Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
The second annual Africa Initiative and Graduate Professional Students' Association Conference is focused on social, political and economic changes in Africa. The conference will feature undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows...
Malian virtuoso and two-time GRAMMY winner Toumani Diabaté marked the thirtieth year of his recording career in 2017, a benchmark for one of the world's most remarkable musicians. The master of the wonderfully hypnotic twenty-one-string kora,...
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
This is a blue-sky, brainstorming workshop on India-Africa, broadly conceived: histories of engagement, contemporary commercial/cultural encounters. It will consist of short presentations by distinguished scholars that present case materials from...
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Célestin Monga is the Vice President and Chief Economist of the African Development Bank Group. He is also Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Peking University. He has held various board and senior...
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
Phyllis is a Kenyan grassroots social justice activist. She has been vocal in advocating for the right to a clean and healthy environment for the Owino Uhuru community near Mombasa, and in 2015 she was the Africa recipient of the prestigious...
"Innovation for Africa: the Continent's Instrument for Growth and Prosperity" The impressive growth of several African economies is well-discussed. At this year's conference, we will explore one of the drivers of this growth, innovation - seen...
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
Donald Trump was elected by rousing hysteria about an "invasion" that is not going to happen. Over the past ten years, more Mexican migrants have returned south of the Rio Grande than newcomers have moved to the United States. The U.S. population...
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Please join us for the final night of the African Film Festival! This music-filled, French-Tunisian production is set in Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution, and depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the...
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Please join us for the third night of the African Film Festival! "Red Leaves" examines the life of a man Meseganio Tadela (Debebe Eshetu), a 74-year-old recent widower and Ethiopian immigrant. Following the death of his wife, Meseganio sells his...
