On April 28, 2022, the Harvard community was treated to a unique opportunity to hear from acclaimed international artist Nelson Makamo and jazz musician and composer Mandisi Dyantyis for a conversation about how art informs art and reflections on their experiences as artists-in-residence at the Harvard Center for African Studies as the two-week residency came to an end.

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As part of the Harvard Center for African Studies' African Arts Initiative, Leverett House has partnered with the Center for African Studies to bring the inaugural cohort of the Artist-in-Residence Program. For the two next weeks, visual artist Nelson Makamo and musician Mandisi Dyantyis, both from South Africa, will offer interactive workshops together at Leverett House that will culminate in an exhibition of student art...

By Li-Ming Pan (Communications and External Relations, Harvard Center for African Studies)

We caught up with Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) alum, Vukosi Marivate, who participated in the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) at the Harvard Business School in AY20-21.

Vukosi was recently promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria and is also the ABSA Chair of Data Science. In addition, he is the Principal Investigator and Lead of Data Science for Social Impact Research Group...

Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong, CAS Faculty Director, publishes an article on Transformations in Global Blackness: African and African American Relations, c. 1960 to Recent Times in Transition Magazine.

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