**THE 3rd GLOBAL ISSUES COLLOQUIUM **

Institute for International Trade and Cooperation would like to invite you to our fifth faculty colloquium.

Contending Ideas and Sustainable Development in Africa 

Presenter: Prof.Kelechi A. Kalu (Ohio State University)

Monday, Sep. 26

4:00pm-6:00pm (Dinner will be provided)
#1002 Seminar Room, International Education Building

* RSVP BY JUNE 23 FOR DINNER PREPARATION 

Professor Kelechi A. Kalu

Professor Kelechi A. Kalu is the Director of the Center for African Studies at Ohio State University. He joined OSU in Autumn Quarter 2008, as Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies. He received his B.A. in Political Science, University of North Texas with minor in Economics (1986); his M.A. in Political Science University of Dayton (1988); and his Ph.D. in International Studies, GSIS, University of Denver (1997). His research interests focus on the political economy of development and underdevelopment in Africa and elsewhere.

Prior to joining the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, Dr. Kalu was a Professor of Political Science at The University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, and Adjunct Professor of African Politics at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Professor Kalu is the author of Economic Development and Nigerian Foreign Policy (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000). His publications include articles in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Africa Today, Journal of Nigerian Affairs, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, Journal of African Policy Studies, West Africa Review, The Constitution: A Journal of Constitutional Development and several book chapters on African and Third World issues. He is editor of and contributor to Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa (Aldershot, U.K and Burlington, VT. U.S. 2004). Dr. Kalu has served as a consultant to the World Bank on Public Sector Governance. His current book project is on Political Restructuring in Post-Conflict States in Africa, which is part of a larger project funded by The Ford Foundation. He recently co-edited "Socio-Political Scaffolding and the Construction of Change: Constitutionalism and Democratic Governance in Africa (Africa World Press, 2009) with Peyi Airewele-Soyinka of Ithaca College. Professor Kalu serves on the editorial board of several journals and currently is the Book Review Editor (Africa) for the Journal of Asian and African Studies.