The Steering Committee of the Africa Initiative wishes to announce a call for applications to fund small projects, events, and speakers organized by students in fall 2021 or spring 2022. We envision...
The DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy program hosted a panel discussion on the geopolitics of the Blue Nile area, featuring Susan Stigant, Director of Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Alberto M. Fernandez, Vice President of the Middle East Media Research Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Charge d’Affaires to Sudan.
Speaking at a 'Wednesdays at the Center' webinar, professor Anne-Maria Makhulu showed striking parallels between the two countries' histories, both in terms of structures or racial inequality and of common movements against anti-Black racism.
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...
