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African languages and literature Student selected for second cohort of Voyager Scholarship

Julianna Russ of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, a third-year student at the University of Georgia minoring in African Languages and Literature, is one of 100 college students from across the country selected for the second cohort of the Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship f

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Courses - Fall 2023

The courses offered by the African Studies Institute for the Fall 2023 semester are listed below.

For more information contact the Director of the African Studies Insitute.

Dave Hoisington, the director of the Peanut Innovation Lab, and David Okello, the chief groundnut breeder in Uganda, inspect a field in Malawi. (Photo by Allison Floyd)

Peanut Innovation Lab led by Dave Hoisington Secures USAID Funding for another Five Years

CenHTRO Director David Okech and Associate Director Lydia Aletraris photographed at the International Labour Organization headquarters at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. David Okech represents UGA in a joint project with the United Nations

Professor Maria Navarro

Maria Navarro named Meigs Professor

Professor Maria Navarro, an African Studies Institute affiliate faculty member, has been awarded the University of Georgia's highest teaching honor, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professorship.

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