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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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,...
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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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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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Seeing double
Contrary to the belief of many scientists (as well as many members of the public), new research confirms that Africa has two — not one — species of elephant. Scientists from Harvard Medical School...
View ArticleSick to death
In the United States, large, long-running studies provide clues about people’s health, highlighting ailments such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, while providing a starting point for research...
View ArticleItaly and Africa, entwined
Students of literature often construct their understanding of a topic primarily from books and readings. But that’s not the case for students in Giuliana Minghelli’s new course on cultural migrations...
View ArticleThe outlook for Africa
Over the course of Condoleezza Rice’s many trips to Africa, one indelible image — at a museum commemorating the roughly 800,000 people murdered in the 1994 Rwandan genocide — still haunts the former...
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‘Africa in Motion’
The rhythmic sound of drums echoed through the Northwest Lab building Thursday evening (Oct. 21) as singers, dancers, and several hundred scholars and students gathered to celebrate the growth of...
View ArticleLooking past the plantation
In 1836, Frank McWorter founded the town of New Philadelphia, Ill. McWorter, who owned a large farm nearby, used the sale of lots in the town not to enrich himself, but to buy his family out of slavery...
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HIV/AIDS: Promising prevention method
In the years since a 2011 study found that early treatment with antiretroviral drugs could reduce HIV transmission between couples in which one partner has the virus and the other does not, “Treatment...
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A passion for science — and fighting malaria
Before Perrine Marcenac even enrolled at Harvard School of Public Health, the institution changed her life. During an interview for the Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health, Marcenac...
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