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African Tea Traditions Event Series

Hector

About the Webinar

This Children's Africana Book Award Webinar, part of the Global Read Webinar Series, took place on February 3, 2021 with a presentation by Adrienne Wright, author of Hector.

The webinar was moderated by Brenda Randolph.

African Language Summer Institute

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

African Language Lab

ASA lecture by Bob Edgar

The 2020 African Studies Review (ASR) Distinguished Lecture with Bob Edgar, Professor Emeritus of Howard University, is now available to view on YouTube. His talk is entitled African Voices Matter: Reflections on Fifty Years of Historical Research in Southern Africa was presented at the 63rd African Studies Association Meeting.

Krista Johnson awarded a CADFP Fellowship

Krista Johnson, Director at the Center for African Studies (CfAS), Howard University, and Professor Ade Adebajo at the University of Johannesburg were recently awarded a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship for the upcoming year. As a CADFP Fellow, Dr.

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

We congratulate Dr. Dawuni on the $1 Million Gift to Launch the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership

Student’s Corner: Learning Somali 

by Demetria Mack, Undergraduate Student

If I could choose one word to describe my semester in Somali 001 it would be worthwhile. I was considering which foreign language I wanted to take for this semester and I told myself I could take a language that was common (ex: Spanish., French, etc. ). However, I wanted to give myself a challenge and learn a language that was not very common and comes from an African country.