African Studies

2017- 2018 Lecture Series

Fall 2017

September 20: Farooq Kperogi (Kennesaw State University, Communications)

“Digital Media Activism, Democracy, and Participation in Nigeria”
3:10-5:00 PM in the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center Auditorium

October 16: Fall Writer’s Symposium (with Novelist and Memoirist Professor Okey Ndibe)

October 23: Yolanda Convington-Ward (University of Pittsburgh)

November 2: ILens Film Show (featuring KALUSHI, an acclaimed South African film)

November 8: Patricia Tang (MIT)

November 13: Student research symposium  (details TBD)

December 6:  Kenneth G. Kelly (University of South Carolina)

Spring 2018

January 17: Kwame Otu (University of Virginia)

February 5: Roundtable on Edutainment (or advocacy entertainment)

Feb 21: Aili Tripp (U Wisconsin-Madison)

March 12-18: Africa Week featuring Ndirangu Wachanga’s film on Writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Also featuring Professor Micere Mugo.

March 21: Kenneth Sherr (University of Washington)

April 11: Dan Magaziner (Yale University)