{"id":50071,"date":"2024-01-02T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/?p=50071"},"modified":"2024-05-07T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:57:55","slug":"bu-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/2024\/01\/02\/bu-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on Tap: BU and Africa (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BU and Africa: Culture, Development, Health, Environment, and Governance<\/h2>\n<p><span>Some are calling our times &#8220;the African Century&#8221; given the profound implications of the continent&#8217;s demographic transitions for African peoples and the world at large. By 2050, 2.5 billion people, more than 25 percent of all of the world\u2019s population, will live in Africa, a number on track to grow to 40 percent by the end of the century. This oft-overlooked region of the world is home to diverse cultures, religions, and political struggles, as well as economic opportunity and challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At BU, scholarship and research related to Africa is on the rise. With its roots in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/\">BU African Studies Center<\/a>, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary, BU has a wide comparative advantage in many aspects of research on Africa, from the Medical Campus and the School of Public Health to the Pardee School and the Department of Anthropology and in between. <\/span><span>In this Research on Tap, we will convene extensive expertise across disciplines, schools, and colleges to help members of this broad community coalesce, expand our knowledge, and plant seeds for deeper collaboration. View <a href=\"\/research\/files\/2024\/05\/Research-on-Tap-Agenda-BU-and-Africa.pdf\">agenda<\/a> and <a href=\"\/research\/files\/2024\/05\/Research-on-Tap-BU-and-Africa.pdf\">event slides<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Featuring:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kevin-p-gallagher\/\">Kevin Gallagher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/peter-rockers\/\">Peter Rockers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/mark-c-storella\/\">Mark Storella<\/a> (hosts) | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/joanna-davidson\/\">Joanna Davidson<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jonathan-greenacre\/\">Jonathan Greenacre<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/mahesh-karra\/\">Mahesh Karra<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/zana-kiragu\/\">Zana Kiragu<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/tsitsi-musasike\/\">Tsitsi Musasike<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/amruta-nori-sarma\/\">Amruta Nori-Sarma<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/elaine-nsoesie\/\">Elaine Nsoesie<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/lawrence-were\/\">Lawrence Were<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DSm2JpNdPEg&list=PLr-itzg5tymNhzHQZypkB65EJqCF4atD9\" class=\"button button-base\">View Video<\/a>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>About Research on Tap<\/h3>\n<p>The Research on Tap series, sponsored by the BU Office of Research, brings together groups of BU researchers around important topics. At each event, 10-12 researchers present a maximum of four slides and deliver a four-minute \u201celevator pitch\u201d of their work. Research on Tap events are open to faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students. Each presentation is followed by refreshments and lively discussion with colleagues and potential collaborators.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/events-updates-trainings\/research-on-tap\/\" class=\"button button-primary\">View upcoming events<\/a>\n<h3>About Earth Day 365<\/h3>\n<p>The Office of Research is proud to join BU Sustainability in celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/earth-day-365\/\">Earth Day 365<\/a>, a month-long series of events at BU that provides our community opportunities to engage in climate action and celebrate our planet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/research\/files\/2024\/01\/E365-Logo-Updated-2-150x150.png\" alt=\"Earth Day 365\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-51753 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/files\/2024\/01\/E365-Logo-Updated-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/files\/2024\/01\/E365-Logo-Updated-2.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/files\/2024\/01\/E365-Logo-Updated-2-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU and Africa: Culture, Development, Health, Environment, and Governance Some are calling our times &#8220;the African Century&#8221; given the profound implications of the continent&#8217;s demographic transitions for African peoples and the world at large. By 2050, 2.5 billion people, more than 25 percent of all of the world\u2019s population, will live in Africa, a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22832,"featured_media":50182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[702,664,699,666,633,700,634,642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50071"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52265,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071\/revisions\/52265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}