African Viruses Flourishing in the Diaspora

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Africa at Noon

Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall Bio: Oyewale Tomori is a past President of the Nigerian Academy of Science with experience in virology, disease prevention, and control. He was at the University …

Mawalis, Craftspeoples, and the Making of a Subaltern Scholarly Muslim Intellectual Community in West Africa, from 1800 to Recent Times

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Africa at Noon

Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall Talk Description  This study unsettles long-standing narratives about Arabic literacy, manuscript culture, archival power, and Islamic knowledge production and preservation in West Africa by bringing due …

Global Health and Africa

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Africa at Noon

Speaker: Ambassador John E. Lange (Retd.) Senior Fellow, UN Foundation Global Health Diplomacy, former Ambassador to Botswana Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall Abstract Africa plays an outsized role in global health. …

AFR100: Lessons from the African Forest Landscape Initiative

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Africa at Noon

Speaker: Bernadette Arakwiye Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall Bio: Bernadette Arakwiye manages WRI’s contributions to the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100). In her previous roles at WRI, she supported restoration …

Queer African Cinematic Art and Popular Melodrama

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Africa at Noon

Speaker: Lindsey Green-Simms Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall Bio: Lindsey Green-Simms is a Professor and the Literature Department chair at the American University, Washington D.C. Professor Green-Simms’ teaching and research focuses …