The UW-Eau Claire English department, the McIntyre Library and the Visiting Minority Scholar/Artist program are sponsoring several presentations by Dr. Femi Ojo-Ade from Monday to Thursday.

“Issues of Culture and Colonialism” will be presented on Monday, “Africa and Racism in the New Millennium” on Tuesday and “Brazil’s Bahia and the Yoruba Continuum” on Wednesday. Thursday Ojo-Ade will read from his works.

Ojo-Ade, a senior scholar and professor of French at St. Mary’s College (Md.), will discuss various diversity issues within the topic of “Negritude, Nationalism and the New Millennium.” All presentations will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room L2023 of McIntyre Library.

Ojo-Ade has taught French, Francophone (African, Canadian and Caribbean), Anglophone and Lusophone African, African American and Afro-Brazilian literatures.

He has received many renowned awards, such as the 1999 Association of Nigerian Authors Award for Children’s Literature.

Ojo-Ade is fluent in French and English and also can speak Ypruba, Spanish and Portuguese.

English department chair Martin Wood said, “It is important and valuable to hear views we don’t get much exposure to in our daily academic inquires.”