DISTINGUISHED AFRICAN LECTURE SERIES
Third Distinguished Lecture: Desmond Tutu (Nobel Laureate)
On Thursday, March 25, 2004, South African archbishop and social activist, Desmond Tutu lectured on “God has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time” (also the title of his latest book) in Texas Hall at UTA. Over 2,700 people attended the event including political, education, religious and business dignitaries from across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The Distinguished Lecture by Archbishop Tutu was the third in the series sponsored by The Africa Program. It was jointly sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Honors College, the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of History. The main theme of Archbishop Tutu’s lecture was that “we are all one family and God says in this family there are no outsiders.”
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External links of Desmond Tutu
- BBC: Tutu's profile (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3743389.stm)
- The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre (http://www.tutu.org/)
- Nobel e-Museum (http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1984/tutu-bio.html) Desmond Tutu biography
- Bruderhof Peacemakers Guide profile on Desmond Tutu (http://www.peacemakersguide.org/peace/Peacemakers/Desmond-Tutu.htm)
- Desmond Tutu's speech on Citizenship in Post-Conflict Societies at King's, January 23 2004 (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtID=533)
- Desmond Tutu (1989 UK) photograph by Pogus Caesar (http://www.oomgallery.net)