agricultural & Resource Economics