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Five College Africa Day Celebration Includes Drumming, Dancing, Discussion and Food By Mahlet Girma, UM ’08 The Five College African Studies Program and MHACASA present an afternoon and evening of education and celebration of Africa beginning at 2:15 on Friday, November 2, at the Mount Holyoke College Blanchard Campus Center. Everyone in the Five College community is invited to dance to West African music, snack on African treats and meet Five College African studies faculty, students and alumni. Africa Day begins and concludes with music. Leading off the celebration at 2:15 will be The Five College West African Music Ensemble performing music from Ghana, Togo, and Benin, accompanied by dancer Elikem Nyamuame. In the reception that follows, attendees will snack on African treats while meeting Five College African Studies Program faculty and students, who can describe research, internship and study abroad opportunities in Africa. The program offers some 40 undergraduate courses in more than 15 disciplines involving African studies. Students may consider study abroad opportunities in 13 African countries, and classes are offered in nine languages spoken in Africa, including Zulu, Wolof, Yoruba, Twi, Swahili, Portuguese, Arabic, French and English. Most of these are taught through the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages. Panel discussions that include students, alumni and faculty follow the reception at 3:30, leading up to keynote speaker Tracey N. Hebert, a 1992 graduate of Mount Holyoke. Hebert will discuss how that, inspired by her undergraduate study abroad in Senegal, she did post-conflict work in Liberia for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Herbert has also worked on African-U.S. relations for the US Trade Commission in Boston. At 4:30, Five College language students, led by Mchezo Mswahili, perform a short Swahili play. At 8 p.m., following a break for dinner, Senegalese band Gokh-Bi System takes the stage, with music and dancing that works everyone into the performance. The annual Five College Africa Day celebration culminates a week of MHACASA (Mount Holyoke African and Caribbean Student Association) events. Africa Day is sponsored by Five College African Studies Council, MHACASA, Mount Holyoke College African American and African Studies, the Five College African Scholars Program, Amherst College Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Amherst Black Studies Department, Smith College African Studies Program, Atopani Fund at Hampshire College, Center for Global Initiatives and Office of Student Programs, and the UMass International Programs Office. Originally posted 11/13/07 Home
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