NYU Africa House, 44 Washington Mews, New York, NY (2026)

04/14/2025

Thank you to our amazing guests for honoring our invitation to the Africa House - CTED Gala Celebration. Your presence, warmth, and participation made the event one to be remembered.

It was a pleasure hosting you and we look forward to more opportunities to work together. Stay connected by subscribing to our newsletter https://www.nyuafricahouse.org/mailing-list and/or following us on LinkedIn.

Picture credit: Goldman: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau

02/12/2025

⏳ The deadline is approaching. Have you applied yet?

Don't miss this incredible opportunity! NYU Africa House is now accepting applications for the 2025-26 Africa House Student Fellowships, offering funding for short-term research focused on Africa. Thanks to generous external donor support, we are providing NYU undergraduate and graduate students with the resources they need to advance their research and make a meaningful impact.

🔹 Deadline: March 1, 2025 (or the specific date for each fellowship)
🔹 Who Can Apply? Current NYU undergraduate & graduate students
🔹 Why Apply? Access funding, mentorship, and research opportunities

Available Fellowships:
✅ Africa House/CTED Development Impact Fellowship
✅ NYU Africa House Thoyer Fellowship
✅ Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship (GSAS)
✅ NYU Gallatin/Africa House Bergman Summer Fellowship
✅ Africa House-SPS Bergman Fellowship

External Fellowships (Not funded by Africa House):
📍 NYU Migration Network Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration (Wagner School of Public Service)

Time is running out. Submit your application today and take your research to the next level!

Apply now before it’s too late!
https://www.nyuafricahouse.org/fellowships

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02/12/2025

Express Newark Announces its 2025 Annual Theme and Exhibition Program, RITUAL

Express Newark’s 2024-2025 annual theme Ritual is a series of exhibitions and events that explore the relationship between Islamic spiritual practices, rituals, and art—featuring experimentations in photography, film, sound art, and textiles. Ritual features work by artists, curators, students, and community members who’ve immersed themselves in nonsecular expressions of spirituality and Islamic traditions across the Muslim world. These works span Newark, which has long been home to one of our nation’s largest African American Muslim communities, while also branching out beyond the domestic borders of the United States to unite members of the global community.

By bridging traditional spiritual practices and aesthetic innovations, these artistic explorations turn towards Muslim interiorities—an often underrepresented perspective in art—to create timely meditations that center art and ritual and inspire new discourses, worldviews, and conversations about belief and identity.

Register for the Opening Reception
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/express-newark-presents-ritual-tickets-1142909094869?aff=oddtdtcreator

Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Venue: 54 Halsey Street, 2nd Floor, Newark, NJ 07102
Doors Open 5:00 pm
Refreshments will be served

Image: Malick Welli, Forgotten Paradise #2, from the series Forgotten Paradise: Dream the Other Side of the River, 2022, created in collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite. Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper, 120x160 cm, Edition 1/3 + 1AP. Courtesy of Galerie L’Atelier 21, Casablanca, Morocco

12/19/2024

It's been an amazing year 2024 for us at Africa House and we hope it's been the same for you.

This year we:
1. Hosted several high level events to foster relevant conversations on Cruptocurrency and its uses in agricultural markets, economic development and policy research with the UAE Ministry of Economy, Africa AI Blueprint with AUDA-NEPAD, Arts and Cultural Heritage with CTED Ghana, a new lens on African Heritage with The MET amongst many others.

2. Identified and awarded exceptional students with fellowships for short term research opportunities.

3. Continued to work on our research and updated technology tools to support the work of farmers in Ghana

You can catch up with our year in pictures from our newsletter
https://mailchi.mp/nyu/nyu-africa-house-seasons-greetings-10145359

Have a beautiful holiday!

12/13/2024

On Tuesday, 10th December, we hosted the World Monuments Fund, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and members of Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID)

The event was about recontextualizing The MET’s Arts of Africa Galleries by telling the stories of African heritage places. The initiative aimed to foreground the richness and diversity of cultural landmarks across the African continent and highlight the critical work to preserve these unique sites.

The panel discussion which was moderated by World Monuments Fund Vice President of Programs, Jonathan S. Bell, featured Alisa Lagamma (Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge of The Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing), Sosena Solomon (visual artist), and Tawanda Mukwende (Lecturer of Archaeology at Great Zimbabwe University). The welcome remarks were by Prof. Yaw Nyarko (Director of NYU Africa House-Center for Technology and Economic Development).

We look forward to continuous collaboration.

12/13/2024

On Thursday, 5th December, Africa House hosted a mini conference on "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: AI, Technology, Markets, and Sustainable Development" in honour of Prof. Mukul Majumdar.

Prof. Mukul Majumdar is the H.T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Cornell University, where he also serves as a faculty member of the Centre for Applied Mathematics and the South Asia Program of the Center for International Studies. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a member of the Advisory Board of Economic Theory. Professor Majumdar’s current research interests include sustainable economic development, intertemporal decentralization, allocation theory, international trade theory, and dynamical systems with a focus on chaos and cycles. He is widely published in academic journals including the Journal of Economic Theory and the Review of Economic Studies and is the author of three books: Sustainability and Resources: Some Theoretical Issues in Dynamic Economics (2019), Random Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications (with R. Bhattacharya, 2007), and Equilibrium, Welfare and Uncertainty: Beyond Arrow-Debreu (2009). He previously served as the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Cornell University and as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Professor Majumdar received his B.A. in Economics from Calcutta University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

The conference featured presentations from Prof. Jess Benhabib Prof. James Foster, Prof. Yaw Nyarko, and Prof. Debraj Ray. It also featured beautiful speeches and sharing of fond memories. We were glad to be part of this.

11/04/2024

Nonfiction Storytelling: Narrating Europe's Racial Past in the Present is a fireside chat between the 2024 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize winner Caroline Elkins and award-winning playwright, actress, and NYU Tisch professor Anna Deveare Smith.

Professor Elkins is the recipient of the 2024 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize in Literary Narrative Nonfiction for her book Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, an expansive exploration of violence and oppression across Britain’s colonial empire that covers more than two hundred years of history across four continents.

The fireside chat will take place on Thursday, November 14th at 5:30 pm at Espacio de Culturas in the King Juan Carlos I Center. A reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres will follow.

Those interested in attending can register here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczvKRJGpW_qAxQQKtKDOCazD0zJBFfNr0yxW4UGaQ1K4LDIg/viewform

10/09/2024

On September 26, 2024, NYU Africa House and Prof. Yaw Nyarko collaborated with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) on the conference "Africa AI Blueprint: Building a Sustainable and Inclusive AI Ecosystem." It featured keynote speeches, presentations, and panel discussions with members of the academia, private sector, civil society, and multilateral organizations.

Some key highlights from the speakers were:

1. Research and development communities should be empowered to ensure the democratization of access to AI.

2. Multi-stakeholder approaches should be leveraged to develop and deploy holistic solutions for the continent that are safe, accessible, and relevant to the region.

3. Explore innovative methods of financing to ensure digital infrastructure development.

4. Academic researchers should be funded to pilot projects and programs that can be scaled broadly across regions.

5. Education and development of young people who can contribute to addressing the challenges in the space such as cybersecurity and lack of diversity.

6. Africa and Africans should be present at the table to ensure inclusive and legitimate decision-making.

Thank you to our partner, the AUDA-NEPAD, and to all our speakers and participants for insightful conversations.

©Goldman: NYU Photo Bureau and Vera Qiu

10/07/2024

How do immigration policies from economically advantaged countries affect people in less advantaged countries and the immigrants who come in with these policies?

Structured Luck takes us on a transnational journey to explore the societal, personal, and political implications of the US Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, a US immigration policy that is an annual economic and cultural event in many economically disadvantaged countries. It illuminates the trauma, resilience, determination, and mobility of immigrants who come to the U.S. through the DV program and closes with a call for the U.S. and other economically advantaged countries to develop policies that will better integrate their immigrants into society.

Onoso Imoagene, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD

In conversation with
Natasha Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, NYU Wagner

RSVP https://nyuad.my.salesforce-sites.com/NYEvents/apex/NYUEventRegistration?event=7N2hswTo3CexLFnBVQMWjA_3D_3D

05/03/2024

Africa House provides annual fellowships to exceptional scholars from NYU to enable them to pursue studies and research endeavors across Africa. Generous contributions from external donors sustain all funding for the Africa House/CTED Development Impact Fellowship, Thoyer Fellowship, Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship (in collaboration with the Graduate School of Arts and Science), Africa House-SPS Bergman Fellowship (in collaboration with NYU School of Professional Studies), and the NYU Gallatin-Africa House Bergman Summer Fellowship (in collaboration with NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study).

We are honored to announce the recipients of these prestigious fellowships for the 2024-25 academic year:

Africa House/CTED Development Impact Fellowship (in the amount of $1,500)
- Djamila Egbe, Bachelor’s Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Arihant Gupta, Bachelor’s Candidate in Economics

Africa House Thoyer Fellowship (in the amount of $2,500)
- Joana Nana Serwaa Akrofi, Ph.D. Candidate in Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (Department of Occupational Therapy)
- Noah Oladele, Ph.D. Candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication

Africa House-SPS Bergman Fellowship (in the amount of $2,500)
- Busi Motau, Bachelor’s Candidate in Digital Media and Communications

Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship (in the amount of $2,500)
- Jimmy Graham, Ph.D. Candidate in Politics
- Alex Gregory, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropological Archaeology in the Anthropology
Department.

NYU Gallatin-Africa House Bergman Summer Fellowship (in the amount of $5,000)
- Kaelyn Edwards, Master’s Candidate at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- Santana Kavanaugh, Bachelor’s Candidate at NYU
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- Tiara Mansfield, Bachelor’s Candidate at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Congratulations to all the 2024 Africa House fellowship recipients! Your dedication, passion, and hard work enrich our community. Keep striving, keep dreaming, and keep making a positive impact on the world around you.

©Jolly: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

04/25/2024

On April 16, 2024, Professor Yaw Nyarko hosted the NYU Africa House/CTED “Dinner Celebration for Research Colleagues, Students, and Supporters.” The dinner celebration highlighted Africa House/CTED’s achievements, progress, and future vision, alongside honoring our supporters. Updates were shared on our agricultural market research with smallholder farmers, including our nano commodity markets and blockchain project. The event also featured the presentation of the 2024-25 Africa House Fellowship Awards to NYU students, with research outcomes shared by past Africa House fellows. Attendees enjoyed a vibrant exhibition of African art, showcasing our Kumawu Museum Network and artwork made by student artists in Ghana. We had wonderful musical performances by Fadimatou (FADÍ) Mossi and master kora player of Mali Yacouba Sissoko. We sincerely thank all those who joined us for this celebratory program.

See more here: https://www.nyuafricahouse.org/events-index/nyu-africa-housected-dinner-celebration-for-research-colleagues-students-and-supporters

©Jolly: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

04/25/2024

On April 16, 2024, P*s Professors Raša Karapandža and Yaw Nyarko convened the “Digital Technologies, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and Economic Development” Conference at New York University, which centered around the application of digital tools to boost economic development. Specifically, the conference featured presentations by Karapandža and Nyarko on novel approaches to facilitating access to credit through blockchain-enabled technologies as well as the implications of these technologies for central banks. They presented lectures on blockchain, CBDCs, and other uses of the technology. Keynote remarks were delivered by Mr. Armando Manuel, Chairman of Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, who spoke about the transformative potential of digital technologies across various aspects of finance and public policy. The audience reflected a distinguished and diverse group of academics, policymakers, private sector leaders, as well as many undergraduate and graduate students from NYU and other universities.

See more here: https://www.nyuafricahouse.org/events-index/nyu-africa-housected-digital-technologies-central-bank-digital-currencies-cbdcs-and-economic-development-conference

©Jolly: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

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