According to the Vice President's spokesman, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo will also participate in an interactive session with students and faculty coordinated by Wale Adebanwi, Professor of Africana Studies at UPenn. The lecture, scheduled for April 24, is hosted by the University's Center for Africana Studies.
As a leading voice and strong advocate for a Just Energy Transition for Africa and the developing world, Osinbajo is currently spearheading efforts aimed at creating the African Carbon Market as one of the pathways of a just and sustainable transition.
The Vice President's visit to UPenn is expected to deepen the collaboration between the institution and the Nigerian government in the areas of education and research.
UPenn, which is one of the eight private universities known as the Ivy League in the U.S., was founded in 1740 as a charity school and later transformed into an academy in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the U.S. and the first president of the Board of Trustees of the University.
The Center for Africana Studies, which is hosting the Vice President's special lecture, was founded through the merger of the Afro-American Studies Programme and the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.