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South Africa: Valley of 1,000 Hills
One of the continent’s richest nations, South Africa also has one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates and is home to the world’s biggest population of HIV-infected people, an estimated 5.5...
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Turning on the lights
Despite the economic strides that many of its nations have made in recent years, Africa is still, in a literal sense, a dark continent. No country there represents this more clearly than Liberia,...
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Botswana: One Woman’s Story
Though there are signs that the Botswana AIDS epidemic is slowing, the disease remains the top cause of death in the southern African nation. HIV infection rates are down nationwide to 24 percent,...
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Congo: Men with Guns
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this...
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Congo: DRC History
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this...
View ArticleLesotho: She looks better
The tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics...
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Congo: Couldn’t leave them behind
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this...
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South Africa: Durban Labs
One of the continent’s richest nations, South Africa also has one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates and is home to the world’s biggest population of HIV-infected people, an estimated 5.5...
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Congo: Survivors Song
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this...
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Lesotho: MDRTB Outpatients
The tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of ADIS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics...
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The tipping point
When Marshall Nannes began researching his master’s thesis on American military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, he did something practically unknown. He actually asked the people in those countries how...
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A champion of democracy
The administration of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is part of a new wave of democratic governance washing through African nations, bringing an emphasis on economic reforms to get the...
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One vaccine for two strains?
Strains of genital herpes in Africa are far more virulent than those in the United States, researchers at Harvard Medical School report, a striking insight into a common disease with important...
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A world traveler, at work
Ablorde Ashigbi ’11 is used to moving between different worlds. Although he grew up in the United States, his father comes from Ghana and his mother from Gambia, both in West Africa. Ashigbi himself...
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Accompanying the underserved
If there’s one thing that graduating Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students have learned, it’s how to develop good policy. But before heading into government, consulting, and nonprofit work, they...
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Finding the genetic trail
Harvard Medical School researchers have used a new DNA analysis technique to track when and how much gene flow occurred from sub-Saharan Africa into populations in Europe and the Middle East,...
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The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School Calestous Juma presents three opportunities that can transform African agriculture: advances in science and technology;...
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Harvard professors partner in unique approach
SAN DIEGO — In an African country lacking any specialists in children’s cancers, a team approach that “twins” Rwandan physicians with Boston-based pediatric oncologists has shown it can deliver...
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Exemplary women
Faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on Thursday to honor Emmy Award-winning producer Rebecca Eaton and Harvard undergraduate Naseemah Mohamed ’12, the recipients of...
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New tool to battle illegal trade in animals
Though the illegal trade in rare or endangered plants and animals is estimated to be worth billions of dollar, efforts to combat such wildlife crime are spotty at best. In many nations where the trade...
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Cancer care comes to Rwanda
“Just a few years ago we had no system or financing mechanism to diagnose and treat AIDS in Africa. People said it was too expensive or too complicated,” said Paul Farmer, chair of Harvard Medical...
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More than words
For one new fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, images are the way he tells a compelling story. For another fellow, the way to convey it is through data. The foundation recently...
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Three win international Rhodes
A Harvard senior and two recent alumnae — one the sister of a 2004 winner — have been named international Rhodes Scholars, and will join the six American Harvard students who will head to the...
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Worldwide, women’s inequality
Most of the 350,000 women who die in childbirth each year — almost all of them in developing countries — should not do so. In addition, women around the world remain underrepresented in schools, jobs,...
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Sound that travels
The final “s” sounded the loudest at the “Africa Remix: Producing and Presenting African Musics Abroad” conference on Friday, jammed into a busy, blustery morning ahead of two feet of snow. “In France...
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The power of penguins
Nose to beak, beady eye to eye, I offered a penguin my bare hand in greeting. Even after my first, slightly woozy, ride in a helicopter, perched precariously with duffel bags under my arms and...
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Senegal as a starting point
With a New England winter storm as an ironic counterpoint, a delegation of Senegalese officials arrived at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics Friday. In the lead was Macky Sall, who is...
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Citizen of the world
This is the last of four reports echoing key themes of The Harvard Campaign, examining what the University is accomplishing in those areas. Scholars who study the last financial crisis and others who...
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Mandela’s legacy
Nelson Mandela, a towering figure of the 20th century and president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, died today at 95. Imprisoned from 1964 to 1990, Mandela came to symbolize the struggle for...
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Reality, fiction in Italy’s empire
In 1907, photographer Marcello Fabritti arrived at the docks in Genoa to board the steamship Staffetta, bound for Africa. The ship traveled to Port Said, Egypt, and then across the Red Sea, and along...
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From chance meeting, a chance to save lives
Within minutes after birth, every infant in the United States undergoes a battery of tests designed to diagnose a host of conditions, including sickle cell disease. Thousands of children born in the...
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Sequencing Ebola’s secrets
Last June, in the early days of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, a team of researchers sequenced the genome of the deadly virus at unprecedented scale and speed. Their findings revealed a number...
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Elkins receives named appointment at Center for African Studies
Professor Caroline Elkins, founding director of the Center for African Studies, has been named the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, in honor of...
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The path to profits in Africa
When Aliko Dangote was building his business, running four cement trucks in Nigeria in the late 1970s, a relative gave him $750,000 to expand. Business was booming — there was a cement shortage — but...
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For growth, look to Africa
If you’re looking for robust economic growth during this prolonged, fitful recovery from the recent global economic crisis, look toward Africa. Ethiopia’s gross domestic product grew almost 10 percent...
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Coffee with a cause
Last November’s fundraising trip to the Bay Area failed, but Andy Agaba still sent his usual gift of African coffee to his hosts. Which got him thinking. Convincing investors to back his microfinance...
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Real talk
Ifeoma Fafunwa knows there was a time in living memory when Germans gassed gay people along with Jews, Gypsies, and others they considered inferior. So it struck her as ironic when, a few years ago,...
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From Swahili to Bemba to Twi
Captivated by African storytelling traditions, Lowell Brower became fluent in Swahili and did research in Tanzania as an American undergraduate. When he wanted to expand his study to Rwanda and...
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Harvard-based magazine on African culture is printed there again for first...
A modest publication that became Africa’s pre-eminent cultural and literary magazine in the 1960s recently celebrated a homecoming of sorts — in print, no less. Founded in 1961 in Kampala, Uganda, as...
View ArticleA look at Zimbabwe if longtime ruler Mugabe departs
A faction within Zimbabwe’s military seized control of the troubled southern African nation last week in a coup d’état that effectively ended the harsh, 37-year rule of President Robert Mugabe. He was...
View ArticleProfessor Calestous Juma leaves legacy of good work
On their way to church on Sundays, the residents of Port Victoria, Kenya, would pass by young Calestous Juma’s house and drop off things that were broken — radios, record players, appliances. The...
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Former leaders bring hopes for Africa to Harvard forum
On Wednesday, the Kennedy School brought together former leaders of three African republics — Tanzania’s Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo, and Cape Verde’s Carlos Veiga — to discuss...
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Radcliffe hears from NPR journalist Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Patience and compassion: Even in an age of electronic media moving at breakneck speed, these old-fashioned virtues are essential to getting the story — and getting it right. That was the message...
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None if by sea: Rethinking immigration at Radcliffe
Just north of Libya’s territorial waters, a rescue boat operated by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) awaits the call. A small wooden fishing boat, sometimes a rubber dinghy,...
View ArticleExperts discuss coronavirus challenges in Africa
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest...
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Photography fellow Joana Choumali explores ‘anthropology of clothing’
What happens when Western secondhand clothing and message T-shirts are imported to African consumers, many from less affluent classes? Joana Choumali, a Côte d’Ivoire-based artist noted for her work...
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Engineering graduate changing African infrastructure
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 of Mather House is graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering with a secondary...
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David Reich study shows how early Africans lived, traveled, interacted
Between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, people across early eastern and southern Africa left behind traces of an explosion of symbolic expression reflected in far more intensive use of eggshell beads,...
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How to liberate African art
Many museums find themselves in a complicated period of transition as they confront their entanglements with colonialism. That complex project was the subject of a recent Harvard Center for African...
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Harvard Library will hold papers of former Liberian president Sirleaf
When determining the best place to hold six decades’ worth of her personal and professional archives, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, had two goals in mind. She wanted...
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