February 21
4:00 pm
WLH 208
100 Wall St.
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Emmanuel Dongala, Simon's Rock College of Bard
"Witness to Post-Colonial Africa: How I Became a Writer"
Reception to follow in 309 WLH
Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Department
of French
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March 1
Luce 202
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Samuel Obeng, Indiana University
“No matter how long a piece of wood remains in a river, it
does not turn into a crocodile.” Language Maintenance and Shift among
Akan-Ghanaian Immigrants Living in the United States
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March 29
Luce 203
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Clarissa Surek-Clark
'Wena faka lo mess!': The role of the pidgin Zulu / Fanakalo in
post-apartheid South Africa
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April 5
Luce 202 |
John Singler
New York University
"Gaining access to Fortress Europe: West Africans, political asylum,
and linguists as gatekeepers"
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April 12
Luce 102 |
Kithaka wa Mberia, University of Nairobi and Fulbright Scholar, Virginia State University
"Survival and Death among African Languages in the 21st Century"
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April 26
Luce 203 |
Susan Cook, University of Pretoria
"The Business of Being Bafokeng: Corporatization in an African Cheiftaincy"
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Funded in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.
Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center and the Council on African Studies.
