Ghana: Launch of the 2013 African Humanities Program Fellowships

The university of Ghana in Accra-Legon has hosted from 20th to 22nd of June 2012 the launch meeting of 2013 African Humanities Program Fellowships.

More than fifty scholars, fellows, and students from Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, USA and Ghana attended the Accra meeting. It was a moment
-to evaluate the AHP’s activities for le last four years,
-to present AHP’s activties to new applicants,
-to discuss around some fellow’s research projects sponsored by AHP in a seminar form
- and to launch the coming activities.

During the Fellow’s seminar, Pascah Mungwini from South Africa, Stella Nyanzi from Uganda, Eunice Ibekwe from Nigeria, and Jean-Baptiste Sourou presented their research.

Our ghaneans hosts organized some cultural events for us and we had a guided tour on the nice and big site of the university of Ghana in Legon.

The Accra meeting was an occasion for exchanges between fellow’s, assessors and AHP’s staff from New York.

Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), AHP mission is the promotion of Humanities in Africa. It offers every year fellowships to doctoral and postdoctoral students working and living in Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa.