The 200 word project is a visual and audio tool comprised of a database of specialized words with pictures and video clips that allow students to hear native speakers pronounce each word. Words were identified based on their applicability to professional fields such as business, medicine, and human rights as well as their ability to […]
ASC Director Mark Storella and Charles Holmes, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Georgetown University, published an article in the Council on Foreign Relations’ Think Global Health site on the “U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Zambia’s Lessons on Governance, Health and Partnership.” Think Global Health is an initiative of the Council on Foreign […]
The Boston University NEH Ajami project, led by Prof. Fallou Ngom (PI) and Dr. Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Project Manager), is pleased to share resources developed in the course of its three-year research engagement funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project, Ajami Literacy and the Expansion of Literacy and Islam: The Case of West […]
ASC Twi Lecturer and Executive Director at African Bridge Network Emmanuel Owusu talks about helping immigrants launch local medical careers in Boston.
John Hutchison, Associate Professor Emeritus of African Languages at Boston University, recently published Intermediate Kanuri Reader. Read more here.
Michael Woldemariam, Director of the BU African Studies Center and Associate Professor of International Relations at the BU Pardee School of Global Studies, joined the International Crisis Group for an episode of their podcast – The Horn.
Linguistics Ph.D. candidate and ASC Mandinka Lecturer Ousmane Cisse recently translated an interview for the fifth episode of this season of HBO’s series Hard Knock.
Timothy Longman, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the BU Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), was interviewed for a New York Times article on the verdict of Paul Rusesabagina.
We are very excited to welcome Professor Michael Woldemariam as the new Director of the African Studies Center. Professor Woldemariam’s teaching and research focus is on African security studies, with emphasis on armed conflict in the Horn of Africa. Prof. Woldemariam’s scholarly work has been published in the journals Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Journal […]
The ASC Working Group on Land Mortgage is pleased to announce a new book, Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging, co-edited by Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton (forthcoming in January 2022). The book argues that the mortgaging of land, a risky practice usually treated as just an economic and legal contract, needs a broader set of perspect