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Gertrude Mongella |
Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella, the first president of the Pan-African
Parliament, will receive the 2005 Delta Prize for Global Understanding
at a banquet on March 1 on campus. Mongella will be recognized
for her lifelong championship of women’s and children’s
rights.
A symposium on Mongella’s contributions to global understanding
will take place the same day at 4 p.m. in Masters Hall of the
Georgia Center for Continuing Education. The symposium will feature
a panel discussion with Mongella; Andrew M. Daraja, Tanzanian ambassador
to the United States; and Lioba Moshi, director of the African Studies
Institute at UGA. Betty Jean Craige, director of the Center for
Humanities and Arts, will moderate. The symposium is free and open
to the public.
While she is on campus, Mongella will also deliver the 13th annual
Darl Snyder Lecture for the African Studies Institute. She will
speak at 10 a.m. March 2 in the Chapel on the role of
the African Union in resolving the Darfur and lake-region crisis.
The lecture is also free and open to the public.
Mongella has previously served as a member of parliament in Tanzania,
as Goodwill Ambassador to the World Health Organization representing
Africa, as leader of the Organization of African Unity’s election
observer team for the 2002 Zimbabwe presidential election, as a
member of the Council of “The Future” at UNESCO, as
president of Advocacy for Women in Africa, and as U.N. assistant
secretary general, and as secretary general for the fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing.
Established with an $890,000 endowment grant from the Delta Air
Lines Foundation, the Delta Prize for Global Understanding is administered
by UGA. The prize includes a bronze sculpture and a $10,000 cash
award. Previous recipients include Václav Havel, former president
of the Czech Republic; Sadako Ogata, former United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees; Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of
the Soviet Union; Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa; and former
president and Mrs. Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center.
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