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Soyinka, a writer and political activist whose outspoken opposition to General Sani Abacha’s brutal regime had made it unsafe for him to remain in his native Nigeria, accepted a fellowship at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African and African American Studies, says “that in a lot of ways the University is making progress. Overtures such as that are very good. The fact that it took until now is symbolic...
When he arrived at Harvard, Soyinka was reunited with his friend and Du Bois Institute Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., whom he first met at the University of Cambridge in the 1970s when Soyinka was a visiting professor in the English Department and Gates...
Gates, the Du Bois professor of the humanities, was named the 14th member of the Postmaster General’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee last Thursday.
The event was co-sponsored by the IOP, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, the Black Student Association, the BMF, and the Kennedy School of Government’s Black Student Caucus.