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10/18/10

Talk At St. Lawrence On 'Looking For Africa'

CANTON - Arizona University Professor of Law and former Nigerian Cabinet Minister Leslye Obiora will deliver the CLR James Lecture in African Studies at St. Lawrence University, on the topic "Looking for Africa Where It Can be Found." The talk, which is open to the public free of charge, is on Thursday, October 28, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall.

Obiora obtained her professional degree from the University of Nigeria and her graduate degrees from Yale and Stanford. She has written extensively on human rights and gender equity, among other issues. Obiora has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, and has managed a gender and law program for the World Bank.

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