Professor Immanuel Wallerstein will give a lecture, "Yesteryear: The Glory Days of African Liberation Movements", on Friday, December 7 at 4:00 p.m. in Sterling Memorial Library's Lecture Hall (128 Wall Street). The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. It is being held in conjunction with the opening of AMANDLA! Southern African Liberation Posters from the Collection of Immanuel Wallerstein , an exhibition in Sterling's Memorabilia Room on view from December 7, 2007 until February 15, 2008.

Wallerstein is a world-renowned expert on post-colonial Africa and on globalization. He is the former President of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998), and chair of the International Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (1993-1995). He currently writes in three domains of world-systems analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system, the contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy, and the structures of knowledge. He has authored over two dozen monographs, including a number on Africa, and has been a Senior Research Scholar at Yale since 2000. His collection of Southern African liberation posters was built over a number of years and forms an important part of the African Collection in the Yale Library's department of Manuscripts and Archives.

The Yale Library's African Collection is one of the most extensive and accessible in the world and the first acquisition of Africa-related material goes back to the earliest days of the University's existence. It has a particularly strong focus on Anglophone southern, central, east, and west Africa. Francophone and Lusophone countries are also strongly represented and there are considerable resources on all other areas, including the Indian Ocean islands. Holdings on most southern African countries are close to exhaustive. Yale also has an exceptional collection of indigenous-language material, particularly creative literature.

Location: Sterling Memorial Library's Lecture Hall

Contact: Geoffrey Little

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