Timbuktu Talks--Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 ...
Prof. Terje Østebø (University of Florida) discusses the role of ethnicity and religion in an Oromo insurgency that took place in the region of Bale, in southeastern Ethiopia, between 1963-1970. ...
"Placing Value on Black Intellectual Travel." Dr. Malcom Ahmad Jamal presents models of Black intellectuals who developed during their travel around the world. Questions such as, "What exactly is intellectual travel?" and "Why is intellectual travel important for students and scholars?" are...- "A Calabash, Cash, and a Community: Women's Savings Associations in Urban Senegal." Dr. Maimouna Barro's talk presents Rotating Savings Associations (ROSCAs) as community-based financial associations through which women in Senegal exercise their agency and negotiate their way from the...
- "The Neglected Power of Listening: A Case Studies of Communities in Sierra Leone." Through field examples of failed engineering infrastructure projects throughout Sierra Leone, Alexandra Timmons begins a discussion on the shortcomings of many current decision-makers, particularly when it...
Dr. Maimouna Barro discusses "Reframing and Rethinking Global Development" at the Friday Forum- Fall 2018 Lecture Series. The link to the video is here, as published on Urbana Public Television. ...