ALA Lecture Series — November 23, 2024

ALA Lecture Series Presents:

ALA @50: A Roundtable of Past Presidents

Saturday November 23, 2024 @ 11:00 AM EST; London, 3:00 PM; Lagos, 4:00 PM; Johannesburg, 5:00 PM; Nairobi, 6:00 PM

Join us on the ALA YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaYYHGM8iraoQF48xeCnMKw

ALIKO SONGOLO: Professor Emeritus, African Cultural Studies and French, University of Wisconsin.
ALA President: 1982-83, 1992-93

CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES: Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English, Cornell University 
ALA President: 2000-01

LOKANGAKA LOSAMBE: Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English, University of Vermont
ALA President: 2011-12

MORADEWUN ADEJUNMOBI: Professor of African and African American Studies, University of California, Davis
ALA President: 2015-16

JULIANA NFAH-ABBENYI: Distinguished Professor of English, North Carolina State University
ALA President: 2016-2017

Panelists introduced by: JOYA URAIZEE, Professor of English at Saint Louis University and Immediate Past President of the ALA