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Oludamini Ogunnaike, an assistant professor of African religious thought at the University of Virginia (UVA), visited Bowdoin on Monday to deliver a lecture…

Africana Studies Becomes a Department More than half a century after it was established at Bowdoin, the Africana Studies Program is now becoming a fully fledged academic department. The symbolic but significant change was announced at the March 9 faculty meeting and is effective immediately. “This move signals to the College that Africana studies is a discipline with a specific set of methods and conventions that can be learned through the major we’ve crafted,” says Peter M. Small Assoc...