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Calendar of Local Events: Focus on Africa May 2: "Where Are You Taking Me?" Film screening, 7:00 PM, Wexner Center for the Arts  Details _________________________ May 4 : Celebration of the Professor Oyekan Owomoyela Endowment Fund for Yoruba Studies. 6:30- 9:00 Mason Hall Rotunda. Details ___________________ May 7: "Digital Activism: Reflections on Kony 2012" Roundtable Discussion, 6:30-8:00, Cunz 0150. Details ___________________ May 7 - 11: International Career Week Details ___________________ May 26: Yoruba Club 21 Fundraiser for the Owomoyela Yoruba Studies Endowment, TBA ___________________ About CAS The Center for African Studies disseminates knowledge and promotes inquiry about Africa throughout the university, the city, the state, and the nation. more

CAS Director to Become New Associate Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs.

Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs William Brustein has selected Dr. Kelechi Kalu as the next Associate Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs at Ohio State. more

Professor Ali Mazrui Speaks on "Islam in Africa's Experience"

Dr. Ali Mazrui, a scholar of African and Islamic Studies spoke to Columbus professionals at the “Islam in Africa’s Experience: Expansion, Revival & Radicalization” luncheon. more

Model African Union team represents Liberia, South Sudan at National Conference

Ten students representing two country delegations traveled to Washington, DC to engage in a simulation of the African Union at the end of February. more

CAS Director conducts research, exchange as Korea Foundation Field Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar

From August 2011 through January 2012, Professor Kelechi Kalu has been a Korea Foundation Field Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of International Studies & Institute for Development and Human Security of Ewha Womans University. read more

Somalia at Crossroads Conference

As part of an ongoing dialogue in search of viable paths towards stable statehood, OSU was host to a conference entitled, “Somalia at Crossroads: Foreign Intervention, Humanitarian Crisis and Aspirations for Statehood” on January 27-28, 2012. read more 

Reflections on Global Service Corp-Tanzania experience

CAS Program Assistant Darby O’Donnell, a third year International Affairs Scholar, spent her fall semester was spent in Arusha, Tanzania as a participant in a service-learning study abroad program hosted by University of Albany in partnership with Global Service Corp- Tanzania, a US-based NGO focusing on food security. read more

Three OSU “Champions of Change” honored at the White House

The White House recently honored three individuals with OSU affiliations as “Champions of Change” for their leadership in U.S. Diaspora communities representing the Horn of Africa. read more

 

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