"The United States, France and Africa: Competition or Complementarity"
African Studies and Center for Transatlantic Relations
Universite Paris I (Sorbonne) Research Symposium
December 8, 2006 "Kenya's Reform Agenda and Its' Vision 2030"
Honorable Amos Kimunya M.P, Kenyan Minister of Finance
March 22, 2007 "China's New Engagement With Africa: Opportunity and Challenge"
SAIS African Studies Program and School of International Service (SIS) at American University announce the annual African Studies Program Conference
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April 6, 2007 "The Potentiality of Developmental States in Africa: Uganda and Botswana Compared"
Pamela Mbabazi, Senior Lecturer / Dean Faculty of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science & Technology and she was also Uganda & Fulbright Visiting African Scholar: SAIS-IDEV
April 9, 2007 “Black Gold: How Oil Threatens Peace and Democracy in East Africa”
Angelo Izama, Director of special projects at the Daily Monitor
October 12, 2007 "AFRICOM: Security, Development, and African Realities"
Sean McFate, Program Director of the Stabilizing Fragile States Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center
Stewart Patrick, Research Fellow, Center for Global Development
February 6, 2008 "Africa: The China Factor"
Adama Gaye, Visting Research Associate, African Studies Program and Author --China Africa the Dragon and Ostrich, ed.L'Harmattan, Paris
March 26, 2008
"Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea"
Ricardo M. S. Soares de Oliveira, Austin Robinson Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
April 9, 2008 "Unlocking Africa's Potential: Development Corridors and SDIs - a private sector led growth strategy"
Dr. Rosalind Thomas, Visiting Scholar of African Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
October 22, 2008
Senate Foreign Relations Staff Report: "The Petroleum and Poverty Paradox: Assessing U.S. and International Community Efforts to Fight the Resource Curse"
Reception and Photo Exhibit with Ed Kashi, Photographer
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
November 20, 2008 Conference: "The Politics of Development and Security in Africa's Oil States"
April 2, 2009
Conference: "The Politics of Development and Security in Africa's Oil States"
April 3, 2009
"Emerging Africa: The Unheralded Economic Turnaround in (half of) Africa"
Steven Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development.
Co-sponsored with the International Development Roundtable.
September 18, 2009
"Africa and the Global Economic Downturn: Impact and Responses"
Harry Broadman, Managing Director of the Albright Stonebridge Group.
September 23, 2009
"Regional Integration and South-South Cooperation: An African Perspective"
Dr. Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa
September 30, 2009
"Association of African Studies Programs"
April 8-10, 2010
"In Defense of Competition: The Cost of Coalition in Africa"
Nic Cheeseman, Lecturer in African Studies at University of Oxford
April 21, 2010 "The African Diaspora's Role in Development"
Dr Richard Cambridge, World Bank Group African Diaspora Program
SAIS Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
Monday, February 7, 2010 Conference: Africa's New Era: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future
March 1-2, 2010
Subject: The conference will explore the key political and economic factors that have contributed to the acceleration of the region’s development. Additionally, the conference will identify the key risks and opportunities for African development looking ahead.
Click here for more information "New Approaches to Mining and Development"
Michael D. Jarvis, World Bank Institute, Click here for PPT Presentation
Heinz Pley, McKinsey Institute, Click here for PPT Presentation
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 “Casamance and flooding as shocks on the Senegalese system” (Click for Audio)
William Zartman, SAIS
Hilary Thomas-Lake, SAIS
SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building room 736, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC
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