he community is invited to a discussion with author Dympna Ugwu-Oju entitled “A Woman in Tribal Africa, a Black in White America” on Wednesday, February 24, at 7pm at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom. The event will take place in the college’s Community Room (Aspen Hall room FL1-20) and is sponsored by Folsom Lake College’s Multicultural Sub-Committee as part of African American History Month.
Dympna Ugwu-Oju was born in Nsukka, Nigeria. She has been published extensively in national newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek and the New York Times. Her first book, What Will My Mother Say (A Tribal African Girl Comes of Age in America), describes her childhood in the traditional Ibo culture of Nigeria where a woman’s value is determined by factors she does not control and chronicles her war-torn childhood.
Her second book, In the Eyes of God (A Biafran story) is awaiting publication. Dympna holds her Bachelor’s Degree (English, minor in Magazine Journalism) from Briarcliff College, a Master’s of Science (Print Journalism) from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, and a Doctorate Degree (Educational Leadership) from California State University, Fresno, and University of California, Davis. She is currently an instructor of Journalism at Fresno City College and previously taught at Middlesex County College in New Jersey and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Admission to the event is free (a daily parking pass can be purchased for $1). For a map with