Monday, October 13th, 2008
African Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series

Laura Ondere
Yale College (BR '10)

Communication and Medicine: a Volunteer Project with Maventibao Clinic, Madagascar

Maventibao Clinic, which was established in 1998 in Maventibao village, Northwest Madagascar by Ben Shipley, a former US marine, provides free health care to the people of Maventibao and the surrounding region. The clinic is entirely dependent on donor funds to run its activities and on volunteers to provide support to the regular staff of the clinic. While working as a volunteer at the clinic, I studied the dynamics of communication across a language barrier between the patients and the volunteer staff, and the effects of the language barrier on the quality of medical care provided.

11:30 am
Luce 202
34 Hillhouse Ave

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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
African Studies Fall 2008 Lecture Series

Jonathan Bonk
Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center

" Ecclesiastical Cartography and the Invisible Continent: The Dictionary of African Christian Biography"

4:15 pm
Luce 203, 34 Hillhouse

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
African Studies Fall 2008 Film Series

Ndeysaan (The Price of Forgiveness)
Producer/Director: Mansour Sora Wade

Ndeysaan can be appreciated simply as a deeply moving, beautifully acted, visually stunning folk story of love, betrayal and redemption. But it can also be read as an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to reconcile or negotiate traditional and modern sensibilities, a film whose ambiguities are often as fascinating as its certainties.
    Set in a small village on the south coast of Senegal, Ndeysaan tells a story of love, betrayal, and redemption. A love triangle in a traditional fishing village between Mbanick, the son of the marabout, his close friend Yatma, the son of a wealthy, well-positioned patriarch and the woman they both love, Maxoye. Mansour Sora Wade writes: “my concern was to show that ordinary life and the supernatural can exist together without ostentation as was the case in my childhood, showing that belief and pragmatism co-exist naturally.” The film is based on the novel “Le prix du pardon” by Mbissane Ngom. (90 minutes, 2002, Senegal, in Lébou with English subtitles)

7:00 pm
Luce Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Ave