American University in Cairo opened in 1919.  This month, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University is opening a campus in Kigali, Rwanda.  CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) has an MBA program in Accra, Ghana that recently opened.  In What are we doing here?, we filmed with missionaries in Malawi from the African Bible Colleges, who recently opened their third campus in Uganda.  Is this the beginning of the rise of Western (and Eastern) higher education in Africa?  What will this mean for Africans?  Check out this interesting NY Times article by D.D. Guttenplan: Local Options Help Slow Africa's Brain Drain.

What are we doing here? is honored to be part of the Culture Unplugged online film festival.  On October 30th, WAWDH? will stream four times (part of a continus loop of the days programing), so click here to watch on the 30th.  Culture Unplugged is an amazing non-commercial media organization; to learn more about them or to see what unique and eye opening documentaries are playing right now, right here on your computer, click here!  

Filmmaker, Tim Klein will be visiting Universities to show "What are we doing here?" and take part in post-film discussions.

March 29th, 7pm at Carroll College in Helena, Montana - 102 O'Connell Hall

March 30th, 3:30 at U of Montana, Missoula - Social Sciences 356

April 5th at noon at UBC (U of British Columbia), Vancouver, Canada - Mulitpurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive

April 5th at 3:30 at Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, Canada - Room 3260, West Mall Complex, SFU Burnaby

April 6th at 6pm at Seattle University - Wyckoff Auditorium, Engineering 200

April 11th at 6:30 at Pacific University, in Forest Grove (outside of Portland, OR) at the CLIC in Scott Hall

April 12th at noon at Portland State University - Multicultural Center

April 13th at 6pm at U of Oregon, Eugene - at the Mills International Center

April 19th at 7pm at UC Berkeley, 159 Mulford Hall

Feb 21st, 6pm -- University of Chicago, Stuart Hall, Room 102, 5835 South Greenwood Avenue

Feb 23rd, 7pm -- Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at Xavier University, Conaton Learning Commons Kennedy Auditorium

Feb 25th, 5:00 -- North Carolina State University at Campus Cinema Witherspoon, Washington Sankofa Room, Cates Avenue, Raleigh, NC 

Feb 28th, 6pm -- University of North Florida, Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL

March 3rd, 2:30 and 6:00pm - Savannah State University, 115 Social Science Building, for more information call SSU Politial Science Department at 912-358-3221

What are we doing here? film screening and discussion on foreign aid in Africa.

Date: Tuesday 16^th November, 2010

Time: 7pm, finish around 9pm

Where: Bow Valley College 332 6 Ave se, Calgary in room 241

Panelists: Tim Klein, one of the producers/directors of "What are we doing here?",  Paul Gomes of the Fig Tree Foundation,  Anna Kae Todd from Bow Valley College

Free and open to the public.

"What are we doing here?" Film Showing and discussion with Tim Klein

Thursday, November 4 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

College of Charleston Education Center Room 116

More info at:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163431233675437

An Associated Press article by Jason Straziuso and Malkhadir Muhumed about the Millennium Village in Dertu, Kenya. 

Click here for article in the Washington Post.

Check out this article by STEPHANIE STROM about a new effort by Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group.  Click here for the article.