The 10th edition


of the Annual Garvey/Nkrumah Lecture Series will hold on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at the Smith Hall of Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America (USA).
The Lecture, which is being put together by the Africana Institute of Essex County College in association with the South African Consulate General, New York, USA, will be in-person and will start at 10:00am.
The Keynote will be delivered by a one-time presidential candidate for Liberia, Ms. MacDella Mackie Cooper. She will be speaking on “African Women in the Struggle for Liberation and Equality: Past and Present.”
A committed Pan-Africanist, activist, politician and philanthropist of note, Ms. Cooper, who was born in Liberia and partially raised in Newark, New Jersey, where she graduated from Barringer High School, is the founder of the MacDella Cooper Foundation which is dedicated to the education, training and motivation of disadvantaged youth and marginalized women in Africa.
The Lecture Series is in honor of two celebrated and foremost Pan-Africanists, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur and orator who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association/African Communities League in 1917 and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, a revolutionary thinker an activist who set the pace and motivated pro-independence struggles in Africa.
The Consul General of the Republic of South Africa, Hon. Motumisi Tawana will give the Opening Remarks at the Lecture which is open to all. Dr. Akil Khalfani, a Professor of Sociology at Essex College is the Director of the Africana Institute of the College.