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African Studies Center
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Recent News
ASC welcomes the 2025 UMAPS Fall cohort to campus
Since 2009, the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) program has hosted 260 scholars to date, representing a diverse range of disciplines.
Meet Motunrayo Adesiyan, FLTA for Yoruba
Motunrayo Adesyian, 2025/26 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), assists with Yoruba language teaching in both beginner and intermediate levels.
The African Studies Center (ASC) at the University of Michigan
ASC provides strategic guidance and coordination for Africa-related education, research, and training activities on campus, and promotes opportunities for collaboration with African partners on the continent.
Founded in 2008, the center serves as a conduit for the university’s many Africa initiatives in the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, engineering, and medicine.
The center is organized around the following research initiatives that have been funded separately by the Office of the President and different stakeholders on campus: African Heritage and Humanities (AHHI), African Social Research (ASRI), STEM-Africa, and U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Program.
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