AFRICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT
(an interdisciplinary conference)

March 30-31, 2001
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Featured Speakers:

Hussein Adam, Holy Cross University
"Somalia and Africa in the 21st Century"

Joseph Adjaye, University of Pittsburgh
"African Studies into the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges"

Claire Robertson, Ohio State University
"African Women into the 21st Century"

The African Studies Committee of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania invites paper and panel proposals which address our conference theme. We welcome submissions from across the disciplines (with an emphasis on the areas of history, literary criticism, economics and globalization, political science and international relations, education, and public health). Proposals from graduate students are encouraged. Please submit title and one-paragraph abstract by March 5 to

Dennis Hickey
Coordinator -- "Africa in the 21st Century"
Department of History
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, Pa., 16444

or e-mail your proposals to dhickey@erie.net

(Co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh)