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The humble bicycle propelled AIDS-orphan Chris Ategeka from rural East Africa to UC Berkeley, driving him to success as an engineer, inventor and social entrepreneur.
Tag: Africa
Experts sound alarm over “perfect storm” in African Sahel
April 9, 2013:
The African Sahel, beset with impacts from climate change and the most rapidly growing population in the world, could descend into large-scale drought, famine, war and terrorist control if immediate steps are not taken, according to a new report by experts from UC Berkeley and the African Institute for Development Policy.
Searching for ‘the Berkeley spark’ in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 3, 2013:
Admission officer Lin Larson traveled to top high schools in Sub-Saharan Africa to talk to disadvantaged, talented young students about UC Berkeley and opportunities to be a MasterCard Foundation Scholar.
Edwin Okong’o, ‘storyteller by any medium necessary’
March 26, 2013:
Swahili instructor by day, comedian by night, campus lecturer Edwin Okong’o mines the immigrant experience for comic gold in his stand-up routines. A “storyteller by any medium necessary,” the Cal journalism grad also speaks his truth as radio-show co-host, writer, reporter and award-winning video producer.
An audacious mission in Africa
November 30, 2012:
Patrick Awuah, who received his MBA from the Haas School of Business in 1999, went on to found Ashesi University in Ghana in 2002. His aim? To transform a continent through education.
AFRON builds robotics education, research, industry in Africa
May 2, 2012:
Roboticists in Ghana and at UC Berkeley this week launched AFRON, the African Robotics Network, an initiative to enhance robotics education, research and industry in Africa. Co-founder is professor Ken Goldberg, a fellow with IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
Namwali Serpell wins prize for promising women writers
September 6, 2011:
UC Berkeley’s Namwali Serpell, an assistant professor of English and a novelist, is one of six winners of the 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers.
Symposium to report positive returns from programs in Africa for girls’ welfare
April 22, 2011:
Positive outcomes and lessons to be learned from new approaches to help girls and women struggling in developing countries will be explored at an April 28 symposium to be hosted by the Center for Evaluation of Global Action (CEGA), based at UC Berkeley.
2011 Yamashita Prize winner directs leadership incubator for African women
April 21, 2011:
The 2011 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize for an outstanding young activist-scholar has been awarded by UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Social Change to Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, founder and executive director of the non-profit Akili Dada leadership incubator for young African women.
On Africa, Wikipedia comes up short, iSchool student says
March 2, 2011:
School of Information grad student Heather Ford argues in a recent essay that Wikipedia displays a bias on African topics. The South African native says this epitomizes the challenges facing the crowd-sourced encyclopedia as it seeks to “make all human knowledge accessible.”
Survey highlights impact of war in northern Uganda
December 2, 2010:
Just a few years ago, nearly all northern Ugandans were living in displacement camps as the Lord’s Resistance Army terrorized the countryside. A new survey of northern Ugandans, conducted by the Human Rights Center, offers a rare snapshot of the relative calm that now prevails in the area, but also highlights widespread fears that the peace is only temporary.
