#  McMillan-Stewart Lectures 

 



 The McMillan-Stewart Lectures were established in 1996 to honor Geneviève McMillan of Cambridge and her colleague, Reba Stewart, who died tragically while working as a painter in Africa. Ms. McMillan endowed this lecture series in order to advance knowledge in the field of African Studies.

- 2012: Frederick Cooper, *Africa in the World*
- 2011: Tsitsi Dangarembga, *Zimbabwe: Successes and Failures in Conflict Resolution*
- 2010: *Photography & Diaspora: A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity*, Panel Discussion with Okwui Enwezor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kobena Mercer, Renee Mussai, and Deborah Willis
- 2008: Jean-Godefroy Bidima, *Poetics and Politics of Hermeneutics: Crossings and Becomings in Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics in Africa*
- 2006: Maryse Conde, *Rediscovering the Self in Francophone Literature: The Erasure of Memory and the Rebellious Presence of Africa*
- 2006: N'gugi wa Thiongo, *Remembering Africa: Burial and Resurrection of African Memory*
- 2004: Emmanuel Obiechina, *Africa in the Soul: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century African Slave Narratives*
- 2003: Charlayne Hunter-Gault, *New News Out of Africa*
- 2001: Francis Abiola Irele, *Black Utopia: Diaspora Thought and African Renewal*
- 2000: Ali A. Mazrui, *The African Predicament and the American Experience*
- 1998: Chinua Achebe, *Home and Exile*
- 1995: Wole Soyinka, *Nigeria: The Open Sore of a Continent*



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Annual Lecture Series ](/resources-links-faq/sponsored-lecture-series)