Tanzania

Crossley Pinkstaff

Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Justin Brashares

Professor
Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Sam Mchombo

Associate Professor
African American Studies

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,...

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

Carlos Mureithi: International Journalist Inspired by Climate Solutions

June 12, 2024

Portrait of Carlos MureithiCarlos Mureithi always loved writing. He wanted to become a professional writer so that he could tell important stories. In high school he regularly wrote letters to the editor of The Standard, one of Keyna’s largest newspapers, and he decided that he wanted to pursue journalism. After spending five years working at the Daily Nation in Kenya, Mureithi desired to...

Annelise Gill-Wiehl

Fellowship Recipient
Energy and Resources Program

Article on cookstove research in Tanzania.

ERG grad student Annelise Gill-Wiehl Challenges Cookstove Emission Research

January 23, 2024

Rocca and FLAS fellowship recipient, Annelise Gill-Wiehl’s conducts research on the affect of efficient cookstoves in Tanzania. Gill-Wiehl, Daniel Kammen, and Kathrine Lau’s findings share that these cookstoves are “overestimated” in their carbon saving credit. Other news media outlets such as the Financial Times have picked up this story revealing “flawed measures of emission”, click...