Africa On Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari

By Betty Levitov

Join Professor Levitov and her Doane College students on an unforgettable learning experience as they study African history, literature, and culture during travels through seven countries.  Students encounter new customs and discover a subtle and complex connection among people normally worlds apart.

All That Jazz Has African Roots
By Learthen Dorsey
This program looks at the retention of Africanisms within African-American culture, especially jazz. The emphasis is on African cultural practices and why they were retained in the New World.

Contemporary Africa
By James S. Wunsch
It has been some 40 years since most of Africa achieved its independence. While hopes were high at independence time, many African states have experienced economic decline and political instability. The presenter, who has lived, taught, done research and traveled in much of Africa since the early 1970s, explores the reasons for these problems, what the African states are doing to improve their prospects and what the United States can do to help.

Ethnicity, Fratricide and National Integration: Rwanda in Historical Perspective
By Learthen Dorsey
This presentation takes the position that what happened in Rwanda in the 1990s was not genocide but fratricide and civil war. Rwandans killed their neighbors over competition for available resources. These events must be viewed from the country's past and for its prognosis for the future.

Exploring African Art 
By Learthen Dorsey
When Western artists incorporated aspects of African art in developing such modern styles as Cubism, Western museums began to import and buy African artifacts, with major artistic and economic consequences. Dorsey discusses the artistic traditions of sub-Saharan Africa and displays artifacts related to the religion, magic and worldly concerns of African communities.

Which Way South Africa?
By Learthen Dorsey
This presentation examines the historical roots of South Africa's past in order to speculate on its future.