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DU Presents Lecture on Evangelization of Africa
Dominican University’s Department of African and African-American Studies will present a lecture titled “Black Joseph: Rhetoric and Motivations of African American Evangelization of Africa” on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. The lecture, to be delivered by Dr. Ogbu Kalu, the Henry Winters Luce Professor of World Christianity at McCormick Theological Seminary, in the university’s Springer Suite, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.Dr. Kalu, a native of Nigeria, received a doctoral degree from the University of Toronto in Canada, a master’s degree in divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and an honorary doctorate in divinity from Presbyterian College in Montreal, Canada.
For more information on this lecture, please contact Nkuzi Nnam, director of Dominican University’s Department of African and African-American Studies, at (708) 524-6952.
Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.
“As a student I wanted an intimate community. As an aspiring journalist I wanted a big city. Dominican gave me both—and so much more.”
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