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Mamadou Diouf, West African Scholar, Selected to Lead Columbia's Institute for African Affairs

Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:30:00 EST | Columbia University

On December 7th, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced that Mamadou Diouf, a renowned West African scholar and historian, has been hired to lead Columbia's Institute for African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs. Diouf will also become a faculty member in Columbia's Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.


Confronting AIDS at Home: Mailman School Researcher Drafts Policy Blueprint to Address AIDS Crisis Among African Americans

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:00:00 EST | Columbia University

The country's leading African American lawmakers, civil rights leaders and medical experts have called on the federal government to adopt and implement a new blueprint to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in the African American community.


Forty Years of 'African Arts'

| UCLA International Institute

Herbert M. Cole looks at four decades of "African Arts" at UCLA and what the future may have in store for the journal and the field of African art.


Unemployment Rate Dips for Blacks

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:36:00 EST | NPR News Headlines

For the first time in five years, the African-American unemployment rate dipped. It went from 8.4 percent in December 2006 to 8 percent this January. Do the numbers indicate the job market is looking up for African Americans, or is the drop a one-time drop in the bucket?


France wins agreement from 3 African countries embroiled in Darfur crisis

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:49:00 -0500 | canoe CNEWS

CANNES, France (AP) - Looking to end the crisis in Darfur, France won agreement on Thursday from three involved African countries that they would not support armed rebel movements on each other's territories.


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