http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa Facilitate cutting-edge research about Africa at UCLA en-us UCLA's African Studies Center is developing a plan with Addis Ababa University to assist with new PhD programs in business and economics that are needed for Ethiopia's expanding university systems. The proposed partnership, involving the UCLA Anderson School, would elevate socio-cultural issues within business curricula at UCLA and AAU alike.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=113767To write a sweeping new study of China's ramped-up engagement with African governments, "The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa," Deborah Brautigam of American University had to set aside most of what Chinese and Western media said on the subject.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=113652Since 1970 "Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies" has given marginalized voices on Africa, the African diaspora and related social issues a space to address general readers and scholars alike. Formerly in print, the peer-reviewed journal has two new issues available online and free of charge.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=113232Professors and students hope to create portable device that could test for contaminants immediately, reports The Daily Bruin.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=112585Ghislaine Lydon, the new chair of the African Studies interdepartmental program, will travel to Mauritania in December to collaborate on an article and a documentary film about the last women caravanners in the western Sahara Desert.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=112310Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students came to campus on May 30 for the Teach Africa Youth Forum, the last and largest event in a yearlong collaborative effort carried out in Southern California schools to increase awareness about Africa and its place in global affairs.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=108886In a forum on Saturday, speakers addressed several topics to break stereotypes of life in Africa, The Daily Bruin reports.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=108874For the last half-century the United States has undermined itself in Africa by failing to distinguish itself from Europe and the colonial legacy, says Haskell Sears Ward, one of the first to graduate from UCLA with an interdisciplinary master's degree in African studies.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=106930Haskell Sears Ward, an expert on development and one of the first UCLA graduate students in African Studies, will focus his Thursday afternoon talk on what Africa and the United States have meant to one another for the past 50 years.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=106395In a public talk Louis Mazel, director of the U.S. Department of State Office of African Regional and Security Affairs, discusses current and potential security issues across the continent, including the uncertain future of South Sudan.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=104644