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www.eckerd.edu/africa. Eckerd College invites you to join a yearlong effort to raise Africa’s profile through academic study, activism and community consciousness.
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www.eckerd.edu/africa Eckerd College invites you to join a yearlong effort to raise Africa’s profile through academic study, activism and community consciousness.
Sustainable Energy Solutions in Lesotho, AfricaFeb. 16, Fox HallEckerd will be a test site for an experimental solar thermal power system!
CONGO/WOMEN Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo The Poynter Institute: Through February 20 Eckerd College: March 4, 5 and 6
STEP AFRIKA!Feb. 22, 5 PM, Bininger TheatreFREE. Special Event for EC Community.
Films in Miller AuditoriumFeb. 19, Pumzi / Taking RootFeb. 24, Garbage DreamsMar. 5, Nollywood Babylon / The Figurine
Ladysmith Black MambazoMarch 2, Mahaffey TheaterGeneral admission: $25 General public: $25 EC Residential Students: FREE EC Community: $17 See Lova Patterson in Campus Activities
John Prendergast Enough Project Co-founderEC Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, March 1 to 13Darfur, Congo, Uganda, Service, Social Justice
Images from Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda and MalawiMarch 12 to 28, The Studio@620 Photographers BRADLEY ENNIS '10KRISTIN HARRISON '01
ELIE WIESEL, Nobel Peace LaureateJOHN PRENDERGAST, Human Rights ActivistFrom the Holocaust to Darfur: If We Had Only Learned Our LessonMarch 11, Mahaffey TheaterFREE. Tickets required.
BETTY BIGOMBE, DiplomatNegotiating Peace in Northern UgandaMarch 18, Fox Hall
DARFUR/DARFUR: A Multimedia ExhibitApril 2 to 30Florida Holocaust Museum
NICHOLAS KRISTOF, New York Times JournalistApril 6, Fox Hall (EC Students) & The Palladium (General Public)
FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY AMBASSADOR CHORALEA Celebration of African Gospel MusicApril 8, Wireman Chapel
IMMACULEE ILIBAGIZALeft to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust April 14, USF St. Petersburg Campus Activities Center
DAVE EGGERS, AuthorVALENTINO ACHAK DENG, Former Lost Boy of SudanSept. 9-10, Eckerd College Summer 2010 Reading
FOR MORE INFORMATIONwww.eckerd.edu/africa727.864.7979, events@eckerd.eduThe Plight and Promise of Africa: An Eckerd College Initiative