News Archive
Teaching Africa in L.A.'s Schools
UCLA partners with government, nonprofits on Teach Africa. To jump-start the Southern California launch, the sponsors hosted a group of three high school students and three public school teachers on a trip to Uganda this month.
Posted: 6/24/2008
A Fiddle's Deep Roots
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is an international expert on things she once snubbed, with articles on gospel and spirituals and a new book on fiddling, "Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures."
Posted: 5/6/2008
'The Art of Women's Masquerades in Sierra Leone'
This Fowler Museum exhibition runs from Dec. 9 through April 27, 2008.
Posted: 11/1/2007
Former Cape Verdean President Sees Africa Standing Up
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, who served two five-year terms as Cape Verde's first president elected under a multiparty system, tells a UCLA audience that Africa is no lost cause, but a continent striving towards peace and democracy. He discusses Cape Verde's relations with China and other emerging powers.
Posted: 10/10/2007
In Memoriam: Greg Cherry
Amy Futa remembers friend and colleague Gregory A. Cherry.
Posted: 8/7/2007
From the Director
From UCLA African Studies Center Director - Allen F. Roberts
Posted: 6/12/2007
Ghislaine Lydon
For Ghislaine Lydon, 2006 was the year of travel.
Posted: 5/16/2007
Speaker to Discuss Rights, Writers
Visiting humanities professor to lecture on African activism, literature, and liberties
Posted: 2/8/2007
An African Love Affair
UCLA visual culture scholars Allen and Polly Roberts have spent two lifetimes studying and celebrating the profound mysteries, hidden cultures and timeless beauty of one of the most fascinating places on Earth.
Posted: 2/7/2007
Justice in the Grass
A documentary about the Rwandan genocide to be screened at UCLA on Wednesday looks at efforts to revive a traditional court system that brings victim and perpetrator face to face.
Posted: 2/5/2007
