Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Cornell University’s Africana
Studies and Research Center, the John H. Clarke Africana Library and The
History Center in Tompkins County, will present “Lessons From the Life of
Nelson Mandela: A Community Conversation,” February 22 at 2 p.m. in the Library’s
BorgWarner Community Room.
This program will feature a timely discussion on Mandela’s life, with Professors N’Dri Assie-Lumumba and Locksley Edmondson exploring the lessons learned and legacy left by South Africa’s first democratically-elected president. The conversation will be facilitated by Eric Kofi Acree, director of Cornell’s Africana Library.
The author and editor of several books, Assie-Lumumba is a professor of African and African Diaspora education, comparative and international education, social institutions, African social history, and the study of gender. She has carried out numerous prestigious national and international board and committee assignments, including several related to the social, educational and economic advancement of African nations.
Professor Edmondson is a political scientist with specializations on Africa, and the Caribbean, and international race relations. He has traveled and lectured throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Caribbean, and has delivered several lectures during his three invited visits to South Africa since 1994.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
To learn more about the life and work of Mandela, visit http://guides.library.cornell.edu/mandela.
This program will feature a timely discussion on Mandela’s life, with Professors N’Dri Assie-Lumumba and Locksley Edmondson exploring the lessons learned and legacy left by South Africa’s first democratically-elected president. The conversation will be facilitated by Eric Kofi Acree, director of Cornell’s Africana Library.
The author and editor of several books, Assie-Lumumba is a professor of African and African Diaspora education, comparative and international education, social institutions, African social history, and the study of gender. She has carried out numerous prestigious national and international board and committee assignments, including several related to the social, educational and economic advancement of African nations.
Professor Edmondson is a political scientist with specializations on Africa, and the Caribbean, and international race relations. He has traveled and lectured throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Caribbean, and has delivered several lectures during his three invited visits to South Africa since 1994.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
To learn more about the life and work of Mandela, visit http://guides.library.cornell.edu/mandela.
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