Chérif Keïta, William H. Laird Professor of French and the Liberal Arts, will be celebrated at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (Boston, MA) with a round-table titled “Scholar, Mansaba and Master of the Word: Chérif Keita’s Life in Mande and African Studies,” sponsored by the Mande Studies Association (MANSA), with panelists from both sides of the Atlantic and in fields such as Geography, Religion, Anthropology, Music, and Ethnomusicology.