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  • Teach Africa Launches SoCal K-12 Program at UCLA
    Teach Africa advocates more and better teaching about the continent in the schools. The launch event brought distinguished guests to UCLA along with high-schoolers and teachers back from a Ugandan trip.

  • Teaching Africa in L.A.'s Schools
    UCLA partners with government, nonprofits on Teach Africa. To jump-start the Southern California launch, the sponsors hosted a group of three high school students and three public school teachers on a trip to Uganda this month.

  • A Fiddle's Deep Roots
    Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is an international expert on things she once snubbed, with articles on gospel and spirituals and a new book on fiddling, "Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures."

  • 'The Art of Women's Masquerades in Sierra Leone'
    This Fowler Museum exhibition runs from Dec. 9 through April 27, 2008.

  • Former Cape Verdean President Sees Africa Standing Up
    Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, who served two five-year terms as Cape Verde's first president elected under a multiparty system, tells a UCLA audience that Africa is no lost cause, but a continent striving towards peace and democracy. He discusses Cape Verde's relations with China and other emerging powers.


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