{"id":507,"date":"2011-10-22T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=507"},"modified":"2011-10-22T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T09:38:59","slug":"selassie-delivered-lecture-at-tanzanias-oldest-largest-public-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Selassie delivered lecture at Tanzania\u2019s oldest, largest public university"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bereket Selassie in his UNC classroom. (photo by Dan Sears)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bereket Selassie, the William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies in UNC’s department of African and Afro-American studies, delivered a distinguished lecture at Tanzania\u2019s oldest and largest public university.<\/p>\n

Selassie was selected as the Julius Nyerere Distinguished Lecturer on Pan-Africanism by the University of Dar es Salaam. The university is situated on the western side of the city of Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n

Selassie delivered talks on \u201cPostcolonial Pan-Africanism: A Historical and Biographical Testament\u201d and \u201cPan-Africanism and Problems of African Nation States: Challenges in the Era of Globalization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julius Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician who served as the first president of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country\u2019s founding in 1961 until his retirement in 1985. In 2009, he was named \u201cWorld Hero of Social Justice\u201d by the president of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n

At UNC, Selassie specializes in African law, politics and history, constitutional law, politics of development and international law of human rights.<\/p>\n

Selassie previously served as attorney general and associate justice of Ethiopia\u2019s Supreme Court, narrowly escaped capture by a military junta and joined the guerillas fighting for Eritrea\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n

Selassie was not only constitutional commission chair and principal author of Eritrea\u2019s constitution, but also serves as a senior consultant in creating constitutions for other countries, including Nigeria and Iraq. He is a prolific writer who penned the memoir, The Crown and The Pen: The Memoirs of a Lawyer Turned Rebel.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first Julius Nyerere Lecturer, named in 2009, was Nigerian writer, poet and playwright Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n

Read more on Selassie: http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/meet-a-tar-heel\/Selassie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bereket Selassie, the William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies in UNC\u2019s department of African and Afro-American studies, delivered a distinguished lecture at Tanzania\u2019s oldest and largest public university.<\/p>\n

Selassie was selected as the Julius Nyerere Distinguished Lecturer on Pan-Africanism by the University of Dar es Salaam. The university is situated on the western side of the city of Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}