The participants came from seven African countries and represent diverse fields including agriculture, housing, public safety, water quality, finance, food security, environmental protection and fashion.
The new USC Viterbi assistant professor seeks to make our cities more resilient in the face of natural disasters.
The hub brings USC professors and students together with experts in Kenya and beyond to tackle some of the region’s most pressing health issues.
Lesley Omenge’s life journey has taken her across oceans and cultures. Immersing herself in the customs of others, her destination is somewhere on the other side of borders.
The two bring decades of multiplatform professional experience into their classrooms, guiding students to the skills they will need to be adaptable in the rapidly changing landscape of entertainment.
The rapid filling of a giant dam at the source of the world’s longest river could reduce the water supplies going to Egypt and increase tensions with Ethiopia, a new USC study finds.
Emmy Esquerre links “queer phobia” in today’s Black communities to political and religious systems put in place by European colonizers and missionaries in Africa and South America.
The USC Thornton alum has created a multifaceted career across continents as a conductor, artistic director and teacher.
Kelebogile Zvobgo studies political violence and how trials and truth commissions can help countries understand and address the mistakes they’ve made.
Though it may seem like a global pandemic and the genocide of a people have very little in common, the long-lingering effects of trauma on survivors are similar.
Ten years of work and millions of dollars in scholarships have pulled in students whose stories may have otherwise gone untold.
USC experts discuss how COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on the Black community connects to a long history of upending Black families in America, from slavery to incarceration.
The ambitious virtual collaboration brings together artists from across the university to share a more complete history of the African American experience.
USC experts weigh in on the Black family, which has been “reverenced, stereotyped and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time,” according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Perkins, who received both his master’s and his PhD from USC, also worked as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Wayétu Moore pens a memoir that explores her escape from Liberia’s civil war and her immigrant experience in America.
Former Mellon Mays scholar Amaka Okechukwu reflects on poetry, social justice and the uncertain future for diversity in higher education.
Laura Loyola, now with USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute, is using geographic information science to help preserve the habitat of the critically endangered Tana River colobus monkey.
According to a new USC study, roughly 12% of men of African ancestry carry a variant in their genome that increases their prostate cancer risk twofold.
As protestors take to the streets, USC Dornsife faculty offer reading suggestions that provide historical and cultural background on the roots of American racism.
Deeply affected as a child by the Rwandan genocide, Robert Nshimiyimana volunteers to help the underserved, works to make compounds that may reduce harmful inflammation — and hopes one day to help his home nation reach its full, unified potential.
A high percentage of women in Africa experience the loss of a child, yet little scholarly or political attention is paid to this bereavement burden.
By their late 40s, nearly two-thirds of women in sub-Saharan Africa have lost a child, according to a USC study. Researchers are increasingly recognizing bereavement as a public health threat.
Clinton and Gerard Tibuck — who had been separated since 2015 — spent Thanksgiving together after a USC law student helped Clinton win asylum.