This article is authored by Kevin Marsh, Director, Africa Oxford Initiative and Moses Alobo, Programme Manager, African Academy of Sciences. It was first published in The Conversation.   COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates Shutterstock Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences As the threat of a COVID-19 […]

Africa Oxford Initiative is working in partnership with Standard Bank Chairman’s Scholarship and Oppenheimer Fund to support the award of six graduate scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year. This includes the inaugural AfOx Graduate Scholarship, launched to further strengthen opportunities available to African graduate applicants.   The first recipient of the AfOx Graduate Scholarship is Olugbenga Adeoba, who will study MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford during the 2020-2021 [...]

AfOx Visiting Fellow Prof Caesar Atuire has been appointed as one of 20 experts selected from around the world to be a member of the WHO ACT Accelerator Ethics Working Group on Access to COVID-19 Tools . The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed inequalities and vulnerabilities among and within nations. The WHO Ethics Working Group will […]

Dr Katrina Charles, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford University School of Geography and the Environment, presented at the third AfOx digital insaka. Katrina’s work investigates water quality across Ethiopia, Kenya and Bangladesh. In this insaka, she speaks about why innovation around water quality monitoring and testing is critical. As the coronavirus […]

On August 6, Director of the African Academy of Sciences, Prof Tom Kariuki presented the at third AfOx digital insaka. Tom’s talk highlighted how research is being prioritised in Africa to inspire leadership, mobilise funding and facilitate equitable collaborations. At independence, sixty years ago, many African researchers and governments focused on overcoming three challenges: illiteracy, […]

This article is authored by Kevin Marsh, Director, Africa Oxford Initiative and Moses Alobo, Programme Manager, African Academy of Sciences. It was first published in The Conversation.   COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates Shutterstock Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences As the threat of a COVID-19 […]

Africa Oxford Initiative is working in partnership with Standard Bank Chairman’s Scholarship and Oppenheimer Fund to support the award of six graduate scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year. This includes the inaugural AfOx Graduate Scholarship, launched to further strengthen opportunities available to African graduate applicants.   The first recipient of the AfOx Graduate Scholarship is Olugbenga Adeoba, who will study MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford during the 2020-2021 [...]

Naima Nasir graduated from the MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine in 2019. In this blog, Naima shares her experience of adjusting to Oxford’s academic style of writing. It was only about a week after settling into my MSc course at Oxford, that I started to hear whispers about ‘the Oxford style’ academic essay. I […]

This month, we awarded the 200th Travel Grant since our establishment in 2016. The AfOx Travel Grants represent a breadth of emerging research collaborations between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford.   Initiated with the aim of supporting new collaborations between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford, the AfOx Travel Grants are […]

AfOx travel grant recipients, Renier Coetzee and Oliver van Hecke are working together to establish a new pharmacist-prescriber network to encourage the appropriate use of antibiotics in the Cape Metro region, South Africa. Taking antibiotics when we do not need them can cause bacteria in our body to change and become resistant to drugs. This […]

Barry Nourou travelled 45,000 miles from his hometown of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso to Oxford to complete the final chapters of his PhD on ‘Health research programs: Social Representation and community engagement in a village in Western Burkina Faso’. Keen to understand the history of his community and contribute to their development, Barry completed a degree [...]

Louise Bezuidenhout, Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and Ola Karrar a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Khartoum in Sudan first met in the medieval city of Trieste in Italy in the summer of 2017. At a summer school on Research Data Management, taking place in Trieste, Louise […]

AfOx Visiting Fellow Prof Caesar Atuire has been appointed as one of 20 experts selected from around the world to be a member of the WHO ACT Accelerator Ethics Working Group on Access to COVID-19 Tools . The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed inequalities and vulnerabilities among and within nations. The WHO Ethics Working Group will […]

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2020 AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme. This year 21 researchers from 14 countries have been selected from a competitive pool of more than 200 applicants. The Fellows will spend 8 weeks in Oxford and will be hosted in our partner colleges and departments during their time in Oxford.   The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is now in its fourth year, and the [...]

Six researchers from Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Liberia have been awarded the 2020-21 Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships. Their proposed areas of study cover a range of disciplines: philosophy, history, neuroimaging, astrophysics, public health and research ethics. Built on the success of the AfOx Visiting Fellows Programme, the Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships are designed to enable accomplished African researchers to spend up to three academic terms in [...]

As a student, Alemseged Beldados’ favourite subject was history. He was very keen to understand how human society developed over time, especially the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and agriculture. However, the study of history does not go beyond a certain period and soon Alem realised to study pre-historic times, he would need […]

Audrey Mbogho is from the Wadawida community of about 400,000 people in South-Eastern Kenya, who speak the language of Kidawida.  Audrey recalls being punished in school for speaking her mother tongue – Kidawida. Teachers thought that speaking native languages in school was a ‘terrible vice’ that interfered with learning English. Audrey’s parents were both teachers […]