Congratulations Dr. Camara!

Please join us in Congratulating Dr. Mohamed Saliou Camara, Chair of the Department of African Studies, on being awarded the Grand Prix De La Francophonie for 2023. This award has been given annually since 1986 by Canada’s Académie Française, to an individual who contributes to the development of the French language throughout the world.  Congratulations Dr. Camara, this award is well deserved!

Dr. Saïs Kamalidiin and Music students travel to Senegal

In December 2022, Dr. Saïs Kamalidiin, Associate Professor of Music at Howard, led a group of Howard University musical artists and scholars from The Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts to Dakar, Senegal for a musical arts intensive featuring visits to all the centers of higher musical education located in Dakar, Senegal, with meetings with former Senegalese Minister of Culture, Youssou N'Dour and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Tomeka Reid. Ms.

Two of our HBCU-ACC students were featured by the Summit for Democracy

March 15, 2023 | Summit for Democracy

Prof Talton democratizing public access to archives in South Africa

Professor Ben Talton, Director of the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University was in Tshwane, South Africa in February meeting with colleagues from the National Library of South Africa, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, and the The Africa Institute.

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 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!

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.

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’.