CAS in the News

In remembrance of Ghana’s 60th Independence Day Anniversary, the Center for African Studies Africa Office Executive Director Obenewa Amponsah was featured in an interview on KAYAFM 95.9 to discuss what it means to be a South African Ghanaian. Listen to...

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Calestous Juma, a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for African Studies, will co-chair the African Union Commission’s (AUC) new High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies (APET). The panel, created by Chairperson of...

Achille Mbembe, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center was recently featured on the front cover of the daily French newspaper, Libération. An interview with Achille Mbembe was also published in the "Ideas" section, highlighting Mbembe as a global thinker...

The African Language Program was featured in the Harvard Gazette's May 16th edition. The article, From Swahili to Bemba, by Liz Mineo, highlights the breadth and depth of the African Language Program at Harvard and the strong leadership by Professor John...

The apparent end to the commodity supercycle has sent shock waves across the global economy. It has sparked turbulence in stock markets, put pressure on currencies and fuelled concerns about prospects for growth and the stability of public finances.Africa...

Nigerian Play ‘Hear Word!’ Asks Bold Questions In International Debut At Harvard

Real Talk - Telling Nigerian Women’s Stories, by Patrick L. Kennedy featured in Harvard Gazette Ifeoma Fafunwa knows there was a time in living memory when Germans gassed gay people along with Jews, Gypsies, and others they considered inferior. So it...

Producer, director, performer, writer, architect. Over the past two decades, Ifeoma Fafunwa has worn many hats searching for the ideal vehicle with which to marry her art with her deep concerns for the world. Two years ago, she found it with the ambitious...

Recently Ihsaan Bassier, a graduate student in economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, wrote a thought provoking essay for GroundUp, a local news website, on the need to “decolonize” the teaching of undergraduate economics at that...

The Center for African Studies grantee, Hanna Amanuel ’16, was recently featured in the Harvard Gazette. Amanuel was awarded a CAS Summer Grant in 2015 to conduct ethnographic fieldwork on the history, politics, and meaning of female genital cutting (FGC)...