Experience in Africa

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Adventure Tour Lectures and Television Productions

2015 (November) Morocco:
Lecturer, Smithsonian Journeys Educational Tour, Splendors of Morocco.
2015 (February) Morocco:
Lecturer, Smithsonian Journeys Educational Tour, Splendors of Morocco.
2014 (April, May) South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Republic of Congo, Sâo Tomé & Principe, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal, Western Sahara, Morocco:
Lecturer, G Adventures tour, Cape Town to Agadir.
2013 (April) South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Republic of Congo, Sâo Tomé & Principe, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal:
Lecturer, G Adventures tour, Cape Town to Dakar.
2012 (April) Cameroon, Sâo Tomé & Principe, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal:
Lecturer, Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions tour Tracing the West Coast of Africa.
2012 (March-April) South Africa & Namibia:
Lecturer, Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions tour South Africa & Namibia by Sea.
2012 (March) Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa:
Lecturer, Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions tour Mozambique Odyssey with Tanzania and South Africa.
2011 (October) Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana:
Lecturer, Zegrahm & Eco Expeditions tour Mali, Burkina Faso, & Ghana with Timbuktu.
2011 (March-April) South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Sâo Tomé & Principe, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal:
Lecturer, Silversea Cruises tour, Cape Town, South Africa to Dakar, Senegal.
2009 (April-May) Namibia, Angola, Gabon, Sâo Tomé & Principe, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco:
Lecturer, From the Cape of Good Hope to Gibraltar.
2009 (March) South Africa:
Lecturer, South Africa by Sea.
2009 (February) Mali, Senegal, Gambia:
Lecturer, The Road to Timbuktu and the Rivers of West Africa.
2008 (October-November) Morocco:
Study Leader, Smithsonian Institute Educational Tour, Moroccan Discovery: From the Imperial Cities to the Sahara.
2008 (February-March) Morocco:
Study Leader, Smithsonian Institute Educational Tour, Moroccan Discovery: From the Imperial Cities to the Sahara.
2008 (January) Mali, Senegal, Gambia:
Study Leader, Smithsonian Institute Educational Tour, The Road to Timbuktu and the Rivers of West Africa.
2008 (January) Mali and Guinea:
Discovery Channel Television Production, filming in Timbuktu and the Bouré goldfields for The Lost Gold of Timbuktu.
2007 (November) Mali:
Oregon Public Broadcasting Television Production, filming in Dogon Country, Djenne, Timbuktu, and the Sahara Desert for Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe.
2007 (March) Mali, Senegal, Gambia:
Study Leader, Smithsonian Institute Educational Tour, The Road to Timbuktu and the Rivers of West Africa.
2006 (January) Mali, Senegal, Gambia:
Study Leader, Smithsonian Institute Educational Tour, The Road to Timbuktu and the Rivers of West Africa.

 

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Field Research, Service and Conferences

2016 (March-April) Mali, Guinea:
Field and archival research, Dakajalan archaeological project.
2014 (June) Mali, Burkina Faso:
Dakajalan archaeological project; Ninth International Conference on Mande Studies, Bobo Dioulasso.
2013 (December) Mali:
Dakajalan archaeological project.
2013 (June-July) Mali, Guinea:
Field research.
2013 (January) Mali:
Field research.
2012 (January) Mali:
Field research; Festival in the Desert, Timbuktu.
2011 (June-July) Guinea, Mali:
Field research; Eighth International Conference on Mande Studies, Bamako.
2011 (April) Senegal:
Research, Almami Samori Touré Project, Saint-Louis.
2010 (October-November) Guinea:
Dibril Tamsir Niane Archival Preservation Project, Baga & Maninka; Field research.
2009 (January) Guinea:
Field research.
2007-08 (December-March) Guinea:
Yale University research project, Dancing with D’mba: Icon of Beauty and Power in West Africa.
2007 (February) Guinea:
Endangered Archives Preservation Project, Djibril Tamsir Niane tape collection, Conakry.
2005 (December) Guinea, Mali:
Field research.
2005 (June-July) Guinea:
Sixth International Conference on Mande Studies; Field research.
2005 (January) Mali:
Sixth International Conference on Mande Studies, Conakry & Kankan; Field research.
2004 (December) Guinea:
Organizing Sixth International Conference on Mande Studies and research.
2004 (June) Mali:
Consultant on Mande Culture, Population Media Center Radio Project, Bamako.
2004 (January) Guinea:
Organizing Sixth International Conference on Mande Studies.
2004 (January) Côte d’Ivoire:
Field research.
2004 (January) Benin:
Guest lecturer, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou; Field research.
2003 (December) Mali:
Translation project.
2001 (June-July) Guinea, Mali:
Field research.
2000 (June) Guinea:
Centenaire du Souvenir de l’Almamy Samory Touré, Kerouane & Bissandougou.
1999-2000 (December-January) Mali:
Translation project.
1998-99 (December-January) Mali:
Archaeological dig at Djenne and translation project.
1998 (June-July) Guinea, Mali:
Research project.
1998 (June) Gambia:
Fourth International Conference on Mande Studies, Serrekunda.
1997 (June-July) Guinea, Mali:
Research project.
1997 (June) Senegal:
West African Research Association Symposium, Dakar.
1996 (May-July) Mali, Guinea, Gambia, Senegal:
Research project.
1994 Guinea, Mali:
Fulbright African Regional Research Program, field research.
1993 (March) Mali:
Second International Conference on Mande Studies, Bamako.
1992 (June-July) Guinea:
Field research & translation project.
1991 (June-July) Guinea:
Field research & translation project.
1984 (June-July) Mali:
Research project, Bamana Segou.
1975-76 Mali:
Archival & field research (dissertation).
1975 (May-June) Algeria, Niger:
Overland traverse of the Sahara Desert.
1975 (June) Nigeria:
Revisiting Peace Corps projects.
1975 (June-July) Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali:
Overland travel.
1969 (June-August) Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt:
Overland travel.
1968 (June-August) Ethiopia, Kenya:
Operation Crossroads Africa Group Leader.
1964-66 Nigeria:
United States Peace Corps, and overland travel in Cameroon, Dahomey, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Upper Volta, Niger.


 

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