Dr. Barbara McDade-Gordon recently joined participants from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and throughout the African Continent, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria for the First Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA). Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was among the keynote speakers, delivering addresses on the conference theme, “African Studies in the 21st Century: Past, Present, Future.”
Dr. McDade-Gordon presented a paper titled, “African Diaspora in Ghana: Going Back to the Future” and also became a member of the ASAA Standing Committee on the African Diaspora.
This work was funded by travel awards from UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) and Center for African Studies (CAS).