Professor Lidwien Kapteijns to join the Panel Discussion on Celebrating African Women, March 17, 2024
Toyin Falola
Professor Lidwien Kapteijns to join the Panel Discussion on Celebrating African Women, March 17, 2024
Lidwien Kapteijns is Kendall-Hodder Professor of History at Wellesley College, where she teaches African and Middle Eastern history. Before turning to Somali studies, she worked in the Sudan and wrote about late pre-colonial Sudanese history. Her Women’s Voices in a Man’s World (with Maryan Omar Ali, 1999) analyzes notions of proper womanhood in Somali folklore texts and post-independence popular songs. Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (2013) deals with Somali civil war violence in text and context. With Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed Kassim she co-edited Stringing Coral Beads: The Religious Poetry of Brava c. 1890-1975 (2018).
Sunday, March 17, 2024
5 PM Nigeria // 10 AM Austin
Register and Watch:
https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/africanwomen
Join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83647239385
Adebayo Ajadi
Professor Lidwien Kapteijns to join the Panel Discussion on Celebrating African Women, March 17, 2024
Lidwien Kapteijns is Kendall-Hodder Professor of History at Wellesley College, where she teaches African and Middle Eastern history. Before turning to Somali studies, she worked in the Sudan and wrote about late pre-colonial Sudanese history. Her Women’s Voices in a Man’s World (with Maryan Omar Ali, 1999) analyzes notions of proper womanhood in Somali folklore texts and post-independence popular songs. Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (2013) deals with Somali civil war violence in text and context. With Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed Kassim she co-edited Stringing Coral Beads: The Religious Poetry of Brava c. 1890-1975 (2018).
Sunday, March 17, 2024
5 PM Nigeria // 10 AM Austin
Register and Watch:
https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/africanwomen
Join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83647239385
