Tagged: Africa

To celebrate educational exchanges
3:23 pm
Tue April 30, 2013

Botswana Delegates Visit WIU

Credit Larry Dean - WIU - Visual Production Center
Ambassador Tebelelo Seretse of the Republic of Botswana

A delegation from Botswana visited Macomb to celebrate new educational exchange agreements between Western Illinois Univesity and universities in Botswana.

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Emphasis – October 25
7:14 pm
Thu October 25, 2012

Working for Social Justice in Africa

Credit Rich Egger
Prexy Nesbitt

Rich Egger’s guest on Emphasis is social justice activist Prexy Nesbitt. He was in Macomb to speak with students at Western Illinois University and raise awareness of ongoing civil rights and freedom struggles in the United States and Africa.

Nesbitt said his family talked a great deal about Africa while he grew up on Chicago’s west side, yet it was still a life-altering experience when he first visited Tanzania as an exchange student in the mid-1960s.

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