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04/05/21

An Interview with Assistant Professor Benedito Machava

Benedito Machava is a historian of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Raised and educated in Mozambique, he received his Ph.D. at Michigan University in 2018. His research focuses on liberation struggles, decolonization, nation-building, socialism, and socialist experiments in...
03/26/21

Conversation with Hopewell Chin'ono

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs hosted a conversation with Hopewell Chin'ono, a Zimbabwean human rights activist, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker on March 31. The event was co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. At t...
03/23/21

Decolonizing the American University - African Writers in Conversation Series

    On March 17, 2021 distinguished Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o gave a lecture on 'Decolonizing the American University' as part of the African Writers in Conversation Series. The event was sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center's Council on Afr...
Leading for Change 2
03/16/21

Yale and Africa's 'Leading for Change' conversation series

The third webinar of our 'Leading for Change' conversation series took place on Friday, April 16 at 12pm ET in partnership with the Yale Undergraduate Association for African Peace and Development (YAAPD). We were joined by Marcio Burity as he discussed Afric...
02/18/21

Reinstallation of Yale's African Art Galleries Complete

Yale University Art Gallery announced the completion of a yearlong reinstallation of a portion of the African art galleries. Breaking from a thematic arrangement of objects, the new displays now focus in on distinct African cultural zones, highlighting masterpieces from the co...
Phyllis Mugadza
02/11/21

Yale Young African Scholars and Yale Young Global Scholars alum wins 2020 Reimagine Challenge

Phyllis Mugadza '21 BA, '22 MPH says she wasn’t entirely familiar with the U.S. college experience when attending high school in Zimbabwe, but when she learned about the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program, she applied and was accepted. “It was the f...
01/11/21

Yale Global Mental Health Program Begins 2021 With New Leadership

The Yale Global Mental Health Program (GMHP) begins 2021 with new teaching and trainee leadership. Theddeus Iheanacho, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Sirikanya (Sanya) Sellers, MD, a first-year resident, are the new faculty and residency leaders, respectively. Bot...
11/18/20

African Women as Pillars of Resilience

  The third in our series of African Women as Pillars of Resilience public webinars took place on 16 November 2020. The focus of this webinar, conducted in both English and French, was "Mitigating the Economic Impacts of the Pandemic on African Women."...
10/29/20

The Yale Africa Startup Review

The Yale Africa Startup Review (YASR) is an annual Yale-wide Africa student-led feature of startups shaping the future of innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The Review is a product born out of our shared desire to ensure the narrative of African innovation and ent...
10/28/20

An Interview with Helinna Ayalew, M.A. African Studies Program ’14

In our alumni spotlight series, we interviewed Helinna Ayalew who is the Head of Digital Education at Liquid Telecom. Helinna received her M.A. in African Studies from Yale University and B.A. in International Studies from Macalester College. She spoke with us about her passio...

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