Lessons on African Diversity: Multiculturalism & Religious Intersections in Morocco
Thirteen U.S. teachers blog from Morocco about their experiences in a five-week seminar with the UCLA African Studies Center, sponsored by the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program.
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She Travels Sahara to Record History of Caravan Trade
Ghislaine Lydon, the new chair of the African Studies interdepartmental program, will travel to Mauritania in December to collaborate on an article and a documentary film about the last women caravanners in the western Sahara Desert.
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Summer Study-Travel Program in Morocco for Teachers
UCLA African Studies Center is now accepting applications for the 2010 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) in Morocco. This project, specifically designed for teachers, will provide a unique Arabic language and cultural immersion experience for a better understanding of Morocco's place in Africa, North Africa, and the wider world.
Researchers to Use Grant to Improve Water in Tanzania
Professors and students hope to create portable device that could test for contaminants immediately, reports The Daily Bruin.
Experts Bring Africa Alive for Young Students
Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students came to campus on May 30 for the Teach Africa Youth Forum, the last and largest event in a yearlong collaborative effort carried out in Southern California schools to increase awareness about Africa and its place in global affairs.
Missed Opportunity Hurt US-African Relations for Decades
For the last half-century the United States has undermined itself in Africa by failing to distinguish itself from Europe and the colonial legacy, says Haskell Sears Ward, one of the first to graduate from UCLA with an interdisciplinary master's degree in African studies.
Alumnus to Speak on US Relations with Africa
Haskell Sears Ward, an expert on development and one of the first UCLA graduate students in African Studies, will focus his Thursday afternoon talk on what Africa and the United States have meant to one another for the past 50 years.
Venues of Transformation
Damola Osinulu, a doctoral student in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, took his International Fieldwork Fellowship to Lagos, Nigeria, to understand why at least a million Pentecostal worshippers come together just north of the city.
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The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers ProjectA Research Project of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center |
Yoruba Ritual ArchiveA multimedia website created by Professor Andrew Apter that represents segments of three orisha festivals in Ayede-Ekiti in Ondo State, Nigeria. |
African ArtsAfrican Arts is a quarterly journal devoted to the arts of Africa. |
