SfA Presents Africa Week 2012

Students for Africa Proudly Presents:

Africa Week 2012

Contemporary African Narratives: Not just a story, but “OUR STORIES”  

May 6th – 11th

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Monday May 7th

Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way

(Public lecture by Dr. Steven Radelet, Chief Economist at the US Agency for International Development, USAID, and author of Emerging Africa)

Dinner served at 5:15PM

HALDEMAN 041

5:30– 7:00PM

Tuesday May 8th

Diaspora Engagement

(Panel discussion led by undergraduate and professional students with experience working in African countries)

CLASS OF 1930 ROOM, ROCKEFELLER CENTER

4:00 - 5.00PM

Wednesday May 9th

Who We Are: Telling Our Stories

(African students tell their stories and their journeys to Dartmouth)

FUEL

6:30-7:30PM

Thursday May 10th

Many Stories, Many Faces

Lecture by Congolese Activist and Storyteller, YVES MUYA

4:00-5:00PM 

COLLIS 101

(Discussion led by Yves Muya on the importance of having many different stories about Africa, inspired by Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story”).

CUTTER SHABAZZ LOUNGE

6:00-7:00PM

Friday May 11th

Africa Night

(Dance, music, fashion, food, trivia, FUN!)

COLLIS COMMONGROUND

8:30-10:00PM

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