Carnegie Corporation to Spend $5-Million on Humanities Scholars in Africa

The Carnegie Corporation of New York will spend $5-million over the next
four years for doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for African
academics in the humanities. The fellowships, which will be administered
by the American Council of Learned Societies, will be awarded to about
200 scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The
grant money also will be used to help establish a network of advisers
and peer reviewers.

The fellowships are something of a departure from most such programs in
Africa, which tend to support research and study in science,
engineering, and technology. Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie's president,
says that the project grew out of discussions with African
higher-education leaders who emphasized the importance of the humanities
to social and economic development and voiced concern about the lack of
investment in such work.

The effort also builds on Carnegie's existing work in developing African
higher-education infrastructure.

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- from the Chronicle of Higher Education

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