Africa Distinguished Lecture in African Studies
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March 24, 2022
By
Louisa Shepard | Penn Today
Playwright, novelist, poet, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka spoke about arts and culture in Africa as the inaugural guest for the Distinguished Lecture in African Studies.
The first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986, Soyinka spoke before an audience of more than 150 people filling a Penn Museum auditorium and many more online in the streamed, hybrid event on March 22.
Interim President Wendell Pritchett said the study of Africa “is fundamentally important to understanding the world we live in and the planet we hope to nurture and protect” and “is relevant to every facet of contemporary life.
“This inaugural Distinguished Lecture in African Studies sets our course at Penn for greater attention and deeper integration of Africa, its peoples, cultures, climate, and contributions in our own outlook and understanding,” Pritchett said...
The Distinguished Lecture in African Studies was co-sponsored by Perry World House, the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature and the Penn Museum.
