As part of an initiative spearheaded by Pr Ismael Montana, President of the West African Research Association (WARA), a delegation of Diaspora university faculty established in the United States, teaching and doing research in ...
As an essayist, chronicler and novelist, the author, Fadel Dia, already boasts several titles to his name: L'instant durable (1982), Mon village au temps des Blancs (2000), A mes chers parents gaulois (2007), La ...
HIGHLIGHT: Black History Month: Major Women Figures in the History of Blacks in the US and in Africa
The above topic was explored and developed by Professor Hilary Jones of the University of Kentucky (and former CAORC and WARA fellow) to wrap up the celebration of Black History Month by the West ...
When the University of Pittsburgh started looking for contacts to engage in partnerships with West African universities (particularly in Senegal), they were prompted by the West African Research Association (WARA) to reach out to ...
With political tensions on the rise everyday between the ruling majority and some sections of the opposition, rallies and ensuing incidents are getting to be very frequent in the Senegalese daily landscape, specially in ...
HIGHLIGHT: WARC hosts the first post-Covid Faculty Development Seminar (Fulbright-Hays, CAORC, WARC)
The annual Faculty Development Seminar (FDS) funded by the Fulbright-Hays program and jointly implemented by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and the West African Research Center (WARC) aims to help US ...
The film, which is the fruit of a collaborative effort between Professor Karen Wells, University of London, Birkbeck, Dr Peace Tetteh of the University of Ghana and Professor Erdmute Alber, University of Bayreuth, was ...
The author, Dr Alison Rose Jefferson, is an independent historian and heritage conservation consultant, who visits Senegal frequently for professional reasons. Her presentation strove to illuminate erased and overlooked stories about African Americans’ fight ...
Dr Sarah Zimmerman, currently a professor of history at Western Washington University, is a former study abroad student in Senegal and recipient of the West African Research Association fellowship who, over the last decade, ...
When African American artist Yrneh Gabon Brown discusses Africa, tears immediately start flowing from his tears and when he performs anything relating to the continent, powerful energy erupts from his entire body. His artistic ...