News

2022

• • Leveraging the Brilliance and Energy of African Women in Engineering and Math

2021

• • COVID-19 Vaccines in South Africa: Progress Report January-April 2021
  • Laurier panel discussion explores experiences of Black African women in academia

2020

• • A Panel on Protests for Justice in Nigeria
  • Fall 2020 Nelson Mandela Academic Excellence Award for Social Justice Recipient
  • UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies Launch Event

2019

• • Nelson Mandela Essay Award
  • Tshepo Graduate Seminar
  • UN Human Rights Day - December 10
  • I Am Sudan Panel Event This Friday
  • Nelson Mandela Lecture Series with Geoffrey Kistruck
  • Nelson Mandela Winter lecture series continues with talks exploring the roles of African Grandmothers and the Nigerian Civil War

2018

• • Graduate Student Conference on Africa
  • Nelson Mandela lecture series continues in Brantford with talk exploring China’s deepening presence in Africa
  • Traffic, hoodies and the Kabaka: Limits to inclusive urban planning in Kampala
  • Sexual abuse in the United Nations
  • Abdul Raufa Mustapha and progressive scholarship

2017

• • African culture in Puerto Rico
  • Africa and Puerto Rico: Reflections on Loiza and Hacienda La Esperanza
  • A Tshepo Mandela lecture, "Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Re-Imagining Human Rights in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding"

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