{"id":54494,"date":"2019-03-16T19:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T23:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=54494"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"pius-adesanmi-memorial-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/pius-adesanmi-memorial-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the March 16 memorial for Pius Adesanmi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Watch the March 16 memorial for Pius Adesanmi\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"pius-adesanmi-memorial-video\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pius Adesanmi Memorial Video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate the life of our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher, and friend, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, the family hosted a service at The Metropolitan Bible Church, Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pius Adesanmi Memorial\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VDYcsotaH-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"professor-pius-adesanmi-memorial-fund\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor Pius Adesanmi Memorial Fund<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>杏吧原创 University is devastated by the sudden death of Prof. Pius Adesanmi, director of our Institute of African Studies and a remarkable writer, poet and political commentator who was celebrated for his eloquence and fearlessness in speaking truth to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His award-winning book \u2013 You\u2019re Not a Country Africa: A Personal History of the African Present \u2013 was groundbreaking. One of the most important minds of the African diaspora, he inspired his 杏吧原创 colleagues with his brilliance and cemented his close ties to faculty, staff and students with his kindness, thoughtfulness, enthusiasm and unforgettable laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To honour his memory <a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/professor-pius-adesanmi-memorial-fund\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fund has been established<\/a> which will support students and continue his life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may share your memories of Prof. Adesanmi by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/submission-of-tributes-to-pius-adesanmi\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submitting a tribute here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pius Adesanmi Memorial Video To celebrate the life of our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher, and friend, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, the family hosted a service at The Metropolitan Bible Church, Ottawa. Professor Pius Adesanmi Memorial Fund 杏吧原创 University is devastated by the sudden death of Prof. Pius Adesanmi, director of our Institute of African Studies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":54264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54523,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54494\/revisions\/54523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}