Africa

By Professor James Smith, Vice Principal International  Liz Reilly (our director of major gifts) and myself have spent the last week and a bit in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We were connecting with our inspiring alumni community, potential partners and trying not...
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By Katie Hartin, MSc student, Africa and International Development Occupying the fourth floors of Piedmont Plaza and Bishop Magua Centre, respectively, the Nairobi Garage and iHub offer bright, open rooms where young entrepreneurs and tech developers can link across both...
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By James Turing and Dr Jamie Cross Over the past three years the University of Edinburgh has established close relationships with social enterprises and private companies involved in Africa’s off grid solar industry. MSc and PhD students, for example, have...
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By Dr. Wolfgang Zeller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh Every other year at the height of summer, the planet’s largest gathering of academics studying Africa – the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)...
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By Dr Jamie Cross, Social Anthropology and Development, School of Social and Political Science Later this month I will be taking a small group of prize-winning students to Nairobi to learn about the work of one of our newest partners,...
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By Lukhona Mnguni, Currently studying for an MSc in Africa & International Development I have just returned from a work-based placement with the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in in Nairobi, Kenya. ACTS is one of Africa’s leading organisations...
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By Dr Ola Uduku, Reader in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art  Professor Miles Glendinning and I spent some time in Ghana’s capital city Accra last week in order to develop our links with the University of Ghana institution and visit their archive...
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By Isabell Majewsky Anderson, Head of Go Abroad, Director of Summer School Office Later this summer, ten students from a range of backgrounds will have the opportunity to attend a Widening Horizons programme in Tanzania. The trip will be an...
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By Professor James Smith, Vice-Principal International (writing from fieldwork in the Gambia) Welcome to the University of Edinburgh’s Africa blog – providing a snap-shot of some of the ways we engage with partners, conduct research and support student experiences across the...
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