Webcasts Related to the African Section
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Modern South African Cinemas: Race, Nation Building, and What It Means to Lose the UCT African Film Collection to the Recent Wildfire
This program was sponsored by the African Section. The speaker was Dr. Cara Moyer-Duncan, associate professor at Emerson College.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Conversation with Irenosen Iseghohi-Okojie
This program was jointly organized by the African Section and the Africa Society to feature an interview with Nigerian-born short story writer and novelist Irenosen Iseghohi-Okojie, winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Endangered Alphabets and Why We Write: Africa - Writing Beyond Writing
This program was organized by the African Section. The speaker was Tim Brookes, Director of the Endangered Alphabets Project, a US-based non-profit organization.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series, Conversation with Lesley Nneka Arimah
This program was organized by the African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division. The spearker was Lesley Nneka Arimah, Nigerian Author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Jioni na Ngugi wa Thiong'o (An Evening with Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
This program was co-sponsored by the African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and the Department of African Studies at Howard University.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Conversations with African Poets and Writers: Makena Onjerika (2018 Caine Prize Winner)
This program was organized in partnership with the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa, the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Center for African Studies at Howard University, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, and the Department of English at Georgetown University.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Omar Ibn Said at the Library of Congress
In celebration of the African American History Month, the African and Middle Eastern Division and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress co-hosted a special all-day program.
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