We still have a long way to go to build truly global learning spaces where all students, and if fact the world, benefit from these important outcomes. It is symposia like this one that bring critical perspectives together—including our keynote tonight—and that serve as catalysts for us all. So without further delay, I’d like to introduce Dr. Nwando Achebe. Dr. Achebe is the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, and a multi-award-winning historian at Michigan State University. Dr. Achebe received her master’s and PhD from UCLA after studying theatre at the University of Massachusetts. Her research interests involve the use of oral history in the study of women, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Achebe is the author of six books, including: Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960;The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe, a full-length critical biography on the only female warrant chief and king in British AfricaCo-author of the 2018 History of West Africa E-Course BookCo-editor with William Worger and Charles Ambler of A Companion to African HistoryCo-editor with Claire Robertson of Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing PerspectiveA forthcoming Ohio University Press book, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa.
She is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of West African History. She served as a Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hays Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Dr. Achebe has received prestigious grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Wenner-Gren, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright-Hays, the Ford Foundation, the World Health Organization, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Please join me in extending a warm Dayton welcome to Dr. Nwando Achebe.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/global_voices_2/1002/thumbnail.jp
