When a half-Thai, half-British classicist-turned-medical doctor spent time in an impoverished African country, he noticed the West’s impact on this minute African country’s culture. Alexander Chula, currently a medical doctor working at a London hospital, served for a time in the African nation of Malawi as both a Classics teacher and medical doctor. He recently...
David Rawson loves African history. He should. He helped change it. Rawson began working in foreign affairs in 1971. He served as an ambassador to Rwanda during the Rwandan Civil War, and later to Mali, before moving back to Michigan in 1999. He then began teaching political science, African politics, and African history classes at...
At 4:30 a.m. each morning in the South African winter, junior biology major Ben Block left his Cape Town apartment carrying a backpack with basic work supplies: Water, a waterproof layer of clothing, a radio telemetry set, and a multitool to cut snares off trapped animals. For three to four months during his past two...