A new study co-led by Jessica Thompson, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale and assistant curator at the Peabody Museum, has made crucial progress in studying the movements of African populations during the Stone Age by sequencing genomes from ancient DNA. The study wa...

In 2021, Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) launched a new global outreach initiative, the Directors Forum. The objective of the Forum is to provide a trusted platform for leaders and entrepreneurs working in Africa’s cultur...

A webinar at Yale explored how political competitions devolve to destabilizing conflicts in Africa and the peculiar elements that make these trends rampant. It interrogated various conflicts in the region and the nature of interventions that were deployed to address them. It f...

A new study co-authored by Yale political scientist Elizabeth Nugent and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that radio messages delivered by a highly regarded religious leader promoting the forgiveness of repentant ex-Boko ...