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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…

The Center for African Studies, Global Water Institute and the Global One Health Initiative are continuing the Voices from the Field brown bag speaker series featuring multidisciplinary…

For the second summer, the Center for African Studies and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs co-hosted a six week Public Management Institute for 25 Mandela Washington Fellows. Twenty-five…

A delegation of 16 Model African Union students traveled to Washington D.C. this past February to participate in the National Model African Union conference. Convening every year at Howard University…

The Global Water Institute and the Center for African Studies announce a new informal lunchtime forum to highlight the work of Ohio State faculty who have had significant experience working in…

The first cohort of young African professionals to attend OSU as part of a Public Management Institute this summer exceeded already high expectations as representatives of emerging leadership on…

Three new OSU summer programs – two in Tanzania and one in Rwanda – will be added to nine existing OSU programs in Africa for the 2016/17 academic year. Dr. Hollie Nyseth Brehm from the Department…