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Previous Focus on Africa Programs
Previous Focus on Africa Programs
Organized by Year
Organized by Year
2026
2026
Topic: Mysticism, A Central Component of French Colonial and Post-Colonial Creole Societies
Speaker: Corinne Silvestre
Date: 5/6/2026
Topic: US Engagement in South Africa: Past and Present
Speaker: Diane Weisz Young, Former Education USA Regional Manager (REAC) for West and Central Africa
Date: 4/17/2026
Topic: US Engagement in South Africa: Past and Present
Speaker: Ambassador David Young, Former U.S. Ambassador, United Methodist minister, university Lecturer, and Professional Leadership and Life Coach
Date: 4/16/2026
Topic: War in Sudan: A Re-Scramble for Africa
Speaker: Dr. Abdullahi Ibrahim, Emeritus Professor of African History and Islam at the University of Missouri - Columbia
Date: 3/4/2026
Topic: From Ferguson to Lagos: Mapping #BlackLivesMatter and #EndSARS in traditions of Transnational Black Resistance
Speaker: Ayotola Tehingbola, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, University of Missouri
Date: 2/11/2026
2025
2025
Topic: Wish upon a fish
Speaker: Dr. Mark Morgan
Date: 12/3/2025
Topic: Racialized Masculinities and Migrant Strategies Among Nigerian Men in the U.S.
Speaker: Omotayo Jemiluyi
Date: 11/5/2025
Topic: Hand Delivered Hope
Speaker: Dr. Jimi Cook
Date: 10/8/2025
Topic: Exploring Saki: The Linguistic Life of a Borderland Town
Speaker: Medinat Oyedele
Date: 9/3/2025
Topic: Sustainable Initiatives for Rural Water Purification in Delta State, Nigeria: A tool for sustainable healthy living and development
Speaker: Prof. Doris Fovwe Ogeleka
Date: 5/14/2025
Topic: Ethiopian Dairy Adventure
Speaker: Reagan Fluel
Topic: A glimpse of Kenya
Speaker: Ann Marty
Date: 4/2/2025
Topic: Empowering Africa's Healthcare: Advancements in Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmacy
Speaker: Prof. Tamer Sakr
Date: 3/5/2025
2024
2024
Topic: Communicating Coping During the Pandemic: A Case Study of the Presidential Addresses in Ghana and Nigeria During COVID-19
Speaker: Ernest A. Eshun, M.A.
Date: 11/6/2024
Topic: Integrating Pan-African Heritage into Educational Curricula for a United Future
Speaker: Dr. Alassane Abdoulaye Dia
Date: 10/9/2024
Topic: Simple Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change in Africa
Speaker: Dr. James Theuri
Date: 10/2/2024
Topic: Haitian immigration in the Caribbean Community
Speaker: Denise Brown
Date: 10/2/2024
Topic: Nigerian journalists are superheroes needing SOS (Save Our Souls)
Speaker: Chioma Obianinwa
Date: 9/4/2024
Topic: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Agribusiness Success and Failure in Accra and Kumasi Metropoles, Ghana
Speaker: Jeffrey B. Appiagyei
Date: 5/1/2024
Topic: Pop culture, social networks, and the evolution of French in postcolonial Africa
Speaker: Vanessa Awa Ph.D
Date: 3/6/2024
2023
2023
Topic: Language and Agency in the Postcolony: Affirming Decolonial Authorship
Speaker: Laura Olubo
Date: 11/1/2023
Topic: Documentary Driven Analysis of Tones and Rhotics of Ehueun, North-Edoid Language of Nigeria
Speaker: Kayode Komolafe
Date: 11/1/2023
Topic: Days for Girls Columbia MO Team
Speaker: Marilyn Calbert
Date: 10/4/2023
Topic: Skin Bleaching, Black Identify Transactions and Body Image in Ghana
Speaker: Christopher A.D. Charles Ph.D
Date: 4/5/2023
Topic: A Career Mentorship Journey to empower young professionals in healthcare in Africa
Speaker: Dr. Akwi W. Asombang
Date: 3/17/2023
2022
2022
Topic: Through his eyes: A qualitative exploration of Black fatherhood in a pandemic and implications for mental wellbeing
Speaker: Adaobi Anakwe
Topic: Applications of Deep Learning for the Community Health Assessment Mapping Project in Massailand, Tanzania
Speaker: Keli Cheng & Justin Krohn
Date: 11/2/2022
Topic: The half-life of Freedom, Race and Justice
Speaker: Professor Jelani Cobb
Date: 10/27/2022
Topic: The Journey to the Promised Land: Rastafari's Back to Africa Movement, 1945-1962
Speaker: Dr. Daive Dunkley, PhD
Date: 4/6/2022
2021
2021
Topic: Challenges to Healthcare Access in Rural Tanzania Massailand and Team Update of Recent Community Projects
Speaker: Dr. Bob Hansen
Date: 11/3/2021
Topic: I'm getting life from the treatment
Speaker: Ifeolu David
Date: 10/6/2021
Topic: Testing the microeconomic resilience of agricultural households in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: a case of five developing countries
Speaker: Damilola Giwa-Daramola
Date: 10/6/2021
Topic: Languages in & of Education in Africa: the Future of Indigenous Languages
Speaker: Dr. Pius W. Akumbu
Date: 9/1/2021
Topic: Remembering Slavery at African Sites of Memory
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth MacGonagle
Date: 3/3/2021
2020
2020
Topic: International Cooperation and Environmental Control in Twentieth Century Southern Africa, c.1902-c.1970
Speaker: Admire Mseba
Date: 10/7/2020
Topic: America, E.U. & the B.R.I.C.S-Misadventures and Discontents in Global Health Research
Speaker: Mr. George Rugare Chingarande
Date: 4/15/2020
Topic: When faith, Human Rights and Journalism Collide: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Speaker: Dr. Debra Mason
Date: 4/8/2020
Topic: Respectful Maternity Care
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Warren
Date: 3/10/2020
Topic: Improving Information Use Through Public Health Informatics System and Users' Capacity Building
Speaker: Zeyana Hamid
Topic: Expectations and Obligations: Paternal Care and Social Fatherhood in Himba Pastoralists
Speaker: Sean Prall
Date: 3/4/2020
Topic: Gender: Cross Culture Relations and African Cultural Studies
Speaker: Elizabeth Kaganda
Topic: When Faith, Human Rights and Journalism Collide: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Speaker: Debra Mason
Date: 2/5/2020
2019
2019
Topic: Land use/Land cover Analysis in Malawi: Case of Agriculture Land use Analysis through Brolaug Fellowship Training
Speaker: Annie_Mapulanga
Topic: Promotion of Food Security Growth in Developing Countries through Borlaug Fellowship Training
Speaker: Alfred_Mwanyika
Topic: Urban Disadvantage, Obesity, and Underweight in 31 Lower-Income Countries
Speaker: Henok_Woldu
Date: 11/6/2019
Topic: Culturally-Differentiated Batterer Intervention Programs for Immigrant Male Batterers (IMB): A Review
Speaker: Chuka Emezue
Topic: When Life in Community Matters: Urbanization and Corruption in Africa
Speaker: Donatien Adou
Date: 10/2/2019
Speakers: Edwin Bonney & Roberta Tabanelli
Date: 9/4/2019
Topic: From Man of Letters to Man of God: Pastors, Politics, and Changing Forms of Authority in Africa
Speaker: Dr. Ebenezer Obadare
Date: 4/3/2019
Topic: Collaborative partnership to improve the transition to adult care among adolescents living with HIV in South Africa
Speaker: Prof. Brian van Wyk
Date: 4/3/2019
Topic: Intimate Partner Violence Research in Ghana and Description of Presentation: A description of exploratory community perceptions of intimate partner violence and priorities for intervention
Speaker: Tina Bloom, PhD, MPH, RN
Date: 3/6/2019
Topic: "AmeriKenyan": Lived Acculturation Experiences and Ethnic Identification Kenyan Natives During Their Youth
Speaker: Robina Onwong'a
Date: 3/6/2019
Topic: Author of "The Awakened Woman - A Guide for Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams"
Speaker: Dr. Tererai Trent
Date: 3/5/2019
Topic: Gender Studies, Afro Latin American theater, Afro-Cuban Renaissance and Documentary filmmaking
Speaker: Juanamaria Cordones-Cook
Date: 2/6/2019
2018
2018
Topic: Education Focused Development Aid - Hand Delivering Hope
Speaker: Dr. James Cook
Date: 11/7/2018
Topic: Shielding Ourselves From Needless Heartache: An Overview of the Violent Underage Soldiering Menace in Africa
Speaker: Onyekachi A. Obi-Okoye
Topic: Green Nanotechnology: Relevance ancient medicine in modern nanomedicine for cancer therapy
Speaker: Velaphi C. Thipe
Date: 10/3/2018
Speaker: Chiwali Mwambazi
Speaker: Tunde Ojewola
Date: 9/5/2018
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Mugisha
Date: 7/10/2018
Speaker: Doreen Mutoni
Date: 4/4/2018
Speaker: Modeste Tchouaso
Date: 3/7/2018
Speaker: Megan Arns
Date: 2/7/2018
2017
2017
Speaker: Dr. Mungai Mutonya
Date: 11/1/2017
Speakers: Adaobi Anakwe & Lincoln Sheets
Date: 10/4/2017
Speakers: Kerry Clark, PhD & Joseph Balnamndi Dallwa
Date: 9/6/2017
Speakers: Stephanie Shonekan, PhD & Enid Schatz, PhD
Date: 4/5/2017
Speaker: Nina Furstenau & Mamadou Badiane, PhD
Date: 3/1/2017
Speaker: Daniel Domingues, PhD & Wilson Majee, PhD
Date: 2/8/2017
2016
2016
Speakers: Habib Zaghouani, PhD & Katti Kattesh, PhD
Date: 11/2/2016
Speakers: Bill Folk, PhD & Rebecca Grollemund, PhD
Date: 10/5/2016
Speakers: Rod Uphoff, JD & Mary Leuci, PhD
Date: 9/7/2016
Speakers: Sarah M. Tlapek, PhD & J.D. Bowers, PhD
Date: 4/14/2016
Speaker: Jenny Bossaller, PhD, Kodjo Atiso & Josh Millspaugh, PhD
Date: 2/17/2016
Topic: The Vertiginous Power of Decisions: an African journey
Speaker: Jonny Steinberg
Date: 2/12/2016
Speakers: Lori Eggert & Corinne Valdivia
Date: 1/27/2016
2015
2015
Speakers: David K. Amponsah, PhD & Patrick Pithua, PhD
Date: 12/9/2015
Speaker: Carol V. Ward, PhD & Michael Marlo, PhD
Date: 9/16/2015
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