Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs” Dr. Laura Fair is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. Her current…
Category: Gender in Africa
Film Showing: “The Supreme Price”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free & open to the public The Supreme Price, directed and produced by Joanna Lipper, is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts…
“Same-Sex Intimacies in an Early Modern African Text about an Ethiopian Female Saint, ‘Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros’ (1672)”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. A Lecture by Professor Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton University The 17th-century Ethiopian book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros features a life-long partnership between two women and the depiction of…
