Tag: Kenya

  • Nation & World

    Advice to students: Learn from diversity

    Broaden your worldview by engaging with diversity in the widest sense, Ali Asani counsels.

    7 minutes
    Ali Asani.
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    Treating children for worms yields long-term health, economic gains, study says

    A 20-year study of Kenyan schoolchildren who receive sustained treatment against common parasitic infections grow up to achieve a higher standard of living, with long-lasting health and economic benefits that extend to their communities.

    7 minutes
    Giving a child medicine.
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    East Africa facing massive swarms of locusts

    Researcher looks to sequence the pest’s genome as part of push to find a safer alternative to dangerous pesticides

    12 minutes
    Locusts filling the sky.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Mask on the ground.
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    Fighting for humane mental health treatment

    Faraaz Mahomed, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is working to protect the rights of those using mental health systems throughout the world.

    5 minutes
    Faraaz Mahomed in an office
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    A world of potential

    Harvard faculty members have traveled the world lately, making exploratory trips that will enable students’ own global adventures in the years to come.

    3 minutes
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    Killings in Nairobi hit home

    Elif Yavuz, a recent graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, was among dozens of people killed when the Somalia-based Shabab militant group took over a mall in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

    4 minutes
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    Grad students make impact

    A sample of how Harvard graduate students from the Law School, Kennedy School, Business School, and the School of Public Health used the tools they sharpened at Harvard to help build a better world.

    2 minutes
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    Reflections on justice delayed

    Harvard History Professor Caroline Elkins discusses last week’s $30 million settlement in the long-running Mau Mau case, in which the British government apologized for colonial-era atrocities during Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion.

    7 minutes
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    A vision of education for Kenya

    Anne Bholene Akinyi Odera-Awuor, who is getting a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has grand plans to improve how schools operate in her homeland.

    3 minutes
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    Justice by committee

    A research team made up of current and former Harvard students played a key role in the British trial centered on government atrocities during Kenya’s Mau Mau insurrection, lending support to an October court ruling that clears the way for the case to go to trial.

    6 minutes
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    The psychology of poverty

    A fellow in a new joint Harvard-MIT fellowship program in economics, history, and politics opens a lab in Kenya to illuminate the economic decision-making of those studied least by economists: the poor.

    4 minutes
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    Willing a way to clean water

    Kennedy School Fellow Daniele Lantagne is using her engineering background to expand on a program, partially developed by Professor Michael Kremer, to provide clean water to communities in rural areas. The soluti

    5 minutes
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    In the end, Somali famine preventable

    Despite historical links to natural disasters, the modern world’s global food web means that famines today are created more by man than by nature. Officials say a famine just ending in Somalia was caused by a failure of international early warning systems and the local Al-Shabaab militia blocking food aid.

    5 minutes
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    Putting history on trial

    Historians can prove useful in a courtroom, a case involving Kenyan abuse reveals, and they can learn a lot too.

    5 minutes
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    Mau Mau at peace

    With a lawsuit against the British making its way through the courts, elderly Kenyan fighters share tales of battling the colonial regime.

    5 minutes
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    Strong evidence

    The work of a Harvard history professor has bolstered the case of a group of elderly Kenyans who are seeking reparations from the British government for rape, castration, beatings, and other abuses that they say occurred during colonial-era efforts to suppress Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising.

    6 minutes
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    Expanding student learning abroad

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced grants to six faculty members who are designing new international experiences for undergraduates, from new summer school programs in Kenya to studies in global health to other programs in Italy, Argentina, and Germany.

    8 minutes
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    The first draft of history

    A doctoral student recounts her overseas summer internship researching Kenya’s colonial history for a new exhibit.

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    Documenting a colonial past

    A Harvard doctoral student and two recent graduates worked in Kenya this summer with Harvard history professor Caroline Elkins to lay the foundation for a collaboration with Kenyan scholars to record the African nation’s experience gaining independence from Britain.

    4 minutes
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    In praise of unwanted termites

    The star of Africa’s savanna ecosystems may be the lowly insect. Its regularly spaced mounds prove a key to maintaining ecological function in the area.

    4 minutes
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    From lab trash to treasure

    Surplus and waste laboratory equipment from Harvard is finding new life in labs overseas through two student groups and a nonprofit started by a former Harvard graduate student.

    4 minutes
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    Out of Africa

    Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.

    4 minutes
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    Hard look at harsh times

    History professor Caroline Elkins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book outlining British colonial abuses during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising, is working to build ties with Kenyan institutions.

    4 minutes
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    Odinga optimistic about Africa’s democratic future

    Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga expresses optimism about Kenya’s democratic future.

    4 minutes
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    Preacher Siwo-Okundi attends to the ‘small voice’

    Why do people suffer from the sins of others? Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi has long pondered this question as she has studied some of the most ambiguous and troubling passages in the Bible. A master’s of theology student at Harvard Divinity School, Siwo-Okundi has never shied away from difficult issues. Even while studying Old Testament stories…

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