Tag: Africa

  • Nation & World

    In new collecting model, former Liberian president Sirleaf’s papers come to Harvard Library

    Under an innovative agreement, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will place her personal archives with Harvard Library for at least 25 years, where they will be processed to be publicly discoverable and accessible.

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    President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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    How to liberate African art

    In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.

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    Ciraj Rassool and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong.
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    Was Facebook the original social network? Not by a long shot

    New research produces earliest DNA from Sub-Saharan Africa and a more complete look at ancient peoples.

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    Hora Rockshelter in Malawi,
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    Engineering change

    After graduating Harvard, Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 is off to study civil engineering at Stanford University, but first, she will squeeze in yet another experience in Africa.

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    Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21
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    Picking at the seams of Western hand-me-downs in Africa

    Joana Choumali, a Côte d’Ivoire-based artist noted for her work embroidering directly on photographs, has been named the Peabody’s 2020 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.

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    Embroidered photo of three people looking at cityscape and sunset across body of water.
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    Mental health in Africa amid pandemic

    As cases of coronavirus surge in Africa, the challenges experienced elsewhere are compounded by social factors and a shortage of caregivers.

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    Mask on the ground.
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    None if by sea

    Radcliffe fellow and former director of advocacy and communications for Doctors Without Borders helped rescue 77,000 Mediterranean immigrants over four years — until politicians shut down the operation.

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    MY Phoenix, a search and rescue ship and a Swedish coast guard ship rescue 450 people.
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    Straight to the heart of the story

    NPR reporter Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, who gave the Rama S. Mehta Lecture at the Radcliffe Institute, talked about seeking the untold narratives of African women.

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    Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Marco Werman (left)
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    A sense of direction for Africa

    The Kennedy School brought together three voices of leadership in Africa to talk about the continent’s past and future.

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    The human element: Remembering Calestous Juma

    : Calestous Juma, 64, who died Dec. 15 after a long illness, was a professor of the practice of international development at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project.

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    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Calestous Juma, 64
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    Zimbabwe after Mugabe

    Glen Mpani, a Harvard Kennedy School Mason Fellow, discusses the soft coup in Zimbabwe that has toppled dictator Robert Mugabe and explains what the shake-up could mean for the beleaguered nation.

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    Robert and Grace Mugabe
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    A transition for Transition

    Transition, a magazine published by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, has been published in Africa for the first time in nearly three decades.

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    From Swahili to Bemba to Twi

    With more than 25 languages offered each semester, the African Language Program at Harvard is the world’s foremost.

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    Real talk

    Playwright and director Ifeoma Fafunwa brings the hopes and challenges of Nigerian women to Harvard with “Hear Word!,” making its U.S. premiere at the Harvard Dance Center this weekend.

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    Coffee with a cause

    Kennedy School student Andy Agaba has created a startup that he hopes will translate coffee’s popularity into support for African farmers.

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    For growth, look to Africa

    African economies fared better than those in many regions during the global financial crisis and, despite the current slow worldwide growth, many firms there continue to grow more quickly than those in industrialized nations, according to the former president of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka.

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    The path to profits in Africa

    Africa’s richest man shared the story of how he transformed a company with four cement trucks into a continent-spanning conglomerate, during a session organized by the Harvard Center for African Studies.

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    Elkins receives named appointment at Center for African Studies

    Professor Caroline Elkins, founding director of the Center for African Studies, has been named the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.

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    Sequencing Ebola’s secrets

    A global team from Harvard University, the Broad Institute, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and other institutions sequenced more than 200 additional Ebola samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and changes over a long-term outbreak.

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    From chance meeting, a chance to save lives

    Harvard scientists have developed a new test for sickle cell disease that provides results in just 12 minutes and costs as little as 50 cents — far faster and cheaper than other tests.

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    Reality, fiction in Italy’s empire

    GSAS doctoral students create an exhibit to feature personal albums, photographs, postcards, and maps from Harvard’s rich trove of 20th-century propaganda related to Italy’s late participation in the colonial “scramble for Africa.”

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    Mandela’s legacy

    Harvard South Africa specialists discuss the legacy of Nelson Mandela and the future of the country he changed.

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    Citizen of the world

    In recent years, Harvard has been strengthening its presence around the world, supporting international research, offering study-abroad opportunities, and opening offices in India, China, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries.

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    Senegal as a starting point

    With a New England winter storm as an ironic counterpoint, a delegation of Senegalese officials arrived at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics Friday. In the lead was Macky…

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    The power of penguins

    A student spends an unforgettable summer working with African penguins.

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    Sound that travels

    Grad students discussed issues of appropriation and collaboration during “Africa Remix: Producing and Presenting African Musics Abroad” at the Barker Center.

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    Worldwide, women’s inequality

    A U.N. official said Thursday that the world has made progress in reducing poverty and in meeting some of its eight Millennium Development Goals, but that entrenched inequality of women will slow efforts to meet equality and maternal mortality targets by 2015.

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    More than words

    Nieman Foundation welcomes 24 new fellows, including some who tell their gripping stories using tools beyond words.

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    Cancer care comes to Rwanda

    Paul Farmer, chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and co-founder of Partners In Health, announced the opening of Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence, which will serve as the first national cancer referral facility in rural Rwanda.

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