A.P.E.X. Events: Mvemba Phezo Dizolele

Published: September 26, 2018 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Thursday, October 11, A.P.E.X. presents SUU alumni Mvemba Dizolele in honor of Homecoming Week! His discussion will take place in The Whiting Room in the Hunter Conference Center. Mvemba will be discussing his career after SUU in his work with foreign policy, journalism, and African Studies. This event is free and open to the public. 

Mvemba Phezo Dizolele is a writer, foreign policy analyst, and independent journalist. He is a professorial lecturer in African studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Formerly, he was a Peter J. Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow and a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is the author of the forthcoming biography, Mobutu: The Rise and Fall of the Leopard King.

Dizolele’s analyses have been published in the Journal of Democracy, New York Times, Newsweek International, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, New Republic, Forbes, St Louis Post-Dispatch, and other outlets. A frequent commentator on African affairs, he has been a guest analyst on PBS’s NewsHour and Foreign Exchange; NPR's Tell Me More, On Point, and the Diane Rehm Show; BBC’s World News Update; and Al Jazeera’s the Stream, NewsHour, and Inside Story.

He has testified before various subcommittees of both chambers of the U.S. Congress, as well as before the UN Security Council. He was a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and covered the 2006 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With the Pulitzer Center, he produced Congo’s Bloody Coltan, a documentary report on the relationship between the Congo conflict and the scramble for mineral resources. He served as an election monitor with the Carter Center in Congo in 2006 and 2011. He was also embedded with UN peacekeepers in Congo's Ituri district and South Kivu province as a reporter. Dizolele holds an International M.B.A. and an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago, and he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in political science and French from Southern Utah University. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, and he is fluent in French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swahili, Kikongo, and Lingala; and is proficient in Danish and Swedish.

“We are constantly amazed with the achievements of SUU’s alumni! Mvemba Dizolele is an exceptional example of what possibilities exist after our students leave our campus. We can’t wait to welcome Mvemba back to his Thunderbird home!”

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