LOS ANGELES — Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and scholar, cultural critic, and Emmy winner Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will share the stage for an intimate conversation at Loyola Marymount University on Friday.
Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist and essayist, and was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. He previously served as President’s Marymount Institute Professor in Residence at LMU.
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. He is the longtime host of Finding Your Roots on PBS and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
The event will be organized by LMU’s Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts and TSEHAI Publishers. English professors Julia Lee and Theresia de Vroom, director of the Institute, will serve as moderators.
Media wishing to cover the event must RSVP to news@lmu.edu by Thursday. Per city ordinances, all guests must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test upon arrival at the LMU campus. More information on the event can be found here.
