African Studies Program

Alumni and Students, Awards and Honors April 9, 2025

Two Northwestern students receive Soros Fellowships for New Americans

JK Anowe, a graduate student in the English department at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Devika Ranjan, a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies at the School of Communication, have each been awarded a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros

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Alumni and Students, Events April 29, 2024

Feeding Futures: Weinberg College’s 2024 Convocation Speaker Nikki Okrah ’11 Blends Entrepreneurship and Social Impact

Ask Nikki Okrah ’11 about her five-year-old entrepreneurial venture, Chaku Foods, and her response avoids the typical business lingo trumpeting point of differentiation and margins.

Instead, Okrah begins speaking about a mother named Helina in Ghana, a West African nation …