Sakah Mahmud, associate professor of political science at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and a native of Nigeria, will give a talk titled “Return to the Source? African Political Thought and Philosophy and Contemporary African Conditions, Monday, October 16, at 4:30 pm, in room 216 in Skinner Hall. Mahmud’s lecture is the first of four talks in a MHC philosophy department series called Reimagining Africa.

Series organizer Emmanuel Eze, a visiting assistant professor of philosophy, describes the series as “Conversations designed to present fresh voices exploring both the world pictures framing multiple discourses about Africa and the ordinary fabric and institutions of everyday life on the continent.” The second talk, titled “Philosophy and the State in Africa: Rawlsian Considerations” will be delivered by Ifeanyi Menkiti, professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, Tuesday, November 28, at 4:30 pm in room 216 in Skinner Hall.

In the spring, two feminist economists will complete the series, although details have not yet been finalized. One will address the topic of women and development in Africa, particularly in the Sudan, while the other will focus on economic/cultural geography in colonial Tanzania.