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The Harvard Center for African Studies sends our deepest heartfelt condolences to Professor Thandika Mkandawire's family and friends. His passing is a great loss to our community. Professor Thandika Mkandawire was the Chair of African Development and Professor of African Development at the London School of Economics. He contributed immensely to the scholarship of social sciences in Africa.

We wish to share CODESRIA's announcement on his passing and tribute to his scholarly work and highly esteemed career here:...

50^th Anniversary of Africa at Harvard

On February 28^th – 29^th, 2020,  the Center for African Studies, the Department of African and African American Studies and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Researchcelebrated the 50th anniversary of African and African American Studies. The two-day symposium kicked off at Harvard Memorial Chuch with a full agenda that commemorated this occasion as well as highlighted the...

In January 2020, the Center for African Studies supported Mohamed Ally Iddi, a rising senior studying computer science at Harvard College, to travel and organize a three-week coding boot camp named “BitHub255” for students in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during J-Term.

The aim of the project was to demystify computer science by introducing students to the basics of programming using Python. Mohamed collaborated with two students Edmund Sepeku (Rochester ‘22) and Akram Ismail...