As 2021 gives way to 2022, let us remember more of those who have passed on in recent months:
-November 11, 2021. F. W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for bringing about an end to apartheid. He declined a Harper Fellowship at Yale Law School in 1997.
-November 29, 2021. Robert Farris Thompson, professor emeritus of art history at Yale, specializing in cultural flows from Africa across the Atlantic.
-December 15, 2021. bell hooks, who taught at Yale as an assistant professor of African and Afro-American studies, as well as English.
-December 24, 2021. Kenya Siana Flash, a librarian of government and political science at Yale, passed away.
-December 26, 2021. The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town.
-January 2, 2022. Richard Leakey, former director of the National Museums of Kenya.
Cataloging Africana 