Engaging with the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

The Center for African Studies at Howard University led events and initiatives with diverse perspectives and diaspora voices in the conversation on the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit which President Biden hosted on December 13-15, 2022 with leaders from across the African continent in Washington, DC.

Dr. Phiwokuhle Mnyandu appears on VOA Straight Talk Africa

On VOA Straight Talk Africa: Will South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa survive the "farmgate" corruption scandal? Plus, we discuss the state of human rights across Africa. Guests include said Tshamano Makhadi, a media and communications specialist, Phiwokuhle Mnyandu, lecturer of African Studies at Howard University, and Carine Kaneza Nantulya Africa, deputy director of the Human Rights Watch's Africa division.

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PRESS RELEASE - Center for African Studies Launches HBCU-Africa Correspondents Corps

December 10, 2022 - On the eve of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the Center for African Studies at Howard University is pleased to announce the launch of the Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU)-Africa Correspondents Corps.  HBCU students will be covering many events during the Summit, interviewing key stakeholders and leaders, and providing nuanced reporting on the pressing issues covered during the Summit. 

PRESS RELEASE - Center for African Studies Launches African Languages Translation Initiative

December 9, 2022 - On the eve of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the Center for African Studies at Howard University is pleased to announce the launch of the African Languages Translation Initiative (ALTI) and the release of translations of the U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa into Amharic, Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu.

PRESS RELEASE -- BPIA President congratulates delegation and appointments to the United Nations Permanent Forum for People of African Descent

Geneva, Switzerland -- On March 25, 2021, led by BPIA President Alexandria Maloney and BPIA member 

See Photos of HU at ASA

Howard represented at the 65th Annual African Studies Association (ASA) Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, November 17 - 19, 2022!

Courses in the Dept of African Studies in Spring 2023

View the list of courses in the Department of African Studies in Spring 2023 below. Register now.

Congratulations Professor Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali

We congratulate Professor Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali of the Department of History at Howard University, for receiving the award for Social and Human Sciences Research from the Angolan Minister of Culture and Arts this month.

This award was instituted by the Angolan government about 40 years ago, as to honor scholars and artists from four areas: Performative Arts, Literature, Plastic Arts, and Research and Essays in human and social sciences.

Call for Papers: Africana Studies-University of Maryland, Baltimore County (AFST-UMBC) Biennial International Conference

The Africana Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA, Announces its Second Biennial International Conference on “African Women, Civil Wars, and Peacebuilding,” to be held at the UMBC Main Campus, May 17-18, 2023.

See details about the conference and on submitting panel and individual paper proposals in this pdf.

Brenda Randolph Receives the Distinguished Africanist Award

We are honored to announce that Howard University’s Center for African Studies Outreach Director Brenda Randolph has been selected to receive the 2022 Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies Association (ASA). For the first time, the ASA expanded its selection criteria beyond those who hold Ph.D.s and who have written significant academic texts to acknowledge the exceptional value of scholarship often relegated to the margins as ‘service’.