Skip to Content

Search: {{$root.lsaSearchQuery.q}}, Page {{$root.page}}

African Studies Center

Recent News

ASC Celebrates 15 Years with Symposium on US-Africa Higher Education Partnerships

A two-day event to explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and student engagement in and on Africa.

ASC director, Omolade Adunbi, speaks with the "Michigan Daily" about 2024 Wallenberg medalist and lecturer, Nnimmo Bassey

“He’s been a champion of environmental rights. Not only for the Niger Delta communities, where he comes from in Nigeria but also the entire Gulf of Guinea. He’s such an important figure for Nigeria, for Africa and for the global environmental movement."

The African Studies Center (ASC) at the University of Michigan

ASC provides strategic guidance and coordination for Africa-related education, research, and training activities on campus, and promotes opportunities for collaboration with African partners on the continent.

Founded in 2008, the center serves as a conduit for the university’s many Africa initiatives in the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, engineering, and medicine.

The center is organized around five primary research initiatives— African Heritage and Humanities (AHHI)African Social Research (ASRI)Ethiopia-Michigan Collaborative Consortium (EMC2)Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM-Africa)U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Program—that have been funded separately by the Office of the President and different stakeholders on campus.

Show your SUPPORT

We strive to support our students and faculty on the front lines of learning and research and to steward our planet, our community, our campus. To do this, the African Studies Center needs your support.