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This semester marks the launch of a series of African affairs-oriented events at Mershon. With support from the Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme on ‘Archival Imaginations’, two…

Ousman Murzik Kobo, associate professor in the Department of History, has been appointed director of the Center for African Studies. In this role, he will be responsible for developing a strategic…

For the first time, OSU Model African Union students attended the Regional Southeast Simulation sponsored by Savannah State University November 8-10th. As with the national conference held in…

The Center for African Studies is pleased to announce the launching of the  

Owomoyela Yoruba Studies Graduate Scholarship Competition

Purpose: The study of Yoruba language, literature…

Salome Fouts, senior lecturer and the director of African Languages at the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has received the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a…

For the eighth consecutive year, OSU students from the Model African Union (MAU) organization took part in the annual international simulation hosted by Howard University in Washington, DC…

This year’s Oyekan Owomoyela lecture, “Semioptics of Yoruba Language: Word as Image”, delved into the confluence of spoken and visual word in Yoruba painting sculpture, installations, proverbs,…

Researchers working in Africa in any field—from social science to hydrology to epidemiology—need data to be able to develop and guide best practices and produce actionable scholarly results.…

Three young Ghanaians and two adults representing Ghana 4H and YMCA recently spent a week visiting Columbus and experiencing programs that engage youth in agriculture. The visit was a culminating…