2020 Census Will Ask, "Are You a US Citizen?"

Guest: Sarah Parcak, PhD, Founder and President, GlobalXplorer, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Founding director, Laboratory for Global Observation, University of Alabama at Birmingham Sarah Parcak is a space archaeologist, and she wants you to be one too. You don’t have to travel in a rocket ship or use a telescope. All you need is an internet connection and some patience, because space archaeology entails studying satellite images to find hidden treasure. The more eyes on the images, the better.

Guest: Ken Bugul, Author, “Le Baobab Fou” If you look at the list of countries whose citizens have left for other places over the last decade, Syria’s emigrant population has grown the fastest worldwide. The rest of the top ten countries with fastest growing rates of emigration are all in Africa. So it’s not too surprising that migration was something Ken Bugul spoke passionately about during a recent visit to our studio as a guest of BYU’s Africana Studies program.  Ken Bugul is from Senegal. She’s one of French-speaking Africa’s most celebrated authors. Her writing deals with independence, loss, inequality and identity. Her next novel is about migration. It’s unfortunate that only one of her books has been translated into English, because there’s a lot Ken Bugul wishes we, in the West, understood.