Workshop 4 of 6 in this Historical & Cultural Literacy Workshop Series
African Modern Day Youth Movements in Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Congo: A New Dawn of Africa's Quest for Freedom
Presenter: Dr. Gnaka Lagoke
Dr. Gnaka Lagoke has a Masters degree in Spanish, and a PhD in African Development Policy from the Howard University African Studies Department. He is a specialist in African political affairs, development, and Pan-Africanism. While in Ivory Coast he worked for 8 years as a journalist, a political reporter for independent newspapers. As a student at the University of Abidjan, he was one of the students' architect whose struggle led to multiparty system in Ivory Coast in 1990. He is also a political analyst who appeared on several news organization such as Australian Broadcast Corporation, Voice of America, Russia Today, HispannTV, and Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, and WBAI. He is the founder of a panafrican public forum which engages a permanent conversation on Africa from the panafrican perspective, The Revival of Panafricanism Forum (www.revivalofpanafricanism.org). He featured in a documentary on the current US president in French entitled: "Barack Obama: From Chicago to the White House". For more info, please visit www.gnakalagoke.com.