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About the Webinar

This Children's Africana Book Award Webinar, part of the Global Read Webinar Series, took place on February 15, 2019 with a presentation by Arushi Raina, author of When Morning Comes.

AUTHORS: Esther Lisanza, Ph.D. and Leonard Muaka, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies

Congratulations to Dr. Esther Lisanza and Dr. Leonard Muaka on the release of their book, Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies.

The book can be purchased here: www.amazon.com/Language-Contemporary-African-Cultures-Societies/dp/1498572278

AUTHORS: Msia Clark, Ph.D., Phiwo Mnyandu, Ph.D. and Loy Azalia, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism

Congratulations to Dr. Msia Clark, Dr. Phiwo Mnyandu and Dr. Loy Azalia on the release of their book, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism.

Book on Amazon

By Ellen Olmstead and Cinder Cooper Barnes

In this essay, Ellen Olmstead and Cinder Cooper Barnes, both professors of English at Montgomery College and participants in the 2017 CAORC-WARC Faculty Development Seminar to Senegal, discuss the lasting impacts of their West African experience and the importance of providing study abroad opportunities to community college faculty and students.

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang. We have lost a colleague, a friend, a brother, a mentor.

Dr. Nyang was a internationally-respected diplomat, scholar, teacher, and community leader. Below please read more about his life in a letter from Howard University's Board of Trustees to his wife.

November 14, 2018

Dear Ms. Mbachu:

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

See more photos from the Amharic Study Abroad Program Summer 2018 in Ethiopia on Flickr.

"WASHINGTON - (July, 30, 2018) – Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications has partnered with The Aspen Institute and The International Communication Association (ICA) to provide a collection of academic-oriented books and professional works to Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) in Kampala, Uganda. The collection of literature concentrates on communication studies to social sciences and will help in the development of their new communications department, the Institute of Languages and Communication Studies, and the university library..."