The New Partnership for Africa’s Development and Michigan State University will use a five-year, $10.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to connect African biosafety regulators with advances in technology – an initiative aimed at reducing poverty through improved agricultural practices.
Publish Date: Oct. 15, 2009 | Multimedia: 
History professor David Robinson speaks about his research on Islam in Africa.
Publish Date: Aug. 27, 2009 | Multimedia: 
Michigan State University researchers will use a $750,000 federal grant to collect oral narratives from African citizens who often are left out of the official written record.
Publish Date: Aug. 12, 2009 | Multimedia:
A new federal grant will help a Michigan State University history professor and colleagues to document the lives of Muslims in West Africa.
Publish Date: Aug. 06, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University is a world leader in using environmental research aimed at fighting poverty and slowing climate change. Called Carbon2Markets, the research encompasses many collaborative projects with researchers and farmers in Thailand, Laos and other Asian and African countries to incorporate new crops such as jatropha trees into farming operations.
Publish Date: June 26, 2009 | Multimedia:
A Michigan State University student project to provide supplemental meals and build a safe house in Zonkiziziwe, South Africa, will receive funds from former President Bill Clinton's youth humanitarian program.
Publish Date: June 17, 2009 | Multimedia:
Peter Alegi, associate professor of history, has been appointed a Fulbright Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, in South Africa for the calendar year 2010. Alegi’s project is to explore “Sport and Leisure: Colonial and Post-colonial Transformations.”
Publish Date: June 05, 2009 | Multimedia:
More Africans want democracy — and more think they’re getting it, according to an influential survey co-founded by Michigan State University. But the latest findings from the Afrobarometer also show the number of African citizens fully committed to a democratic government remains less than 50 percent and that demand for democracy still varies widely among African nations.
Publish Date: May 22, 2009 | Multimedia:
For more than 50 years, Michigan State University has been a national academic leader in all things Africa. Whether it’s been fighting diseases such as malaria, helping to develop more disease-resistant crops, or training Africa’s future physicians, farmers or leaders, MSU has been there.
Publish Date: May 06, 2009 | Multimedia:
More than 1,300 pieces of memorabilia from the U.S. movement supporting freedom and justice in South Africa from the 1950s to the 1990s can now be found online, thanks to digitization provided by a MSU computing center.
Publish Date: Feb. 12, 2009
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