Gale Summerfield is a director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at Illinois, and a professor of human and community development. She was interviewed by social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain and addressed that women were aspiring to the highest positions in many societies, but they still lacked the access they needed to transform some developing nations.

View the interview article, "Gale Summerfield, expert on women in developing nations" in September 03, 2009

Summer 2009 issue of Swords and Ploughshares The Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) in cooperation with the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.This collection addresses the social and sustainablity dimensions of the biofuel debates, including links between biofuels and food price violatility, poverty, and direct and indirect changes in land use.

For more information, please visit ACDIS website.

The center for African studies is cosponsoring the Global Lens 2009 film series at the YMCA.  While it covers all regions of the world, the two related to Africa are: Sleepwalking Land (Mozambique) on Oct. 8 and What a Wonderful World (Morocco) on Oct. 29.

For film schedules and content, go to [and here link to Global Lens 2009 Film Series, which is listed under our module, Lectures and Special Presentations]

The Center for African Studies is proud to announce the Swahili Proverbs Website.  Please follow the link to view the site.

Teen are invited to the Doublass Library to explore Africa: Past, Present and Future.  Also featuring guest speakers and various activities.  Please click here for more information.