http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa Facilitate cutting-edge research about Africa at UCLA en-us Teach Africa advocates more and better teaching about the continent in the schools. The launch event brought distinguished guests to UCLA along with high-schoolers and teachers back from a Ugandan trip.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=94644UCLA 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.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=94061Jacqueline 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."http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=91813This Fowler Museum exhibition runs from Dec. 9 through April 27, 2008.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=80964Antonio 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.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=79686Amy Futa remembers friend and colleague Gregory A. Cherry.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=75456From UCLA African Studies Center Directorhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=71864For Ghislaine Lydon, 2006 was the year of travel.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=70087Visiting humanities professor to lecture on African activism, literature, and libertieshttp://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=63302UCLA 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.http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/article.asp?parentid=63246