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Yale School of Management
Albert Ahenkan is the School of Management’s third Global Network African Faculty Fellow Yale School of Management (SOM) recently welcomed to campus its third Global Network African Faculty Fellow, professor Albert Ahenkan from the University of Ghana Business School (U...
His Excellency Macky Sall, president of the Republic of Senegal, speaks at Yale September 25th 2019
President Peter Salovey welcomed His Excellency Macky Sall, president of the Republic of Senegal, to Yale on Sept. 25th. During the visit, Sall delivered a lecture on the “Role of Africa in Contemporary International Relations” as part of the Yale Africa Initiative...
On July 25, the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program kicks off its 2019 season with sessions in Accra, Ghana; Harare, Zimbabwe; and, for the first time, in Nairobi, Kenya. YYAS brings together African secondary school students for a cost-free, seven-day residential prog...
Left to right: Kefentse Mzwinila ’99 M.A., Botswanan minister of land management, water and sanitation services; Yale President Peter Salovey; President Mokgweetsi Masisi of the Republic of Botswana; Yale Director for Africa Eddie Mandhry.
President Mokgweetsi Masisi of the Republic of Botswana and a delegation including First Lady Neo Jane Masisi visited Yale on June 6 for a series of meetings aimed at developing partnerships that would offer opportunities for research and capacity development in several diff...
2019 Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact
President Peter Salovey joins participants of the Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact, a keystone program of the Yale Africa Initiative, an ongoing effort by Yale to prioritize and expand upon its collaboration on the continent. This year, program participants on campus...
Photo credit: Sheldon McLeod
Africa is urbanizing fast, as its population grows and many flocks to cities in search of jobs, education and healthcare. Studies show that hundreds of millions more Africans will live in cities over the next three decades. Many of these new urban Africans, however, are like...

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