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 reception with author Uzodinma Iweala. Based on the novel of the same name, Beasts of No Nation, written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, tells the story of a young boy in a West African country who is forced to become a child soldier. Iweala, a graduate of Harvard University and 2011-2012 Radcliffe Fellow, won numerous...

James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2004 and the University’s treasurer from 2004 to 2014, as well as benefactor of the Center for African Studies’ Maru-a-Pula Internship Program, died unexpectedly Tuesday, apparently of a heart attack. He was 69.

This unexpected news has struck the Center for African Studies with sadness...

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 $25 Amazon gift card.

Submissions are due every Wednesday and the winner is announced at the end of each week. To enter submit a high resolution photo including a caption, date, the place the photo was taken, and your name to Nthatisi Quella at nthatisiquella@fas.harvard.edu.

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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 – was established in 1919 for the purposes of, “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding...