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Printer-Friendly ModeFaculty to discuss famine in Africa
October 31, 2005 —
SVSU professors John Grolle and Scott M. Youngstedt will share findings from the research they have conducted on the African nation of Niger on Thursday when they present a lecture, "The Current Famine in Niger: Local, National and Global Factors," Thursday, at 2:30 p.m. in the Marble Lecture Hall (Wickes 115).
The lecture will analyze the complex interplay of factors that have contributed to the famine in Niger, including drought and locust invasions, severe poverty, global economic policies, the failure of famine detection systems and state mismanagement. Grolle, associate professor of history, has conducted field research in rural northern Nigeria and Niger, and has worked in rural Congo, formerly Zaire.
He earned his doctorate in geography/African studies from Michigan State University in 1995 and has been teaching at SVSU since 1997.
Youngstedt, professor of sociology, has worked in Niger since 1988, including a six-week trip during the summer of 2005 funded by the West African Research Association.
He earned his doctorate in anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1993. Youngstedt joined the SVSU faculty in 1996.
The lecture is open to the public, and admission is free of charge.