Contact information
Name:
Diane Windham Shaw
Phone:
610-330-5401
Email:
shawd@lafayette.edu
When:
Monday, September 22, 2014 - 4:10pm - 5:30pm
Where:
Gendebien Room, Skillman Library
Presenter:
Dr. Othello Brandy, Chairman, Liberian Land Commission
Price:
Free and open to the public
Join Dr. Othello Brandy and Professor Rex Ahene for an informal conversation about the impact of the African Colonization movement on the history of Liberia, both past and present. Strategies for finding the historical records and descendents of the freed slaves of John McDonogh, including Washington McDonogh who attended Lafayette College, 1838-1842, will be discussed. Dr. Brandy will also comment on Liberia's current health crisis with the ebola virus.
Sponsored by:
Dept. of Economics, Africana Studies, Office of Intercultural Development, Skillman Library (McDonogh Fund)