Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and leading intellectual property (IP) law scholar, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS).

“I am delighted that Ruth Okediji has agreed to serve as the next director of the Center for African Studies,” said University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Alan M. Garber. “Ruth is an exemplary scholar, teacher, and mentor. Her intellectual leadership and extensive experience working with inter-governmental organizations as well as national and...

The Harvard University Center for African Studies (CAS) Africa Office conducted and successfully concluded its first Early Childhood Development (ECD) Management and Compliance Workshop on September 19-20, 2022. Over the two days, principals of 16 ECD centres from Kanana, Tembisa, in Gauteng convened at the Africa Office in Johannesburg for a workshop hosted in close collaboration with The Pink Forum. The goal of the workshop was to equip the...

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Harvard Center for African Studies, have announced the 2022 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa.

The Motsepe Fund was inaugurated in the 2020-21 academic year. After a very successful first year, the Motsepe Foundation generously doubled its commitment to the fund to include support for projects that fall within the STEAM rubric (the application of the arts and humanities to science, technology, engineering,...

The Harvard Center for African Studies has been following the disheartening war story in Ukraine and how Africans living in Ukraine, particularly African students in the medical field have been impacted.

We share here an update from Gift of the Givers Foundation, which has been...