Africa

  1. June 18, 2024

    Surgeon builds sustainable kidney transplant program in Rwanda

    Jeffrey Punch, professor of surgery in the Medical School, has helped launch kidney transplant programs in both Ethiopia and Rwanda.

  2. March 18, 2024

    African Studies Center to mark 15 years with symposium

    The African Studies Center at U-M is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a conference titled “Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to U.S.-Africa Partnership.”

  3. August 30, 2022

    African Studies Center welcomes 12 to UMAPS program

    The African Studies Center is hosting 12 early and mid-career faculty from universities in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.

  4. March 21, 2022

    Wallenberg Fellow to research realities of exploited Rwandan women, girls

    Graduating senior Chloe Hale has been named the 2022 Raoul Wallenberg Fellow. The award will allow her to spend the next year exploring how health crises affect the education of women and girls in Rwanda.

  5. March 8, 2021

    Africa Week follow-up: Videos of discussions on range of topics

    U-M’s Africa Week recently brought together leaders in higher education, industry, and government to address opportunities and challenges that will shape Africa in the coming decades.

  6. February 15, 2021

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  7. February 11, 2021

    U-M bringing together leaders to discuss future of Africa

    U-M will bring together leaders in higher education, industry and government for a weeklong series of discussions on the key issues and opportunities that aim to help shape Africa in the coming decades.

  8. September 28, 2020

    U-M professor’s work featured in ‘Enslaved’ TV series

    Ron Eglash is known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics and recently lent this expertise to “Enslaved,” a docuseries that explores 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World.

  9. August 31, 2020

    Professor helps celebrity find their roots on PBS show

    UM-Dearborn professor Joe Lunn has spent 45 years studying the African experience during World War I, which helped him connect a celebrity with their ancestor’s story on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.”

  10. November 18, 2019

    U-M archivist, anthropologist save Voice of America show’s archive

    Two U-M professors engineered an effort to save the Voice of America’s “Music Time in Africa” archive from remote government storage and, in the process, digitize it for an internet audience.