Panelists at Boston University discuss contemporary African development, health, and politics
F or over fifty years, The African Studies Center at Boston University has provided scholarly research, study, publication and teaching about Africa. The Center, which was founded in 1953, hosted a program on November 4, 2009, at the Howard Thurman Center at Boston University. The program titled: Moving Forward: The Contributions of Africans and the Diaspora in Contemporary Africa, was sponsored by the university’s African Students Organization. The program brought three expert panelists together for a discussion on African economics, education, politics, public health, and the lingering effects of colonialism. T he panelists included Timothy Longman – Director of the BU African Studies Center, Professor Jennifer Yanco, a research fellow at BU, and former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Charles Stith – Director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at BU. The 90 minute panel discussion began with the panelists giving opening remarks about the current state of affairs on