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Has not gone up . Has not gone up . We just came through a commencement season. That may say, i do not take the degrees lightly. Been into theng academy and having invited individuals to receive Honorary Degrees, i consider this quite an honor. A privilege, a joy, to be acknowledged for doing work. That is what not Honorary Degree is about. What an Honorary Degree is about. The fact that it can be connected to the young people, to their lives. Could we even assume that it could serve for inspiration for them . What is your approach to the commencement address . A new speech every time . I love...

Had 61 Honorary Degrees. Has that gone up . We just came through a commencement season. Let me say, i do not take the degrees lightly. A part of having been into the academy and having invited individuals to receive Honorary Degrees, i consider this quite an honor. A privilege, a joy, to be acknowledged for doing work. That is what an Honorary Degree is about. The fact that it can be connected to the younguns, as i like to call young people, to their lives. Could we even assume that it could serve for inspiration for them . What is your approach to the commencement address . A new speech every...

You have competing audiences. And yet, it is a special moment. And it is captured in the word. It is the commencement. It is the beginning of a new leg in the journey of these young folk and sometimes not so young folk. So i love giving those speeches. You have been the director of the museum of african art since 2009. Why did you take the job . I want to share with you that i did my best not to take the job. I went through the process and i was about to be appointed. I picked up the phone and i called a fellow anthropologist. He is the undersecretary im sorry, yes, the undersecretary at the s...