I guess it is in the character of my friend, Sharif Khalill, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation Canada, to put one on a podium before a distinguished assemblage of guests comprising members of the diplomatic community, Members of Parliament, Directors in the Canadian Foreign Affairs Ministry, staff of international development agencies, CEOs from corporate Canada, senior academics, and ask one to get the discussion rolling with a ten-minute ope read more »
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Africa is People, Nigeria is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-Mendicant Economies
Capitalism and Memory: Of Golf Courses and Massage Parlors in Badagry, Nigeria
(Keynote lecture delivered at the annual conference of the Stanford Forum for African Studies, Palo Alto, California. Saturday, October 29, 2011) read more »
Aso Ebi on my Mind (Part Two)
Keynote lecture delivered at the African Textiles Exhibition of Carleton University’s Arts Gallery, February 16, 2011 read more »
Aso Ebi on My Mind (Part One)
Keynote lecture delivered at the African Textiles Exhibition of Carleton University’s Arts Gallery, February 16, 2011
A Day in the Kitchen
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Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, one of my senior mentors in the business of thinking and writing Africa, likes to use the analogy of the kitchen and the table whenever we have had the chance to meet and discuss the African condition since we both moved on from our faculty positions at the Pennsylvania State University a few years ago. read more »
