The Other End of THE RIVER By Barbara Moran. (From BU Today) But something happened to Galea in Somalia. “It was there that I got this feeling, like I’m standing on the side of the river, pulling people out,” he says. “I was doing that over and over and over again. And I felt I was doing […]
Temperatures were pushing 115˚ when we reached the crest of a rocky hill overlooking Ali Addeh, a desolate refugee camp on Djibouti’s southern border with Ethiopia and Somalia. Clumps of dull brown scrub dotted the ochre hills. Nothing stirred. Once past the guard at the gate, we wound our way through a warren of houses […]
Spotlight on African Studies A new feature of the Weekly Brief begins this week to celebrate the scholarly work and activities of members of our community. If you have suggestions for people or projects that should be highlighted, please email pdquella@bu.edu. The Spotlight series begins with James McCann, professor of History, former director and current associate director of the African Studies Center. Click […]
Monday, November 2, 7 pm Tsai Performance Center Join us as Professor James McCann, professor of history and associate director of African Studies Center (past director), delivers the annual University Lecture at Tsai Performance Center. Admission is free and open to the public.
James McCann, professor of history and associate director of the African Studies Center at Boston University. He is winner of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Distinguished Scholar of the American Society of Environmental History. In his latest book he turns his gaze on malaria and its pernicious history. Malaria is an infectious […]
Innovative African language program boosted by federal grant The daughter of missionaries, Beth Restrick grew up in South Africa, Swaziland, and Mozambique, where she learned to speak miscellaneous words in a swirl of native languages as well as colonial Portuguese. But it wasn’t until she arrived at BU as full-time director of the African Studies […]
THEY SCALE BARBED-WIRE FENCES, HIDE IN CROWDED FISHING BOATS, AND STOW AWAY IN CARGO TRUCKS. EACH YEAR, MORE THAN 800,000 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN CROSS INTERNATIONAL BORDERS SEEKING REFUGE FROM PERSECUTION. Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 145 nations have agreed to protect those who are at risk in their own […]
October 4, 2014 Boston University’s African Studies Center has been awarded National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grants from the US Department of Education. The African Studies Center, which joined the new Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies this fall, will receive more than $2.3 million over four years […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has established an advisory council that will include Boston University’s Farouk El-Baz and 15 other renowned academics and experts. El-Baz is a College of Arts & Sciences research professor of archaeology and a College of Engineering research professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing. He is […]