Harvard University is delighted to announce a new gift from South Africa’s Motsepe Foundation, which will launch the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa to advance groundbreaking research on key issues impacting the continent. This gift will support faculty-led and student-driven science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research across Harvard’s Schools, exploring questions of crucial importance to the region. The Motsepe Foundation’s gift will significantly enhance Harvard’s...

Harsh Sinha’s international experience at Harvard began during his first summer with the Center for African Studies’ Maru-a-Pula internship program. With six other Harvard College students, he made his way to Maru-a-Pula, a secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana. That same summer, he managed to travel to Namibia, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa, experiences that changed what he thought was feasible during his Harvard experience. Traveling became a way for him to get out of his comfort...

It is with great sadness that the Center for African Studies mourns Ambassador Walter C. Carrington’s passing.

“Walter Omowale Carrington was of that breed that provokes the time-honoured, nostalgic sentiment, a cliché that is however grounded in unvarnished truth: “They don’t make them like that any more”.”

- Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Prizewinning Nigerian playwright and poet.
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Wafaie Fawzi has been appointed the Interim Oppenheimer Faculty Director at the Center for this upcoming academic year while Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong is on sabbatical. Please find his introductory letter below and join us in welcoming him to the Center!

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