South Africa

Meron Semedar

Student Services Advisor, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Center for African Studies

Ivor Emmanuel

Director
Berkeley International Office

Andrew WooyoungKim

Assisstant Professor
Biological Anthropology

Gillian Hart

Professor Emeritus
Geography

Wayne Getz

Emeritus A. Starker Leopold Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Emeritus Chancellor's Professor, Professor in the Graduate Division
Environmental Science, Policy and Management

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...

Study Abroad

UC Berkeley Summer Abroad offers a summer program in Ghana "Pan Afrikan Social Movements: Past, Present and Future." Through the University of California Education Abroad Program, there are options in Botswana, Ghana, Morocco and South Africa.

Financial assistance is available. Visit the...

Pranav Kuttaiah

PhD Student
City & Regional Planning

Machiko Tsubura

Research Fellow
Center for African Studies

Machiko Tsubura is a Research Fellow in the African Studies Group of the Area Studies Center at the Institute of Developing Economies in Japan. Her research interests lie in electoral and party politics, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on Tanzania. Her current research themes are: 1) presidential nomination and management of factionalism in dominant parties in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania in comparative perspective; and 2) the influence of socialism on contemporary Tanzanian politics by employing the political settlement approach.