Congratulations to Christine Kindler for Peace Scholar Fellowship

Congratulations to Christine Kindler who has been awarded a Peace Scholar Fellowship from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) for her outstanding dissertation “Peace Conversation Circles: Promoting Agonistic Historical Dialogue in Post-Genocide Rwanda.” We also congratulate Professor Ezer Kang as advisor and affiliate faculty of the Center for African Studies.

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Cosmos Scholars Research Grants

Deadline: November 1, 2022

The Cosmos Club Foundation is pleased to be again offering research grants to graduate students at area universities. 

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CfAS Awarded nearly $3M Grant!

The Center for African Studies at Howard University has been awarded National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grants from the United States Department of Education.  The Center will received nearly $3 million for the 2022-26 grant cycle to support Africa-focused programming, education and outreach, as well as African language instruction.

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Global Acceptance Of Yoruba Language

Howard University's Fulbright-Hays Intensive Advanced Yoruba Group Project Abroad is currently taking place in Nigeria, now in its second week.

"On Thursday, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof Kayode O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, said it gives him the delight to know that the Yoruba language is being spoken globally. This he said, gives the native speakers hope that the language will not die.

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Book Release: The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship

EDITORS: Oluwaseun Kolade, Ph.D., David Rae, Ph.D., Demola Obembe, Ph.D., Kassa Woldesenbet Beta, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship

Released in 2022

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Women's Empowerment Course: Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy

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