Center for African Studies

I have just heard that Al Howard passed away several days ago. He was such a wonderful, giving colleague who devoted his life to Africa both in terms of academic work but also in terms of political activism. It was Al who recruited me from City College in the early nineties and introduced me to the extraordinary 'wealth' of Africanists at Rutgers.

Al was also a leader in the establishment of Rutgers as an internationally respected center for research and teaching on Africa. In 1997 he was a...