Trans-Atlantic Memories: Senegal’s Hip-Hop Griots and the Black Radical Tradition

By Kimberly Monroe

In this essay, Kimberly Monroe, assistant professor of global affairs at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. and a 2020 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal, reflects on her personal and professional journey to West Africa and the deep musical and cultural traditions that live on in Senegal's contemporary artists.

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Dr. Krista Johnson receives a UMBC Inclusion Imperative Fellowship

Dr. Krista Johnson, Associate Professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University, will be participating in the Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellowship Program at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2020.

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Senegal’s Diversity Is Its Way of Life—and Its Future

By Hoa Nguyen

In this essay, Hoa Nguyen, professor of economics at Montgomery College in Maryland and a 2020 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal, discusses how the country’s traditional linguistic, cultural, and geographic diversity may be the key to its future economic prosperity. All images are courtesy of the author.

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CAORC Community College Faculty Development Seminars

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Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center

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