Africa

This short film will explore issues of press freedom, censorship, and satire in the Republic of Guinea.

The main objective of this project is to report on the state of research and safeguarding of Amazigh intangible cultural heritage.

CGII funding is contributing to a project addressing Swahili women’s roles from 600-1600 CE on the East African coast in the realms of agricultural production, cuisine, cultural transmission, craft production, and leadership.

My archaeological research in western Zambia studies daily life and interactional histories in ‘in-between’ places between emergent state systems in southern Africa from the 8th to the 18th centuries CE.

My research project explores the artistic and cultural manifestations in which contemporary Muslim women define their body space to defy internal, traditional restrictions and external, orientalist Western gazes.

Our proposed project investigates two community-led initiatives to develop infrastructure to support community-based research.

My project explores the archaeology of the Swahili in Zanzibar Tanzania, during the Portuguese and Omani colonial occupations of the 16th-20th centuries CE.

The purpose of this project is to develop the STAR Global Autism Initiative as a new branch of UVa’s Supporting Transformative Autism Research (STAR).

This is a collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiate to conduct research and create co- design strategies for socially and contextually aware modes of turning the water that is inundating historic buildings into a resource for improving the social and built environments of the Al-Khalifa neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt.

Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia.