News at CAS

The Center for African Studies is delighted to welcome Professor Achille Mbembe as the Center’s Spring 2016 visiting Senior Research Fellow. A major figure not only in the fields of African history, politics, and social science, Mbembe is widely regarded...

In 2014 the Center for African Studies received an anonymous gift to establish a Postdoctoral Fellowship program to support promising African scholars to spend 2-3 years at the Center, pursuing their scholarship, teaching, and receiving mentoring in the...

On October 18th, the Center for African Studies, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and the Department of African and African American Studies hosted a special screening of Beasts of No Nation, followed by a discussion and...

Invisible Thread, the musical formerly known as Witness Uganda, will open Off Broadway at Second Stage Theatre on Friday, October 31st and run through December 27th. Diane Paulus, the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory...

Professor Caroline Elkins, Founding Director of the Center for African Studies, has been named the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, in honor of Jonathan and Jennifer (BA 1989 and JD 1993) Oppenheimer...

If you are a Harvard student traveling in Africa this summer you can enter to win our weekly photo contest. Submit your favorite images that represent your work, study and/or enjoyment, wherever you are on the continent. Each week's winner will receive a...

The Center for African Studies is pleased to announce that three Maru-a-Pula (MaP) students - Vamika Sinha, Tawanda Mulalu and Nandini Kochar - have ranked in the top 15 of the 2015 De Beers English Olympiad. This prestigious English Language and...

Congratulations to Juliet Bailin, Mathilde Montpetit, Debbie Onuoha, and Samuel G. Ruchman, the four Africanists to receive this year’s Hoopes Prize. The Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize – one of Harvard’s highest distinctions for exceptional senior theses –...

Despite obstacles, Harvard Sophomores Joon Yang and Haley Baker direct orphanage and school in Uganda After completing an internship in Paris during the summer of 2012, Joon Yang, then a high school senior, landed at Entebbe, Uganda; unbeknownst to him...