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SIT Study Abroad Academic Director to Speak at UN Panel
Dr. Naana Opoku-Agyemang to present African perspective on Transatlantic slave trade
BRATTLEBORO, VT (March 22, 2007) -- Dr. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Academic Director of the SIT Study Abroad Ghana program, has been invited to speak at a United Nations panel discussion on the Heritage of Slavery to be held March 26, 2007, at the UN Headquarters in New York. The panel, which will include academics from the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, is to take place as part of the UN’s International Day for the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Dr. Opoku-Agyemang, a Ghanaian scholar of the African Diaspora, will offer an African perspective on the historic slave trade and its impacts.
In addition to being the Academic Director for SIT Study Abroad in Ghana, Dr. Opoku-Agyemang is the Dean for Graduate Sciences at the University of Cape Coast and has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Cape Coast since 1986. She studied in Ghana for her first degree and moved to Canada where she received her masters and doctoral degrees in Commonwealth Literature, with an emphasis on African Literature. Dr. Opoku-Agyemang also spent a year at Northwestern University as a Fulbright Fellow, has lectured at several college and university campuses in the U.S. and has published widely on the African Diaspora and related subjects. She is currently a member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Visit the UN Web site: International Day for the Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Abolution of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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