A lecture on toxic masculinity seen in Ghanian film will be presented Tuesday night. The lecture, “Men and the Politics of Hegemony in Ghanaian Film and Fiction”, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

“The presentation will use films and books to detail the measures these men undertake in their desire to reach the hegemonic ideal and the costs and consequences to themselves and their families,” according to the Iowa State Lectures website.

The lecturer for the night is Theresah Patrine Ennin, the 2018 American Council of Learned Societies-African Studies Association Presidential Fellow and a senior lecturer of African literature in the Department of English at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Ennin obtained her doctorate in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The lecture is cosponsored by African Studies Association/American Council of Learned Societies, African and African American Studies Program and the Committee on Lectures.