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Five experts on Africa discussed the continent??s economic and political progress and prospects last night. Entitled “Africa: The Next 50 Years,” and featuring a World Bank official and an African and African American Studies professor, the panel convened at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) days after the legitimacy of this Saturday’s presidential election in Nigeria was questioned by various international watchdogs. The event was also scheduled to fall during the year of the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s independence from Britain. Panel members emphasized progress...
With purses heavy from a recent donation, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is hoping to spark College students’ interest in the continent??s culture and politics as part of a new initiative, Internationalize Undergraduate Education. The program—including faculty-student dinners, thesis workshops, and research opportunities—hopes to engage students in Europoean studies throughout their college careers, according to the center’s executive director, Patricia H. Craig. “We are helping students make sense of what they are learning, not only within the general context...
...their predecessors who sponsored refugees from Nazi Germany to complete an undergraduate education. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when captive Jews in Poland’s capital attempted a revolt. As German forces marched through Europe and then attempted to exterminate the continent??s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee to enroll in Radcliffe, The Crimson reported in February 1939. Kurt M. Hertzfeld...
...answer has two main components: one, demographic, is extremely simple, and the other, spiritual, is more complex. These two factors have left Europe increasingly feeble in both thought and deed and have made the continent??once history’s great driving force—into a mere spectator, alternately cheering and booing from the sidelines but powerless to affect the outcome...
...early stage in his intellectual journey a student would be confined to concentrating on the narrow region where this language is used. It makes much more sense for a student of Africa to satisfy himself with his knowledge of English or French—two of the continent??s much more far-reaching lingua franca. This notion is liable to be criticized as colonialist and directed exclusively at communicating with Western-educated African elites. However, it is only reasonable to choose to undergo African language education once one is far enough along in the study of Africa...