Broadcast Journalism Professor Jennifer Thomas To Be Key Speaker For The 2019 World Press Freedom Week In Lagos, Nigeria

"Jennifer Thomas, assistant professor of Media, Journalism and Film in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications, has been tapped as the key speaker of the 2019 U.S. Speaker Program on Press Freedom and Free Speech in Lagos, Nigeria on April 27 through May 3. The speaking engagement is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and U.S. Consulate General Lagos.

The Nankama African Dance Conference 2019

Project Director: Dr. Ofosuwa M. Abiola, Department of Theatre Arts

Collaborator: Professor Mesi Walton, Department of World Languages and Culture 

Conference Dates: February 9-10, 2019

View photos from the Conference here.

View the 2019 NADC video.

When Morning Comes

About the Webinar

This Children's Africana Book Award Webinar, part of the Global Read Webinar Series, took place on February 15, 2019 with a presentation by Arushi Raina, author of When Morning Comes.

Book Release! Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies

AUTHORS: Esther Lisanza, Ph.D. and Leonard Muaka, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies

Congratulations to Dr. Esther Lisanza and Dr. Leonard Muaka on the release of their book, Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies.

The book can be purchased here: www.amazon.com/Language-Contemporary-African-Cultures-Societies/dp/1498572278

Book Release! Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism

AUTHORS: Msia Clark, Ph.D., Phiwo Mnyandu, Ph.D. and Loy Azalia, Ph.D.
BOOK TITLE: Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism

Congratulations to Dr. Msia Clark, Dr. Phiwo Mnyandu and Dr. Loy Azalia on the release of their book, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism.

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The World We Don’t Know—Reflections on the Importance of Global Education

By Ellen Olmstead and Cinder Cooper Barnes

In this essay, Ellen Olmstead and Cinder Cooper Barnes, both professors of English at Montgomery College and participants in the 2017 CAORC-WARC Faculty Development Seminar to Senegal, discuss the lasting impacts of their West African experience and the importance of providing study abroad opportunities to community college faculty and students.

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In Memory of Prof. Sulayman Nyang

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang. We have lost a colleague, a friend, a brother, a mentor. 

Dr. Nyang was a internationally-respected diplomat, scholar, teacher, and community leader. Below please read more about his life in a letter from Howard University's Board of Trustees to his wife.