Lecture: “The Persistence of Africa’s Big Men: State-Society Relations and Democracy in Africa”
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Dr. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, associate professor of political science and public administration at Babcock University in Nigeria, will present “The Persistence of Africa’s Big Men: State-Society Relations and Democracy in Africa” in 510 Ross Hall on Thursday, Nov. 9 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. A reception will be held following the lecture.
Yacob-Haliso is an American Council of Learned Societies/African Studies Association Presidential Fellow.
This lecture is hosted by the Department of Political Science and is part of a series presented by the African and African American Studies Program at Iowa State. For more information on this lecture series, contact Tunde Adeleke at tadeleke@iastate.edu.