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On Aug 31, 2017, at 6:31 PM, 'Malami buba' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--The September Moment
At summer's end, this September, Africa is proud to present its two prodigious progenies for crowning and conferment:
Nwando Achebe
The Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, Michigan State University
And
Moses Ochonu
The Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History, Vanderbilt University
Join me in celebrating Nwando Achebe and Moses Ochonu as we mark this glorious September Moment with them:
1. Wednesday, September 6, 2017, 4:OO PM
Student Life Center, Ballrooms A and B
Vanderbilt University.
2. Friday, September 22, 4:00 PM
Kellog Hotel and Conference Center
Michigan State University
My humble self will be at both events.
Their works go before them:
Nwando Achebe, PhD History (UCLA), is a multiple award winning historian and Faculty Excellence Advocate at Michigan State University. Author of four books, including the triple award-winning The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011) and numerous essays, Nwando Achebe is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of West African History. She is the recipient of several research grants including from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson, and National Endowment for the Humanities, amongst others. Nwando Achebe is also a sweet talker, going by the invitations to speak that she receives: she has delivered over one hundred keynote addresses and invited lectures on three continents in countries ranging from the United States to the United Kingdom, Italy, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and China. Definitely a public intellectual, she also regularly makes contributions in the media via TV, podcasts, newspapers, and high school books. She is currently a member of the African Studies Association's Board of Directors and past co-Convenor of the ASA's Women Caucus.
Moses Ochonu, PhD African History (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), is author of four books and numerous refereed articles and book chapters. His 2014 book, Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria, was a finalist for the prestigious ASA Herskovits Prize for the Best Scholarly Book in African Studies in any Discipline in 2015. He has under his belt grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the British Library Endangered Archives Program, the Rockefeller, amongst several others. A sought after public intellectual, Moses Ochonu has delivered numerous keynotes and invited lectures on topical issues of the day, engages with multiple audiences via TV, Radio, Facebook, newspapers, and online, and consults/appears for various media organisations. His beloved following voted his provocative article "The Shattering of the Buhari Mythology" in African Arguments as the 2016 Best Article of the Year. He also currently serves as Lead Faculty, "Africa at Crossroads" Trans-Institutional Program (TIP) at Vanderbilt University.
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