Vol. VII 2008 NAB

Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth University

According to the German Re- search Foundation (DFG), BIGSAS started “graduate schools are an im- portant factor in creating Interview with Ute Fendler, high-profile and internation- the Dean of BIGSAS ______2 ally competitive centres of ac- Building Partnership ______5 ademic excellence in Germany. As a quality instrument for BIGSAS started ______6 supporting young researchers, Open gates for BIGSAS-Delegates their aim is to train outstand- at partner universiti es ______8 ing doctoral students within an excellent research envi- Exhibiti ons ______10 ronment.” The decision of the Guests ______21 Initiative for Excellence of the In Brief ______25 Federal Government and the Personalia ______26 Federal States on 19th Octo- Projects ______28 ber 2007 for the funding of the Publicati ons ______36 International Graduate School Reports ______41 of African Studies (BIGSAS) In Memoriam ______51 meant a big leap forward for Editors’ note ______52 African Studies at the Univer- sity of Bayreuth. see page 6f Interview Interview

Ute Fendler, the Dean of BIGSAS , linguistic and media divides. comparative approach. Struc- I.B.: What does BIGSAS stand interviewed by Isaac Bazié, University of Québec (Photo: Roncador) I see these approaches as an tural conditions for phenom- for? For a tradition of re- important way to perceive Af- ena become more obvious, search and teaching on Af- rican artistic creativity as the which facilitates reflection on rica at Bayreuth University, a Currently one of the busiest result of rich interactions and and the development of theo- multi-disciplinary initiative persons at Bayreuth University, cross-fertilization. However, retical concepts. to increase its profile in Afri- Ute Fendler holds the Chair in this approach means multi- can studies or even a turning Francophone and Comparative disciplinarity, but Bayreuth I.B.: As a former student at point in this field? Literatures since October 2006. University, due to its long and Bayreuth University you are Besides her considerable work- well-established tradition in able to survey a long period of U.F.: One of the most important load as professor, she has also research across various disci- time. How have African Studies reasons why Bayreuth Univer- been Dean of BIGSAS since Oc- plines focused on Africa, is the changed in the field of research sity has been successful in the tober 2007. Isaac Bazié seized right place to do it. and teaching at Bayreuth Uni- scope of German’s national the opportunity to interview versity during that time? her for our newsletter. I.B.: You just mentioned this international conference U.F.: I really appreciate the “Children and Youth in Africa fact that intercultural phe- Interview with Ute Fendler, the Dean of BIGSAS and Latin America” which you nomena have become a grow- organised. What are the links ing and main research focus at between these regions ac- Bayreuth University. New net- I.B.: Where did you teach before tural communication, with a teaching Francophone litera- cording to you? works such as AEGIS, promot- Bayreuth University off ered focus on Francophone coun- tures with a regional focus on ing research in African Stud- you the Chair of Francophone tries in Africa, the Caribbean, Africa. Secondly, I would like to U.F.: To pursue African Studies ies on an international level and Comparative Literature, and Canada, while preparing stimulate research in this field doesn’t imply that you narrow have been established. But I and how did you come to the my postdoctoral thesis on by organizing conferences your notion of Africa down to also observe that the focus field of African studies? South American travelogues with the side-eff ect of creating a region – even if it is, in this has shifted considerably to the in the 18th century. an academic network in col- case, a huge continent. This so-called Anglophone coun- U.F.: In fact, I did my Ph.D. in perception is too narrow and tries. International academic Bayreuth with János Riesz in African arti sti c creati vity as the result of also too simplistic. This con- exchange using English as the Romance Studies. So my inter- tinent has always been part main vernacular doesn’t inevi- rich interacti ons and cross-ferti lizati on est in African Studies is some- of a global system of mutual tably mean the restraint of re- Ute Fendler, the Dean of BIGSAS thing of a long-term relation- exchanges and influences, not search interests to exclusively (Photo: Roncador) ship. After completion of my I.B.: Bayreuth University is fa- laboration with research cen- only with Europe, but also Anglophone countries. But at Ph.D., the German Academic mous for its African Studies. tres such as Paris, Bordeaux, with the Americas, Asia and the same time, there are a cou- “initiative of excellence” is our Exchange Service funded my How would you describe your Montréal, Toronto etc. A good the Arab world. Putting Af- ple of projects at the Univer- long-established tradition of position as lecturer at the Uni- contribution to this tradition? example of this kind of activity rica into a larger context via sity of Bayreuth on Lusophone outstanding research in Afri- versity of Ouagadougou for a was the conference on “Chil- crossing boundaries helps to countries, which open up new can studies. This is simply a period of five years, where I U.F.: I would like to maintain dren and Youth in Africa and deepen our understanding and perspectives. So the poten- matter of record. Besides two extended my research inter- this long-established tradition Latin America” held in Bay- knowledge of Africa. In our tial of Bayreuth research re- Collaborative Research Cen- ests to film studies. Back in of research on Francophone reuth in February 2008. Be- case, there already pre-exists sources could be developed to tres funded by the German Germany, I taught at the Uni- literatures in Africa. My aim sides these activities, I am also some sort of common ground a real interdisciplinary work Research Foundation, there versity of Saarbrücken, mainly in this field is threefold. First very eager to strengthen com- in historical and cultural per- beyond linguistic and regional have already been post-grad- in media studies and intercul- of all, I would like to continue parative approaches across spectives, inviting us to use a boundaries. uate programmes on a smaller

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scale. One of the main advan- of the most important tasks AEGIS and our alumni network, ful means to enhance mutual tages of BIGSAS is our 22 prin- of scholars in African Studies. but also by our BIGSAS partner collaboration. These activities Building Partnership cipal investigators, coming African junior scholars, and universities in Morocco, Benin, quite often develop into com- from diff erent academic dis- already-established scholars, Kenya, Mozambique and South mon research projects. Common agenda on higher education ciplines but working closely should bear this burden in Africa. Exchange programmes together in common research an atmosphere of mutuality between BIGSAS and our I.B.: What is your most adven- From 2 to 5 July, 2008, repre- partnership. How can applica- areas. This atmosphere of mu- and on an equal footing. This partner universities guaran- turous vision concerning Afri- sentatives from our partner tions be facilitated? What are tual collaboration also mani- is also one of the mantras of tee a close collaboration in can Studies at Bayreuth Uni- universities, Abomey-Calavi the administrative difficulties fests itself in the supervision African Studies. Besides dec- research and teaching. One versity in general, and in your (Benin), Moi-University (Ken- to be solved in order to support of our doctoral candidates. larations of intent, there is an of the intended side-eff ects department in particular? ya), Mohammed V-Agdal (Mo- and train promising doctoral To cut a long story short, urgent need for action to be will be a closer co-operation rocco), Universidade Eduardo students in the field of African BIGSAS is the result of previ- taken. How will BIGSAS make between our partner univer- U.F.: It is always somehow dan- Mondlane (Mozambique), and Studies? In the afternoon these a contribution to a construc- sities. Besides this privileged gerous to talk about visions, al- A symbolic present: Delegates from Moi University, Kenya, presenti ng a plate to pre- tive and long-term exchange? exchange under the umbrella though visions are necessary to Isaac Bazié (Photo: Roncador) sident H. Ruppert. From left to right: N. Shitemi, A. Nngulu and E. Kamaara. (Photo: Tylle) initiate changes. But since you ask about my vision concern- Isaac Bazié ing my own field of research, I Isaac Bazié has been professor of French literature at the Univer- would say that a centre for film sity of Quebec, Montréal since 2001. He started his studies at the and media studies would be a University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso at the Department of fantastic project. It would take German Studies and fi nished his “Licence” in Germany at the Uni- into account the most recent versity of Saarbrücken. From there, he moved to Bayreuth where developments in most African he studied Francophone literature, German literature and African countries, it would also allow linguisti cs and obtained his Masters and Doctorate. The ti tle of the focus on the interaction his doctoral thesis (supervised by János Riesz) was “Die kriti schen between various discourses Reakti onen der deutschsprachigen, französischen und englischen clustered in media and would Presse auf den Literaturnobelpreis von 1984 bis 1994” (Criti cal reflect local as well as inter- ous experiences and exper- reacti ons of the Germano-Franco and Anglophone press on the national ideas and tenden- tise. The structure of our new Nobel Prizes for Literature between 1984 and 1994) which was cies. Besides this centre, the programme off ers, on the one published in 1999. Besides his academic publicati ons, he is also integration of the Lusophone KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), questions were expanded to hand, scientific research and, an author of fi cti on: a novel with the ti tle “La traverse nocturne” countries into the African convened at Bayreuth Univer- the aim of building partner- on the other, practical orienta- was published in 2004. He spent last year as a Humboldt fellow at studies foci at Bayreuth Uni- sity. After a warm welcome ship in the field of academic co- tion. At the same time we set the University of Bayreuth. versity would allow the still- reception by Helmut Ruppert, operation. Common research our priorities on the concise- existing language-divide to be vice-chancellor of Bayreuth interests were identified; pos- ness of the programme. The overcome. In this respect, the University, getting to know the sible cooperation in organ- eff ects are obvious: We will U.F.: BIGSAS off ers, besides the of BIGSAS, several research work on literatures and media partner’s institutions was the ising joint conferences were improve the formation of our usual North-South, a South- projects in various regions in African languages should be aim of the first day. The del- discussed. Ute Fendler, dean Junior Scholars and we will South perspective by estab- will further the exchange be- widened, so that the work on egates gave information about of BIGSAS, assessed the results develop new research ques- lishing a huge network of re- tween Bayreuth University phenomena in European lan- history, structure and academ- of the conference in the final tions and methods in the field searchers and junior scholars and our African counterparts. guages will be completed. ic activities of their universi- session: One result will be a of African Studies. in Europe, America and in Future summer schools and ties. The second day was allo- series of joint conferences with Africa. We will empower this workshops at our partner uni- cated to questions concerning BIGSAS – hosted by our part- I.B.: To reflect on Africa is one network via structures such as versities will also be a power- I.B.: Thank you very much! the administrative side of the ner universities. (C. Scherer)

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In addition to particular BIGSAS started projects and cooperation agreements, great importance Bayreuth International Graduate School of Af- has already been attached in rican Studies (BIGSAS) started with a founding recent years to the training of group of 31 doctoral students young researchers from Africa within the SFB FK 560 cultural This will allow to institution- research school, ‚Local Action alize BIGSAS in the long term: in Africa in the Context of Glo- with funding for a period of bal Influences‘. Under a schol- The building five years in the first instance, at Geschwister- arship programme specially the training of young research- Scholl-Platz designed for African doctoral houses IAS, ers – and especially young re- BIGSAS and students, 17 students from Af- searchers from Africa – can be DEVA. rican countries have been sup-

expanded and given a boost. BIGSAS opening ceremony, from left : D. Ibriszimow, IAS executi ve director; H. ported since the year 2000. T his boos t is necessa r y, for doc- journals, so that they will ily reasons, if it is possible to Ruppert, president of Bayreuth University; U. Fendler, BIGSAS dean; P. J. Hountond- While this in itself is a novelty ji, Centre of Advanced Studies, Porto Novo, Benin; M. Hohl, mayor of Bayreuth. toral students are expected to quickly become familiar with find a solution that will help within existing research fund- complete their degrees within the world of international re- her or him to continue the pro- ing systems, the plans for the three years – including the search. Their progress will gramme that was embarked A real novelty is that the Bay- sen for various reasons: “The international graduate school time spent on field research. be monitored by mentors at on. The BIGSAS budget there- reuth BIGSAS off ers wide- level of academic teaching is go much further: In BIGSAS up regular intervals, and they fore includes special funds ranging support to excellent very high at all these universi- to 100 excellent postgraduate will have the opportunity to to meet the needs of doctoral doctoral students, not only ties”, says Ute Fendler, Dean of students will be trained in the Individual Research attend additional courses in students with families. from Europe, Asia or America, BIGSAS. Furthermore, all uni- next five years, about half of Training Plan order to obtain important The graduate school encom- but above all from Africa. Out versities are interested in in- them from Africa. As stipends skills that they will need for passes a wide range of re- of a total of 29 African univer- tensifying academic exchange from BIGSAS are only avail- As a result of reorganization, their future life and academic search fields, including basic sities with existing academic with Bayreuth University on able to a limited number, the these students are integrated careers, whether inside or and strategic research as well relations with Bayreuth Uni- various academic levels. school assists in forging links in a current research context, outside the university. as applied research in and on versity, five universities form The choice of partner universi- for doctoral students with without restricting their initi- There are also plans for a Africa. Four fields are defined the heart of the co-operation ties shows that BIGSAS, as with specific funding institutions ative as to choice of topic. They range of unconventional meas- for a start. 1. Uncertainty, Inno- with BIGSAS. research relating to Africa in or supporting foundations in receive support in many ways ures for the advancement and vation and the Quest for Order the University of Bayreuth Germany. during this time: By individu- support of female academics in Africa, 2. Culture, Concepts Partner universiti es generally, makes an enormous ally planning their training and academics with families. and Communication in Africa: eff ort to cover the whole con- Up to 100 doctoral programme with their super- A programme for mentoring Approaches through Language, These five universities, the tinent of Africa. Therefore it is visors, particular needs can female researchers will be es- Literature and Media, 3. Con- Université Mohammed V-Agdal one of the desiderata to ensure students be articulated for additional tablished, and workshops of- cepts and Conflicts in Develop- in Rabat, Morocco, Moi Uni- systematic mutual support and courses or financial support fered for project management, ment Co-operation with Africa, versity in Eldoret, Kenya, the long-term co-operation agree- Back to Bayreuth: The co-or- for field research. The stu- career and life–planning, 4. Coping with Environmental Université d‘Abomey-Calavi ments, joint research projects dinated research programmes dents will be responsible for as well as a group-coaching Criticality and Disasters in Af- (UAC) in Cotonou, Benin, Uni- and joint dissertation supervi- in the past (SFB 214 from 1984 organizing their own confer- programme. Another point rica. Currently 22 researchers versidade Eduardo Mondlane sion. Furthermore, the partner to 1997 and SFB FK 560 from ences, for participating in in- to make is that no young re- cover the areas of research in in Maputo, Mozambique, and universities play an important 2000 to 2007, as well as a grad- ternational conferences, and searcher will have to forego a BIGSAS. Two postdocs comple- the University of Kwa-Zulu Na- role in the pre-selection of stu- uate research group from 1990 for publishing in academic trip or a conference for fam- ment the team currently. tal in South Africa, were cho- dents from their region. to 1999) have shown that it is

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possible to focus a variety of disciplines on a common re- Open gates for BIGSAS delegates Stati sti cs search topic, such as exists at With 47 applicati ons for the summer semester 2008, the start of the University of Bayreuth in BIGSAS has been very successful. Aft er the demanding selecti on the area of Africa-related re- One of the most important as- Between two and five del- ing an interdisciplinary gradu- process, 31 excellent graduates received confi rmati on of admis- search. BIGSAS builds on this pects of the establishment of egates from the Bayreuth In- ate school, which will create sion. Seven of the candidates are enrolled in preparatory training, experience. Starting with the BIGSAS in the first few months, ternational Graduate School further possibilities of coop- which involves language courses as well as courses concerning summer semester 2008, the between November 2007 and of African Studies visited the eration and synergies. German academic organizati on, methodology and theory. doctoral students will form spring 2008, was the consoli- partners in order to negotiate In many respects, BIGSAS is an equal opportunity graduate school. a founding group of 31 per- dation of partnership and co- mutual expectations concern- Ute Fendler (Dean of BIGSAS, This becomes obvious when considering the gender rati o as well as sons. The applications for the operation with four of the five ing BIGSAS. The most impor- Romance Literature) and El- the number of students coming from Africa and Europe. With 13 next group starting in Octo- regional partner universities tant feature that the BIGSAS lisio Macamo (Development African students, BIGSAS is a truly internati onal graduate school. ber 2008 are currently being in Africa, namely the Univer- delegates to KwaZulu-Natal, Sociology) summarized their The fact that 19 female students have been admitt ed into BIGSAS evaluated by either the part- sity of KwaZulu-Natal, South Hilary Dannenberg (English visit to the University Eduar- emphasizes the necessity for the BIGSAS supporti ve Gender Ac- ner universities or BIGSAS. Africa, l’Université d’Abomey- Studies and Anglophone Lit- do Mondlane in the following ti vity Plan, which helps female students to achieve a bett er work/ The doctoral students admit- Calavi in Cotonou, Benin, Uni- eratures) Beate Lohnert (De- way: Common plans and ideas life balance. ted then will be able to move versité Mohammed V-Agdal in velopment Studies) and Franz of further academic exchange As funding is always one aspect of most concern to students, BIG- into a university building of Rabat, Morocco, and Univer- Kogelmann (Islamic Studies), between individual research- SAS is fi nancing four preparatory courses, as well as fi nancing two their own. Conditions on the sidade Eduardo Mondlane in learned, was of their desire to ers and departments have students with an E13 positi on (50%) for the enti re three year pe- campus are now too cramped Maputo, Mozambique. A visit jointly supervise dissertation been pushed forward in many riod. 16 BIGSAS students are receiving scholarships from a private for young researchers in Afri- to Moi University at Eldoret, projects between Bayreuth directions. or public insti tuti on. Students without appropriate funding will be can Studies. (Christine Scherer & Kenya, had to be postponed and Kwa-Zulu Natal, which supported by BIGSAS in fi nding donors. (A. Friedrich) Ines Wimmer) and took place end of May. would foster further academic Since the delegates were all re- co-operation. ceived with great hospitality and professional interest, it be- in order to create a common quality in African and Euro-

From left : N. Gbaguidi; E. Alber; C. N. Awanou (Vice-Chancellor of University of Erdmute Alber (Ethnosociolo- came clear that all parties will network of partners and alum- pean countries by developing Abomey-Calavi); U. Wanitzek; A. C. Medegan (Photo: Darboux) gy) and Ulrike Wanitzek (Law) profit from BIGSAS’ structures ni with a positive attitude to- and co-ordinating research summarized their trip to during the coming years. In wards Bayreuth University as interests relevant for all part- l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi order to work jointly on future well as the German academic ners involved. as having been a great success programmes in the academic system. and of gain for the long-existing fields of expertise beyond BIG- - Secondly, to promote the In fact: The assistance of Af- partnership. Martina Drescher SAS, research projects and aca- internationality and appeal of rican partner universities in (Romance Linguistics), Dymitr demic exchange will be pushed all universities contributing the pre-selection and there- Ibriszimow (African Linguis- further by all sides. So, in the to BIGSAS and to ensure that fore in ensuring quality in the tics), Franz Kogelmann (Is- end, it was widely appreciated it is not only Bayreuth Univer- selection process of doctoral lamic Studies), Herbert Popp that BIGSAS is a structural sity that strengthens its pro- students for the Bayreuth In- (Urban Geography) and Chris- chance for everyone in three file as a leading destination ternational Graduate School tine Scherer (Manager of BIG- main aspects: for young academics in the of African Studies is a novelty. SAS) were informed by their - Firstly, to promote academ- field of African Studies. But not only this: It is also a colleagues that l’Université ic and personal development in - And thirdly, BIGSAS’ part- chance for African Studies at Mohammed V-Agdal is imple- the field of African Studies of nerships will contribute to the Bayreuth University to inten- menting the Bologna Process young academics worldwide, promotion and strengthen- sify networks with and in Af- and therefore is itself process- and particularly from Africa, ing of academic and scientific rica. (C. Scherer)

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Inês Gonçalves, Portuguese photographer and fi lmmaker, made a name for herself with her poeti c illustrated books on Cape Verde and Goa. Today, she is one of the best-known photographers in Por- tugal. For her recent project, she travelled with the Angola-born photographer Kiluanji Liberdade to Luanda. Liberdade, a former student of Gonçalves, this ti me took the lead and initi ated a project that involved not only the two fi lmmakers and photographers but also others such as the writer Eduardo Agualusa. The project took its name from a famous poem by Agualusa called ‘Agora Luanda’ – Luanda Now. It is a poeti c documentati on of the metropolis and its youth, of the radical change aft er three decades of war and of a vibrant music culture. Kuduru and taraxinha are the music of the youth in Luanda’s museques, the poor urban suburbs. Liberdade and Gonçalves dedicate this percepti ve video and photo documentary to the famous music club Mãe Ju – the place where Kuduru originated. To- gether with soundscapes of Vasco Pimentel and the text of Eduardo Agualusa, the exhibiti on not only gives a multi faceted portrait of the culture of the Kuduristas but also of the city of Luanda. ‘Agora Luanda’ was the fi rst co-operati on between Iwalewa House, Bayreuth, and the Portuguese Gulbenkian Foundati on (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon). Photos by Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanji Liberdade, 2006 Photos by Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanji Liberdade, 2006 Contemporary Architecture in South Africa Daimler Award 2007 (April - August 2008)

Since 1999, Daimler AG (former The exhibition, which is on The spectrum covers a broad display are characterized by DaimlerChrysler) has con- display in Iwalewa House range of project definitions their conceptual strength, the ferred the ‚Award for South from April to August 2008, and architectural solutions: emphasis on space and light, African Culture’ on a diff erent shows a selection of the mate- From social housing on the the creation of new means of subject each year: contempo- rial submitted for the contest, periphery of the Johannesburg usage and surprising refer- rary art, jazz, sculpture, chore- such as drafts, photos, films, city centre, the revival of the ences to landscape and urban ography, photography, poetry animations and architectural KwaZulu-Natal round hut ar- context. and, last year, for architecture. models, by the award winner chitecture, luxurious villas in The exhibition in Bayreuth is An international jury nominat- Heinrich Wolf and the other Cape Province and postmod- a co-operation between Mer- ed eight architects and archi- nominated architects: Archil- ern office buildings in urban cedes Benz South Africa and tecture offices from diff erent ab, Thorsten Deckler, Heather business centres, to informal Daimler AG Kunstbesitz/Cor- South African provinces – the Dodd, Andrew Horn, Ndabo and temporary architecture in porate Art Department Stutt- only condition: the nominee Langa, Henning Rasmus und the context of neighbourhood gart, the Dr. Ralf Seippel gal- Photo: Sans Souci Cinema, Kliptown – Soweto (Graupner) had to be younger than 40. Chris Wilkinson. projects. All the works on lery and Iwalewa House. Iwalewa-House invited the video arti st Sarah Vanagt to show a selecti on of her recent works in Bay- Sarah Vanagt – Kabila’s Hankies & Power Cut reuth. Vanagt is primarily interested in the way in which children deal with history. Could the fantasy (April - August 2008) world of a child provide a secret passage into the past? This questi on is the starti ng point of Sarah Van- agt’s research on the “historical imaginati on” of children. How do children deal with the past, or rather, how do they shape it in their imaginati on? Aft er her studies of history at the universiti es of Antwerp, Sussex and Groningen, Sarah Vanagt (1976, Belgium) studied at the documentary department of the Nati onal Film and Television School in London. In her work she combines her interest in history with her love for fi lm. Her graduati on project ‘Aft er Years of Walking’ (2003) deals with the rewriti ng of the Rwandese history aft er the genocide of 1994. The video installati on ‘Kabila’s Hankies’ (Les Mouchoirs de Kabila, 2005) is situated in the Congolese border town Goma and looks at the way children, through their games, deal with issues such as death, the recent war in their country and the current electi on fe- ver. The second work shown in Bayreuth is the video installati on ‘Power Cut’ (2007). It is a compilati on of images made by children and soldiers during the current electi on in Congo.

Video installati on ‘Kabila’s Hankies’ (Les Mouchoirs de Kabila) by Sarah Vanagt, 2005 Exhibitions Exhibitions

Children of Angola Angola Pop

Angolan contemporary culture in Iwalewa-House The orphanage Lourenço Sérgio Baltasar, age 16, 6th grade, November 9th to 18th 2007 ti tle: “Tchimbindi” (ghost) Amadeu is located in Cabinda – a province of Angola which In November 2007 the Ango- is still marked by trouble and Within a series of one hundred lan photographer Kiluanji Kia conflicts; it’s a place of argu- and fifty pictures the children Henda and the Portuguese The Angolan photographer ing interests and old disagree- of the orphanage tell the sto- scholar Marta Lança were Kiluanji Kia Hen- ments. As an exclave at the ries of their everyday life in guests at Iwalewa House for a da and the Por- tuguese scholar Atlantic Ocean, it is separated the orphanage but they also two-week stay. Marta Lança in Bayreuth (Photo: from the national territory of narrate about theirs fears and The visit of Kia Henda and Siegert) Angola, wedged between the losses, the troubles in war and Lança again emphasized the Republic of Congo and Demo- its traumata, and also about rituals of washing, playing importance of a new focus at Kiluanji Kia Henda is one of the dency was a guest lecture by cratic Republic of Congo. Cab- hopes and wishes for a better football and feeding pigs, but Bayreuth University on the Lu- most-profiled of the young gen- Marta Lança on Lusophone inda provides the maximum world. also the creepy nights, when sophone art world. Within the eration of Angolan artists. His Hip Hop and literature, be- amount of Angola’s off shore The exhibition was collected dark-red reflections are flam- DFG-funded research project triptych “Ngola Bar” was the ing accompanied by a semi- oil production, but is simulta- and arranged by Károly Koller, ing the sky, be caused by the “Media art and the dynamics central artwork at the first Af- nar on the same topic. Lança neously disrupted by a sepa- author and filmmaker from fires at the nearby oil-plat- of contemporary art worlds rican pavilion at the 52nd Ven- discussed these two areas of ratistic movement having op- Munich, and shows a selection forms at the coast. We also in Johannesburg and Luanda”, ice Biennale, which took place Portuguese-speaking African erated for thirty years. of forty large-sized and small- learn about the very diff erent which started last year, Ulf Vi- in 2007. Kia Henda’s artistic culture. In a tour through con- sized drawings accompanied backgrounds of the children erke and Nadine Siegert not biography covers a variety of temporary African literature by cinematic fragments re- and the deep friendships they only did research in Luanda artistic fields, including thea- in the Portuguese language, flecting developed in the and Lisbon but also organized tre and music. In photography, she exposed lines of ironic dis- daytime orphanage. a series of events at Iwalewa his experimental, distanced course about social life from The drawings House. The visit of Kia Henda or even distorted style repre- independence (in 1975) to can be re- and Lança, which was a fur- sents his hometown Luanda the present day. The legacy of garded as a ther outcome of this initiative, in a complex multitude of per- irony and laughter is also re- mosaic of a was meant to enhance the net- spectives. Since the Angolan tained in contemporary youth much more holistic work of artists and scholars war ceased in 2003, Kia Hen- culture as a way of underlin- view of the war in rural that connects Bayreuth, Lu- da has also travelled through ing the absurdity of governing Angola – watched anda and Lisbon. many Angolan provinces and without any agenda. Lança not through the eyes European cities exploring the only contributed to Bayreuth’s of children. (U. landscapes and episodes of newly-established focus on Vierke) Born in 1979, Kiluanji lives and daily life. In Bayreuth he pre- Lusophonia but also added to works in Luanda. His photographs have been exhibited at the 1 Trienal of sented his project “The magic research on popular culture. Luanda, 2005 and at 52nd Editi on of of (ir)real space” which turns One of the results of the stay Venice Bienal, Africa Pavillion „Check List Luanda Pop“, 2007. the monument of Augostino will be a joint exhibition project Not only a photographer, Kiluanji Neto’s mausoleum into the between Iwalewa House, the has also been involved in theatre and music producti ons. He just visited base of a surreal space–tour- Goethe Institute, Nairobi, and Cape Town for three months arti sts ism feature. the artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. residence. (Sti ll from „Flash Cultural, TPA und Trienal de Angola“) The second part of the resi- (N. Siegert, U. Vierke)

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Crossing borders in contemporary African dance Photo-Exhibition in collaboration with the festival “Grenzüberschreitungen 2007” During his one-week visit to per entitled “Debates on the Sudan, Department of Sociol- and with Zentrum Bayreuth, November– December 2007 Bayreuth in July 2007, Afe Construction of an Islamic ogy and Social Anthropology, Adogame, lecturer in World State: Perspectives by Muslim spent three months at Bay- From November 13th to De- In Contemporary African biography. Crossing borders of Christianity at the School of Groups in Sudan”. reuth University. He held a cember 20th, Iwalewa-House Dance there is a strong empha- artistic repertoires and forms Divinity at the Edinburgh Uni- DAAD scholarship to prepare presented an exhibition on sis on mutual exchange along of expression the Contempo- versity, Scotland, presented a Koffi Anyinefa, chair of the de- his master‘s thesis. Contemporary African Dance the lines of south-south net- rary Dance scenes in two Af- paper entitled ‘I am married to partment of French at Haverford Photography in the foyer of works and collaborations. On rican urban settings, Nairobi Jesus: The feminization of Af- College, USA, visited Bayreuth Isaac Bazié, professor of liter- the cultural centre “Zentrum” the institutional side, the in- and Luanda, proved to match rican immigrant religiosity’. in June and July 2007 at the invi- ary studies at the University of in Bayreuth. The exhibition stallation of schools, festivals the focus of the Bayreuthian tation of Ute Fendler (Romance Québec in Montréal, Canada, displayed photography by and local cultural institutions “Crossing borders”, a festival Osman Mohamed Osman Ali, and Comparative Literature). was staying for one year (June the Nairobi-based artist Jus- is part of that process, as well that has already become an Assistant Professor at the De- 2007 – June 2008) at the Uni- tus Kyalo who besides being a as – on the stylistic side – an institution in the cultural life partment of Sociology and So- Rotimi Badejo, professor at the versity of Bayreuth, where he photographer also does video increasing crossing of genres. of the city. cial Anthropology, University department of languages and taught a class on “Violences art and painting. The exhibi- Old borders between the tra- The ongoing observation of of Khartoum, Sudan, has been linguistics of the University postcoloniales en scènes en tion was inaugurated with a ditional and the (post)modern these processes is part of invited by the Institute of Afri- of Maiduguri, Nigeria, visited Afrique et en Amérique latine thematic opening on Contem- crumble and a new genera- Iwalewa-House’s research in- can Studies. During his stay in Bayreuth in Mai 2007, in or- (Littérature et cinéma)” to- porary African Dance includ- tion of dancers and choreo- terest on contemporary art- May and June he gave a course der to discuss the cognitive gether with Ute Fendler (Ro- ing a lecture by Nadine Siegert graphers try to find their own worlds in Africa which mani- on “Models of anthropologi- aspects of language shifts in mance and Comparative Lit- and a selection of documen- voice in a dance language that fests itself in various genres. cal study of Muslim diversity”. Nigerian Christianity with erature). tary films on the topic. is coined by their individual (N. Siegert) At the conference “Local Is- Dymitr Ibriszimow (African lam under Global Influences Linguistics II). For six weeks in spring 2007, – Sharia Debates in Selected Crispin Maalu Bungi from the African Countries” (4th – 5th Mohamed Bakhit, student at University of Kinshasa, Dem- Photos by Justus Kyalo June 2007) he presented a pa- the University of Khartoum, ocratic Republic of Congo,

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shared his expertise on oral s e a r c h o n ‘ M e a s u r i n g L a n g u a g e on ‘Swahili literature in the – Sharia Debates in Selected University, Uganda, spent six literature and literature in Maintenance and Ethnicity in a beginning of the new century’. African Countries” (4th – 5th weeks in Bayreuth in May and Congolese languages with the Multilingual Context: In Search June 2007). June 2007 as a guest of the members of the Institute of of a Comprehensive Methodol- During his three-month stay SFB/FK 560 (Ulrich Berner). African Studies (Manfred von ogy’ from May – July 2007 at from October to December In fall 2007, the African philos- Osman Roncador). the University of Bayreuth as 2007 with Erdmute Alber (So- opher Paulin Hountondji, direc- Selome Igbekele Kuponu (La- Mohamed Osman Ali (Photo a Humboldt-fellow. Invited by cial Anthropology), the his- tor of the Centre Africain des gos State University, Nigeria), Kogelmann) SFB/FK 560 “Local Action in Dymitr Ibriszimow (African torian Anselme Guezo of the Hautes Études and professor who had been research fellow Africa in the Context of Global Linguistics II), he also pre- University of Abomey-Calavi, of philosophy at the Université at the SFB/FK 560 from 2004 Influences” funded the stay of sented a paper entitled ‘Ver- Benin, taught a class on the At- d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin, spent to 2006, visited Bayreuth John Chesworth, St. Paul’s Uni- nacular Education Experience lantic slave trade, and present- three months at the Univer- from April until July 2007. versity, Limuru, Kenya, at Bay- in Cameroon: Implications for ed a paper entitled ‘Men and sity of Bayreuth as a visiting On July 20th he successfully reuth University in May and Language Planning, Education Means: Reflection on the State professor of the Alexander von defended his thesis ‘The Liv- June 2007. He participated in Policy and Sociolinguistics’. in Nineteenth-Century Daho- Humboldt-Foundation. Invited ing Faith Church (Winners the Swahili Colloquium and mey’ at the Anthropological by Erdmute Alber (Social An- Chapel), Nigeria. Pentecostal- Roti mi has been a discussant at the Hosted by SFB/FK 560 Sati Colloquium. thropology), Prof. Hountondji ism, Prosperity Gospel and Badejo conference “Local Islam under Fwatshak, senior lecturer and opened BIGSAS with a talk on Social Change in Nigeria’, and Global Influences – Sharia De- head of Department, history Mohamed Aït Hamza, professor ‘Ethnophilosophy as Cultural received his PhD in Religious bates in Selected African Coun- department, University of Jos, at the University Mohammad Relativism’, and delivered Studies from the University of tries” (4th – 5th June 2007). Plateau State, Nigeria, spent V in Rabat, Morocco, visited three public lectures on ‘Phi- Bayreuth (Ulrich Berner, Reli- The Volkswagen Foundation ten days at Bayreuth Universi- Herbert Popp (Urban and Ru- losophy and Anthropology in gious Studies I). project “Sharia debates and ty in June 2007. At the confer- ral Geography) in September Africa today’, ‘What is Eth- their perception by Christians ence “Local Islam under Global and October 2007. nophilosophy?’ and ‘Cultural Roman Loimeier, since Janu-

John Ches- and Muslims in selected African Influences – Sharia Debates in relativism and the challenge of ary 2008 Assistant Profes- worth (Photo countries” also invited him to Selected African Countries” As a guest of Jonathan Owens universality’. sor at the Centre for African Kogelmann) give lectures and to supervise (4th – 5th June 2007) he has (Arabic Linguistics), Jidda Studies, University of Florida, Junior Scholars in July 2007. been discussant. Hassan, of the department of Kazuaki Inoue, professor of Af- Gainesville, has been invited Languages and Linguistics, rican Politics at Keio Universi- by the Volkswagen Foundation Hosted by Kurt Beck (Anthro- Noël Ahonagnon Gbaguidi, pro- Maiduguri University, Nigeria, ty, Japan, visited Bayreuth for Project “Sharia debates and pology), Dave Dargie, Univer- fessor for civil law at the Uni- spent March and April 2007 in a couple of days in February their perception by Christians sity of Fort Hare, South Africa, versity of Abomey-Calavi, Ben- Bayreuth. 2008 at the invitation of Ulrich and Muslims in selected Afri- spent two weeks in Bayreuth in, visited Bayreuth in August Berner (Religious Studies I). can countries”. As part of the in May 2007. During his stay and September 2007 at the Katharina Hofer, political sci- lecture series “Local Action in Albert Dje- he taught a class on the ‘Intro- invitation of Ulrike Wanitzek entist, Berlin, has been invited Abdelfettah Kassah, from the Africa” of the former SFB/FK meti o duction to African music’. (Institute of African Studies). by the Volkswagen Foundation University of Sfax, Tunisia, vis- 560 he presented on 5th July project “Sharia debates and ited Bayreuth for six weeks in a joint lecture with Rüdiger Albert Djemetio, associate pro- Invited by Said Khamis (Afri- their perception by Christians the fall of 2007 as the guest of Seesemann on “Multiple Time fessor of linguistics at the Uni- can Literary Studies), Mikhail and Muslims in selected Af- Herbert Popp (Urban and Ru- Structures in Islamic Contexts: versity of Douala, Cameroon, D. Gromov, United States Inter- rican countries” to supervise ral Geography). Developments and Debates in and member of the Cameroon national University Nairobi, Junior Scholars in June 2007. East Africa”. Research Centre on Endan- Kenya, who stayed at the Uni- She has also been discussant Wotsuna Khamalwa, professor Katharina gered Languages (CARCEL), versity of Bayreuth in May and at the conference “Local Is- in Social Anthropology and Pierre Malgoubri, lecturer Hofer (Photo Kogelmann) pursued his sociolinguistic re- June 2007, delivered a paper lam under Global Influences Religious Studies at Makerere at the University of Ouaga-

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dougou, was staying from At the invitation of Dieter Neu- ‘“Not a Girl to Meet Everyday”: April to June 2008 as a visiting bert (Development Sociology), Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa and a Sharia Debates... professor at the Chair of Af- Oshita O. Oshita, the director Re-presentation of Feminine rican Linguistics I invited by of the department of Research Diff erence’. ... in selected African countries. the Institute of African Stud- and Policy Analysis at the Insti- A workshop at the University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

Pierre Mal- ies (Manfred von Roncador). tute for Peace and Conflict Res- Rüdiger Seesemann, Assistant goubri (Photo: He has been a member of the olution in Abuja, Nigeria, spent Professor at the Department Between 5th and 10th April Roncador) sub-project A1 “The Eff ects of six months at Bayreuth Univer- of Religious Studies, North- 2008, Bayreuth University and Globalisation Processes on the sity (April-September 2007). western University, Evanston, the University of Jos jointly Vitality of Languages in West Illinois, has been invited by organized a workshop, with African Cities” of the Humani- Philip Ostien, senior lecturer at the Volkswagen Foundation international participation. ties Collaborative Research the Faculty of Law at the Uni- Project “Sharia debates and As part of the research project Centre (SFB/FK 560) in 2006 versity of Jos, Plateau State, Ni- their perception by Christians “Sharia Debates in Selected Philip Osti en and 2007. His main research geria, has been invited by SFB/ and Muslims in selected Afri- African Countries”, funded by (Photo Kogel- mann) area is Mooré dialectology. He FK 560 “Local Action in Africa can countries”. During his stay Volkswagen Foundation, ten contributed to a seminar on in the Context of Global Influ- in Bayreuth he gave two public African junior scholars pre- Mooré structure together with ences”. During his stay at Bay- lectures. The first was a joint sented their latest findings Workshop in Nigeria (Photo: Manfred von Roncador. reuth University (24th May till lecture together with Roman and results. (F. Kogelmann) Kogelmann) 5th June) he gave a presentation Loimeier in the scope of the Pepetual Mforbe, from the Uni- on current developments of Is- lecture series “Local Action in versity of Yaoundé, Cameroon, lamic law in Northern Nigeria Africa” (former SFB/FK 560) is staying at Bayreuth Universi- at the conference “Local Islam under the title “Multiple Time ty as a DAAD fellow from April under Global Influences – Shar- Structures in Islamic Contexts: Summer Academy 2007 to August 2008, where ia Debates in Selected African Developments and Debates in she completes her dissertation Countries” (4th – 5th June). East Africa” on 5th July. The Religion and Order in Africa on Cameroon theatre. second –”Apostasy in Islam” – Chris Maina Peter from the was part of the Summer Acad- Bayreuth University welcomes Chris Maina Robert Wilton Oduori, from the Faculty of Law at the Universi- emy in June 2007. ten African students in July Peter (Photo: Döveling) University of Eldoret in Kenya, ty of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2008. These African junior delivered a paper on ‘Contex- visited the Institute of African Asonzeh Ukah, who had scholars will participate for tualizing Discourse (English Studies (Ulrike Wanitzek) as a worked as a research fellow in the first time in the Summer S.G. Tyoden, vice-chancellor in Kenya): A Critical Analysis’ Humboldt fellow from October the projects B1 and B6 of the Academy 2008 “Religion and University of Jos, during his two-month stay to December 2007. SFB/FK 560 from September Order in Africa”. The German Plateau State, Nigeria at Bayreuth in April and May 2005 until June 2007, served Academic Exchange Service 2007 as a guest of Said Khamis Wumi Raji, professor at the De- as a visiting professor at the accepted the application of within the departments of re- (African Literary Studies). partment of Dramatic Arts at IAS from July until December Franz Kogelmann to fund an ligious studies, social anthro- the Obafemi Awolowo Univer- 2007. Since January 2008 he annual Summer Academy fo- pology and sociology. Besides Chukwuma Okoye, from the sity, Nigeria, visited Bayreuth is part of the DFG financed cused on fundamental African academic training, the par- University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in May 2007 as the guest of Hi- project ‘Tradition and Innova- issues. These Summer Acad- ticipants will take part in the worked in Bayreuth on a mon- lary Dannenberg (English Lit- tion. Old and new churches in emies will supplement BIGSAS academic life of Bayreuth Uni- ograph on masquerades and erary Studies and Anglophone the religious market of South in an ideal way. Within four versity and participate in ex- theatre as a Humboldt fellow Literatures). During his stay Africa’ (Ulrich Berner, Reli- weeks, African junior scholars cursions to Berlin and Munich. Asonzeh Ukah until September 2007. he delivered a paper entitled gious Studies I). will be integrated into courses (F. Kogelmann)

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Personalia BIGSAS Management Team

Since 2005, the German Research Foundation Martina Schuberth-Adam joined Christine Scherer studied ju- (DFG) has off ered outstanding researchers a the management team of BIG- risprudence and administra- Heisenberg professorship. Now, in 2008, the SAS in June 2008. Trained as tive science at the University first Heisenberg professorship in humanities multi-lingual secretary with of Konstanz before she was has been awarded to the social anthropolo- particular expertise in Eng- trained as print media journal- gist Erdmute Alber. Before she became the lish and French, she shares the ist. She graduated in social-an- Erdmute fourth female Heisenberg professor, she was Alber got the responsibility for the day-to- thropology at Bayreuth Univer- junior professor for ethno-sociology at Bay- Heisenberg day administration with Ines sity in 1996. After working as professorship reuth University. (Photo: Darboux) Wimmer who organised the free-lance broadcasting jour- administration of the complex nalist she joined the humani- Marti na Schuberth-Adam is res- The anthropologist Thorolf Lipp has joined the structures of the BIGSAS-office ties collaborative research ponsible for the administrati on of the DFG-funded project “Media art and the dynam- during the first six months. The centre ‘Local Agency in Africa BIGSAS offi ce in collaborati on with Ines Wimmer. ics of contemporary art worlds in Johannesburg management-team is further- in the Context of Global Influ- and Luanda” under the direction of Iwalewa- more assisted by Dag Schumann ences’ (SFB/FK 560) between Thorolf House. He replaces Anna Schrade who left the Lipp will focus (junior fellow consultant) Antje 2000 and 2003 for research Zimbabwe’ in 2006, she coor- project. Lipp’s research will focus on South Af- his research on Friedrich (public relations), and and exhibition projects about dinated the final phase of SFB- South African rican media art. media art Marc Koto (administrative sup- the contemporary art world in FK 560. Since 15th November port) as well as the IT-Manager Zimbabwe. After submitting 2007 she is administrative di- The engagement of the art historian Sigrid Mathias Endres. her Ph.D. thesis ‘Art-making in rector of BIGSAS. Horsch-Albert in December 2007 marked the start of the DFG-funded African Studies ar- chive DEVA. She was followed by Margrit Prus- sat (former head of the photo archive at the Sigrid Deutsches Museum in Munich) who joined the Horsch-Albert marked the start project in April 2008. of DEVA

In October 2007, Achim von Oppen was appoint- ed Professor of History with special emphasis on the History of Africa. After his studies at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Berlin, he spent many years as Deputy Director at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) in Berlin. His research focuses regionally on South-Central and East Africa (Zambia, Angola, Tanzania) and Achim Sudano-Sahelian West Africa (Mali) and the- von Oppen matically on, amongst others, social and cultur- was appointed Professor of His- al history in rural and urban contexts, religion tory with special The Management Team of BIGSAS in April 2008 (from left to right): in history, production and transformation of emphasis on the Ines Wimmer (Management Assistant), Dag Schumann and Antje Friedrich (Gradu- History of Africa ate Assistants), Andreas Weber (IT), Christi ne Scherer (Manager), Mathias Endres space, and history of mobilities (Photo: Tylle) (IT-Manager) (Photo: Kolb)

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and the Redeemed Christian Traditi on and Innovati on Church of God, whose role in Risk and Africa the South African context has Conceptualizing risk in the context of contemporary Africa so far been neglected. A com- Internati onal Symposium 27-29.11.2008, Bayreuth, Germany Old and new churches in the re- mon frame will be the focus The relati onship between risk and modernity has sti mulated con- ligious market of South Africa. on the strategic use of rituals, troversial debates about the changing nature of risk and the dy- media technology, and practic- namics of contemporary society. While it is acknowledged that This new research project, es of healing. We will analyze modern society, through technological development, has been funded by the German Re- how everyday rituals, both do- successful in using risk to improve livelihoods, there is also wide- search Foundation (DFG), mestic and within the church spread consensus over the costs of such improvements in the started in January 2008. By communities, as well as the form of ecological degradati on, industrial hazards and exagger- drawing upon the metaphor great ritualized events like the ated societal expectati ons. Therefore, even though the general of the ‘religious market’, the annual festivals of the Naza- assumpti on is that modern society has been largely successful in project aims to analyze the reth Baptist Church and the dealing with risk it is sti ll felt that the future of modern societi es competition among Chris- crusades or religious camps of depends on their ability to identi fy and adopt suitable approach- tian churches in South Africa. the Pentecostal Churches, in- es to manage risk, deal with uncertainty and develop pathways During the apartheid era, the In order to address the dynam- fatal strategy of the Israelite vent and reproduce traditions. towards sustainability. However, it is important to note that the South African state regulated ics of the religious field, it is Church to violently confront Religious healing as a ritual- current debate on the concepts of risk and “risk society” is heavily every aspect of society and co- necessary to take account of its the colonial state, or Colenso’s ized practice played a major skewed in favour of European historical experience. ercively managed change, and history. Therefore, our project failed reforms of the Anglican role in the establishment of By disti nguishing between concepts of risk in modern to late- deployed religious ideologies combines historical, anthro- Church in the late 19th cen- the Nazareth Baptist Church modern societi es and those in the rest of the world the debate in support of state machin- pological and sociological ap- tury, which nevertheless had a vis-à-vis the Mission church- drives a perhaps unintended and possibly unwarranted episte- ery and management. Within proaches. For the historical wide impact on the emergence es, and is likewise utilized by mological wedge between North and South. In other words, the the new, post-apartheid South part of the project, Berner will of Zulu nationalism and Zulu- the Christ Embassy Church in debate would seem to suggest that the concept of risk refers to Africa, the religious field was examine the formative period initiated Christian churches in the form of a healing ministry fundamentally diff erent empirical and epistemological objects: deregulated, and competition of Christianity in South Africa the early 20th century. called the ‘Healing School’ in “Here” we talk about manufactured technological risks, environ- over customers increased bet- in colonial times, when Afri- The anthropological and so- South Africa. New media off er mental awareness and the social constructi on of risk as symp- ween the religious suppliers. can Initiated Churches (AICs) ciological parts of the project opportunities for innovative toms of refl exive modernity. “There” the focus is on vulnerability, Within a rapidly changing so- challenged the hegemony of will be concerned with the re- practices to the suppliers’ side natural hazards and coping strategies in the context of state fail- ciety, struggling to transform the Mission churches. His fo- ligious field in post-apartheid of the religious market, but ure, desintegrati ng markets and (more or less) pre-modern socie- political institutions, to accom- cus will be on a neglected part South Africa. Echtler will fo- the technical promise of glo- ti es. In exploring news ways of conceptualising risk in Africa the modate the economically dis- of the history of the religious cus on how one of the largest bal connections is countered symposium will seek to address the challenge of making theoreti - advantaged masses, and to face field, namely, cases of failed African Initiated Churches, by practical disconnections: cal and methodological advances in risk research relevant to an the disruptive challenges of the religious innovation. In order the Nazareth Baptist Church, while many of the new Pente- understanding of processes of social change in the conti nent. HIV/AIDS epidemic, individual to analyze the role of innovat- employs tradition and innova- costal Churches feature state- actors and institutions in the ing and traditionalizing prac- tion in order to succeed within of-the-art internet pages, most The symposium is organized by ZENEB, Centre for Natural Risks religious sector have to con- tices in the production of the the contemporary religious of the AICs do not, but whether and Development on behalf of BIGSAS, Bayreuth Internati onal tinuously adapt to volatile cir- structure of the religious field, market, especially in the face this inequality is of impor- Graduate School of African Studies. cumstances. The central goal it is not enough to consider of new players like Nigerian tance for the segments of the of our project is to investigate the successful establishment Pentecostal Churches. Ukah market served by the AICs is Further informati on and applicati on: the innovative and traditional- of AICs, but also to system- will analyze the impact of one of the questions we intend [email protected] izing strategies employed by atically compare the unsuc- two of these churches, namely to answer. (U. Berner, A. Ukah (L. Bloemertz, M. Doevenspeck, E. Macamo, D. Müller-Mahn) the old and new churches. cessful strategies, as, e.g., the the Christ Embassy Church and M. Echtler)

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Media Art... New German-French cooperati on

... and the Dynamics of Contemporary Art versions of “ready-mades” or Parallel to the success of the Bayreuth Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) in the national Worlds in Johannesburg and Luanda “objets trouvés” and is increas- Excellence Initiative, networking with European partner institutions within African studies is also ingly used to question the leg- being intensified. A new research project of bi- and triennials art festivals acy of the cultural (and par- Iwalewa House was approved both cities have evolved – next ticularly the colonial) archive. Recently, a promising group- tional de la Recherche (ANR). the universities of the region, by the DFG (German research to Cairo and Dakar – as the By re-arranging found footage ing of interlinked projects The applicants were Detlef as well as the partners in Eu- foundation) in August 2007. new and powerful hubs of the and other mass-mediated im- was achieved, particularly in Müller-Mahn and Martin Do- rope. The work package “mi- The project continues and growing network of contempo- ages from the past into new the context of cooperation be- evenspeck, both of Bayreuth gration and identity” is co-or- tween the universities of Bay- University, Olivier Graefe, Uni- dinated by Achim van Oppen, reuth and Bordeaux. On the versity Fribourg, Switzerland, Bayreuth University. French and the German side, and David Blanchon, Univer- these connections are mainly sity Paris X . Finally, “Dimensions de l’objet sustained by geographers, but Various scientists from Bor- swahili: textes et terrains” recently also by other disci- deaux, Paris and the French is the name of another large plines such as History of Af- research centre CEDEJ in research project that is co- rica, Literatures in African Khartoum, Sudan are also ordinated by the University Languages and African Lin- involved in this project. For of Bordeaux and involves ge- guistics. his research in the Congo- ographers, linguists and liter- lese-Rwandan borderland, ary studies from East Africa, Cooperation within geogra- Martin Doevenspeck also co- France and other European Detail from Installati on „The best of the best“ by Yonamine/Angola (Ve- rary art in Africa. The themat- narrations and contexts, art- phy was developed over the operates with the “Risk in countries. Alain Ricard, LLA- nice Biennale 2007). ic focus of the project is media ists negotiate alternative read- last two years by a mutual Africa”-Project co-ordinated CAN, Paris, François Bart, Video art work „Urban Sox“ by Ihosvanny/Angola (Biennale 2007) arts, their recent development ings of history and add new exchange of lecturers, several by Simon Pomel, University of ADES, University of Bordeaux and their current impact, in- layers of meaning to the offi- research-oriented workshops Bordeaux. 3, and Bernard Calas, Institut deepens earlier research on cluding artistic interaction and cial memory of their respec- and a common publication in Recently, another inter- Français, Nairobi, prepared African contemporary art, discourse. Media-artists work tive countries. The research is the context of the PROCOPE- national project, named the project on the textual and which had been the main fo- within an expanding pool of based on an in-depth analysis project “Water related risks in “C.R.E.A.T.I.N.G.”, started. geographical dimensions of cus of Iwalewa House within floating media-images and en- of a comprehensive corpus of Africa: scientific knowledge, In the context of the 7th EU Swahili and its many varieties the scope of the Collaborative gage in exploring new forms of recent media art works and in- perception, management”, framework programme for in East Africa, that was recent- Research Centre SFB 560, “Lo- artistic presentations. Central cludes interviews with artists financed by the German Ac- research, it is the first Africa ly approved by the ANR. As cal Action in Africa in the Con- issues of their works are often and other media practitioners. ademic Exchange Service project in the social sciences well as the university in Dar text of Global Developments” the media themselves, as well (DAAD) and its French coun- and humanities ever to be es-Salaam, SOAS in London (2000 – 2007), at Bayreuth as a critical inquiry of the im- The project is co-ordinated by terpart. On this basis a com- approved. Alongside the uni- and the University of Vienna, University. ages and narrations generated Tobias Wendl and Ulf Vierke mon research project, “Water versities and institutions in the Chair of African Linguis- and transmitted by the media. and has created two addition- Management in Khartoum In- Nairobi, Brussels, Dublin and tics I and the professorship The new project includes two al research posts at Iwalewa ternational Research Project” Stockholm, again the Universi- in Literatures in African Lan- case studies on the cities of The working hypothesis of the House: Thorolf Lipp for the (WAMAKHAIR) was con- ties of Bayreuth and Bordeaux guages of Bayreuth Univer- Johannesburg, South Africa, research project is that in the South African, and Nadine ceived, and has approved by are involved. The project will sity, Said Khamis, play a cru- and Luanda, Angola. Since the context of media-art, “found Siegert for the Angolan case the German Research Founda- promote young scientists cial role as research partners. creation of their international footage” has replaced earlier study. (U. Vierke) tion (DFG) and the Agence Na- from East Africa, and network (A. von Oppen)

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The Timing of Djembe Rhythms Power and loneliness

What about the elders in West Africa?

Bayreuth-based ethnomusi- tant sub-divisions of the beat. sociated with one of these. global appropriation of, for in- German Research Foundation ries on intergenerational fami- cologist Rainer Polak recently By contrast, empirical rhythm Moreover, basic macro-rhyth- stance, traditional djembe mu- (DFG) funds a new research ly resource flows, the research completed a 24-months’ re- research has proven that fast mic structures of djembe music sic in the modern contexts of project on intra-family re- project is running quantita- search project funded by the pulsations of dance music can be shown to depend on mi- pedagogy, music notation and source flows and intergenera- tive surveys in two rural loca- German Research Council. En- styles are not equidistant, but cro-rhythmic feel structures. music software unfortunately tional relationships in West tions for a period of one year. titled “The Timing of Djembe unevenly structured. This un- The latter thus emerge as part is accompanied by a dramatic Africa at Bayreuth University. This comparative study will Rhythms”, the project dealt evenness is markedly struc- of its metric system. Feelings and systematic loss of rhyth- Intergenerational relation- give insight on intergenera- with microrhythmic struc- tured. A “feel” in this sense sometimes are thought of as mic sophistication. Polak’s ships and, particularly, the tional family resource-supply tures and meter in West Afri- designates a certain pattern of optional, expressive and indi- future projects will therefore changes of role and status of at national and regional lev- can percussion music. Its basic uneven pulsation structure. vidualized surface ornaments. aim at the transfer of ethnomu- elderly people in North East- els. Return flows from towns assumption was that a limited What role does feel play in the This is wrong in the case of sicological knowledge into the ern Togo (Kabye) and North or from other communities number of specific “feels” ac- composition of djembe music? djembe music. practice of the pedagogical ap- Eastern Benin (Baatombu) of the diaspora, back to rural counts for the “groove” of Polak made systematically- What status should be attrib- propriation of African music in are the centre of interest of areas, will also be considered. djembe music. Groove is the sampled multi-track record- uted to feeling in the theory of the “West”. A pioneering event this research project. It is un- Qualitative research methods rhythmic appeal that makes ings of djembe rhythms in djembe music? Disregarding in this direction was his con- der the direction of the social are also part of the research people move. The topic thus is Mali. Computerized analysis feels in music theory is disre- ceptualizing and direction of anthropologists Erdmute Al- methodology. The qualitative a central element in the music verified that djembe music is garding the meaning of dance the first summer school for the ber and Tabea Häberlein. The part of the research will focus theory of any Black dance mu- decidedly and consistently music. An explicit theory of professional development of research focus is on resource on the social construction of sic style. swung by each individual play- feeling is particularly needed djembe teachers hosted by the flows between the generations age and intergenerational re- What is a “feel” (or “feeling” or er in all situations in all tempi. with respect to its applica- University of the Professional in general and on those ensur- lationships, the changing roles “swing”)? Adopted from Jazz At least four feel patterns can tion in the practices of writing Arts, Rotterdam (NL) in 2006. ing the supply of resources for of the elders as well as their musician’s jargon, rhythm re- be proven; each rhythm is as- and teaching music. The now (R. Polak) the elderly in particular. The power and status within the searchers use the term to des- research on intergenerational families. The project investi-

ignate specific ways to subdi- Analyti cal relationship in Africa is accom- gates the material substance vide the musical beat. The beat recording session panied by various discourses of intergenerational relation- in Bamako/Mali: is a pulsation that drives danc- 70-year-old on the power, status and pres- ships in two diff erently-struc- ers to synchronize their basic djembe master tige of old people. In order to tured societies in West Africa. Sega Cisse per- steps. In Black dance music, forms for the mi- analyse clichés assumed theo- (T. Häberlein) it is mainly two, three or four crophone. Foto: Polak 2007. See faster notes that further di- www.djembe. Research vide the beat. The mainstream uni-bayreuth.de in rural Togo: for a couple of of Africanist music theory Tabea Häberlein video samples. with „the old“ postulates that a so-called ele- Dikpeng and as- sistant Essoham mentary pulsation (or “density Solitoke. (Photo: referent”) of fast isochronous Alber) rhythmic events serves as a mental raster which allows for only more-or-less equidis-

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Indigenous Trees in Ethiopia DEVA-Bayreuth

Coexistence of different functional types of indigenous trees in the Munessa Forest, Ethiopia: Carbon, water and nutrient relations Photographs and audiovisual material, field notes and rough The German Research Foun- part of the eastern escarpment data, rare sound recordings, dation is funding a new project of the Rift Valley at an altitude unpublished written docu- The music on the coexistence of indig- between 1800 and 3400m. ments, grey literature and collecti on at the enous trees in Munessa Forest, While the major part is exten- many other forms of docu- Iwalewa-House consists of over Ethiopia, for a period of three sively-utilized natural forest ments from diverse regions seven hundred years. Principal investigators the lower part encompasses and time periods: a wide range LPs, Singles, MCs, CDs and of this collaborative research big plantations of exotic trees of data will be made avail- audio tapes, project are Erwin Beck, emeri- like Eucalyptus, Pinus and Cu- able for scientific inquiry by currently being restored and tus professor at Bayreuth Uni- pressus, which are managed by DEVA-Bayreuth. After its ini- digitalized. versity, and Masresha Fetene, a state company. German and tial phase, the project will now professor at Addis Ababa Uni- Ethiopian researchers have continue full-speed ahead to Arts, Anthropology, Language central information platform versity, Ethiopia. In addition, collaborated for 7 years in the digitalize and edit the vast Studies, Islamic Studies, Geog- for a diversified database on the soil scientists Wolfgang investigation of ecological and corpus of data on African raphy, Economics, and many African Studies. Zech, emeritus professor at social aspects of the Munessa Studies in Bayreuth. more. Special subjects of in- The future architecture of Bayreuth University, Bruno forest. A research station has Funded by German Research ternational significance will DEVA is built on three col- Glaser, Bayreuth University already been established with Foundation (DFG), DEVA is be selected and in-depth doc- umns: and Georg Guggenberger, Uni- the financial support of the one branch of the Institute of umentation will be off ered. Archiv-zaK: The develop- versity of Halle, together with German Research Foundation. African Studies at the Univer- One highlight in this field will ment, digitalisation and edit- researchers from the Forestry The ongoing project aims to sity of Bayreuth. The aim of be a special collection of let- ing of an archive in the special Department of Technische Uni- assess the impacts of the ex- the project is to off er innova- ters and papers on the works area of contemporary art and versität München, and a spe- otic tree plantations on the tive documentation solutions of Wole Soyinka, Nigerian au- popular culture in Africa. cialist team for tree growth ecosystem and at the practi- for the heterogeneous scien- thor and Nobel Prize Laure- InfoSys-IAS: An Information analysis from Erlangen Uni- cal and economic chances of tific data produced by various ate in Literature in 1986, and system for recording all data versity are collaborating ex- regeneration of a semi-natural university disciplines which Honorary Doctor of the Fac- from the Bayreuth Institute of tensively with the plant eco- forest. In contrast to the pre- carry out research relating to ulty of Linguistics and Litera- African Studies (IAS). physiologists from Bayreuth vailing opinion, plantations of Africa. The University of Bay- ture at Bayreuth University. InfoSys-Afrika: The design and Addis Ababa. Eucalyptus and Pinus favour reuth takes on responsibility Diff ering levels of accessibil- and development of a compre- The Munessa Forest represents the re-growth of indigenous not only for saving the results ity to specific sections of the hensive information system one of the largest forest ar- tree species, an unexpected of the intense research in Afri- database will secure exclu- for research relating to Africa. eas in Ethiopia. Located close eff ect which is now being stud- can Studies of the last twenty sive use of data, for example The material of these three to three great lakes, it covers ied in detail. (E. Beck) years, but also for providing within research groups. Other main units will be worked on open access to scientific re- parts of the database will be in parallel and single units sults and culturally important made available to the public of data will be published documents and artefacts, to from the beginning. Thus, in online as soon as possible. a world-wide audience. The co-operation with national For further information see Natural forest dominated by Podo- material that will be incorpo- and international partner in- www.deva.uni-bayreuth.de carpus falcatus, Kuke, Ethiopia (Photo: Glaser) rated stems from the fields of stitutions, DEVA will become a (M. Prussat)

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037B@n53 :7B Münster etc.: LIT Gudrun & Kerstin Winkel- In : Pierre Halen (ed.), Actes du Cairo: Goethe Institute Egypt, „ Alber, Erdmute, Sjaak van mann (eds.), Noun class sys- Colloque « Rwanda et les mé- 1-14 der Geest & Susan Whyte Rey- tems in Gur languages, Vol. 1, dias » Littérature, médias et „ Adogame, Afe, Magnus Ech- nolds (eds.) Köln: Köppe, 331-354 génocide au Rwanda.». textes 2008 Vertrauen und die Or- tler & Ulf Vierke (eds.) 2008 Generations in Africa. réunis par Pierre Halen et ganisation von Heterogenität. 2008 Unpacking the new. Criti- Connections and conflicts. Ber- 2007 Supyire. In: Miehe, Jacques Walter, Université Paul In: Jamal, Elias (Hg.), Vertrau- cal perspectives on cultural lin, Hamburg, Münster: LIT Gudrun & Kerstin Winkel- Verlaine Metz 2007, 373-384. en im interkulturellen Kon- syncretization in Africa and mann (eds.), Noun class sys- text. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, beyond. Münster: LIT tems in Gur languages, Vol. 1, „ Fendler, Ute, Hans-Jürgen 61-84 Köln: Köppe, 355-371 Lüsebrink & Christoph Vatter „ Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Mag- 2007 Francophonie et Globali- „ Hüsken, Thomas & Georg

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2007 Die Bodenreformges- „ Stehli-Werbeck, Ulrike „ Vierke, Ulf etzgebung von Namibia, Re- 2007 Warum die Schweiz im 2007 Albert Kirsche: Zister- Excursion to Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso cht in Afrika – Law in Africa arabischen Roman? Lisan. zienser, Glasmacher und – Droit en Afrique 10, 2, 231- Zeitschrift für arabische Liter- Drechsler. Glashütten im 243 atur Nr. 4 Erzgebirge und Vogtland und From the 9th to 24th of February 2008, Ute Fendler, Ricarda Hanck ihr Einfluss auf die Seifener (Chair of Romance Literatures and Comparative Studies), and 14 „ Sokol, Monika „ Ukah, Asonzeh Holzkunst, Bayerisches Jahr- students of the faculty of philosophy travelled to Ouagadougou/ 2007 Hip Hop und Postmod- 2008 A New Paradigm of Pen- buch für Volkskunde, 297-299 Burkina Faso. erne-Diskussion: Perspektiven tecostal Power: The Redeemed und Ausblicke. in: Penzkofer, Christian Church of God in Ni- „ Wanitzek, Ulrike Gerhard (Hg.), Postmoderne geria, New Jersey & Asmara: 2007 Ghana. Bergmann, A., M. Lyrik - Lyrik in der Postmod- Africa World Press/Red Sea Ferid & D. Henrich (eds.), In- erne. Würzburg: Königshausen Press ternationales Ehe- und Kind- & Neumann, 269-284 schaftsrecht. Frankfurt/Main: 2007 “Piety and Profit: Ac- Verlag für Standesamtswesen, 2007 Keepin‘ it Gangsta, keep- counting for Money in West Af- 171. Ergänzungslieferung, in‘ it real: Ursprung, Funk- rican Pentecostalism (Part 1)”, 1-128 tionalität und Ausgliederung Nederduitse Gereformeerde eines kontroversen Subgenre- Teologiese Tydskrif, vol. 48 2007 Normative Familien- Komplexes im internationalen Nrs 3 & 4 September & Decem- bilder für Afrika. Das UN- Hip Hop. In: Skrandies, Timo; ber: 621-632. Übereinkommen und die Af- Stemmler, Susanne (Hg.), Hip- rikanische Charta über die Hop und Rap in romanischen 2007 “Piety and Profit: Ac- Rechte des Kindes, Afrika Sprachwelten. Stationen einer counting for Money in West Af- Spectrum 42, 2, 275-300 globalen Musikkultur. Frank- rican Pentecostalism (Part 2)”, furt a.M.: Lang, 43-59 Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, Vol., 48 German and Burkinabe students in This excursion was financially supported by the DAAD and Bay- the studio of the Burkinabe radio sta- „ Sokol, Monika & Wiltrud Nrs 3 & 4 September & Decem- ti on „Pulsar“ students from Bayreuth reuth University. Its aim was to learn about the media (public and Mihatsch (eds.) ber: 633-648. University accompanied by Ricarda private radio and television, publishing houses, advertising agen- Hanck took part in a radio transmissi- 2007 Lenguas en contacto y on. They talked with Burkinabe student cies etc.) and the cultural scene (museums, arts and crafts exhibi- cambio lingüístico en el Car- „ Verne, Markus Eric Segueda about their stay in Bur- tions, French Cultural Institute etc.), and to meet local students. In kina Faso and answered to questi ons ibe y más allá / Language 2007 Armut als Lebensstil? asked by the listeners. (Photo: Hanck) addition, some of the German students rehearsed and performed contact and language change Konsum und Besitz im ländli- the play “La grande harmonie”, by the author and stage director in the Caribbean and beyond. chen Niger, Paideuma 53, 221- A.S. Zinsou, during the “Festival International du Théâtre pour Frankfurt a.M. etc.: Lang 242 le Développement”. Since starting in 1988, the festival has taken place in Ouagadougou every two years, welcoming actors from „ Spittler, Gerd 2007 Die Rückkehr kultureller all over the world. As a preliminary to the trip, all the Bayreuth 2008 Founders of the anthro- Stimmigkeit. Eine Kritik des students took part in a two-day workshop at “Iwalewa-Haus” in pology of work. German social Aneignungskonzepts - nicht October 2007, during which Festival director and founder Prof. scientists of the 19th and ear- nur in Hinblick auf den Verlauf Dr. Prosper Kompaoré informed the students about theatre and ly 20th centuries and the first von Mikrokreditprojekten, So- society in Western Africa. An exhibition showing some impres- ethnographers, Münster: LIT ciologus 57, 2, 227-265 sions of the field trip will be organised by the students during the summer term. (R. Hanck)

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4th Biennial Colloquium on the Chadic Languages Africa Discussion Forum

A series of discussions in African studies The Biennial International – Hausa linguistics Leipzig (2001), Prague (2003) Colloquium on the Chadic Lan- – The position of Chadic with- and Paris (2005). The Africa Discussion Forum, representations of Africa look the press, with Dominic John- guages unites two discontin- in Afroasiatic languages More than thirty linguists founded in spring 2005 in or- like? What are the eff ects of son (Berlin); Africa and the ued linguistic colloquium tra- – Chadic languages in contact from Austria, Czech Republic, der to provide an opportunity the new variety of media on internet, with Alain Kiyindou ditions focusing on languages with non-Chadic languages France, Germany, Great Brit- for the interdisciplinary dis- the African continent? How (Strasbourg). spoken in the Lake Chad re- ain, Italy, Nigeria, Russia and cussion of themes of topical can Western media report gion: The series of Chadic lan- The Permanent Committee of the United States participated interest at the Bayreuth Insti- on African cultural forms of Responsible for content and guage colloquiums in Leiden the International Colloquium in the Fourth Biennial Inter- tute of African Studies, con- expression, on conditions of organisation: 1976, Hamburg 1981, Boulder on the Chadic Languages, national Colloquium on the tinues to take place regularly life and topical events, in an Lena Bloemertz (Social Geog- 1987 and the Franco-German presently represented by D. Chadic Languages. It took three to four times a semes- adequate manner, without re- raphy) meetings in Paris (1980- Ibriszimow (Lehrstuhl Af- place from 30th - 31st October ter. Our semester theme in the producing stereotypes? How Martin Doevenspeck (Social 1997) of the Groupe d’Etudes rikanistik II, University of 2007 at Iwalewa House. The winter 2007/08 was “Coming does the journalistic produc- Geography) tchadiques. It is devoted to all Bayreuth), H. Tourneux (LLA- conference organized by Prof. to terms with violent conflicts tion of knowledge regarding Jeannett Martin (Social An- aspects of Chadic linguistics, CAN-CNRS / INALCO / Paris 7 D. Ibriszimow and Dr. E. Roth- in Africa”. In view of persisting current developments on the thropology) in particular: - Villejuif / Paris), and E. Wolff maler (both of Lehrstuhl Afri- conflicts and chronicle war African continent take place? Ulrike Wanitzek (Law) – Descriptive linguistics of in- (Institut für Afrikanistik, kanistik II, Bayreuth Univer- structures on the African con- These and similar questions dividual Chadic languages University of Leipzig), agreed sity) was a complete success tinent, new strategies of deal- were discussed together with More information on – Comparative linguistics of on the Biennial International with interesting papers, a lot ing with conflicts in Africa invited experts: Africa in non- www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de, Chadic languages Colloquium on the Chadic of discussion and an evening which result from new global fictional films, with Thorolf News. (U. Wanitzek, J. Martin) – Typology of Chadic Languages 2007 being held in programme with guitar and governance structures were Lipp (Bayreuth); the role of languages Bayreuth, after the venues of songs. (E. Rothmaler) critically analysed. Apart from television in Africa, with Ute Bookstall in Cotonou, Benin current conceptual approach- Fendler (Bayreuth); Africa in (Photo: Doevenspeck) es towards conflict research we discussed, inter alia, the relevance of the International Criminal Court and Interna- tional Criminal Tribunals.

In the summer semester 2008, we dealt with “Media in Africa – Africa in the Media”. We ap- proached this topic from two sides: (i) How are media in Africa used and appropriated, and (ii) how are images of Af- rica produced in the media, especially in western media. Parti cipants This leads to further ques- of the Chadic Colloquium tions, such as how do medial

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African fi lm festi val Fosterage and Adopti on in West Africa

“Making off …” by Nouri Bouzid shop in “Iwalewa-Haus”, within “Fosterage and Adoption in an object of anthropological many, Netherlands, Norway (Tunisia, 2007), “Moolaadé” by the framework of the film sem- West Africa reviewed: New enquiry and, since then, a good and U.S.A.) was Suzanne Lal- Ousmane Sembène (Senegal, inar by Ute Fendler and Tobias theoretical approaches on the number of ethnographic con- lemand, to whom we owe the 2005) and “No time to die” by Wendl. basis of empirical research”, tributions on diff erent forms of most important contribution King Ampaw (Ghana, 2007). The Tunisian movie “Making was the title of an internation- social parenthood, and on at- influenced by the French alli- The series started with the film off ...” won the Tanit d‘or award al workshop held in Thurnau tached rules, norms and func- ance theory. The participants’ “Les saignantes” (“The bleed- during the Carthage Film Fes- from 21st to 23rd May, 2007. tions of this practice have been contributions and discussions ing ”) by t he Cameroonian direc- tival in 2006 for treating the It was supported by the SFB/ made. The workshop aimed to revealed how variable, com- tor Jean-Pierre Békolo who was difficult subject of how Muslim FK 560, and organized by Erd- discuss the meaning of clas- plex and flexible foster ar- also present at the screening. fanatics try to win over young mute Alber, in collaboration sical theoretical approaches rangements in West Africa The film won the second prize people. The most recent film with Jeannett Martin (Univer- against the background of are. They also showed the po- at the international film festi- of Ousmane Sembène - con- sity of Bayreuth) and Catrien newer theoretical concepts tentials and limits of diff erent val in Ouagadougou/Burkina sidered the “father” of African Notermans (University of Ni- (known as “new kinship stud- theoretical and methodologi- Faso (FESPACO). It begins with cinema – “Molaadé” concerns jmegen). ies”) and in the light of the re- cal approaches to the study of The Cameroonian fi lmmaker und a voice-over “We are in the year the topic of female genital mu- Child fosterage is a common sults of the participants’ own kinship. A publication of the producer Jean-Pierre Békolo (Photo: Hanck) 2025 and nothing has changed”, tilation. After the screening, and widely accepted social empirical researches. Among workshop results is planned referring to the situation in Af- representatives of “Terre des practice in West Africa. From the participants from six coun- and is presently under-way. A film festival in Bayreuth: In rica. The film has elements of femmes” provided background the 1970s onwards, it became tries (Cameroon, France, Ger- (J. Martin) November 2007, four new Af- political satire, thriller and sci- information about this relevant rican movies were shown in ence fiction movie, criticizing subject. The series ended with the “Cineplex” cinema: “Les current conditions in Africa. In a film from Ghana: “No time to saignantes” by Jean-Pierre November, Jean-Pierre Békolo die” (2007) by King Ampaw. Békolo (Cameroon, 2006), also off ered a two-day work- (R. Hanck)

21st Swahili Colloquium, 2nd – 4th May 2008

The Swahili-Colloquium has 2nd to 4th of May 2008 at ture in general. The forum is become an established forum Iwalewa House. Scholars, au- open to anyone interested in 21st Swahili at Bayreuth University, which thors, teachers and cultural the topics mentioned above. colloquium, every year attracts many practitioners in the area of from left : Assibi Amidu, Universi- Swahili scholars from within Swahili studies participated For further information visit ty of Trondheim, and outside of Germany. This and presented papers on Swa- our website at www.uni-bay- David Massam- ba, Insti tute of year’s Swahili Colloquium, hili linguistics, the historical reuth.de/departments/afri- Swahili Research, organized by the professor- and sociological aspects of the kanistik/swacoll/index.html University of Dar es Salaam, Euph- ship of Literatures in African language, its oral and written or send an email to swahili@ rase Kezilahabi, Languages, took place from literature(s), and Swahili cul- uni-bayreuth.de. (C. Vierke) Botswana Uni- versity (Photo: Rett ová)

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Confl icts in Guinea-Bissau Sharia Debates in Africa

Reflections from legal anthropology ey, Niger), Dr. Bakary Camara entanglement of local and glo- After the success of 2006, Franz 2006 – whose main focus was (Point Sud, Bamako, Mali), bal actors were evident in all Kogelmann organised a second on an intensive introduction The Invited Workshop on the Niger, Portugal and Germany Bakary Sidibeh (Serrekunda, studies carried out in Guinea- international and multidisci- to contemporary methodology “Analysis of conflict cases and debated questions such as the The Gambia), Dr. Clara Car- Bissau. Researchers observed plinary Summer Academy at in social sciences – the Junior local conflict resolution at the following: valho (ISCTE, Lisbon, Portu- cases of violent vigilante jus- Bayreuth University in 2007. Scholars had to present and Upper Guinean Coast and its • How can we describe the gal), Dr. Jordi Tomàs (ISCTE, tice in various regions of the It formed part of the project discuss their preliminary re- hinterland” took place in Bis- capacity of social orders to Lisbon, Portugal) and Dr. Mo- country that they character- “Sharia Debates and Their Per- search results. Hence the elab- sau from the 13th to the 15th deal with conflicts? hamadou Abdoul (enda diapol, ized as symptomatic of ‘weak’ ception by Christians and Mus- oration and revision of their of November 2007; the work- • Can we identify social or Dakar, Senegal). In addition, state and non-state institu- shop was organized within the political orders parallel to or all members of the above-men- tions of conflict resolution. framework of the collaborative beside the state? tioned collaborative research In other regions, local actors research project “Local Strate- • How do (local) non-state project took part: Prof. Georg seem to re-evaluate local tra- gies of Conflict Management”, institutions and agents deal Klute, Dr. Birgit Embaló, Dr. A. ditions and local history in funded by Volkswagen Foun- with and react to conflicts? Idrissa Embaló, Mamadu Jao, response to new global chal- dation and carried out jointly • Can people involved choose Anne-Kristin Borszik, Raul lenges which are reinforced by by Bayreuth University and In- freely between various legal Fernandes, Augusto Bock, the physical presence of vari- stituto Nacional de Estudos e systems in order to pursue Fodé Abulai Mané, Caterina ous ‘global players’. Pesquisa (INEP) from Bissau. their claims, as the concept of Viegas, Paulina Mendes and The participants’ animated Parti cipants of the second internati onal and multi disciplinary Summer Acade- The workshop provided space legal pluralism implies? Samba T. Camará. Representa- discussions on the central my at Bayreuth University (Photo: Kogelmann) for discussion about theoreti- Participant researchers engag- tives of NGOs such as Acção questions of the workshop cal issues, methodological ap- ing in legal anthropology from para o Desenvolvimento (AD), bore witness to their strong lims in Selected African Coun- already accomplished research proaches and preliminary diff erent scientific perspec- Tiniguena and Weltfriedensdi- scientific interest and com- tries” funded by Volkswagen work was the main objective of research results within the tives were Abdoul Aziz Sow enst participated in the discus- mitment. Closer institutional Foundation which started in 2007. During their two months domain of legal anthropology. (Université Gaston Berger, sions, evoking conflict-related cooperation was initiated, 2006. Beside these two Sum- stay at Bayreuth University the Researchers from Guinea-Bis- Saint Louis, Senegal), Aghali issues that they are confront- and some of the guests will mer Academies at Bayreuth Junior Scholars were endorsed sau, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Abdelkader (LASDEL, Niam- ed with in their development return to Bissau in December University the project has al- and encouraged by their coun- work, and members of Bissau’s 2008 on the occasion of the ready organised a series of try coordinators Osman Mo- State University, ‘Amílcar Ca- thematically-related Interna- workshops, one regional one hamed Osman, University of bral’, brought up issues related tional Conference on “Political in East Africa, one for all mem- Khartoum, Sudan, John Ches- to conflict relevant in their so- violence in heterarchical state bers in Sudan, and a third one worth, St. Paul’s University, ciology, anthropology and his- settings and non-state local on the verge of a status sympo- Limuru, Kenya, Sati Fwatshak, tory teaching. conflict management in West sium arranged by Volkswagen University of Jos, Plateau State, The articulation of state and Africa and beyond”, where we Foundation in Mali. Eleven Jun- Nigeria and by Ulrich Berner non-state legal systems and the shall discuss fresh research ior Scholars from Tunisia, Su- and Asonzeh Ukah, both Reli- material and evaluate the the- dan, Kenya, Tanzania and Ni- gious Studies, Kurt Beck, Social Conceptual opening of the work- oretical, methodological and geria enjoyed the outstanding Anthropology, Franz Kogel- shop at INEP: Georg Klute during the empirical advancement of the research facilities of Bayreuth mann, Islamic Studies, and the presentati on of theoreti cal features and fi rst results of the hosti ng scholars‘ project “Local Strategies of University to work on their in- Sociologist Gabriele Cappai, research project „Local Strategies of Conflict Management in Guin- dividual projects. In contrast all from Bayreuth University. Confl ict Management in Guinea-Bis- sau“. (Photo: Borszik) ea-Bissau”. (A. Borszik) to the Summer Academy of (F. Kogelmann)

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Agency and Changing World Views in Africa Childhood and Youth

An international conference in Bayreuth, 26th-28th April 2007

In April 2007 the humanities ing to terms with the process change either in new dialects - analytical category and not so Under the title “Enfances? most of them from Africa and collaborative research cen- of globalisation includes the e.g. used by the youth - or by much as a normative impera- Nostalgie, perte et instru- South America, accepted the tre on “Local action in Africa challenge to react to these a newly-established hierarchy tive (P. Chabal; D. Goetze). In mentalisation. Témoignages invitation of the Chair of the in the context of global influ- world views. between African languages (R. doing so, we have to admit that médiatiques sur l’enfance et Department of Roman Litera- ences” organized the last con- This is most obvious in the Kiesling; P. Maigoubri). Afri- in Africa a diff erent notion of la jeunesse en Afrique franco- tures to come to Bayreuth to ference of a trilogy that dealt realm of law (U. Wanitzek/H. can intellectuals reflecting on agency is present in every-day phone et en Amérique Latine” begin an unusual and urgent with processes of globalisa- Sippel). For example, inter- world views make use of West- life that may attribute agency (Childhood? Nostalgia, depri- dialogue on the topic of child- tion in Africa from a local national conventions for the ern forms of expression in art, to entities like stones, which vation and intrumentalisation. hood in both continents. The perspective. As in the former protection of children (child either of written literature are “things” in Western terms, Evidence in the media on child- aim of this conference, organ- conferences, the focus was on labour) or principles like “the or of the notion of “Gesamt- and may follow a diff erent hood and youth in Francoph- ized by Ute Fendler and Liliana cultural and social influences best interest of the child” con- kunstwerk” (all-embracing understanding of time (W. v. one Africa and Latin America) Feierstein, was to discuss dif- and reactions on globalisation tradict local notions of children art form) (C. Maalu-Bungi; Beek; L. Nijzink). These diff er- Bayreuth University hosted an ferences and similarities be- at a micro-level, underlining as a work-force and family as- U. Vierke). However, they do ent world views still compete international conference from tween the two continents from the agency of the people. set (S. Howell; E. Alber/A. Bo- it in their own way. Mobile for the hegemony of interpreta- 28th February to 1st March. an interdisciplinary perspec- The topic of changing world chow). A similar tension can be phones off er the opportunity tion (E. Macamo/D. Neubert). More than 30 social scientists, tive (literature, educational views in the 2007 conference seen between diff erent notions for new forms of long-distance (D. Neubert) sciences, ethnology, linguis- highlighted the fact that glo- of solidarity in the case of local communication (H.-P. Hahn); tics, media, law and philoso- balisation does not only in- health insurance systems (A. and African cultures become Jonathan Draper (KwaZulu-Natal) gave his lecture on „George Khambule and phy). Representations in the Zulu Zionism“. (Photo: Scholl) fluence Africa via economic Wolf). However, there are cas- trans-local, crossing cultural media of both continents (cin- processes, the presence of new es of a creative syncretism be- and political borders and link- ema, television, radio, litera- consumer goods or the exer- tween diff erent systems such ing Africa with regions outside ture), but also the real situa- tion of political influence by as in the case of Islamic endow- old North-South relations, like tion concerning such topics as the world powers. When we ments under British rule in the Indian Ocean or Cuba (A. poverty, child soldiers or sexu- understand globalisation as an Zanzibar (N. Oberauer). Chris- v. Oppen; D. Müller-Mahn/J. al abuse were the main points historical process, we have to tianity is an example of a suc- Pfaff ; H. Dorsch). of discussion in many presen- consider that African people cessful African appropriation of The biggest challenge for schol- tations. The meeting started are confronted with diff erent a formerly new religion, which arly thinking is still the concep- with a talk by the ambassador world views, which have influ- now starts to aff ect Christi- tualisation of changing world of UNICEF in Bayreuth, Mrs. enced and still influence every- anity in Europe (J. Olupona; A views and agency. At first, Müller-Feuerstein. The key- day life in Africa. World views Adogame; J Draper). agency also has, for scholars, a note conference speech by the in this sense are interpretive Art, popular culture, media political meaning of reconquer- famous writer of children’s frameworks as religious, eco- and communication are fields ing political and social space (F. books, Véronique Tadjo from nomic, political, social and where changing world views Nymnjoh). However, there is Côte d’Ivoire, provided the ba- scientific notions about the are most obvious. New juve- also a plea to reconnect the con- sic tone of this conference: a nature of reality. These frame- nile identities are expressed cept of agency to its sociological difficult and painful topic that works are produced by agency, in particular forms, style and roots in sociology, of knowledge nonetheless may provide some but also provide contexts with- popular culture (B. Weiss). Af- and every-day life. This off ers hope for the future of these in which agency unfolds. Com- rican languages represent this the chance to use agency as an children. (L. Feierstein)

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Swahili of Maa Speakers” was logne. The German Research thoroughness combined with Local Acti on in lecture series to end SFB / FK 560 published in 1999, followed by Foundation (DFG) funded her intensive field studies. Col- the study “A Linguistic Bibliog- project on “Cangin Languages: leagues and friends organised raphy of Uganda” in the same Divergence and Convergence”. an international workshop in Within a series of public lec- Research Centre. Together some former members of the year – co-authored by Uschi New insights in morphopho- September 2007 for her, but tures organized by Erdmute with Hans-Peter Hahn, the Collaborative Research Cen- Drolc, Caroline Franke and nological processes of Atlantic her ill health was already such Alber in the summer term co-director of the research tre who are now teaching in Franz Rottland. languages and a diachronical as to prevent her participation 2007, members of the Col- project “Local consumption other universities, such as Rü- The so-far under-researched analysis of the eff ects of con- in person. laborative Research Centre in a global context”, Spittler diger Seesemann and Roman Cangin languages, which are a tacts with other languages Her personality was full of zest ‘Local Action in Africa in the discussed the question “How Loimeier, who were invited group of Atlantic languages – a were results of her research. for life, and her intellectual curi- Context of Global Influences’ many things do people need?” from the United States. They subgroup of the Niger-Congo Gerrit Dimmendaal, also of the osity, directed at far-off places, (SFB/FK 560) summarized by comparing households and spoke about “Time-orders in seven years of intensive work their consumption patterns East African Muslim socie- and presented their findings in Niger, Burkina Faso and ties”. In a cross-disciplinary to colleagues, students, and Germany. The lecture series presentation, Erdmute Alber the general public of Bay- was continued by the vice- and Ulrike Wanitzek talked reuth. director of the SFB Gudrun about “Childhood in Africa – The lecture series was opened Miehe, who explained the juristic and anthropological by the president of the Uni- term “Indirect Globalisation”, perspectives”. In the last ses- versity, Helmut Ruppert, and a crucial finding and result of sion, Dieter Neubert, the di- it started with a lecture by her project on changing lan- rector of the SFB, provided an Gerd Spittler, the founding guages in West Africa. evaluation of “Seven years of director of the Collaborative Among the speakers were SFB – what next?” (E. Alber)

In Gabun: Uschi Drolc on her last journey to Africa (Photo: Uschi Drolc – In Memoriam Mbondobari- Hartleb)

In January 2008, Uschi Drolc retical foundations and corpus and the influence of Swahili as language family – acted as her University of Cologne, boosted was legendary. Also legendary abandoned us after a long and analysis”, under the supervi- interlanguage on Maa-speak- next field of research, from her interest in the field of a his- was her courage; her prevail- severe illness. Her years at the sion of Franz Rottland, earned ers. In presenting the latest re- 1998. This new challenge was toric-cum-comparative study ing mood was characterised University of Munich, studying not only the award of the city of sults of her research, she par- closely connected with extend- of Cangin languages. With the by never losing hope, even in general linguistics, phonetics Bayreuth for outstanding the- ticipated actively in academic ed field research in Senegal. results of her fascinating study, the darkest hours of her life. In and social anthropology, laid ses but was also the basis of her conferences. To earn her liv- She started her new research she earned her postdoctoral spite of her hard fate and the the foundation of her passion first academic publications. ing after the expiration of her with the support of a Post- lecture qualification in African pitfalls of academia from which for African languages and for During the years that followed, scholarship, she was a graduate doctoral grant from Bayreuth linguistics in 2005. she suff ered, she left behind her Africa itself, a passion which she committed herself to her assistant, and later a research University. However, Bayreuth The short remainder of her life the impression that she lived lasted until the end of her short doctoral studies on “Swahili as fellow, at the Chair of African was unable to off er her prom- was academically dedicated to her life in a self-determined life. She graduated in African an interlanguage”. Supported Linguistics II (Franz Rottland) ising academic perspectives, a study on verb valency in the and happy way. Together with linguistics at Bayreuth Univer- by a scholarship, she was able at Bayreuth University. Her so she continued her research Laala language – again at the her two children and husband, sity in 1991. Her Master’s thesis to publish parts of her research- PhD thesis “Swahili among the under the auspices of Bernd University of Cologne - which we are mourning the passing of “The perfect in Swahili. Theo- findings on the Maa language Maasai. On the Interlanguage Heine at the University of Co- she completed with her usual Uschi Drolc. (F. Kogelmann)

50 NAB Vol. VII - 2008 NAB Vol. VII - 2008 51 Editors’ note NAB Newslett er of African Studies at Bayreuth University NAB, the Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bay- Vol.VII , summer 2008 reuth, was originally initiated in order to off er a public forum for African Studies within the scope of the Humanities Collaborative Published by the Insti tute of African Studies Research Centre’s SFB/FK 560 “Local Action in Africa in the Con- www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de text of Global Influences”. This Centre was a project under the um- brella of Bayreuth’s Institute of African Studies (IAS). Since the University of Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth, Germany first issue in 2002, NAB has regularly supplied information about projects, events, persons and publications concerning African NAB online: Studies at Bayreuth University and its co-operation with Africa. http://www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de/ de/publicati ons/nab/index.html With the ending of the SFB, the Institute of African Studies has continued to publish the Newsletter under its own direct respon- All correspondence to: [email protected] sibility. The major event for African studies at the University of Bayreuth in 2007 has been the funding of our Bayreuth Interna- tional Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) by the German Editorial Board Manfred von Roncador Research Foundation (DFG) within the initiative for academic (editor-in-chief) excellence launched by the German federal and regional govern- manfred.vonroncador@uni-bay- ments. The presentation of BIGSAS therefore occupies a prominent reuth.de space within this issue, in the form of an interview with the dean Christi ne Scherer of BIGSAS, Ute Fendler, articles about the aims and structures of christi [email protected] BIGSAS and pictures. In addition, you will find information on Af- Marti n Doevenspeck rican Studies at the University of Bayreuth within the customary [email protected] categories. You will also find beautiful pictures of the photo exhi- Magnus Echtler bition “Agora Luanda” in this NAB issue. We plan to add a “feed- [email protected] back” category in future issues for the responses of our readers and ask you therefore to let us know your reaction to NAB. Franz Kogelmann [email protected]

For more up-to-date information we would like to draw your Ulf Vierke [email protected] attention to our web sites: http://www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de/de/index.html and Ulrike Wanitzek http://www.bigsas.uni-bayreuth.de [email protected]

Layout Your editorial board Yannick Tylle [email protected]

Photographs by Erdmute Alber, Anne-Kristi n Borszik, Raphaël Darboux, Marti n Doeven- speck, Johannes Döveling, Bruno Glaser, Anne Graupner, Ricarda Insti tut für Hanck, Peter Kolb, Franz Kogelmann, Katharina Mbondobari-Hartleb, Ale- Afrikastudien na Rett ová, Manfred von Roncador, D. Scholl, Rüdiger Seesemann, Na- dine Siegert, Yannick Tylle (Titel)

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