Neil Norman, a residential doctoral fellow in Center for Historical Research at the Ohio State University, will present "Using Archaeology to Reconsider Urbanism in Atlantic Africa: Town and Country of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, c. 1650-1727," from 12 noon - 1 p.m. Friday (5/16) in 122 Oxley Hall. The Center for African Studies Lunchtime Lecture Series presentation will address the emergence of densely settled urban palace complexes and rural countrysides on the West African coast.

Norman, an archaeologist completing his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, has conducted extensive research on the West African town of Ouidah, one of the two most important ports for the export of slaves in the eighteenth century. 

Contact the Center for African Studies at 614-292-8169 for more information.