The African Studies Center (ASC) was thrilled to continue to partner this year with the Moroccan- American Commission for Educational & Cultural Exchange (MACECE) in leading cohorts of teachers on learning and exchange trips to Morocco, funded by Fulbright-Hays. The Fulbright-Hays Program — a Fulbright Program funded by the United States Department of Education– awards […]
The BU African Studies Center Outreach Program aims to promote teaching about Africa and Africa-related studies in U.S. schools. In this position of 5-7 hours a week, the graduate student assistant will be responsible for assisting the Outreach Manager with administrative tasks to help manage the program. Main responsibilities include: Regularly checking and managing the […]
BU Ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Kumera Zekarias produced a recent episode of Afropop Worldwide on Oromo music. Listen to the episode here.
Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Emily Williamson won the Cora du Bois Fellowship for dissertation completion on her project, “Folded Speech: An Ethics of Comings-and-Goings in an Accra Zongo.”
Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Gana Ndiaye has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation). Read more here.
The BU African Studies Center is excited to announce the 2021-2022 FLAS Fellows. This year’s applicant pool was extremely competitive. We would like to thank all those who applied and congratulate all of our awardees! Summer 2021 Kelley Gourley, MA/PhD Anthropology, Arabic* Kathryn Heidelberger, PhD Comparative Theology and Ethics, Arabic Ethan Key, PhD History, Amharic* Guthrie Kuckes, BA International […]
Thank you to everyone who participated in Language Theater Night 2021. After nearly two and a half semesters of non-traditional learning, it was great to see everyone’s faces and to see how our collective hard work and dedication has paid off! The votes are in and….the Igbo group has won first place! Congratulations! They were closely followed by the […]
Last month, Eric Schmidt and his Music of Africa class welcomed Ben Paulding, who directs the Fafali Ghanaian music ensemble at Brandeis University and is a member of the Boston-based Afropop band Kotoko Brass, for a socially distanced kinka drumming workshop. The students substituted household objects for instruments and recorded themselves playing. Each student’s recording was edited together to create a music video, with […]
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The African Studies Center is inviting BU students to apply for small grants to support their travel to the annual meeting of the African Studies Association. Because only a limited number of grants will be available, preference will be given to students according to seniority and for those who are presenting papers, though all interested students […]