The Africa Center

New Course: Understanding African Conflicts

August 27, 2015

Course “Understanding African Conflicts” (AFST 435-610)
Room: TOWNE BUILDING 305
Times: Wednesdays: 4:30 – 7:30 PM
Sarah Tishkoff: Why does Africa have so many languages?

May 5, 2015

Studies show the African continent contains the highest genetic diversity of any place in the world, but whether or not that correlates to the highest variation in language isn't as clear.
List of Penn 454 Dissertations on Africa, 1980-2014

March 30, 2015

This broad list of University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertations, 1980-present, was assembled through searches run at intervals in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text and its predecessors, Proquest Digital Dissertations and Dissertation Abstracts International. Individual dissertation records in the search results were reviewed for relevance.
Botswana-UPenn Partnership: Telemedicine Service over TV White Spaces Network

March 24, 2015

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) is collaborating with Microsoft, the Botswana Innovation Hub, and other global partners to launch the first telemedicine service in Africa using TV white spaces to bring internet connectivity to hospitals and clinics across rural areas of Botswana. The pilot project, called “Project Kgolagano,” will provide clinical consultations and diagnoses to a patient population who would otherwise have to travel far distances to the capital city of Gaborone, Botswana, for specialized care.
An interview with Penn’s latest Rhodes Scholar

January 29, 2015

In December, Rutendo Chigora C’15 from Harare, Zimbabwe, was
Christian Stillson: on learning Zulu

January 20, 2015

* A short video about studying Zulu at Penn
* Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the FLAS program offers undergraduate and graduate-level academic year and summer fellowships to U.S.
New Course: The New African Diaspora: African Immigrants in West Philadelphia

January 9, 2015

The New African Diaspora: African Immigrants in West Philadelphia:

AFST 167-601/AFRC 167-601/HIST 167-601/URBS 167-601
New Course: "African Architecture", Spring 2015

December 22, 2014

New Course: "African Architecture", Elisa Dainese Thursdays: 4:30-6:00 PM, Cohn 203
Penn Senior Rutendo Chigora Awarded non-U.S. Rhodes Scholarship

December 9, 2014

Penn Senior Rutendo Chigora Awarded non-U.S. Rhodes Scholarship
African Language Offerings

December 5, 2014

(1) Amharic (Ethiopia), (2) Chichewa (Malawi, (3) Igbo (Southeastern Nigeria), (4) Malagasy (Madagascar), (5) Setswana (Botswana and South Africa), (6) Sudanese Arabic (Sudan), (7) Swahili (Tanzania, Kenya, Comoro islands, Rwanda, and Somalia), (8) Tigrinya (Eritrea and Ethiopia), (9) Twi (Ghana and Ivory Coast), (10) Wolof (Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania), (11) Yoruba (Southwestern Nigeria, Togo, Benin, and Sierra Leone), (12) Zulu (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland and Malawi)

* A short video about studying Zulu at Penn

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