Hoping to catch up with an old friend who is a professor at Duke, Richard Leakey accepted an invitation to speak at the university on Oct. 22, though he “gave up public speaking to a large extent many years ago.”
An “African Miracle” is possible, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga told a Duke audience during a two-day visit to the campus last month. The optimism comes, Odinga said, from...
Starting with a Ford Foundation Grant in the mid-1990s, the Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues have been a vital part of the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) programming for more than twenty years. During...
Dr. Indermit Gill (Director, DCID), President Vincent Price (President, Duke University), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Dr. Giovanni Zanalda (Director, DUCIGS). Photo by Emilie Poplett
As part of their Rethinking Development seminar series...
As part of the Wednesday at the Center series, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Duke Africa Initiative welcomed Dr. Stephen Smith to speak about Africa’s changing “...
The symposium “Constructing Africa’s Future: The Environmental and Social Implications of Chinese-Financed Infrastructure in Africa” was held on January 18, 2018 with the goal of bringing...
International Education Week (IEW) is an annual celebration of global education and exchange. This year, Duke celebrated IEW from November 13 th to the 17 th .
During IEW, attendees were able to apply for or renew a passport...
