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• Biography (max. 200 words – OPTIONAL): Dr Mary Mbosowo is an Associate Professor of French at Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma, USA. She is also the Director of Center for International Develpment at the Langston University. This Center coord...More

  Biography (max. 200 words – OPTIONAL): Dr Mary Mbosowo is an Associate Professor of French at Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma, USA. She is also the Director of Center for International Develpment at the Langston University. This Center coordinates student exchange and Sumeer Study Abroad Programs to several countries around the world. Dr. Mbosowo earned her BA in French at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, her Masters degree in French at Kansas State University, Manhatan, Kansas, and her Ph.D in French from the University of Jos, Nigeria. Her scholarly interests and publications focus on the issues that affect African women in developing countires. Some of her publications include: Rural-Urban Migration of young African women in Nuruddin Farah's Nee de la Cote d'Adam, in Journal of Children and Youth Literature, VOL. 7, 1995/96; African women in the Labor Force and sexual harassment in Ngugi Wa Thiongo's Devil in the Cross, in Black Academy Review, Vol-3/4, 1997. Her current research deals with African proverbs about women written in English, French and in nine African languages. Less

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