Program of Events

Panel 1: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA
(Founders Library, Browsing Room)

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

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  Panel 2: HOWARD UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN GHANA
  (Founders Library, Browsing Room)<

• Falani Spivey
  Howard University
• Calvin Hadley
  Howard University
• Alysha English
  Howard University
  

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  FORMAL OPENING CEREMONY
  (Blackburn Center, West Ballroom)

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

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  Panel 3: INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND
  (Blackburn Center, Auditorium)

• J. Ayo Langley
  Ghanaian Public Intellectuals and Independence of Ghana:
  The Role of W.E.G (Kobina) Seyki, 1892-1956
  Howard University
• Kofi Kissi Dompere
  Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana and Africa
  Howard University
  
  ( Blackburn Center, Hilltop Lounge )

• H.E. Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei
  Remarks
  Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana
• Dr. Horace Dawson
  Remarks
  Former Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana
  

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  PLENARY ADDRESS PANAFRICANISM REVISITED
  American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era
  (Founders Library, Browsing Room)

• Dr. Kevin Gaines
  Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  

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  Panel 4: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN GHANA
  (Founders Library, Browsing Room)
  
• Kwaku Ofori-Ansa
  Cultural PanAfricanism
  Howard University
• Monifa Love Asante
  Trailing Independence: Responding to Nkrumah and Armah.
  Morgan State University