Courage and a strong stomach.
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According to Ashtari, the symposium brings together diverse experts from Africa and the United States for lectures and panel discussions. Leroy Nesbitt, special assistant to the president of the College and advisor for the symposium, believes this year's two-day symposium, like its predecessors, will enrich the study of Africa on campus and create a constructive discourse among experts. Ben Gyepi-Garbrah, a member of the Middlebury College class of 1993 and the symposium's founder, will make introductory remarks. The film introduces many unforgettable African women, from an individual who has taken refuge in a convent from a forced marriage to a community health worker demonstrating condom use in a marketplace. Women entrepreneurs who control trade in major cities explain how they have formed their own mutual aid societies.