Category: Education & Innovation

The esteemed  Harvard Law Review has elected the first Black woman elected as president, Imelme Umana, Harvard Law student class of 2018.

According to the Harvard website, “She is also on the board of Harvard Model Congress Boston, the nation’s oldest government simulation conference run exclusively by undergraduates at Harvard College. During the school year, Imelme works as a Research Assistant at the Hiphop Archive at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. She also worked as the Harvard Summer in Washington student coordinator, organizing political events for Harvard interns in DC.”

The Harvard Law Review  is a student-run organization whose main purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. While the Review is formally independent of the Harvard Law School, student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions.

Umana is a doctorate candidate at Harvard Law School, and is most interested in the intersection between government and African American studies by exploring how stereotypes of Black women are reproduced and reinforced in American Political discourse.

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) honours Babajide Alo, Olukayode Amund, Im Unah and Cecilia Igwilo, West Africa’s first female professor of pharmacy, by awarding them UNILAG Distinguished Professors, one of the University’s highest honours for pedagogical excellence as part of activities marking the grand finale of the institution’s 2016 convocation ceremonies.

27-year-old Christine Izuakor has graduated with a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Security Engineering and became the youngest & first African American at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), USA.

Walter Emeka Dinjos, has won the 2016 edition of the Writers of the Future Award with his short story, “The Wood Cutter’s Deity,” published in the annual bestseller, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 33.

Two Nigerian students Kingsley Ikhuoria Cookey and Mariam Tosin Sanni at the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), Ghana have become AIT all time best graduating students.

Kingsley graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree was adjudged the overall best student of the graduation class with a cumulative GPA of 4.21 and Mariam graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a cumulative GPA of 4.01.

Osemudiamen Anao from University of Benin, has emerged among the three winners of the Ideas Matter Research Fellowships for West African Scholars.

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Darlynton Adegor of Delta, Nigeria, and Vinay Raj of Chennai, India; two University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service students each received $40,000 Rotary Foundation Global scholarships