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Africa Awareness Week

The Historic Sudan Series - "From the Nile to the Niger"

Thursday, March 20

Maryse Conde

Maryse Conde

Sale Hall
5:00 pm

World-renown novelist and author of Segu speaks on "The African in Antillian Writing"

   


Thursday, April 3

Sudan

Darfur
Presentation by Ms. Tejan Muata

Wheeler Hall, Room 234
5:00 pm

"Geo-politics, Desertification, Ethnicity and the Quest for Peace"

   


Wednesday, April 9

Ethiopia

Ethiopia and the "Holy Land"
Address by Dr. Haile Larebo, Associate Professor of History at Morehouse College

5:00 pm

Africa's spiritual heritage and the world religions.

   


Thursday, April 10

Bamako

Bamako

Wheeler Hall, Room 234
5:00 pm

A film set in Malo by Director A. Sissako and co-produced by Danny Glover. Debt peonage and the IMF and World Bank is explored and put on trial symbolically.

Panel discussion follows.

   


Thursday, April 17

"Globalization Effects on the Health of African People"

Henderson Lounge, Merrill Hall
5:00 pm

A Panel, Film, and Discussion

   


Friday, April 18

 

"Martin Luther King and Africa"
In conjunction with "The King Papers Project"

Leadership Center Auditorium
10 am

   

Oyeume

A Justice Learning Community Brownbag Seminar
Dr. Oyeronke Oyewume, Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY

Afro American Hall of Fame
Noon

"A'Ajobi' and 'Ajogbe': An African Paradigm of Family Bonds and Peaceful Co-Existence"

   

Obenga

"MA'AT: The African Intellectual Heritage and Pursuit of Justice"
Honoring Dr. Asa HIlliard
Dr. Theopile Obenga, Professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University

Keynote Address

Leadership Center Auditorium - Morehouse College
5:30 pm