The John L. Warfield Center Congratulates the Recipients of this Year’s Patrice Lumumba Graduate Research Fellowships in History
Posted: April 1, 2010
The John L. Warfield Center Congratulates the Recipients of this Year’s Patrice Lumumba Graduate Research Fellowships in History
Patrice Emery Lumumba (1925-1961) was the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He founded the Congolese National Movement, the first nationwide Congolese political party, through which he sought to dismantle the internal factionalism and Belgian oppression that divided the nation. Lumumba was committed to pan-Africanist goals, and was assassinated as a result of his attempt to implement those goals.
The Patrice Lumumba Graduate Research Fellowship in History is given to graduate students conducting historical research in Africa and the African Diaspora. Particular consideration is given to those students whose work demonstrates a social commitment commensurate with Lumumba’s objectives. The fellowship is administered by WCAAAS and Dr. Toyin Falola in the Department of History.
2009-10 Patrice Lumumba Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients:
Lady Jane Acquah
Ghana Experience of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement in Islam
Jessica Lynn Archberger
Questions of Eastern Neo-Colonialism: The History of Chinese Investment and Involvement in Zambia, 1964-1975
Ryan Groves
Namibian Land Reform Under South African Mandate, 1920 and 1990
Jason Morgan
An International Battleground: Namibia vs. South Africa at the United Nations, 1945-1990
Charles Thomas
The Reconstruction of the Tanzanian Armed Forces After 1964
