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The African Studies Center, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, is growing its robust African language program, adding Twi, the spoken launguage of Ghana, in 2015, with a planned 2016 study abroad experience in Ghana to reinforce scholarship in the African nation’s culture. “Ghana is a very successful democracy […]
Innovative African language program boosted by federal grant The daughter of missionaries, Beth Restrick grew up in South Africa, Swaziland, and Mozambique, where she learned to speak miscellaneous words in a swirl of native languages as well as colonial Portuguese. But it wasn’t until she arrived at BU as full-time director of the African Studies […]
THEY SCALE BARBED-WIRE FENCES, HIDE IN CROWDED FISHING BOATS, AND STOW AWAY IN CARGO TRUCKS. EACH YEAR, MORE THAN 800,000 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN CROSS INTERNATIONAL BORDERS SEEKING REFUGE FROM PERSECUTION. Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 145 nations have agreed to protect those who are at risk in their own […]
October 4, 2014 Boston University’s African Studies Center has been awarded National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grants from the US Department of Education. The African Studies Center, which joined the new Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies this fall, will receive more than $2.3 million over four years […]
Tare Muke is a campaign being led by the Boston University Niger Alumni Association (BUNAN). It is a fundraising effort for former employees of the BU Niger program who lost their jobs with the termination of the Boston University program in Niger. In the future BUNAN also hopes to find ways to foster more long term […]