Over the past two summers, the Center for African Studies supported Tom Osborn (College '20) to travel to Kenya and work on the Shamiri (Swahili for “thrive”) project. Tom is concentrating in Psychology with a secondary in Computer Science. He is the President of the Harvard Africa Business and Investment Club and resides in Eliot House.

The Shamiri project is a wellness and academic functioning intervention developed for adolescent high school students in Kibera, Kenya....

Fall Class: Entrepreneurial Solutions in Developing Countries

This fall, five Harvard professors will teach a joint seminar, Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social & Economic Problems...

Call For Papers:
Bondage: The Legacy of Blackness, 400 Years A Slave.

As a way to mark the history of African American people and their subjugation to slavery in the Americas, the Department of Humanities at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the New Bedford Whaling Museum welcomes proposals for presentations on the general conference theme: Bondage: The Legacy of Blackness, 400 Years A Slave. We invite proposals from academics in all areas of literature, language, film, composition, pedagogy, and creative, professional, and technical writing. We are...

April 24, 2019

It is with great sadness that the Center mourns Martin Kilson. He was the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from 1988 till his retirement in 1999. Since many current colleagues did not know him, I offer a brief biography here. Professor Kilson was born in 1931...