Africa

With our Kenyan partners, we will use these results to develop the “Pepea in Schools” teacher professional development program. 

Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the DRC.

This project will support the establishment of an air quality network across Senegal measuring two important pollutants, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

The Sound Justice Lab is a newly formed collective of students and faculty bridging law and the humanities at UVA.

My ethnographic research explores multigenerational experiences with precarity and aspiration in the Kahe Ward of northern Tanzania.

This field experimental study will test whether home-based support can promote early literacy skills in Nigeria and Kenya.

It might seem odd that the poet who once penned the most imitated Arabic poem of all times is largely unstudied, if recognizable at all, in the western academy.

Achieving goals in global health requires moving data into practice, but low/middle income countries struggle in performing high quality clinical research, and very few studies done and published focus on surgery and emergency care.

My book analyzes the financial, ideological, and political investments made by a cohort of black activist-entrepreneurs, government officials, and corporate executives in black empowerment politics.

My dissertation explores the making of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)—and the demands for economic sovereignty and a “right to development” it embodied—from the perspective(s) of sub-Saharan Africa.