Professor of English Vincent Odamtten presented a paper on "Selected Ghanaian Writing from a Pan-African Perspective" at the 5th Biennial Conference of Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) in Accra, Ghana, in August.

Also presenting at the conference was Erik McDuffie '92, now teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on "Garveyism in the U.S. Midwest: Pan-African Agendas in the American Heartland, 1920-1965".