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Modupe Kolawole, professor of African literature and gender at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, will speak on “The African Woman: Cultural Negotiation and Sociopolitical Activism, Past and Present.” She has served as a consultant to many international agencies and institutions including the Ford Foundation, the University of Tokyo and the International Institute for High Education in New York. She is the author of “Womanism and African Consciousness” and coordinator of the Women Writing Africa project, which will preserve and publish individual pieces of women's writing to allow for new readings of African women's history.
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