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Images in no particular order: Professor Jemadari Kamara with Okigbo’s wife Sefi Judith Attah, and daughter Obiageli; Rev. Sr. Carol Ijeoma Njoku; the great South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus; Dr. Dumbem Okafor, CEO of the Mulicultural and Literacy Institute in Rading Pennsylvania; Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and beloved Nigerian author with UMass Boston’s own Dr. Chukuma Azuonye of the Africana Studies Department, who convened the conference.
Photos by Edson Bueno