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IAD Bouriez Fellow ' 2021
David Ngam
With a commitment to youth empowerment and agricultural development, David Arnaud Ngam à Kibeng is championing growth and innovation for local realities in Africa.
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IAD Current Events Forum: The Role of African Languages and Kiswahili Contemporary Literature in Higher Education
Friday, December 2nd, 2022 Virtual event / eCornell 10:00am EST / 5:00pm EAT
"The prize, founded in 2014 by Dr. Lizzy Attree (Short Story Day Africa) and Dr. Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Cornell University), has the express goal of recognizing writing in African languages and encouraging translation from, between and into African languages."
This event is supported by an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Global Healthcare Case Competition
Watch the competition here : https://cornell.zoom.us/j/93544898237?pwd=SzhCZ05EVHFkN0JFVnRGRGRIYmJDZz09 The Institute of African Development and the OKB Hope Foundation, in collaboration with Cornell Healthcare Student Association, present the second Global Case Competition Nov. 19th at 9:00am EST. The competition gives students the opportunity to merge academic learning with practical design in addressing health-related global challenges. Students from different fields, universities, and countries bring their perspectives and knowledge to design innovative solutions for the future of health and wellbeing. Join us tomorrow for the presentations and for a panel of eminent judges made up of faculty, doctors and other medical practitioners from Washington University, Cornell University, Sanford Health, Mount Sinai Morningside, University of Ghana, Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital, and Ghana National Ambulance Service as they deliberate and choose the winning team based on select criteria.
Cornell Summer Program in Zambia Info Session
November 14, 2022
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G44
Come to the Office of Global Learning's information session to learn more about this program!
The History and Politics of Southern Africa is a three week program, to be held at the University of Zambia, Cornell’s new Global Hub partner in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The class will introduce students to the history and politics of Zambia and more broadly southern Africa. The class examines the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. It then turns to an analysis of the politics, economies, and societies of contemporary southern Africa.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for African Development Film Series
November 9, 2022
5:30 pm
109 Tower Rd., G-08 Uris Hall
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a 2002 documentary film depicting the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of Apartheid through the use of music.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
Akinwumi Ogundiran
November 8, 2022
4:30 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium
THE LITTLE ICE AGE AND THE OYO EMPIRE: AN UNFINISHED PROCESS OF RECOVERY
IN WEST AFRICA, ca. 1420-1840
This lecture is free and open to the community.
About Akin Ogundiran:
Akin Ogundiran is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the African Archaeological Review. Ogundiran’s scholarship focuses primarily on the history and archaeology of the Yoruba world, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. Ogundiran’s latest book, The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020), is the winner of the 2022 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development