On December 9, 2021, the Africa Office hosted a certificate ceremony for the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) as many the program was held remotely over the past year.

Professor Tshilidzi, Vice Chancellor and Principal of University of Johannesburg, also HSAFP Fellow ’07, officiated the ceremony. He shared stories of his time at Harvard Business School where he did PLD 3. He shared that it was when he was awarded the fellowship and immersed himself into PLD that he learnt the importance of writing books and he started writing during that...

By Chenai Mangachena (College ’22 and Harvard Center for African Studies Intern) and Li-Ming Pan (Harvard Center for African Studies Communications)

On November 30, 2021, the Harvard Center for African Studies Africa Office hosted a webinar on South Africa: The Vision of a Prosperous Inclusive Society. The webinar discussion brought together experts across multiple disciplines. Sithembile Mbete, Programme...

Dr. Inam Yekwayo, a Senior Lecturer at Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape, was a Harvard University Center for African Studies Visiting Fellow in 2019. During her time at Harvard worked closely with Professor Naomi Pierce, Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology at the Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She also tutored isiXhosa for the Harvard African Language Program. 

On September 30, 2021, due to her collaboration and time at Harvard, Yekwayo and...

The CAS - Harvard-Yenching Institute Training Program in African History and Cultures
(Academic Year 2022-2023)

Harvard Faculty Advisors:

• Emmanuel Akyeampong, Departments of History and AAAS, Harvard University Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies, Harvard University
• John Mugane, AAAS and Director of the African Languages Program, Harvard University

South-South trade has gained a new prominence in Africa’s relations with Asia with China becoming Africa’s largest trading partner and lender in...