McMillan-Stewart Lectures

The McMillan-Stewart Lectures were established in 1996 to honor Ms. Genevieve McMillan of Cambridge and her colleague, Ms. Reba Stewart, who died an untimely death while working as a painter in Liberia and Ghana as a young woman. Ms. McMillan, who has endowed this lecture series as part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship Program, hopes that the lectures will advance knowledge of the field of African studies. The series of three lectures is co-sponsored by the Oxford University Press, which publishes them as books.

Previous McMillan-Stewart Lectures include the following:

2011: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe: Successes and Failures in Conflict Resolution
2010: Photography & Diaspora: A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity, Panel Discussion with Okwui Enwezor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kobena Mercer, Renee Mussai, and Deborah Willis
2008: Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Poetics and Politics of Hermeneutics: Crossings and Becomings in Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics in Africa
2006: Maryse Conde, Rediscovering the Self in Francophone Literature: The Erasure of Memory and the Rebellious Presence of Africa
2006: N'gugi wa Thiongo, Remembering Africa: Burial and Resurrection of African Memory
2004: Emmanuel Obiechina, Africa in the Soul: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century African Slave Narratives
2003: Charlayne Hunter-Gault, New News Out of Africa
2001: Francis Abiola Irele, Black Utopia: Diaspora Thought and African Renewal
2000: Ali A. Mazrui, The African Predicament and the American Experience
1998: Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile
1995: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria: The Open Sore of a Continent