A crowd of students and faculty members shuffled into Miller Theater Tuesday evening for the third annual Sachs student lecture, led by Columbia’s celebrity economist, on the challenges confronting

Malaria is a huge medical problem. According to the African Medical and Research Foundation, over 3,000 children die from malaria each day in sub-Saharan Africa.

Columbia’s fifth State of the Planet conference kicked off Thursday with a keynote speech by former U.N.

University President Lee Bollinger has said one of his top priorities is making Columbia a leading institution for the study of Africa.

If you are poor, you walk: to school, to collect water, to find firewood, to go to town, to work, to farm your field, to get crops to your family, to get any excess crops you may grow to a market,