Barbara Brown

Outreach Director, African Studies Center at Boston University

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Boston University

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Boston University

Barbara Brown is the director of outreach at the African Studies Center. She speaks French, Spanish and Setswana and has worked extensively overseas in Botswana, Benin, South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya and Tanzania. Her research has focused on South African and Botswana politics.

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After ‘Kony 2012,’ Students Eager To Learn About Central Africa

April 19, 2012

WBUR “Radio Boston” Barbara Brown, College of Arts & Sciences, African Studies Center Timothy Longman, College of Arts & Sciences, African Studies Center The film makers behind “Kony 2012,” a short documentary that went viral earlier this year, claim that the movement’s campaign to arrest the Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony will expand at the […]

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