USIP Peace Scholar Fellowship Awarded to Clinical Psychology Student

Written by Clinical Psychology PhD Student, Christine Kindler

Photo: Christine Kindler, founder of CARSA - Christophe Mbonyingabo, Dr. Ezer Kang

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

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.

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!

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. 

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.

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.

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.