Council on African Studies Lecture Series: “Emergency Thinking and Mozambique’s Revolution, 1975–1986”

Event time: 
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 4:30pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on African Studies Lecture Series presents

David Morton, Associate Professor, History, University of British Columbia: 

“Emergency Thinking and Mozambique’s Revolution, 1975–1986.”

David Morton is associate professor of African History at the University of British Columbia and the author of Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio, 2019). He writes about decolonization and informal settlement, and his current work explores ground-level governance during the first months of Mozambique’s independence. He received his PhD at the University of Minnesota (’15) and his BA at Yale (’97).

 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public