General news about the Center, its affiliated faculty, or related events.
The ASC is now accepting applications for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for summer 2023 and the 2023-24 academic year! This program supports undergraduate and graduate students who are engaging in the study of any of the several African languages taught at BU, which include Akan Twi, Amharic, Arabic, Igbo, Mandinka, Swahili, Wolof, […]
The Boston University African Language Program is pleased to announced that it has published a new workbook in its growing series of Ajami teaching resources: Littafin Koyan Hausa Ajami Don Lafiyar Al-Umma (Hausa Ajami Workbook for Public Health) by Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi. Dr. Kurfi is a Senior Lecturer at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria, […]
The Boston University NEH Ajami project, led by Prof. Fallou Ngom (PI) and Dr. Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Project Manager), is pleased to share resources developed in the course of its three-year research engagement funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project, Ajami Literacy and the Expansion of Literacy and Islam: The Case of West […]
BU Ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Kumera Zekarias produced a recent episode of Afropop Worldwide on Oromo music. Listen to the episode here.
BU Affiliated Researcher Susanne Mueller recently published a commentary with the Italian Institute for International Political Studies entitled “Ethnicity and Violence: New Dynamics in Kenya’s Elections?” and an article in The Washington Post entitled, “Why did Kenyans elect Ruto as president?”
The African Studies Center is thrilled to share that is has been selected for generous support from the US Department of Education through its Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships programs for the 2022-26 funding period. We are excited about our continuing and new initiatives to promote teaching […]
The African Studies Library (ASL) recently hosted Aliou Badara Sarr, Chief Librarian of the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar, Senegal, for a three-week training and networking visit. The West African Research Center is an overseas research center for the West African Research Association (WARA), whose US program is based here at Boston University. […]
In early July, the ASC hosted a vibrant three-day workshop led by Prof. Fallou Ngom and Dr. Daivi Rodima-Taylor to connect researchers involved in Ajami research in West Africa. Participants included BU African studies faculty, research affiliates, staff, and graduate students as well as members of the Geddes Language Center, African Studies Library, and colleagues […]
It is with great sadness that we inform the African Studies Center community of the passing of former Editor of the International Journal of African Historical Studies, Dr. Margaret Jean Hay. She passed peacefully on July 11, 2022, at age 78, after a long struggle with Alzheimers. At the African Studies Center, Jean is remembered as […]
To the Scholars, Staff, Affiliates and Friends of BU’s African Studies Center: It is a great honor to succeed Michael Woldemariam as Director of Boston University’s African Studies Center. ASC is the jewel in the crown of the Pardee School of Global Studies and is a national resource for African language training, documentation, research publication […]