Africa Lectures - BYU Kennedy Center

South Africa Today: Challenges and Opportunities

His Excellency Welile Nhlapo, South African ambassador to the U.S.

From South Africa to Cedar City, Utah: Transferring My Field Study Experience to a Professional Setting

Kim Yeoman, rural outreach training advocate, Disability Law Center

Uganda–U.S. Relations

His Excellency Perezi K. KamunanwireUgandan ambassador to the U.S.

Mali–U.S. Relations

His Excellency Abdoulaye Diop, Malian ambassador to the U.S.

African Unity: History, Problems, Prospects

F. Abiola Irele, professor of African and Afro-American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

From Retreat to Re-engagement: American Policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa Before and After 9/11

Robert G. Patman, professor of international relations, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In Hindsight: A Reflection of the Journey from African Villages to Utah Hospitals

Kathryn Robinson, licensed clinical social worker, American Fork Hospital

Happiness is Possible in Africa

Aminata Sow Fall, Senegalese writer

Libraries in Ancient Egypt

Fayza M. H. Haikal, professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo

Spirituality in Ancient and Modern Egypt

Fayza M. H. Haikal, professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo

Emerging Diseases in the Tropics: Biology Meets Economics, Politics, and Culture

Thomas Yuill, director and professor (emeritus), Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Education For All: In Whose Language? Language of Instruction in Lesotho Schools

Stephen Backman, PhD candidate, teacher education, Michigan State University

Life Along China's Korean Border

Dodge Billingsleyfilm producer and director

Our Covenantal Responsibility to the Poor

Kristen Proctor Westenskow, public health instructor, University of Utah

South African Field Studies: Learning That Transcends Boundaries

Tanya Fetui Tolman, founder of InnoVision Consulting

Nigeria–U.S. Relations

His Excellency George A. Obiozor, Nigerian ambassador to the U.S.

Hope through Relativism: Learning to See Each Other as We Really Are

Dave Kay, Program facilitator, South Africa Field Studies

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Book of the Semester Panel Discussion: Ted Lyon, panel chair, Latin American studies coordinator, and professor of Spanish; Paul Y. Hoskisson, Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding; Roger R. Keller, professor of Church history and doctrine; Richard N. Holzapfel, associate professor of church history and doctrine; and Mark L. Grover, Africa and Latin America subject specialist, Harold B. Lee Library

From Malaria Patient to Public Health Professional: My Journeys to Zanzibar and Back Again

Sarah Beckham, master's degree candidate, public health and African studies, Yale University

African Families in the 21st Century

Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi, Professor and chair, Africana and American Indian Studies, California State University, Fresno

The Peace Corps and Development in Mali

Yacouba Kone, Program assistant and trainer for agriculture and natural resource management, Peace Corps

South Africa–U.S. Relations

Her Excellency Barbara Joyce Masakela, South African Ambassador to the U.S.

Dancing with the Devil-Taking on West Africa's Warlords

David M. Crane, Distinguished professor of law, Syracuse University

I Have Crossed Famous Rivers: My Trip from South Africa to a PhD Program

Leslie Hadfield, PhD candidate, Michigan State University

Outcomes of an Education Field Study in South Africa

Patrick Lee, public health education analyst, State of Utah

Sudan to Utah: A Lost Boy's Journey through Art

Atem Aleu.

Ethiopia—U.S. Relations

Kassahun Ayele, Ethiopian Ambassador to the U.S.

The Drumming of Ashanti Traditional Healing Ceremonies

Ben Wilson, recreation management major.

Social Welfare and Social Development: The Challenges for Social Work and Community Development Education in a Democratic South Africa

Margie Maistry, professor of social development, University of Fort hare, Alice, South Africa.

The African First World War—An International Conspiracy?

Rigobert N. Butandu.

Africa Q&A

Aubrey Hooks, Ambassador to the Ivory Coast.

Violence in Darfur, Sudan: A Distant Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing

Abdullahi A. Gallab, visiting assistant professor of sociology, BYU.

The Lost Boys of Sudan

Tiffany Ivans, Abraham Guy, Jeremiah Atem.

Egypt–U.S. Relations

Abderahman Salaheldin, Consul General of Egypt, San Francisco.

War on Terror: The Diplomatic Dance in East Africa and Tanzania

Jefferson Smith, economic/ commercial Foreign Service officer, Dar es Salaam Embassy.

Ambiguous Adventure of Africa

Chantal Páron Thompson, African studies coordinator, David M. Kennedy Center, and teaching professor of French and Italian, BYU

New Light on the Israelite Exodus from Egypt: Recent Excavations in Sinai

James K. Hoffmeier, author, expert in Egyptian studies

Africa Matters for the United States

Aubrey Hooks, special coordinator for the African Crisis Initiative and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo