Dr. Mnyandu on BBC Newsday on China-South Africa Relations

Listen to Dr. Phiwokuhle Mnyandu of Howard University on BBC Newsday on China's Relationship with South Africa. Forward to 36 min 55 sec. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172yf8rg5db4wh

Apply for Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program

Deadline: November 15, 2022

The application for the U. S. Department of State’s 2023 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is now open!

Thank you for joining us at the Open House!

Thank you for joining us at the Center for African Studies Open House yesterday, Tuesday, October 11!

The director of the Center, Dr. Krista Johnson shared opportunities such as language fellowships for students and faculty grants and our new Affiliated Faculty program. Dr. Phiwokuhle Mnyandu's Zulu class turned choir performed and many HU students and faculty make connections with others interested in all things Africa-related.

We hope that you will join us for our events through out the year and take advantage of opportunities at the Center.

Affiliated Faculty

Thank you for joining our Book Talk with Paul Landau

Thank you for joining us on September 27 at our in-person Book Talk, a part of the Palaver Series, with author Paul S. Landau about his latest book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Our discussant was DaQuan Lawrence, African Studies graduate student and human rights activist.

This event was co-sponsored by Howard University Center for African Studies, the Department of African Studies and the Department of History.

Saluting the HBCU-UNDP Africa 2022 International Distance Learning Initiative (IDLI) institutions

Saluting the HBCU-UNDP Africa 2022 International Distance Learning Initiative (IDLI) institutions and campus administrators!

Biden Meets With South Africa’s President For The First Time In Eight Years

September 19, 2022 | DaQuan Lawrence (The Hilltop)

Biden and Ramaphosa Need to Confront Transnational Security Concerns

AUTHORS: Michael Walsh and Dr. Phiwokuhle Mnyandu
ARTICLE TITLE: Biden and Ramaphosa Need to Confront Transnational Security Concerns
PUBLISHED IN: cfr.org (Council on Foreign Relations) Sept 15 2022

Reflections from Swahili Study Abroad Program 2022

Written by Interdisciplinary Studies/International Affairs student, Alexa Baker

Congratulations to Tiffany Thames Copeland for the Fulbright Scholar Grant!

Tiffany Thames Copeland, PhD, a Howard University alumna, was recently awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant. The Fulbright grant is a prestigious award offered by the United States Department of State. The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship board members--appointed by the President of the United States--selected Dr. Copeland as a grant recipient.