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SUMMARY:Eye on Africa, Assan Sarr
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 About the Talk:\n
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 	The long standing presence 
 of Islam in the Senegambia region have had profound 
 influence on its diverse peoples. The 
 steady but significant acceptance of Islam among 
 the region's population increasingly brought 
 the region into a wider intellectual world 
 extending into northern Africa and the Middle 
 East. For many centuries, Senegambian Muslims 
 had been conducting the hajj and traveling 
 to Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Saudi Arabia 
 and Kuwait to study Islam.\n
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 	About the 
 Speaker:\n
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 	Assan Sarr is an associate professor 
 and director of graduate studies in the 
 Department of History at Ohio University. His 
 research interests include peace and conflict 
 in Africa, land tenure, agrarian change, oral 
 history, slavery and Islam in West Africa's 
 Senegambia region. He is the author of Islam, 
 Power and Dependency in the Gambia River basin 
 and several book chapters and articles, 
 which appeared in the African Economic History, 
 African Studies Review, Journal of West African 
 History and Mande Studies. He is a member 
 of the Ohio University Press board and a core 
 member of the African Studies Program and 
 the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. 
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 Sponsor: African Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://africa.isp.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Liz Timbs\n
 Contact phone: (517)884-2154\n
 Contact email: timbseli@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://eyeonafrica.matrix.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Room 201, International Center
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