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Year<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nAffiliation<\/strong><\/td>\nTopic<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nMaurice Strong<\/td>\nPresident, World Federation of United Nations Associations<\/td>\nAfrica Beyond the Famine: The Case For Hope<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nMichael Glanrz<\/td>\nNational Center for Atmospheric Research<\/td>\nGlobal Warming and Environmental Change: Winners and Losers in Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nGibson Kamou Kuria<\/td>\nLawyer and human rights activist<\/td>\nHuman Rights in Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nRichard Joseph<\/td>\nCarter Center of Emory University<\/td>\nThe Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Time of African Crisis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nTayeb Saleh<\/td>\nNovelist<\/td>\nThe Writer and National Identity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nPaul Lovejoy<\/td>\nYork University Toronto<\/td>\nAfricans in Diaspora: Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nLamin Sanneh<\/td>\nReligion and history scholar<\/td>\nTranslation and the Rebirth of Culture: Christianity and the African Response<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nAdam Kuper<\/td>\nUniversity of Uxbridge, England<\/td>\nSocial Anthropology and South Africa: An Inside Job<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nPaul Berliner<\/td>\nNorthwestern University<\/td>\nMusical Imagination and Meaning in Zimbabwe’s Mbira Music: Ever-Changing Patterns of Performance and Reception<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nCarolyn Brown<\/td>\nRutgers University<\/td>\nCowboys, Letterwriters, and Dancing Women: Identity and Struggles over Space Leisure and Time in Enugu, Nigeria 1914\u20131955<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nRobert Harms<\/td>\nYale University<\/td>\nWorlds of the Slave Trade: The Voyage of the Diligent in 1731\u20131732<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nCalestous Juma<\/td>\nHarvard University<\/td>\nAfrica in the Age of Technology: In Search of New Sources of Economy Renewal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nJoe Lugala<\/td>\nUniversity of New Hampshire<\/td>\nAIDS, Orphans and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nKenneth Kaunda<\/td>\nFirst President, Republic of Zambia<\/td>\nAfrica and the New Food Technology: Threat or Bright Promise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nWande Abimbola<\/td>\nObafemi Awolowo University<\/td>\nYouth and Generational Change in the Ifa Oral Tradition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nAhmad Sikainga<\/td>\nOhio State University<\/td>\nLocal Perspectives on the Sudanese Conflict<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nLansine Kaba<\/td>\nUniversity of Illinois, Chicago<\/td>\nIslam Beyond the Myth: A West African Perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nC\u00e9lestin Monga<\/td>\nThe World Bank<\/td>\nIs Africa Really at a Turning Point?: The Economics and Politics of Hope<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nBurt Singer, Calestous Juma, James Webb<\/td>\nPrinceton University, Harvard University, Colby College<\/td>\nAfrica 2060 AD: What We Don’t Know About Malaria in Africa and When Didn’t We Know It<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nSuliman Baldo<\/td>\nAfrica Director, International Center for Transitional Justice<\/td>\nPost-Referendum Challenges in Sudan and South Sudan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nFatou Bensouda<\/td>\nChief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court<\/td>\nAdvancing Security, Dignity and Growth: The Role of the International Criminal Court in Ending Impunity and Fostering Greater Well Being<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nDr. Maman Sidikou<\/td>\nNigerien Ambassador to the US<\/td>\nGood and Bad Politics: Challenges and Opportunities for African Education Amid Instability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nHoward W. French<\/td>\nFormer New York Times<\/em> bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa<\/td>\nContinents in Motion: How Today’s China-Africa Encounter Came About and What it Means for the World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nZakes Mda<\/td>\nProfessor of Creative Writing, Ohio University<\/td>\nCulture is the Center of Our Struggles: Intertextuality and the Creative Process<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nPeter Alegi<\/td>\nProfessor of History, Michigan State University<\/td>\nAfrican Sport: Colonialism, Independence, Globalization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nBarbara M. Cooper<\/td>\nProfessor of History, Rutgers University<\/td>\nReflections on a Baby Scandal: Paradoxes of Fertility and Infertility in West Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nSouleymane Bachir Diagne<\/td>\nChair, Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University<\/td>\nDiscussing Universalism in a Post-Bandung World<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nAkosua Adomako Ampofo<\/td>\nProfessor of African and Gender Studies, University of Ghana
\nPresident of the African Studies Association of Africa<\/td>\n		Young African Men Living & Performing Blackness in the Diaspora<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nZekeria Ould Ahmed Salem<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University<\/td>\nIslam and the Post-Colonial State in Africa: The Formation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960-2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/td>\nVanessa Nakate<\/td>\nUNICEF Goodwill Ambassador<\/td>\nSame Storm, Different Boats – Africa and Climate Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Year Speaker Affiliation Topic 1989 Maurice Strong President, World Federation of United Nations Associations Africa Beyond the Famine: The Case For Hope 1991 Michael Glanrz National Center for Atmospheric Research Global Warming and Environmental Change: Winners and Losers in Africa 1992 Gibson Kamou Kuria Lawyer and human rights activist Human Rights in Africa 1993 Richard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3928,"featured_media":0,"parent":2309,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24800,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/24800"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}