The WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences joins the Africana Studies Program and Department of History, along with the Center for Black Culture and Research and the Center for Women’s Studies, in welcoming Tabitha Kanogo, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, as part of Diversity Week events.

Dr. Kanogo will present a lecture,”Crossing Boundaries: Constructing and Redefining Womanhood in Colonial Africa, 1900-1960,”at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Gluck Theatre, Mountainlair. The lecture is based on her soon to be released title, African Women in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1960 (April 2004). The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Kanogo is widely published. Her Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau (1987) remains a classic on Mau Mau historiography and the wider decolonization debates. Apart from producing seminal works on the politics of decolonization in Kenya; bringing African women and third world women’s movements back into history, Dr. Kanogo’s third book zeroes in on”Endangered Childhood in Colonial Kenya.”All these areas of historical research including women and politics; women and socio-cultural change; gendered inquiries; and age-based historical studies, remain highly contested terrains from both epistemological and theoretical paradigm perspectives.

The Africana Studies Certificate Program (ASP) is administrated by the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. The coordinator of the Africana Studies Program is Priscilla M. Shilaro, who is also an assistant professor of history. For more information about the lecture or Africana Studies Program, contact Dr. Shilaro at 304-293-2421 ext. 5238.

For more about WVU s Diversity Week activities, go tohttp://www.wvu.edu/~socjust/.