50th Anniversary of the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

The Director of African Studies Centre and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Wale Adebanwi, was one of the two keynote speakers at the 50th Anniversary of the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University last week. His lecture, delivered on Saturday, 28th February 2020, was entitled, “Contesting Africa’s ‘Dissimilarity’: Reflections on Global African Studies”.

Adebanwi was introduced by Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong, the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies, Harvard University.

After Adebanwi’s Lecture: Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jn., Wale Adebanwi, and Cornell West