Featured series 
Tag: Africa
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Arts & Culture
Discoveries on a musical path
From Benin to Cuba to the Americas, Yosvany Terry sees how tradition safeguards culture and identity
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Nation & World
New, bigger humanitarian crisis in Darfur. But this time, no global outcry.
Regional specialists sound alarm, say displacement, starvation affect many more than two decades ago.
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Campus & Community
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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Nation & World
How planned major U.S. foreign aid cuts expected to shake out abroad — and at home
Former diplomats see unnecessary deaths, lost opportunities for American corporations, workers, and diminished geopolitical influence
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Nation & World
Danger ahead
Former national security official surveys hot spots in Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe — and how new president’s ideas are being received
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Campus & Community
A family at School when home is far away
Program has connected affiliates, new international students for more than 40 years
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Campus & Community
Seeing is believing
Personal and global history made Jeremy Weinstein want to change the world. As dean of the Kennedy School, he’s found the perfect place to do it.
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Nation & World
Lessons learned from being only man in class
Or how a gender-equality seminar sparked change for women in Côte d’Ivoire
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Science & Tech
Grappling with how clearings may support rainforest animal life
New research offers detailed overview of layout, makeup of canopy gaps in Congo
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Science & Tech
What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?
Giant impact had silver lining for life, according to new study
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Campus & Community
How a few Facebook posts brought heat on Ugandan professor
Sylvester Danson Kahyana, Congo activist Amani Matabaro Tom finish terms as Scholars at Risk
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Arts & Culture
Walking children through a garden of good and evil
Jamaica Kincaid’s new book presents history of colonialism, identity through plants that helped shape it
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Work & Economy
More money, empowerment — and less chance of domestic abuse
Study examines benefits for working women who help produce Rwandan specialty coffee
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Campus & Community
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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Nation & World
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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Science & Tech
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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Campus & Community
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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Arts & Culture
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Campus & Community
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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Nation & World
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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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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.