Participants will examine methods of teaching students about Africa. Several workshops will be held each day of the conference on varying themes, such as human rights, reproductive welfare, democracy and development. Rice formerly worked with the National Security Council as the director of international organizations and peacekeeping, and as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs. A novelist and poet, Rubadiri also serves as a university lecturer at Makerere College in Uganda and at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 1957 by Melville Herskovits, a cultural anthropologist at Northwestern University, the African Studies Association is the largest academic association devoted to the study of Africa, with 2,000 members nationwide.
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