Program of Events

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA

• Gwendolyn Mikell
  Georgetown Univeristy
• Sulayman Nyang
  Howard University
  A Return to the Source? From the OAU to the AU

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  HOWARD UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN GHANA
• Falani Spivey
  Howard University
• Calvin Hadley
  Howard University
• Alysha English
  Howard University
  

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  FORMAL OPENING CEREMONY
• Eleanor Traylor
  Chair, Department of English, Howard University
• H. Patrick Swygert
  President, Howard University
  Welcome and Reflections on His Days in Ghana
• James Donaldson
  Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Howard Univeristy
  Introductory Remarks
• Dr. Ali A. Mazuri
  Director, Institute Of Global Cultural Studies, Binghampton Univeristy, SUNY
  Keynote Address

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  INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND
• J. Ayo Langley
  Howard University
  Ghanaian Public Intellectuals and Independence of Ghana: The Role of W.E.G (Kobina) Seyki, 1892-1956,
• Kofi Kissi Dompere
  Howard University
  Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana and Africa
• H.E. Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei
  Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana
  Remarks
• Dr. Horace Dawson
  Director, Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center
  Former Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana
  Remarks

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  PLENARY ADDRESS PANAFRICANISM REVISITED
  American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era
• Dr. Kevin Gaines
  Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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  AFRICAN AMERICANS IN GHANA
• Kwaku Ofori-Ansa
  Howard University
  Cultural PanAfricanism
• Monifa Love Asante
  Morgan State University
  Trailing Independence: Responding to Nkrumah and Armah