African Summer Studies Newsletters

CFP: International Conference in Celebration of Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza’s 70th Birthday

Conference Dates: May 21-23, 2025
Venue: Howard University, Washington, DC
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: February 1, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2025

This conference will celebrate Professor Zeleza’s remarkable scholarly contributions over the past four decades, offering an opportunity to reflect on his interdisciplinary work. We invite papers and presentations that examine and engage with his extensive body of work across multiple fields.

The 2024 Summer Leadership Institute, June 24 - August 2

The Howard University Department of African Studies presents the 2024 Summer Leadership Institute, Creating Global Leaders for Tomorrow, Empowering Youth for Today: Africa's Languages, Cultures, and Traditions.  This is an interactive and experiential event for students in high school, grades 10-12.  It will be held from June 24 - August 2, 2024.  For more information, please send inquiries to: tdwyatt@howard.edu.

Howard University African Studies International Conference

Announcing the Howard University African Studies International Conference, March 12-13, 2024, Global Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Visions, Objectives, Challenges & Opportunities.  To learn more and register: cfas.howard.edu/ASconf24.

Benin Internship for Undergraduate Students

The African Studies Department partners with the UCSC Archaeological Research Center for the UC-HBCU Graduate Pathways Internship in African Diaspora Archaeology. The internship is a five-week summer training program designed to introduce undergraduate students enrolled at accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to the methods and results of archaeological research on African Diaspora sites. Since 2018, interns from multiple HBCUs have participated in archaeological excavations at three sites of key importance to the African Diaspora: 1) Sans-Souci, the royal palace of Henry Christophe located in Milot, Haiti, 2) Estate Little Princess, a former Danish plantation in St. Croix, USVI, and 3) Saclo, Bénin, a rural village that emerged on the outskirts of Abomey, capital of the precolonial Kingdom of Dahomey. For this 2024 field season, we are excited to bring Howard U. students to Bénin. Students will spend one week in residence at UC Santa Cruz, California and another four weeks in Bénin doing field work and visiting heritage sites.

New Book: Issues of Governance, Security and Development in Contemporary Africa

African Studies faculty members and alumni recently released the edited volume Issues of Governance, Security and Development in Contemporary Africa.

Undergraduate Research Continues to Flourish in the Department of African Studies

Darline Washington is currently conducting her undergraduate research project under the guidance of Dr. Flordeliz T. Bugarin, Associate Professor in the Department of African Studies.  Her research is centered on the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, with a focus on the impacts of forced removals and informal settlements resulting from governmental agendas, environmental policies, and the creation of game parks.

Congratulations to Dr. Shayla Monroe!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Monroe begins her first semester this Fall 2023 at Harvard University as a new tenure-track Assistant Professor.  She began her career at Howard University, where she was an undergraduate research assistant in the Montague Cobb Lab under Dr. Flordeliz T. Bugarin, Associate Professor in the Department of African Studies.  Dr.

Prof. Mohamed Camara awarded The Grand Prix de la francophone

New Course! Trafficking & Destruction of African Heritage

The new course, Trafficking, and Destruction of African Heritage (AFST 120) will be launched in Spring 2022 by Dr. Bugarin, Associate Professor in the Department of African Studies along with Dr. Eleanor King, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology.