Mondays – Tropics to Timbuktu: Exploring the African Continent

2/16 & 2/23 @ 11:00 AM/CH

Instructor: Professor Judy Okun

The Sahara, the Rift Valley, Timbuktu, the tropics, the term Africa sparks multiple images and ideas in imagination. With a combined geographical and historical lens, this class embarks on an odyssey of

the continent’s physical, historical and cultural condition as we connect these disparate themes into an understanding of present-day Africa.