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Carol Townsend, associate professor and coordinator of the design foundations program at Buffalo State, will present “Rwanda: Not in Kansas Anymore” on Thursday, March 17, at 12:15 p.m. in Upton Hall 230. This lecture, part of the yearlong series “Artists on the Road: Travel as a Source of Inspiration,” is free and open to the public.

Townsend’s presentation features the tiny nation of Rwanda, where she traveled with students associated with the campus’s Anne Frank Project, overseen by AFP director Drew Kahn, in 2013.

This group spent two weeks touring the east central African country torn apart by a brutal genocide in 1994. Along with visiting genocide memorial sites, Townsend and the group participated in a number of educational tours, including seeing giraffes in Akagera National Wildlife Park, participating in the donation of a cow in a small village of the Muhanga District (Buffalo’s sister city), learning about the native Rwandan justice system, visiting a Congolese family’s mud hut in the Gihembe Refugee Camp, and swinging high on the Nyungwe Forest Canopy Walkway.