In her home country of Kenya, Dr. Christine Ngaruiya has lost family members and loved ones to diseases and afflictions that, in many cases, were preventable — like complications of diabetes and heart disease.
These cases have informed her passions in...
When Yale President Peter Salovey announced the Yale Africa Initiative in 2013, he inspired several Yale students from the continent to work toward achieving his goal of “bringing Africa to Yale and Yale to Africa.”
The students wanted to find a way to...
Over the last 20 years, women have increased their presence in governments across Africa, but — like their peers elsewhere — they still lag far behind men. Through its Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact, Yale is working to enhance the knowledge and...
Yale University and the Higherlife Foundation have announced a commitment to extend the Yale Young African Scholars program (YYAS) for another five years, a move made possible through the continuing generosity of Zimbabwean-born philanthropists Strive and...
On March 11, President Peter Salovey opened the Yale Leadership Forum in Accra, Ghana, hosted by Yale, La Fundación Mujeres por África (the Women for Africa Foundation), and Banco Santander. Previous participants of Yale’s Leadership Forum for Strategic...
On March 13, President Peter Salovey met with the Vice President of Ghana Mahamudu Bawumia in a ceremony celebrating Yale’s ongoing partnership with institutions of higher learning in Ghana.
During his four-day visit to Ghana, Salovey extended and renewed...
Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS), a flagship program of the Yale Africa Initiative now celebrating its fifth anniversary, is a week-long course designed to introduce high school students to the concept of a liberal arts education in the United States...
