Achebe Colloquium on Africa 2010

His Excellency Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Governor of Rivers State Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Executive Director, The Institute of Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Dr. Judith Burdin Asuni, Visiting Scholar of African Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University Annkio Briggs, Niger Delta activist John Campbell, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Edwin Clark, Former Federal Minister of Information and Ijaw National Leader Isidore Udoh, J.C.L. for the Niger Delta World Congress Adebowale Adefuye, Nigerian Ambassador to the US in Washington DC Peter Lewis, Director of the African Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University Moderator: Mobolaji Aluko, professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University

Governor Chibuike Rotirni Amaechi, Governor of Rivers State

Richard Joseph, John Evans Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University Emeka Izeze, Managing Director of the Guardian Newspapers, Nigeria Attahiru Jega, Former Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Nuhu Ribadu, Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Ayo Obe, Human Rights Lawyer, Lagos, Nigeria Darren Kew, Professor, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, UMass-Boston Moderator: Roger Middleton, Chatham House, London

Nuhu Ribadu, Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Peter Lewis, Director of the African Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University John Campbell, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Femi Falana, Human Rights Lawyer, Lagos, Nigeria Walter Carrington, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Omoyele Sowore, Publisher, Sahara Reports Emmanuel Akomaye, Secretary to the EFCC Moderator: Darren Kew, Professor, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, UMass-Boston

Ambassador Stephen Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes

Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Department of English, Creighton University Nkashama Pius Ngandu, Professor of French Language and Literature in the French Department of Louisiana State University Marie Louise Mumbu, Renown Author, Congo Micere M. Githae Mugo, Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University Herbert Weiss, Emeritus Professor, CUNY Lisa Shannon, Human/Women’s Rights Activist, author of “A Thousand Sisters” Moderator: Emmanuel Dongala, Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon’s Rock

Dr. Oscar Kashala, Former Democratic Republic of Congo presidential candidate Josè Kagabo, Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France Ben Kalala, Presidential Candidate, DRC 2011 Amii Omara-Otunnu, Associate Professor of History, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights Joseph Mwantuali, Associate Professor of French, Hamilton College Moderator: Jason Stearns, Yale University

Margot Elisabeth Wallström, Former Vice Chairperson of the European Union and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict

Mbaya J. Kankwenda, Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Development Research and Strategic Studies on Africa Tatiana Carayannis, Deputy Director, Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council Ali Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton Alafuele M. Kalala, Former Democratic Republic of Congo presidential candidate Edouard Bustin, Director, Francophone Africa Research Group (GRAF), College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University Moderator: Ben Shepherd, London School of Economics, London

Josh Ruxin, Humanitarian and Scholar, Kigali Rwanda Aloys Habimana, Africa Deputy Director Human Rights Watch Noel Twagiramungu, Human Rights Activist and scholar, Tufts University Peter Uvin, Academic Dean and The Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, Tufts University Vern Neufeld Redekop, Professor of Conflict Studies, Saint Paul’s University, Ottawa, Canada Justine Mbabazi, First Consular, Rwanda Embassy, Washington, DC Moderator: Dr. Susan Thomson, Hampshire College

Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University Ali Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton Timothy Longman, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, African Studies Center, Boston University Dr. J. Paul Martin, Director, Human Rights Studies, Barnard College Dr. Scott Newton, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK Colleen Driscoll, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University Moderator: Kenneth Harrow, Distinguished Professor of African Studies, Michigan State University

Professor Adebowale Adefuye, Nigerian Ambassador to the US in Washington DC

President Ruth J. Simmons, Brown University