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Divergent Outcomes: Nigeria & Asia Development Strategy

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Join Professor Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka on his lecture on his new book From Reversal of Fortune to Economic Resurgence: Industrialization and Leadership in Asia's Prosperity and Nigeria's Regress, which explores development strategy in Africa and Asia...

Neoliberal Intimacies, Global Blackness, and the “Kokujin-Hafu” Experience: Toward an Anthropology of Contemporary Afro-Asia

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Speaker: MARVIN D. STERLING, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University at Bloomington Moderator: KAREN L. THORNBER, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature & Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Acting Director...

CAS-HYI Fellowship

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The Center for African Studies - Harvard Yenching Institute Training Program in African History and Cultures In collaboration with the Harvard Yenching Institute, the Center for African Studies established a nine-month Training Program in African History...

China, India and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

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Part of the Asia Center Modern Asia Seminar For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the rise of China and India’s national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa’s largest country, with the birth of South Sudan...

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The Center for African Studies focuses our research on the following topics in collaboration with partners across the university: Africa and Asia; Africa’s Leaders Speak, Religion and Public Life; and Climate Change, Agriculture, and Health.

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Connecting the World-Island: What will China’s PEACE cable bring to Pakistan and East Africa?

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China’s Hengtong Group—leading a consortium of telecom companies from Hong Kong, Pakistan, and East Africa—will soon complete installation of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable. Spanning the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

Oppenheimer Faculty Director Emmanuel Akyeampong co-authors article on energy and education in Africa

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Energy for Education Is Vital for Developing Economies BrinkNews "The extent to which lack of energy and lack of education currently stifles economic development in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America warrants aggressive, collective action by multiple...

A Third Way in the Third World: Malaya, Afro-Asia, and the Congo Crisis

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A Third Way in the Third World: Malaya, Afro-Asia, and the Congo Crisis Speaker: Muhammad Suhail Bin Mohamed Yazid , Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center Moderator: Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard...

The Transregional Politics of Literary Language: Comparative Work across African and Asian Contexts

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The Asia Center Seminar Series, CMES, and the Department of Comparative Literature present a panel on the politics of literary language with Shaden Tageldin, University of Minnesota Nergis Ertürk, Pennsylvania State University Fallou Ngom, Boston...

Will Africa Feed China? Presentation by Deborah Brautigam

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Deborah Brautigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor in International Political Economy and Professor of International Development and Comparative Politics, as well as Director of the International Development Program and the China-Africa Research...

China Remix Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers

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To launch the Africa-China Initiative, the Center for African Studies, in collaboration with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Asia Center, and the East Asian Legal Studies Program, will present a new film, Africa Remix, about African hip hop...