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Subsistence farming of enslaved Africans creates African foodways in the New World

Using first-person European accounts of plantations, drawings, paintings and oral histories, geographer Judith Carney showed that the subsistence plots cultivated by enslaved people on plantations successfully brought African staples to the Americas.

Posted: 11/20/2024

Committed to serving the underserved

Graduate student Supraja Saravanakumar did a public health internship in Kenya last summer with support from a Dr. Elizabeth Woldemussie Fellowship. Her work there built on many years of volunteer service in health education.

Posted: 3/1/2024

Educational path leads to fascination with use of urban space

UCLA doctoral student Mustapha Outbakat returned to Morocco last summer to conduct initial fieldwork and archival research for his dissertation, aided by a fellowship from the UCLA African Studies Center.

Posted: 10/17/2023

Studying the modern Ethiopian state from the ground up

Galaan Hayle spent the summer of 2022 on a coffee farm about 70 to 80 miles outside of Addis Ababa, conducting research on coffee checkpoints.

Posted: 2/1/2023

Investigating the challenges of middle-aged rural women in Mozambique

Victor Agadjanian's current research project, which builds on a previous study of the impact of male labor migration, will investigate the health, economic and social security, and informal social ties of women at midlife.

Posted: 10/28/2022

Teaching development and critical thinking

Faculty who regularly teach required courses in the international development studies major speak about their courses and how they work collaboratively to build student knowledge of the subject matter.

Posted: 8/8/2022

UCLA hosts Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives Symposium

The four-day meeting brought together digital and computational experts from around the globe, drawing an average daily attendance of over 400 people.

Posted: 7/29/2022

From Kwame Nkrumah's “Neocolonialism” to study abroad in Ghana

Hayley Farrell, an international development studies major, has spent her senior year studying at the University of Ghana while interning at a non-profit in Accra.

Posted: 5/25/2022

African Studies Newsletters

Monthly newsletter listing African-focused events at UCLA.

Posted: 4/4/2022

The Nile River Basin in Crisis Webinar Series

The UCLA African Studies Center and Samueli School of Engineering are pleased to announce a 10-part webinar series on the Nile River Basin crisis.

Posted: 11/8/2021

Decolonization of African thought and African studies

In a masterful lecture, Ndlovu-Gatsheni, professor and chair of epistemologies of the global south at Bayreuth University (Germany), laid out the intellectual history of decolonization in Africa and African studies and the many “turns” within it.

Posted: 8/16/2021

BLM a catalyst for decolonization efforts in Belgium

Following the largest anti-racist demonstrations in its history in June 2020, Belgium took belated action to confront its colonial past.

Posted: 4/30/2021

International Institute, centers receive significant gifts

Over the past several months, the African Studies Center, the Asia Pacific Center and the International Institute have received generous gifts to support their operations and programs.

Posted: 4/8/2021