| Center for African Studies

Muhammad Fraser Rahim, a graduate student in the African Studies Department at Howard University, has been accepted into the Truman National Security Project’s membership program.

We congratulate Ms. Brenda Randolph, Outreach Director at the Center for African Studies at Howard University and the Founder of Africa Access, for receiving the 2016 ASA Public Service Award!

The African Studies Association (ASA) Public Service Award honors those who have been long-standing contributors to the ASA’s mission and to African Studies, through non-academic contributions.

This project was a partnership between the Departments of African Studies and Afro American Studies, and was generously funded by the Center for African Studies at Howard University through the Academic Faculty Enhancement and Enrichment (AFEE) Program.

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By Zipporah McCoy, Ph.D. Student, Howard University

Check out this exciting blog "Onyx and Sand" by Ngozi Burrell, a Summer 2016 FLAS recipient. The blog is about her experience studying Arabic abroad in Amman, Jordan and traveling to Egypt.

You can view the blog in PDF format here.

Visiting Tanzania was an amazing experience. Not only was it a pleasure to learn Swahili in Africa but living five weeks with the natives speaking their language, eating their food, and learning their culture was a life changing experience. While there, I noticed many parallels with the US South culture. The way we speak to people in passing, community eating, and respect to elders is very similar to where I come from so it wasn't hard to adjust. The people live their lives with no worries and that's what I enjoyed the most. My host family was the best.

AUTHOR: Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa

In this video Lesego Malepe shares her experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.