The conference was truly an inspiring and amazing experience. With young African graduate scholars from around the continent, some embarking on their postgraduate careers, others well seasoned and others junior lecturers in their respective universities. We all arrived in drips and grabs at Pembroke College and in the late afternoon we had drinks at the Nihon Residential Hall lawns with Ms. Karen Colvard the Young African Scholars programme director, and two senior member of the Guggenheim family. I got to liaise informally with all the scholars and went to dinner with some in town.
