by Kelly Rogge
Kansas City Kansas Community College is sponsoring a presentation in July that will feature a guest speaker from South Africa.
Matlotleng Matlou will speak on “The U.N. International Decade for People of African Descent” from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, July 9, in the Intercultural; Center on the KCKCC main campus, 7250 State Ave. There is no fee to attend the presentation, and it is open to the public.
Matlou worked as an envoy for the U.N. High Commissioner Kenyan refugees in the early to mid 1990s. In 1997, he returned to South Africa and became chief director of migration at the Department of Home Affairs, later becoming the deputy director general of tourism in the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Currently, he is director of Excelsior Afrika Consulting and part-time lecturer at the Institute of African Renaissance University of South Africa.
The program is sponsored by the Henry Louis Center, Students for Global Peace, the Ralph Bunche Society, the KCKCC e-Journal and the Intercultural Center.
For more information, contact Barbara Clark-Evans at 913-288-7504 or email [email protected].
Kelly Rogge is the public information supervisor at Kansas City Kansas Community College.