The Yale International Studies Workshop will host Sobukwe Odinga for a discussion, "Making Black Friends: The Rise of the New Breed and the Coalescence of the U.S. Counterterror Agenda in Africa During the 1990s"

Sobukwe Odinga is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA. His areas of expertise are international relations theory, African regionalism and security cooperation, and race and U.S. foreign policy. His current research focuses on the global security relations of African states, with an emphasis on intelligence cooperation and covert operations.

The Yale International Studies Workshop is produced with the support of The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and co-hosted by the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Lunch will be provided for all participants. To request a copy of the paper, please email Jack Guenther at Jack.Guenther@yale.edu.