Nigeria in the World Seminar

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Date and Time

May 6, 2025
05:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy Street, Room 210
In Person

Religion and Democracy: Navigating Faith and Freedom in Nigeria and Beyond

Speaker:

The Governor, His Excellency Rev. Fr. Dr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia, Governor of Benue State, Nigeria.

Chair:

Jacob K. Olupona, Faculty Associate. Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School; Chair; Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jacob K. Olupona
olupona@fas.harvard.edu

Abstract:

Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia will lecture on religion, leadership, and democracy in Nigeria and its implications for faith and public life in the country. 

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