Africa Travel Experiences

Black Girl 44 Scholarship

Deadline: May 1, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Scholarship Opportunity

Alumni Highlights: Interview with Darryl L. Jones II

We interviewed our alumnus, Darryl L. Jones II, regarding his Ph.D.

Category: News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Alumni Highlights

Postdoctoral Fellow-China Africa Research Initiative

Deadline: March 31, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity

Recordings of 2020 Virtual ASA Teachers' Workshop

The recordings from the 2020 Virtual African Studies Association Teachers' Workshop are now published. The session "

Category: Announcement, News

Recording of Symposium: Re-Shaping a New US-Africa Policy and the Role of HBCUs

Our Symposium was attended live by 531 individuals on Zoom and YouTube. Did you miss it?

Category: Announcement, News

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships

Deadline: April 5, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity

Rotary Peace Fellowships

Deadline: May 15, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity

CAORC Fully-Funded Overseas Faculty Development Seminar

Deadline: August 30, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities

Congressional Black Caucus Scholarships Available

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity, Scholarship Opportunity, Internship Opportunity

FLAS-Eligible Intensive Summer Multilanguage Seminar at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Deadline: April 1, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities

ASA lecture by Bob Edgar

The 2020 African Studies Review (ASR) Distinguished Lecture with Bob Edgar, Professor Emeritus of Howard University,

Category: Announcement, News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Faculty Highlights

Black Girl 44 Scholarship

Deadline: May 1, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Scholarship Opportunity

Alumni Highlights: Interview with Darryl L. Jones II

We interviewed our alumnus, Darryl L. Jones II, regarding his Ph.D.

Category: News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Alumni Highlights

Postdoctoral Fellow-China Africa Research Initiative

Deadline: March 31, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity

Recordings of 2020 Virtual ASA Teachers' Workshop

The recordings from the 2020 Virtual African Studies Association Teachers' Workshop are now published. The session "

Category: Announcement, News

Recording of Symposium: Re-Shaping a New US-Africa Policy and the Role of HBCUs

Our Symposium was attended live by 531 individuals on Zoom and YouTube. Did you miss it?

Category: Announcement, News

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships

Deadline: April 5, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity

Rotary Peace Fellowships

Deadline: May 15, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity

CAORC Fully-Funded Overseas Faculty Development Seminar

Deadline: August 30, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities

Congressional Black Caucus Scholarships Available

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities, Fellowship Opportunity, Scholarship Opportunity, Internship Opportunity

FLAS-Eligible Intensive Summer Multilanguage Seminar at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Deadline: April 1, 2021

Category: Announcement, Opportunities

ASA lecture by Bob Edgar

The 2020 African Studies Review (ASR) Distinguished Lecture with Bob Edgar, Professor Emeritus of Howard University,

Category: Announcement, News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Faculty Highlights

Krista Johnson awarded a CADFP Fellowship

Krista Johnson, Director at the Center for African Studies (CfAS), Howard University, and Professor

Category: Announcement, News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Faculty Highlights, Achievement

$1 Million Gift to Launch the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership

We congratulate Dr.

Category: News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Faculty Highlights

Student’s Corner: Learning Somali 

by Demetria Mack, Undergraduate Student

Category: News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Student Highlights

Howard at 63rd ASA

This year, at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Howard University has a strong repres

Category: Announcement, News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Alumni Highlights, Faculty Highlights, Student Highlights, Achievement

CfAS celebrates International Education Week

International Education Week (November 16-20, 2020) is a national week of the U.S.

Category: Announcement, News, Study Abroad

Welcome to Maryan Ali, our new Somali Instructor

A Word from Professor Maryan Ali

Category: Announcement, News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Faculty Highlights

New CfAS Director speaks on SABC News prior to the US Vice Presidential Debate

To preview the Vice Presidential debate in the US, we are joined by SABC's Sherwin Bryce-Pease in New York, Nick Harp

Category: Announcement, News

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Category: Journal

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Category: Journal

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Category: Journal

NBC Nightly News highlights Dr. Edgar and Leteane Monatsi's Popup Protests

NBC Nightly News highlights Dr.

Category: Announcement, News, Alumni-Faculty-Student Highlights, Faculty Highlights

ASA News highlights CABA, awards for authors and illustrators of the best children’s books on Africa

ASA News highlights the work of Brenda Randolph and Vanessa Ouygi of Howard's Center for African studies, regarding C

Category: Announcement, News

Finding the Musical Connections between West Africa and Latin America

BY Verny Varela IIn this essay, Verny Varela, a Spanish instructor at Howard University and a 2

Category: Blog, CAORC

Glossary of Terms: A to Z listing from The Ground on Which I Stand

Category: LibGuide

The Ground on Which I Stand: Eric Gardner: Chocked to Death by NYPD Police

Category: LibGuide

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It has been sixty years since the African Studies Graduate Program at Howard University was initiated.

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #5. Edu. and Work/1931

Abstract: Focus of Lecture #5 The eloquence of the spoken word and the devotion to writing—the art of l

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #4.Diuturni Silenti/1924

Abstract: Focus of Chpter 4 & Lecture 4. 2013 Common Text author Wole Soyinka argues t

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #3.College-bred Community/1910

Abstract; Focus of Lecture 3. Forced separation from our ancestral homelands due to enslav

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #2. Galileo Galilei/1908

Abstract: Focus of Lecture #2, Omuluabi: Self Actualization and Communal Responsibility. S

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: #1.The Hampton Idea/1906

Abstract/Focus on Lecture #1 Transformative learning experiences involve more than acquiri

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Ideal Negro College

On What A Negro College Should Be: Excerpted from The Field and Function of the Negro College

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: Syllabus: Freshman Seminar 2014

Category: LibGuide

The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: Conducting Research

Freshmen Seminar 2014 Group Projects Resource Data

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The Education of Black People by W.E.B DuBois: Introduction

Category: LibGuide

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Category: LibGuide

Our former Amharic/Arabic FLAS fellow, Sara Swetzoff, is awarded a 2020-2021 Fulbright Research Fellowship

Our former Amharic/Arabic FLAS fellow, Sara Swetzoff, has been awarded a 2020-2021 Fulbright Research Fellowship.

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

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Category: LibGuide

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Biography Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Calif

Category: LibGuide

Experiences of One-Week Residency Faculty

Coming Soon.

Category: One-Week Residency

Trans-Atlantic Memories: Senegal’s Hip-Hop Griots and the Black Radical Tradition

By Kimberly Monroe In this essay, Kimberly Monroe, assistant professor of global affairs at Tri

Category: CAORC, Africa Travel Experiences

Dr. Krista Johnson receives a UMBC Inclusion Imperative Fellowship

Dr.

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

Senegal’s Diversity Is Its Way of Life—and Its Future

By Hoa Nguyen In this essay, Hoa Nguyen, professor of economics at Montgomery College in Maryla

Category: Africa Travel Experiences, CAORC

Children’s Africana Book Awards announces the 28th Annual Winners!

The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best childre

Category: Announcement, News, CABA

Dr. Bond Featured as Panelist for Virtual Panel on Education During Emergencies

Category: Announcement, News

Annual International Women's Day Celebration

The Annual International Women's Day at Howard is funded in part by the Academic Faculty Enhancement and Enrichme

Category: Blog, AFEE

Mary Kamau on the Swahili Summer Abroad Program

See a video of student, Mary Kamau, sharing her experiences from the Howard University Swahili Summer Abroad (HUSSA)

Category: FLAS, Study Abroad, Africa Travel Experiences

BBC covers Howard University's Summer 2019 Yoruba Group Project Abroad

BBC News Yoruba features American college students who participated in the Howard University

Category: Announcement, News

Congratulations to HU Zulu Students!

"Fifteen Howard University students have been selected for the Summer 2019 Fulbright-Hays Zulu Group Project

Category: Announcement, News

Pluralities of Faith: Experiencing the Distinctive Islam of West Africa

By Sobia Saleem In this essay, Sobia Saleem, a 2019 participant in CA

Category: CAORC, Africa Travel Experiences

Broadcast Journalism Professor Jennifer Thomas To Be Key Speaker For The 2019 World Press Freedom Week In Lagos, Nigeria

"Jennifer Thomas, assistant professor of Media, Journalism and Film in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications, has

Category: Announcement, News

The Nankama African Dance Conference 2019

Project Director: Dr. Ofosuwa M. Abiola, Department of Theatre Arts

Category: AFEE

Book Release! Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies

Congratulations to Dr. Esther Lisanza and Dr.

Category: Announcement, News, Book Release

Book Release! Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism

Congratulations to Dr. Msia Clark, Dr. Phiwo Mnyandu and Dr.

Category: Announcement, News, Book Release

The World We Don’t Know—Reflections on the Importance of Global Education

By Ellen Olmstead and Cinder Cooper Barnes In this essay, Ellen Olmstead and Cinder Cooper Barn

Category: CAORC, Africa Travel Experiences

In Memory of Prof. Sulayman Nyang

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang.

Experiences from the Amharic Study Abroad Program

FLAS Fellows share their experiences from Ethiopia during the Amharic Study Abroad Program of Summer 2018.

Category: FLAS, Study Abroad, Africa Travel Experiences

The Cathy Hughes School of Communications and partners provide books to University in Uganda

"WASHINGTON - (July, 30, 2018) – Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications has partn

Category: Announcement, News

Race, Gender, and Power: Encountering the Signares of Senegal

By Cinder Cooper Barnes In this essay, Cinder Cooper Barnes, Professor of English at Montgomery

Category: Africa Travel Experiences, CAORC

Center for African Studies Secures Second Cycle of Grant Funding from U.S. Department of Education

"WASHINGTON (September 17, 2018) – The Howard University Center for African Studies (CfAS) recently

Category: Announcement, News

Listen to Dr. Msia Clark's interview on Hip Hop in Africa

Dr.

Category: Announcement, News

Introducing a new radio show, Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience on WOWD 94.3 fm

Introducing a new radio show, Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience on WOWD 94.3 fm fromT

Category: Announcement, News

Congratulations to Gessie Belizaire!

Congratulations to Gessie Belizaire! Ms. Belizaire, a M.A.

Category: Announcement, News, Book Release

Congratulations to Bathsheba Bryant-Tarpeh!

The Center for African Studies would like to congratulate a recent PhD graduate from the African Studies Department a

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

TED Talk Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu

Our own 2011 PhD graduate, Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, from the African Studies Dept. at HU presents her own TED Talk.

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

Dr. Beverly Booker Ammah is the newest AFEE grant recipient!

Category: Announcement, News

The Chair of the Dept. of African Studies interviews on Voice of America.

Dr.

Category: Announcement, News

The podcast for African Hip Hop

The blog, Africa is a Country, leading intellectual voices in the African online media sphere, did an articl

Category: Announcement, News

Shaka Zulu Documentary

Dr.

Category: Announcement, News

Marshall Plan for the Reconstruction of the DRC

On March 2, 2017, "Howard University, in the capital of the US, organized a day of reflection on the situation in the

Category: Announcement, News

Congratulations Jevon Bryd!

Jevon Bryd, a Howard Masters level student of African Studies, has been granted the Royal Air Maroc scholarship in or

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

Congratulations to Muhammad Fraser Rahim!

Muhammad Fraser Rahim, a graduate student in the African Studies Department at Howard University, has been accepted i

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

Ms. Brenda Randolph receives the 2016 ASA Public Service Award

We congratulate Ms.

Category: Announcement, News, Achievement

Panel Discussion on Black Activism in the US and South Africa

This project was a partnership between the Departments of African Studies and Afro American Studies, and was gene

Category: AFEE

Zipporah McCoy's FLAS Fellowship Journey

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

Category: FLAS

Ngozi's Jordan Blog

Check out this exciting blog "Onyx and Sand" by Ngozi Burrell

Category: Africa Travel Experiences, FLAS, Study Abroad

Kimberly Monroe's FLAS Fellowship in Tanzania

Visiting Tanzania was an amazing experience.

Category: Africa Travel Experiences, FLAS, Study Abroad

Book Release: Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa

About the Book: This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa’s indigenous languages

Category: Announcement, News, Book Release

Lesego's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

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

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Bonita and Hassan's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Bonita and Hassan Adeeb share their experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Heidi's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Heidi Marohn shares her experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Janet's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Janet Martin shares her experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

James's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video James Hargraves shares his experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Liane's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Liane Rosenblatt shares her experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Eshe's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Eshe Armah shares her experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Dodah's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Dodah Yirusha shares her experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators

Taneka and Laura's 2015 CfAS Summer Institute Experience

In this video Taneka Parascandolo and Laura Honig share their experience about the 2015 CfAS Summer Institute.

Category: Summer Institute for Educators