Jan. 29, 1999
Contact: Katherine Jackson
(804) 924-3629
ktj@virginia.edu

AFRICAN CULTURAL-STUDIES SCHOLAR TO GIVE
FIRST LUTHER P. JACKSON MEMORIAL LECTURE
AT U.VA. ON FEB. 12

	Ali A. Mazrui, an internationally-known African scholar, will
give the first Luther P. Jackson Memorial Lecture at the University of
Virginia on Friday, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. in Minor Hall Room 125.
	Mazrui, who is the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities
and director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State
University at New York - Binghamton, will discuss "Four Ethical
Revolutions of the Twentieth Century:  African-American and African
Experiences."  He is also the Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large at the
University of Jos in Nigeria and Senior Scholar in African Studies at
Cornell.
	Mazrui, a Kenyan, is vice president of the Royal African Society
in London, an honorary Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and member of the College of Fellows of the International Association of
Middle Eastern Studies.  Author of more than 20 books, he helped create
the PBS series "The African: A Triple Heritage" and consults on issues
including constitutional change, educational reform and Islamic culture.
	Luther Porter Jackson, one of the foremost black historians in
the United States, was born in 1892 in Lexington, Ky. The author of five
books on blacks in Virginia, Jackson was chairman of the history
department at Virginia State University from 1922 until his death in
1950.
	The Luther P. Jackson Cultural Center at U.Va. houses special
programs and other activities sponsored by the Office of
African-American Affairs.
	The event, which is free and open to the public, is a part of
U.Va.'s African American History month activities.

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	For more information contact the Office of African-American
Affairs at (804) 924-7923.  Television reporters should call the TV News
Office at (804) 924-7550.