Brown Bag Lunch Series

Speaker: Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Professor of Political Science and African & Women’s Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY

There’s a pervasive tendency toward uni-dimensional analysis by many who have commented on the Boko Haram issue. Some see this as an issue concerning inequitable denial of girls’ access to education.  Others see humantrafficking looming large. For yet others, this is a Muslim attack on Christians. Some consider it a case of humanitarian crisis. Many in Southern Nigeria see it as a Northern problem. Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Professor of Political Science and African & Women’s Studies at Brooklyn College will argue in this talk that the problem is hydra-headed since it has elements of each dimension enumerated immediately above. And yet it’s more. The problem is structural, historical, political and economic, and it has extraordinary and profound ramifications.

Kosher pizza will be served.

Brown Bag Lunch Series