Umass Boston’s First Africa Day – “Pan Africa Rising”

Umass Boston’s First Africa Day – “Pan Africa Rising”

FEATURED ACTIVITIES
Keynote speakers, panels, graduate student flash talks, African marketplace, luncheon, gala night reception featuring Afrobeat DJ and African food
(Somali, Cape Verdes, Nigerian)

UMass Boston Campus Center
Ballrooms A, B, and C, and the Atrium
in the Integrated Sciences Complex

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Pearl Robinson, Associate Professor of Political Science,
International Relations & Africana Studies, Tufts University, Boston
Ralph Bunche and African Decolonization: Implications
for Postcolonial Africa Today
Zadi Zokou, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
Black and Black: Connecting African Immigrants and African-Americans

PANELISTS
Kwamina Panford, Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, Northeastern University
Patricia Agupusi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Nada Mustafa Ali, Senior Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Joseph Kweku Assan, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Rita Kiki Edozie, Professor of International Relations, University of Massachusetts Boston

Heidi Gengenback, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston
Darren Kew, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution, University of Massachusetts Boston
Adugna Lemi, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, Assistant Professor, Public Policy of Excluded
Populations, University of Massachusetts Boston
Michael Woldemariam, Assistant Professor of International Relations,
Pardee School of International Affairs, Boston University

For disability-related accommodations, please visit www.ada.umb.edu two weeks before the event.
For more information, contact the Africa Scholars Forum at AfricaScholarsForum@umb.edu or at 617.287.5550.