Vol. VI/1 Fall 2006/Spring 2007

N A B Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth University

Editor‘s Note

Dear Readers, NAB was initially created to give insights into African Studies at the Humanities Collaborative Research Centre SFB/FK 560 ‘Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences’. In its seven editions it served to inform about research projects, workshops and numerous publi- cations, and it highlighted inter- national cooperation connected with individuals and institutions in Africa. Thus NAB helped as a medium to create inter-na- tional awareness of the fact that Bayreuth is not only a town in Exposition Aus_Sicht Afrika, Joel Chiziane. Upper Franconia to be visited by Wagnerians but that Bayreuth is page. Dieter Neubert, chair of Contents also an important place to go for the SFB/FK 560, describes these academic exchange concerning changes that are accompanied by  African Studies at Bayreuth research related to Africa. Even if the recent success of the first draft University, p. 2 NAB served to mediate this fact proposal to establish a Bayreuth  Projects and Programmes, to a broader public, the commit- International Graduate School of pp. 3 – 7 ment of researchers at Bayreuth African Studies (BIGSAS). Pleased  Conferences and Reports, University to exchange knowl- about the official request to sub- pp. 7 – 10 edge not only ‘about Africa’, but mit the final proposal in April and  Conferences and also with colleagues from Africa to apply for funding within the Ex- Announcements, pp. 10 – 11 is much older than this newslet- cellence Initiative by the German  In Brief, p. 11 ter. As particular commitment it federal and state governments  Personalia, pp. 11 – 12 remained and remains stable and all participating researchers in  Guests, pp. 13 – 16 will even be strengthened in the Bayreuth are awaiting the eval-  Exhibitions, pp. 16 – 19 coming years. uator’s decision eagerly. Please,  Personalia, p. 19 With the SFB/FK560 ending in keep your fingers crossed and be  Publications, pp. 20 – 25 June 2007 the concept of NAB invited to our conference called:  In Memoriam, p. 25 will be part of the transition Afri- “Agency and Changing World  Calendar, pp. 26 – 27 can Studies in Bayreuth currently Views in Africa”.  Impressum, p. 28 undergoes. Some aspects of this Sincerely, transition are outlined on next Christine Scherer

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project leaders who were responsi- profile. Many new scholars integrate African Studies ble for the first application for the col- in or are planning to contribute to at Bayreuth laborative research centre in the year the interdisciplinary work. With the 2000 only five remained in the team quicker than foreseen end of the University that applied for the third phase. To sum collaborative research centre the up: During the last ten years twelve floor is now open to build on and de- chairs were to be newly appointed all velop the structures of the Bayreuth Bayreuth African Studies in but two because of retirement. Only African Studies for future challenges. Transition four chairs in the field remained un- At present, ongoing programs are by Dieter Neubert touched by the generational change. financed by the initiative of the Another factor of this transition is Volkswagen Foundation “Knowledge The humanities collaborative the structural change of the German for Tomorrow – Cooperative Re- research centre (SFB/FK 560) on research landscape as a consequence search Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa” “Local Agency in Africa in the of the Bologna process. One privilege where young African scholars are Context of Global Influences” was one of African Studies in Bayreuth, the already integrated. This program of the backbones of African Studies in possibility of in depth basic research is accompanied by Islamic Studies Bayreuth during the last six years. with long phases of consolidation of and Religious Studies on “Shari‘a In the interdisciplinary centre nine- research results, does not match with Debates and Their Perception by teen projects with about fifty the politically designed requirements Christians and Muslims in Selected scholars from social anthropol- ogy, religious studies, sociology, geography, African literature, Bayreuth International Graduate linguistics, fine arts, law, public health management and biology worked School of African Studies (BIGSAS) closely together on the common “Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies” topic of local agency. After two (BIGSAS) is the most important innovation inside the Institute of Af- successful phases of funding (2000- rican Studies at present. The draft proposal of BIGSAS has been 2003, 2003-2006) the application for positively reviewed and selected by an international committee of a third phase was positively evalu- reviewers. As a consequence the Institute has been invited to submit a ated by the reviewers. However, the proposal for funding within the German “Excellence Initiative” that aims deciding committee of the German to promote top-level research and to improve the quality of German Research Foundation (DFG) disap- universities and research institutions. The Bayreuth International Graduate pointingly approved only a one year School of African Studies plans to offer an interdisciplinary study program, grant. The research centre will there- individual career planning and hopes to assemble one hundred African fore work until the 30th of June 2007. Studies doctoral students in Bayreuth. Such an engagement can also be One reason for this decision was that the floor for the development of new interdisciplinary research activi- the research centre did not match the ties to be launched in the next two years. Four general topics as starting expectations of the grants committee points for new projects have already been discussed within the potential in the production and publication of curriculum of the graduate school: common and overall research results • Uncertainty, innovation and the quest for order beside successful projects. However, • Culture, concepts and cognition in language, literature and the media the collaborative research centre will • Concepts and conflicts in development cooperation with Africa conclude its work with a third inter- • Coping with environmental criticality and disasters in Africa national symposium on “Agency and Dymitr Ibriszimow, Dieter Neubert Changing Worldviews in Africa” in April 2007. The early end of the collab- orative research centre reflects that of immediate visible and practical African Countries” (NAB 1/2006), the African Studies in Bayreuth are in output. However, the transition also and the program of Social Anthropol- a transitional phase. Among other rea- carries good news and opens up new ogy with the participation of develop- sons, this phase is clearly indicated by chances for the future. In a time when ment Sociology and Law on “Local the fact that nearly all founding mem- Area Studies were meticulously scru- Strategies of Conflict Management bers of the Bayreuth African Studies tinized, the University of Bayreuth in Guinea-Bissau” and “Belief in the held their valedictory lectures during stood for this concept and further Paranormal and the Occult”. the last six years. From the seventeen on developed this specific research

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inter-ethnic conflict has been of the research had been the study of Projects and successfully de-escalated, intra-ethnic the vitality of the Karaboro language, Programmes conflicts (mostly chieftaincy conflicts) but it rapidly turned out that this tend to become more pronounced denomination comprises two mutu- and more violent. The NGOs involve- ally non intelligible varieties. Hence- Processes of Escalation and ments are now asked again to actively forth the research concentrated on De-Escalation in North Ghana mediate in these conflicts and to the Kar language (or Karaboro East- by Artur Bogner & help to build up peace. This leads to a ern), spoken in the Eastern part of the Dieter Neubert second point:The NGOs have estab- Karaboro region and the outcome of lished themselves as important lo- the contact of the Kar dialects due History, explanation and consequenc- cal actors that de facto interfere in to immigration of their speakers to es to be drawn from a peace process central tasks of the state. the city. “The Karaboro language”, in Ghana have been the main foci of a A follow-up project that is at present directed by Gudrun Miehe aims to research project funded by the Berg- under preparation will scrutinize the study the Western Karaboro includ- hof Foundation for Conflict Studies specific roles and functions of NGOs ing the to-date very little known and entitled Processes of Escalation and and their growing political clout in this scarcely documented dialects Tenyer De-Escalation in Northern Ghana. field. and Syer. However, unlike the socio- During the past 14 years, Ghana has linguistic research conducted under achieved the transition to parlia- “The Karaboro language” - the SFB, which had been carried out mentary democracy with apparent a new linguistic project financed in an urban context, the DFG project success and, after decades of by the German Research has first of all a purely linguistic ori- economic decline, experienced a kind entation. The intention is to gather Foundation (DFG) of modest economic miracle. This is fundamental data on the rural area remarkable and needs to be consid- by Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn where the Western varieties of the ered with regard to the civil war that language are spoken. In addition, so- lasted several weeks. After the civil One of the projects (A1) that has ciolinguistic data will be collected, in- war a consortium of Ghanaian and partially come to an end in July 2006 tended to find out whether Western international NGOs attempted to in the framework of the SFB/FK 560 Karaboro is an endangered language mediate between the four ethno- was concerned with the Kar language as has been noted by some authors. political fractions (from Dagomba, spoken by the Karaboro people in the The language description of Kara- Konkomba, Nanumba and Gonja). town of Banfora, situated in South- boro, including the Western and They initiated a peace process that western Burkina Faso. The original aim the Eastern varieties, has several led to an almost comprehensive peace treaty in 1996 and to its (on the whole) successful implementation. The main question was: which are the lessons to be learnt from it for the practice of constructive conflict man- agement as well as for the theory of communal conflicts in Africa? Since 1994 the importance of NGOs for the local processes of de-escala- tion or violent escalation has greatly been increased in Ghana. Increasingly the NGOs including the churches and organisations connected to them, have become important partners in communication and served as media- tors for the factions in local conflicts as well as for the government and local administrations. This success story leads to two important results that are usually not intended by peace- building activities. First, whereas

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aims. First, it is hoped to answer, on Local Strategies of Conflict linguistic grounds, the puzzling Management in Guinea-Bissau question concerning their inter- relation, given that dialect surveys by Anne-Kristin Borszik & conducted in the 1970 and in the 1990 Georg Klute have had different results regarding the mutual intelligibility of their speak- In November 2006, a cooperative

ers. Speakers of Eastern and Western research project on “Local Strat- ´Shari´a Debates in Africa`, Bayreuth Karaboro in Banfora were unable egies of Conflict Management in to communicate with each other in Guinea-Bissau” (picture below) was chieftainship rule in a modern context Karaboro, switching to the lingua started within the framework of the be observed? Will we see the coming franca Dyula. Second, a description of Volkswagen Foundation Initiative of heterarchical orders in Africa? Is it Karaboro will contribute to clarify the “Knowledge for Tomorrow”. possible to integrate local non-state position of the Karaboro language The project emerged from a part- forms of conflict resolution into the within the group of Senufo (Gur) nership between Guinea-Bissau´s constitution of the modern state? languages to which it belongs. National Institute for Studies and Re- Are ´traditional´ forms of conflict As shown on the map, Karaboro, search (INEP) and Bayreuth Universi- resolution ´anti-democratic´? Will considered to form the Northeastern ty. More than twelve scholars, mainly the fragmentation of state order in branch of Senufo, is a Senufo island from Guinea-Bissau, take part in the Africa lead to a transitional period surrounded by other members of the research which is directed by Georg of violence of all against all in the Gur language family and by Mande Klute and coordinated by Anne- Hobbesian sense? languages. Some preliminary data Kristin Borszik from Bayreuth The project will have four interdis- gathered with a speaker of Western University. ciplinary research units consisting of Karaboro shows however that this The project intertwines two posi- one PhD candidate and one senior variety is, in some domains of the tions. First, “state fragility” and the researcher each. The methodologi- language, more related to the North- remarkable vitality of local actors in cal approach is broad enough to in- western Senufo languages spoken some parts of Africa, and secondly, clude the various disciplines involved in Southern Mali than to its closest theoretical debates about the emer- and their respective methods. It is neighbour Eastern Karaboro. Finally, gence of informal polities within or designed in such a way as to assure the results of the project will furnish beside the African State. comparability and cross-checking of further keys to resolve the problem The research aims at analysing local data. of the position of the Senufo languag- strategies of conflict management and The project draws from the extended es within the Gur family, since the their articulation with the respective case study and the extended analysis Senufo languages have some fea- legal systems of conflict resolution of institutions of conflict resolution. tures in common with the Mande at a national and international level. The research teams will not only family, especially the word order in the Recently, non-state political orders perceive legal systems as ´processes´, sentence S(ubject) O(bject) V(erb) in appeared on the political stage in but also follow cases of conflict and spite of the fact that they belong to Africa. The project proceeds on the their resolution from the local to the the Gur family where the majority of assumption that these orders have national and possibly international Gur languages have SVO. to cope with the ´violence prob- level. lem´, if they are to last. Local power The academic community in Guinea- Members of the Research Project groups may use mediating services in Bissau finds itself in relative isola- conflict resolution in order to tion within the sub-region. Thus, establish power positions or informal academic collaboration within West- polities. Legal pluralism is particularly Africa will extend comparative marked in weak states, resulting in perspectives. In exchanging ideas active forum shopping. In heterar- and findings with partners from Mali, chical, as opposed to monoarchical, Senegal, Guinea-Conakry, and settings, violations of legal norms the Gambia it is hoped to identify are irregularly sanctioned. The legal similarities as well as differences with and the political spheres thus visibly regard to local conflict resolution overlap. strategies and theoretical questions The following questions are about the future of political order in addressed: Can the re-emergence of Africa.

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debates and the erosion of the tigates the recent debates on the national consensus in Tanzania in future role of the Islamic court sys- Kondoa township. William Kopwe, a tem in the religiously mixed town of graduate of St. Paul’s United Theolo- Isiolo in Northern Kenya. Esha Faki gical College, Limuru, Kenya, on the Mwinyihaji, Maseo University in Kenya, other hand studies the religio-political specialises in the problem of Islamic and social challenges of Shari’a imple- law and Muslim women’s participation

´Shari´a Debates in Africa´, Shendi, Sudan mentation in Tanzanian mainland on a in the Kenyan public life.

Shari`a Debates and their Workshops in Africa organised by Bayreuth University Perception by Christians and Muslims in Selected African Franz Kogelmann, director of the project “Shari´a Debates and Their Countries Perception by Christians and Muslims in Selected African Countries”, by Franz Kogelmann funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, organized recently two workshops in Africa. Supported and organised by the local country-coordinators, This new project is part of the John Chesworth, St. Paul’s United Theological College Limuru, Kenya, and Volkswagen Foundation Initiative on Osman Mohamed Osman Ali, University of Khartoum, Sudan, these work- “Knowledge for Tomorrow: Coo- shops took place in October 2006 and February 2007. perative Research Projects in Sub- Whereas the Kenyan meeting was restricted to the East-African members, Saharan Africa”, which aims to its Sudanese counterpart comprised all members of the project. In Kenya the contribute to the development and junior scholars reported on their research progress since they left Bayreuth sustainable reinforcement of acade- at the end of summer term 2006 and problems of different natures have mic research capacity in sub-Saharan been discussed. Africa. This is to be achieved through In Sudan the first mid-term evaluation of the field research done so far took the funding of research projects place. The junior scholars seized the opportunity to present developed and carried out by young and to discuss their preliminary findings in front of all project members. African scholars in cooperation To achieve the self imposed high standards national and international with Bayreuth University, providing senior scholars attended this workshop. Beside the presentations of the junior researchers in Africa with an junior scholars another important part of this meeting was to discuss the opportunity to enhance their skills, development of suitable instruments of quality control and measures to academic qualifications, and networks refine the structure of the project as such. The University of Bayreuth of colleagues in Africa and in Europe. has been represented by Ulrich Berner and Asonzeh Ukah, both Chair of Eleven “junior scholars” have been Religious Studies I, Kurt Beck, Chair of Anthropology, and the sociologist nominated after a highly competitive Gabriele Cappai. selection process. Abdul-Fatah Kola FK Makinde, of Osun State College of Education, Nigeria, researches and writes on the “independent shari’a broader scale. The Sudan is represented by three panels” established in recent years Rebecca Osiro, also a graduate of junior scholars. Salma Mohammed’s in several south-western Nigeri- St. Paul’s UTC, does research in the research concentrates on the an states. Chikas Danfulani, of the field of women’s perspectives on the impact of Shari’a implementati- University of Jos, Nigeria, studies role of kadhi’s courts in Western on among Sudanese Christians in shifting ideas about female Muslim Kenya. Halkano Abdi Wario, Moi Khartoum. Ahmad al-Hassab, Univer- education in Northern Nigeria. University, Eldoret Kenya, inves- sity of Dallanj in Kordofan province,

The Tunisian junior scholar Ramzi Summer Academy studies the effects of a dual economic Ben Amara, a graduate of Bayreuth system in Sudan after the implemen- University, undertakes research on tation of the Comprehensive Peace the recent developments of the Iza- Agreement in 2005. His research la a reformist Islamic movement in highlights the possible problems of an Nigeria. Islamic and capitalist economic system in Bernardin Mfumbusa, of St. Augus- the same country. Mohammad Hamed, tin University in Mwanza, Tanzania, Shendi University, investigates the prepares a case study on Shari’a influence of Islamic law on family

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planning among Muslims in the system, and the massive “brain drain” Bayreuth academics to gain access to Sudanese town of Shendi. from Africa that it brings about, academic institutions or to informants To achieve the aims of the whole has only contributed to increasing in Africa. project this really “pan-African” group the discrepancy between academic To date a total of 17 scholarships have of junior scholars was invited to stu- standards at universities in Africa and been awarded by the SFB/FK 560 to dy the summer term 2006 at the in the rich countries of the north. African research students, starting University of Bayreuth. Due to the In order to counteract this trend, in autumn 2000. Six students have multidisciplinary background of the the Bayreuth collaborative research completed the programme by gaining junior scholars and the different centre SFB/FK 560 began to seek new their Ph.D. Two programme students academic levels, M.A., PhD and post- ways of supporting African research with a scholarship from Bayreuth have doc, the Chairs of Religious Studies, students. The aim was to encour- gained academic qualifications that Anthropology and Islamic Studies at age cooperation with universities are customary in France or franco- Bayreuth University offered them an in Africa, and at the same time to phone countries, the DESS (Diplôme intensive coaching in the theory and give young researchers from Africa d’études supérieures spécialisées) practice of different methodologies access to well equipped libraries and and the DEA (Diplôme d’études in social-science research. Endowed international debates. This led to approfondies). Eight programme with new ideas they went back to the founding of the African Research students are currently in the pro- their home countries to undertake Student Programme. The basic idea gramme and are expected to first steps in their field research. was to train African doctoral students complete their doctorates as in cooperation with their universities successfully as their predecessors. New Ways of Supporting in Africa, their actual research being Finally, there is one programme Young African Academics mainly carried out and supervised in “student” who is doing post-doc by Erdmute Alber Africa. During their stay in Bayreuth research – evidence of the most recent they would have access to the library development in Bayreuth‘s efforts to Many graduates of African universi- resources and be able to participate in support young African researchers. ties experience difficulties in getting academic discussions. There is just one sore point: among established as research students fol- These “programme students”, as they the 17 scholarship holders to date lowing their first degree. Doctorate are called in Bayreuth, thus receive there has been only one woman. programmes in Africa are still very their scholarships in Africa, and they This is not due to discrimination against much the exception, and even where do their Ph.D. research in Africa, women in the selection process, but they exist, students have little or no as far as possible. At the same time rather to the structures in respect access to the international literature they spend up to three months each to support for young researchers in in their subject, not to mention con- year in Germany, in order to read Africa itself. Much still needs to be ferences and academic discussions. up the literature and be able to par- done here – as well as in the gen- Until recently, gaining one of the ticipate in the doctoral programme eral area of finding better ways of highly sought-after scholarships to offered by the SFB/FK 560 collaborative supporting African research students. work for a doctorate in Europe or the research centre. The Ph.D. theses In the light of its special focus on US was the only way for many African are examined jointly by German and Africanology, and building on the students to embark on an academic African supervisors, as specified in the experience gained so far, the Univer- career. However, this scholarship general regulations of the programme, sity of Bayreuth will undertake every which allow for customized solutions effort to continue this programme. Programme students, coordinator E. Alber in individual cases. Moreover the program is based on South-South Social Collabora- mutuality: All African programme tion Ties between Cuba and students are members of specific Africa sub-projects within the SFB/FK 560, by Katrin Hansing, Hauke Dorsch and they profit from participation in academic discussions which help them Over the past two decades the so- in organizing their research. Other cial sciences and humanities have members of the SFB sub-projects also been greatly influenced by the effects gain from this contact with students of and discourses on globalization, from the countries on which they are migration and transnationalism. researching: the know-how of the In so doing scholars have tried to programme students has helped many understand and explain the

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complexities involved in a world projects on the Continent, whilst (ideologically and politically driven) of increasing movement, intercon- more than 30’000 African students discourses and unofficial, grassroots nectedness and mixture of cultures. have studied and graduated in Cuba. perspectives towards these; 3. as Despite these efforts, much of the Mozambique and Angola have histori- well as the actual lived experiences of research has tended to be conduct- cally been the largest beneficiary of the program’s main protagonists i.e. ed and conceptualized along tradi- this aid, whilst South Africa is at pres- Cuban doctors, teachers and African tional North-South and East-West ent the principal African recipient. students. axes. By contrast, South-South Since their emergence the Cuban As anthropologists we conducted relations within the context of global- government has hailed the programs long-term fieldwork, combining ization have received relatively little as great acts of South-South solidar- participant observation, various types attention. It was precisely this gap in ity and Third World brotherhood, of interview techniques, archival theoretical and empirical knowledge whilst their aid workers have been research and visual documentation, that led the SFB-FK 560 to incorporate characterized as selfless, caring, in our different research sites which a new South-South specific research humanitarian volunteers, who are included: Cuba, Mozambique and project into its broader focus on proof that ‚un mundo mejor es South Africa. ‘Local Action in Africa in the Context posible’ (a better world is possi- Our findings were, as to be expected, of Global Influences’. Chosen was ble). Numerous African leaders and multifarious and can perhaps best Katrin Hansing’s project proposal, governments have made similar summarized as follows: Despite their entitled: ‘South-South Social Collabo- declarations in support of the major humanitarian service to Africa ration Ties between Cuba and Africa’, programs. Beyond these official, and the rest of the developing world, which was subsequently awarded celebratory statements, very little Cuba’s social assistance programs are funding by the German Research published information existed on the embedded in a complicated web of Council. In 2004 fieldwork research aid programs, before we began our politics, power and propaganda and on Cuba’s medical and educational as- research. continue to be an important instru- sistance to Africa began. It was this uncritical, idealized notion ment in Cuba’s foreign policy and the Perhaps most well known for its of the ‘South’ as a unified and frater- Revolution’s survival. In this the main military aid to Africa, particularly to nal group of nations and peoples, so protagonists’ voices and experiences Angola and Ethiopia, Cuba has how- dominant in political as well as some i.e. the Cuban health care workers ever also offered social assistance, academic literature, that in part led us and African students, have however especially in the form of education and to mainly focus on the structural and largely been left unheard. health care, to dozens of developing discursive dynamics of these South- countries over the past four decades. South ties as well as the power rela- In this, the African Continent has by tions embedded in them. As such we Conferences far been the largest recipient of Cuba’s set out to examine: 1. the history and assistance. In fact since the 1960s over creation as well as manifestations of and Reports 45’000 Cuban doctors and nurses the programs; 2. the multiple official and thousands of other professionals have worked on various development Globalization of Solidarity in Cuba

19th Swahili Colloquium with Author William Mkufya May 26 - 28, 2006 by Clarissa Vierke

Like every year, Swahili scholars from all over Europe, Africa and America participated in the colloquium, which in the course of time has become a unique forum for scientific exchange in the field of Swahili. To the delight

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of the conference attendees this year Said Khamis and reputed Napoli Semitic and Berber languages. Tanzanian author William Mkufya literature critic Elena Bertoncini The cooperative research project took part as well. Mkufya, being in pointed out the achievements of organised a final conference which Bayreuth for a research visit enabled Gudrun Miehe, who founded the was held from October 4th to 8th in by the SFB/FK 560, is one of the most Swahili Colloquium in Frankfurt and Porquerolles (France) that brought distinguished East-African authors brought it with her, when she went to together the scholars involved in writing in Swahili. His talk touched Bayreuth, where it has been contin- the project as well as three invited a central issue: From the perspec- ued since. The 19th Swahili Colloquium speakers: Felix Ameka (University tive of an author, who in Tanzania is was the last one to be held under her of Leiden), Denis Creissels (Univer- constantly fighting against scarcities conduct. sity of Lyon) and Maria Koptjevskaja in publishing and for the attention It was not for the first time that Tamm (University of Stockholm). of his readership, Mkufya argued for African linguists from Bayreuth and The aim of the conference was the Swahili as an adequate means for Paris carried out research and pub- presentation and discussion of the literary expression, despite the lished together. But it was the first results of the project. Five Ger- temptation of the larger English book time that they could collaborate man-French working groups that market. within a joint research project in the have been formed at one of the for- Over twenty talks, given in English, framework of the Programme Inter- mer workshops at the University of German and Swahili covered a wide national de Cooperation Scientifique Bayreuth explored special aspects of range of topics, reaching from search- (PICS). This Programme is a possi- qualification in African languages: The ing for elements of local Swahili his- bility jointly offered by the German first group examined “primary adjec- toriography, to analysing Swahili Rap Research Council (DFG) and the tives”, i.e. adjectives (as known from lyrics and syntactic observations of Centre National de la Recherche European languages) that are not transitivity in Swahili. Scientifique (CNRS) to support derived from another part of speech. international scientific activities The second group focused on the between the two countries. strategy of using special verbs to A German-French Cooperative In this two year joint research project express property concepts. It elabo- Research Project on – 1st January 2004 till 31st December rated a special “Questionnaire for “Expressing Quality in Africa” 2006 – had both the Chairs of African quality verbs in African languages”, by Eva Rothmaler & Holger Tröbs Linguistics I and African Linguistics II which represents a new tool for a of the University of Bayreuth, and the descriptive linguist to determine the This year two events on the agenda research centre Langage, Langues et existence and characteristics of the went beyond the usual scale of the Cultures d’Afrique Noire (LLACAN) class of quality verbs. The third group Swahili colloquium: On Friday, Uni- of CNRS participating. The proj- worked on the derivational patterns of versity President Helmut Ruppert ect was headed by Bernard Caron, adjectives that are not “primary” but opened the exhibition “Muhamadi Dymitr Ibriszimow and Gudrun derived from other parts of speech. Kijuma” designed by the Chair of Miehe. Three main problems were of special African Studies I (p 17). Conclud- The object of the project was to study interest in this respect: marked ver- ing the Swahili Colloquium, Bayreuth how concepts of quality like ‘big’, sus unmarked derivation, trans- or Students performed a Swahili play to ‘small’, ‘hot’, ‘cold’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, etc. multi-categoriality, and the status of the honour of Gudrun Miehe. Then are expressed in African languages. noun class agreement. The fourth Where some languages use adjec- group explored the multiplicity of Participants of the conference in Porquerolles tives for this purpose, others use meanings of the words of “quality”. different strategies to express these Some languages use one word which concepts. The languages considered covers a range of meanings that are in the study are spoken in North and covered in other languages by two or Central Africa and cover a vast area more different words. The fifth group between the Atlantic and the Indian concentrated on typological issues. oceans. The Bayreuth research group Aspects of morpho-syntactic domains examined the expression of property of qualifiers as well as preferences, concepts in Gur, Mande, Saharan and incompatibilities and/or correlations Chadic languages, the French scholars of certain types of morphological de- focused on typological phenomena vices were treated on the basis of a and correlations in Chadic, Central- specially designed typological ques- Sudanic, Adamawa, Atlantic, Cushitic, tionnaire.

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An additional characteristic of the project was the application of The background of the lecture series is the SFB/FK-Project “Disease linguistics maps. The distribution of Prevention and Health Security - Local Insurance Initiatives in Senegal”. linguistic features was correlated with For this project research on the mutuelles de santé (health insurance the language distribution on the map initiatives) was conducted in Diourbel, a small town in Senegal. The rehabi- of Africa. This method helps in the litation of the Heinrich-Lübke-district-hospital brought about the question analysis of contact, areal and genetic of how to ameliorate the financial situation of the hospital as well as to im- phenomena. prove access to health care for the local population. Supported by German development aid, community based health insurance was set up. Despite Lecture Series on Health much enthusiasm in the beginning, for several reason these small organisa- Insurance and Social Security tions struggle to survive. Therefore, the goal of the project is to find out in Africa how local communities and individual actors deal with these global models by Angelika Wolf & Eckhard Nagel of health care, and how these models change at the local level. The research features an interdisciplinary approach of health sciences and medical anthro- For the last two summer semesters pology. It is not only looked at the mutuelles de santé themselves but on the Institute for Medical Management social security in general as well as on the whole spectrum of health care and Health Sciences at the University including the so called traditional healing sector. of Bayreuth has organized a lecture The idea of Health Insurance evolved in a specific historical, economic and series on Health Insurance and So- social context together with other measures such as pension programmes cial Security in Africa, financially sup- and unemployment insurance. Since most hospitals in developing countries ported by GTZ (German Technical charge user fees, the transfer of these western models of health insuran- Cooperation) and EPOS Health ce is seen as a strategy to ease access to health services for the general consultants. public. The associated problems have so far been mainly analysed in a rather The lecture series started with technical context concerning organisation and financing. Local peculiarities reflections on the issue of time in such as the indigenous therapeutic spectrum, traditional measures of social the context of health and insurance. security or local concepts of the future have hardly been considered at all. Whereas economical concepts of They might however influence the ability and willingness of the local popula- time preference is central in Public tion to join and actively support health insurance initiatives. Health, studies often lack empirical data on local time preferences for health issues. In her paper Evelyn Wladarsch from In his presentation he raised the Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. the department of Anthropology at question of how sections of the Gudrun Lachenmann from the faculty of the Rupprecht-Karls-Universität of population with little or no income may Sociology at the University Bielefeld Heidelberg discussed results from benefit from social protection sys- showed that Gender issues play a research on cultural time concepts tems. Alexander Schulze from the major role when it comes to social in Burkina Faso and how they might Novartis foundation in Basel asked security at community level. In his have influence on prevention. Rüdiger the question for whom health insu- presentation Axel Weber from the Krech from the GTZ gave insight into rance could be an option with regard Asian Development Bank in Manila the activities of German development to rural Mali. From the Institute for focussed on the economic and social aid regarding social protection. Anthropology at the Westfälische aspects of health policy when com- Wilhelms-Universität Münster Sabi- paring general trends on the two Angelika Wolf, Eckhard Nagel ne Klocke-Daffa revealed the dyna- continents. The bank has develo- mics of social relationships and their ped an instrument called SPI (Social impact on social security among the Protection Index) which assists policy Nama of Southern Namibia. Jürgen makers in revealing similarities as well Hohmann from KomPart GmbH and as dissimilarities between countries. working as Health Economist within the The SPI is not only useful when Luxembourg Ministry of Social comparing the overall level of social Security gave a talk on health protection across countries and over insurance and HIV/AIDS in Nami- time. It also can be used for diagnostic bia.Luise Steinwachs, consultant for work of a country’s social protection the EED (Church Development Ser- program and thus serves as a tool for vice) compared the health politics of poverty reduction.

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Africa Discussion Forum: Sport questioning can yield for the analysis “Agency and Changing World- and Africa – A Current Re- of current social, economic and politi- views in Africa” search Field cal processes in Africa. by Ulrike Wanitzek International conference organized by the collaborative research centre Conferences and “Local Action in Africa in the The Africa Discussion Forum, Context of Global Influences”, founded in spring 2005, contin- Announcements Bayreuth University ues to take place regularly three to April 26 - 28, 2007 four times a semester. Organized by Shifting Centres – Artistic Po- Martin Doevenspeck (Social sitions and Recent Dynamics in Agency as directed and intentional geography), Olivier Graefe (So- Contemporary Dance, Perfor- meaningful social action is always cial geography), Jeannett Martin mance and Music in Africa linked to normative orientations and (Social anthropology) and Ulrike worldviews. From this perspective Wanitzek (Law) will again provide an Interdisciplinary Workshop globalisation can be understood as opportunity for the interdisciplin- Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth the carrier of a set of clearly defined ary discussion of themes of topical April 12 - 14, 2007 normative orientations as well as per- interest at the Bayreuth Insti- spectives on the world, i.e. world- tute of African Studies. While the Dance, (Media)-performance and views. These are not stable, but rather thematic focus in winter 2006/07 was music are only three domains of change and in doing so inhere into so- ’Development’ – A Concept under contemporary art in Africa, where cial processes in local contexts. Criticism”, in the summer semester transgressions and interactions The envisaged conference brings its 2007 the topic “Sport and Africa – can be found not only on the attention to bear on the relationship A Current Research Field” will be dis- African continent and in the African between agency, on the one hand, and cussed. diaspora itself but also in the virtual, worldviews on the other, with partic- This topic is largely underrepresented intermedial spheres like the WWW ular reference to the question of how in the Africa-related social sciences, as a new space of representation the local, i.e. agency in Africa, and the despite the importance of sport, and articulation. These artistic global, i.e. normative orientations and especially football, in African societ- interspaces are vital fields for the perspectives on the world, interact. ies and politics. Only recently has the negotiation of artistic positions and Among the over 20 scientists from relationship between sport, economy the location of the artists in the global prestigious institutions all over the and power on the continent become art- and media world. world is also Francis Nyamnjoh who the subject of more intensive atten- The interdisciplinary approach of will give a talk about “Theorizing tion within African Studies. After this workshop provides a basis for Agency In and On Africa: The Ques- an introduction into this still recent exchange of experience and know- tions are key”. debate, and on the basis of short ledge between artists, organisers and presentations on ‘Football and politics scholars. in Africa’ and ‘African football players This workshop serves as platform as commodity’, the discussion should for the presentation of positions of evolve around the perspective this artists in recent works as well as pa- pers on ongoing or completed research Soccer in rural areas, Central-Benin projects of scholars in that field, in particular, projects of the SFB / FK th 560 are discussed. The theoretical 20 Swahili Colloquium results are brought to fruition May 18 - 20, 2007 therefore once again and put down empirically and for these fields The Chair of African Studies I in col- of practice. laboration with the Chair of African Literatures in African Languages are organizing the yearly Swahili Col- loquium to take place at Iwalewa House, from 18/5/07 to 20/5/07. The Bayreuth Swahili Colloquium is unique in that it is the only forum

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In Brief

The University of Bayreuth sup- ported the re-opening of the Goethe Institute in Lomé, Togo, by a series of lectures. Janos Riesz, retired professor of Romance and Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, presented results of his recent research. Beside his lectures at the Goethe Institute Riesz also gave talks at the University of Lomé.

Personalia

Calls and Appointments

 Anne-Kristin Borszik, sociolo- gist, formerly project coordinator of the Portuguese “Fundação AMI – Assistência Médica Internacional”, accepted the post of research assis- tant and coordinator for the project on “Local Strategies of Conflict Man- agement in Guinea-Bissau”, under the direction of Prof. Georg Klute and funded by Volkswagen Foundation (2006-2009).

 Eckhard Breitinger, retired professor of Anglophone African Lit- erature, has been appointed to the post of a visiting professorship at in the world that takes place every – Nairobi) John Kiango (Director of Jagellonian University in Cracòw, year with a wide range of topics on the Institute of Swahili Research, Poland, for the period of three months Swahili language, linguistics and litera- University of Dar-es-salaam) Nathan (October – December 2006). ture – hence, as usual, it is expected to Ogechi (Head of the Department of attract scholars from Germany, Italy, Kiswahili, Moi University, Eldoret), Britain, France, Russia, Netherlands, Asha Khamis Hamad (“M.A”, State Swahili Kolloquium Norway, USA, Kenya and Tanzania. University of Zanzibar), and Wilton With the ‘usual’ financial support Robert Oduori (M.A Moi University). from DFG, the organisers have invited The DAAD (German Academic writers and scholars from Africa and Exchange Service) supports a six Eastern Europe, among them are Mo- months stay of Isabelle Miryam Nsen- hamed Abdulaziz (University of Nai- ga, University of Kinshasa, and Rosalie robi), Naomi Shitemi (Moi University, Wendyam Zongo, University of Oua- Eldoret), Joshua Madumulla (Head of gadougou, at the Chair of African Lin- the Deprtment of Kiswahili, Universi- guistics I. The students are supervised ty of Dar-es-salaam), Mikhail Gromov by Manfred von Roncador. (School of Arts and Sciences, United States International University, Africa

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 Dinanga Cingoma, PhD in po- Retirements litical sciences at Leipzig Univer- sity, accepted the posts of research  Gudrun Miehe, Chair of Afri- assistant of the project on “Para- can Linguistics I, and Dierk Lange, sovereign States in Africa (East RDC)” professor of History with main focus and collaborator of the project on on Africa, retired at the end of the “Local Strategies of Conflict Manage- summer semester 2006. ment in Guinea-Bissau”, under the direction of Prof. Georg Klute and funded by Volkswagen Foundation (2006-2009). Guests

 Saikana Dolo has been appointed Fareda Banda  Montasser Abdelghani, lecturer for Bambara at the Univer- University El-Minya/Egypt , 1 -15 Janu- sity of Bayreuth in October 2006. position at EPOS Health Consultants ary 06, “Migrant Networks Within After finishing his studies – German in Bad Homburg. Christine Scherer Egypt”, invited by Detlef Müller- as Foreign Language – at the Johannes took over the position. Mahn. Gutenberg University Mainz (1991- 95) he worked as Assistant Professor  Franz Kogelmann, research  Joseph C.E. Adande, Senior at the University Bamako. fellow at the SFB/FK 560, is since July Lecturer for Art History at the Uni- 2007 director of the research project versity of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, was  Ute Fendler, University of Saar- “Sharia Debates and Their Perception a Visiting Professor at Iwalewa Haus brücken, accepted the appointment by Christians and Muslims in Selected in October and November 2006. to the Chair of Romance Studies African Countries” This project is He taught a seminar on “Methods in and Comparative Literature (succes- funded by Volkswagen Foundation. Art History” for advanced students, sion Riesz). She earned her doctor- and also assisted the students in ate at the University of Bayreuth and  Gerd Spittler, former director of projects or preparations for personal after five years (1992-97) as Assistant the SFB/FK 560, accepted a stay at the research in Africa. Durng the opening Professor at the University of Oua- interdisciplinary Wissenschaftszen- events for the “Black Paris” exhibi- gadougou, she worked for the Chair tion at Iwalewa Haus, he presented a of Romance Cultural Studies and Awards paper on “Wifredo Lam – Surrealism intercultural Communication at the and Black Paris” and also participated University of Saarbrücken. Her main trum Berlin (WZB) for six months. in the public round table discussion focus in research and teaching is on  Harald Sippel has been honoured with the invited artists. Francophone cinema and literatures with the German Africa award 2006 in Africa, the Carribean and Québec. of the German Africa Foundation.  Hippolyte Amouzouvi, 21/24 This award is in acknowledgement of February 06, Workshop “Genera-  Thomas Hüsken, anthropolo- his professorial dissertation (Habilita- tions”, invited by Erdmute Alber. gist and economist, formerly lectur- tion) on “Labour and Law in German er at the Institute for Ethnology of East-Africa (1891-1918)”. It has been the Freie Universität Berlin, is since presented to him by the German for- February 2007 researcher in the proj- eign minister Dr Frank Walter Stein- John Chesworth ect on “The Emergence of Non-Statal meier. Forms of Governance in Contempo- rary Africa” under the direction of  Markus Verne, research fellow at Prof. Georg Klute and funded by DFG the SFB/FK 560, was awarded twice. (2007-2009). He gained the 2004/05 prize for the best Ph.D. thesis by the African  Verena Kremling, former pro- Studies Association in Germany (VAD) gram coordinator of the Humani- and the prestigious research funding ties Collaborative Research Center award of the Frobenius Society. (SFB/FK 560) and editor in chief of NAB (Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth University), accepted a

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the coastal centres of West Africa”,  Andreas Eckert, University of invited by Hans Peter Hahn. Hamburg, 1/2 June 06, “Between the Local and the Global: African Employ-  Terry Cannon, Univ. of ees in the Colonial Period”, invited by Greenwich, UK, 5/9 July 2006, Dieter Neubert. “Vulnerability analysis and natural hazards: understanding the social con-  Axel Fleisch, University of struction of disasters through a house- Cologne, 20/21 June 06, “Phrasal hold political economy framework”, prepositions in the Nguni languages: invited by Detlef Müller-Mahn. a comparative reconstruction of semantic change”, invited by Manfred  John Chesworth, Director of von Roncador. W.C. Ekow Daniels the Post-Graduate Programme in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations,  Abubakar Umar Girei, lectur-  Fareda Banda BL, LLB, DPhil St. Paul’s United Theological College, er in the Department of Languages (Oxon), Zimbabwe, Reader in the Limuru, Kenya, for two weeks in June and Linguistics, University of Maidu- Laws of Africa at the University 2006. He presented a series of pub- guri, PhD programme student within of London, School of Oriental and lic lectures on “Glocalisation: The the framework of SFB/FK 560, is African Studies, visited the Univer- Influence of the Muslim Diaspora on visiting the Chair of African Studies sity of Bayreuth during the winter the Local Situation, a Study of Islamic II for three months. He is working semester 2006/07 on the invita- Internet Sites for East Africa”. on the Fulfulde Dialects in Nigeria. tion of Ulrike Wanitzek, Institute of African Studies. Dr. Banda is author  W.C. Ekow Daniels LLB (Hons), of Women, Law and Human Rights. LLM, PhD (University of London), An African Perspective (Oxford: Hart, Professor Emeritus and former Dean 2005). Fareda Banda gave a public of the Faculty of Law, University of lecture at the Institute of African Ghana, Legon, spent one month as Studies and the Faculty of Law and visiting professor at the Institute of Economics on “So Much Law – So Lit- African Studies, invited by Ulrike tle Hope: Women’s Rights in Africa”. Wanitzek in November/December 2006. Ekow Daniels is one of the most  Charles Bodunde, Head of the prominent family lawyers in Africa. Department of English at the Univer- His numerous publications include sity of Ilorin, Nigeria, visited Bayreuth ‘The Impact of the 1992 Constitution from November 2006 until March on Family Rights in Ghana’ (Journal Katharina Hofer 2007. of African Law 1996, 183). Bayreuth students in African studies enjoyed Mr. Girei will use his sojourn in  Elisabeth Boesen, ZMO Berlin, his guest lectures and his public Bayreuth to write the final version of 7/8 February 06, “Modern Nomadism. lecture on “Ghana‘s Family Legal his PhD thesis which will be submit- Cattle herders from central Niger in System – Towards the UN Millennium ted at the University of Maiduguri this Development Goals”. year. Abubakar Umar Girei  Dominique Darbon, CEAN Bor-  Tilo Grätz, Max-Planck-Insti- deaux, France, 13/14 July 06, “Does tut Halle, 31 January/1 February. 06, political science matter for the study “Migrating gold diggers in West Af- of public administrations in Africa?”, rica”, invited by Hans Peter Hahn. invited by Hans Peter Hahn.  Rosalind Hackett, Professor  Mirjam de Brujin, African of Religious Studies, University of Studies Centre Leiden, NL, 22/23 Tennessee, Knoxville, was invited by June 06, “Living with crisis: agency and the Chair of Religious Studies I to give mobility in post-war Chad”, invited by a series of public lectures on “Religion Dieter Neubert. and Media in Africa” in July 2006.

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 Chuma Himonga, Univ. of  Ludovic Kibora, INSS/CNRST Cape Town, 5/12 February 06, “The Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2 May Constitution, Culture and the Protec- - 16 June 06, scientific cooperation tion of Individual Rights: The latest with project A 4, invited by Hans decision of the Constitutional Court Peter Hahn. of the Republic of South Africa”, in- vited by Dieter Neubert and Ulrike  Benedikt Korf, University of Abdulkadar Tayob Wanitzek. Liverpool, 11/14 May 06, “Complex emergencies: the search for integra-  Katharina Hofer, political tive research approaches”, invited by scientist and author of “Implications Detlef Müller-Mahn. of a Global Religious Movement for Local Political Spheres. Evangelical-  Dieter Kramer, Univ. of Vienna, ism in Kenya und Uganda”, was invited 19/20 January 06, “Posters in Africa as visiting lecturer by the Volkswa- - an old medium in a new context”, gen Foundation’s project on “Sharia invited by Ulf Vierke and Tobias Debates and their Perception by Wendl. Christians and Muslims in Selected African Countries”. She offered  Gesine Krüger, Univ. of Zurich,

Charles Bodunde students an intensive introduction CH, 26/27 January 06, “The appropri- to current methods in the social ation of writing - on the letter-writing sciences. culture of migrant workers in South Africa” , invited by Dieter Neubert.  Frank Eman Idoko, University of Maiduguri, visited Bayreuth from  Ingrid Kummels, Univ. of Berlin, August to October 2006. 13/14 June 06, “Women‘s Anacaona Society - Popular music in Cuba and  Katharina Inhetveen, Univ. its influence in Africa“ , invited by Ulf Siegen, 17/18 January 06, invit- Vierke and Tobias Wendl. ed by Dieter Neubert, Project V, „Institutions of humanitarian intern-  Gudrun Lachenmann, Univ. of ment: refugee camps in Zambia“. Bielefeld, 7/8 June 06, “Gender and Chukwuma Okoye social security in Africa. Local and  Marjorie Jongbloed, Cologne, translocal embedding and networking 27/28 January 06, “The cultural between informalization and formal- archive - a topic among present-day ization of responsibility”, invited by African and European artists”, invited Eckard Nagel. by Ulf Vierke and Tobias Wendl.  Michael Lambert, Univ. of  Ogbu Kalu, Nigerian theologian North Carolina, 24/26 January 2006, and historian at McCormick Theo- “Migration and the Making of a Trans- logical Seminary, Chicago, was invited national Community in Senegal”, by the Chair of Religious Studies I to invited by Hans Peter Hahn. attend the workshop “Sharia Debates and Their Perception in Selected  Theresa Leiniger-Miller, 13/14 Akintunde Akinyem African Countries” in June 2006. December 06, “New Negro Artists Rüdiger Seesemann In Paris 1922 -1934”, invited by Ulf  Reinhard Kapfer, Mühldorf, Inn, Vierke and Tobias Wendl. 9/10 May 06, “The women of Maroua - love, sexuality and consumption in  Frieder Ludwig, Professor of northern Cameroun”, invited by Ulf Mission and World Christianity, Vierke and Tobias Wendl. Director Global Mission Institute Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minne- sota, USA, invited by the Volkswa-

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gen Foundation’s project on “Sharia Christians and Muslims in Selected  Rüdiger Seesemann, Professor Debates and their Perception by African Countries”. of Religion, Northwestern University, Christians and Muslims in Selected Evanston, USA, presented a lecture African Countries” to give a series of  Loïc-Michel Perrin, LLACAN, on contemporary developments in lectures on church history in Africa. CNRS Paris, 24 May - 4 June 06, “De Sufism within the framework of the la nature épistémologique des invari- Volkswagen Foundation’s project on  William Mkufya, Dar es Salaam, ants sémantiques et cognitifs: Le “Sharia Debates and their Perception Tanzania, 1/31 May 06, invited by Said cas des marqueurs diggante et ci en by Christians and Muslims in Selected A.M. Khamis. wolof”, invited by Dymitr Ibriszimow. African Countries”.

 Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Duke  Werner Petermann, Munich  Kofi Setordji – artist from Accra, Univ., Durham, North Carolina, 24/27 – Peter Hammer Verlag, 6/7 June 06, Ghana, 4/10 May 06, “Hands of Fate” May 06, “Global Economy, Tansna- “The reality of the imaginary - on the - opening of exhibition and consulta- tionality and Third World Cultural affinity between ethnography and the tion on proposed research project Exodus”, invited by Ulf Vierke and fantastic”, invited by Ulf Vierke and B 7, invited by Ulf Vierke and Tobias Tobias Wendl. Tobias Wendl. Wendl.

 Salikoko Mufwene, Univ. of  Theodor Rauch, FU Berlin, 12/14  Vit Šisler, Arabist and Jurist at Chicago, USA, 5/7 July 06, “Creole May 06, “Complex emergencies: Charles University, Prague, was vernaculars as natural offspring of the search for integrative research invited by the Chair of Islamic Stud- Indo-European languages”, invited approaches”, invited by Detlef Müller- ies to give a lecture on “Islamic Ju- by Monika Sokol and Manfred von Mahn. risprudence in Cyberspace and the Roncador. Contemporary Struggle about the  Susan Reynolds-Whyte, Univ. Interpretative Authority”.  Hassan Juma Ndzovu, Kenyan Copenhagen, DK, 30 March - 1 April PhD student at the University of 06, AEGIS Panel and book project  Luise Steinwachs, Entwick- Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, and “Generations in Africa”, invited by lungsdienst Evang. Kirche Deutsch- programme student of the SFB/FK Erdmute Alber. lands (EED), 10/11 May 06, “Health 560, stayed in Bayreuth for three assurance and self organization in the months to finish his PhD thesis.  Paulette Roulon-Doko, LLA- context of state health policies in East Ndzovu is associated with the Chair CAN, CNRS Paris, 24 May- 4 June 06, Africa”, invited by Angelika Wolf. of Islamic Studies and the Chair of „Les parties du corps et l’expression Religious Studies I. de L’espace“, invited by Dymitr  Alex Stepick, Florida Intern. Ibriszimow. University of Miami, USA, 27 June/1  Chukwema Okoye, Professor of July 06, “Globalization, Identity and Theatre and Media Studies, Univer-  Ibrahim Na’iya Sada, Director Inter-ethnic Relations: The Crucible sity of Ibadan, visited Bayreuth from of the Centre of Islamic Legal Stud- of Miami”, invited by Katrin Hansing. October 2005 to July 2007. ies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, spent four weeks in June  Steffen Strohmenger, Univ. of  Jeff Opland, currently Visit- 2006 at Bayreuth University. As guest Frankfurt/Oder, 2/3 May 06, “The ing Professor in Leipzig, 4/5 July 06, of the Chair of Islamic Studies he art of playing Tuql: considerations on „The newspaper is an empowering presented a series of lectures on Is- love in Egypt”, invited by Ulf Vierke medium of Xhosa literature: the case lamic Law. and Tobias Wendl. of Nontsizi Mgqwetho“, invited by von Roncador.  Antje Schlottmann, Univ. of  Godfrey Tangwa, Head of Jena, 12/14 May 06, „Complex emer- Philosphy Dept., University of  Philip Ostien, Professor at the gencies: the search for integrative Yaoundé, AvHumboldt Fellow, re- Faculty of Law, University of Jos, research approaches“, invited by newal May 2006. Nigeria, has been preparing a series Detlef Müller-Mahn. of publications on the development of  Abdulkader Tayob, Professor of Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria since  Michael Schönhut, Univ. of Trier, Religious Studies, University of Cape 1999, was invited by the Volkswa- 17/18 January 2006. Town, came to Bayreuth 17 to 31 gen Foundation’s project on “Sharia January 2007. His current research Debates and their Perception by is focused on Islam and Public Life in

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Africa. Presently he is working on and métissage which are constitutive an edited volume on this topic. for the relations between the north Tayob gave a public lecture within the and the south, between Europe, framework of SFB/FK 560 on “Mus- Africa, as well as for the Afro-Ameri- lims as Agents of Globalization: Some ca and the Caribbean Islands. reflections on South Africa“. He The exhibition bridges the time of the was invited by the Chair of Religious colonial exploitation and the discove- Studies I. ry of the “art nègre” at the beginning of the 20th century, the Surrealism,  Dorte Thorsten, Nordic the jazz and the negrophilie of inter- Afrikainstitut, Uppsala, Sweden, 21/23 war period, the project of Négritude June 06, “Migration and Identity in which was initiated by Aimé Césaire Africa”, invited by Hans Hahn. and Léopold S. Senghor, the stream of migrants of the 1960s and 1970s and  Sabine Tröger, Univ. of Bonn, the city quarters shaped by them, up 12/14 May 06, “Complex emer- to all those diaspora initiatives, busi- gencies: the search for integrative nesses, publishing houses and agen- research approaches”, invited by town jazz scene and everyday life of cies, thanks to which Paris advanced Detlef Müller-Mahn. farmers and workers in rural areas. to be the undisputed (world) centre of the African fashion, music, art and  Sjaak van der Geest, Univ. of BLACK PARIS literature at the beginning of the 21st Amsterdam, NL, 30 March – 1 April Art and history of a black Dia- century. 06, AEGIS Panel and book project spora Exhibition and catalogue present “Generations in Africa”, invited by the world of ideas and iconogra- Erdmute Alber. 26th October, 2006 - 11th February, phy of Black Paris together with its 2007  Michael van der Meerschen, La Vie Parisienne Namur, Belgium, 4/6 July 06, Histori- Paris, the capital of the former French cal Town Planning in Arabo-Islamic colonial empire, has become, in the Cities, invited by Thomas Schmitt. meantime, even the biggest Afri- can enclave of Europe itself. Possibly  Axel Weber, Asian Development every fifth inhabitant of the 12 milli- Bank, Manila, 5/6 July 06, “Social on people counting Parisian metro- security and financing healthcare in politan area has African, Caribbean Asia and Africa. A comparison of or African-American roots. At the selected examples”, invited by example of Paris can be illustrated - Angelika Wolf and Peter Hahn. spatially and temporally consolidated and at the same time polyphonically commentated - all those cultural and Exhibitions artistic processes of the interaction protagonists, myths and legends as an Vincent Michea Jürgen Schadeberg: The Black imaginary scenery. The form of the Fifties in South Africa and Voic- collage was chosen and incorporates es from the Land historical-documentary pictures, text and film series as well as exclusive po- Jürgen Schadeberg was one of the few sitions of modern and contempora- South African photographers who ry artists, which unfold the topics of documented black life in the 1950ies, black city, black identity, migration, capturing on film the rise of the free- métissage and diaspora with particu- dom movement, apartheid repression lar stringency and urgency. and the vibrancy of township life and Discovered was a heterogeneous and culture. The exhibition shows about contested city, a city in flow which 100 photographs portraying South becomes again and again the stage African personalities,the Sophia- for the most different identity and art

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concepts. The period of 1906 to 2005 supplies the historical framework: from the birthday of Josephine Ba- ker and Léopold Senghors up to the burning suburbs of last autumn.

Participating Artists: Joël Andrianomearisoa, Kader Attia, Bill Akwa Bétotè, Sylvie Blocher / Campement Urbain, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Diagne Chanel, Jota Castro, Paul Colin, Darryl Evans, Samuel Fosso, Friederike Klotz, Wifredo Lam, Christian Lattier, Michèle Magema, Ernest Mancoba und Sonja Ferlov, Héctor Mediavilla, Vincent Michéa, Hassan Musa, Iba Ndiaye, Emeka Okereke, Man Ray, Jean Lambert-Rucki, Chéri Samba, Karola Schlegelmilch, Ransome Stanley, Barthélémy Toguo, Patrice Félix Tchicaya, Emeka Udemba, Kamel Yahiaoui and November, 2007, Museum of World Patrice Félix Tchicaya others. Cultures, Frankfurt am Main Decem- ber, 2007 to February, 2008, Musée des I am suffering from problems that The show was curated by Kerstin Arts Derniers, Paris. Catalogue book of bring me down • Babukheti, I am Pinther in collaboration with Sigrid the same name, 432 pages with nume- telling you • Beat your wings, don’t Horsch-Albert, Hanna Kiefer and rous pictures and colour board part. stop • Don’t prevent (your wings from Hélène Léray, following the idea and Peter Hammer publishing company, beating) • Fly once more without concept of Tobias Wendl and Bettina Wuppertal. pausing • So that you may reach there • von Lintig, and promoted by Kultur- My heart is brought down by depressi- stiftung des Bundes in Halle. Exhibi- Bringing the exhibition “Muha- on • When I am far away from Lamu tion tour: 26th October, 2006 - 11th madi Kijuma” to Lamu February, 2007, Iwalewa house, by Clarissa Vierke This is a stanza taken from a famous Bayreuth 16th March, 2007 - 4th poem composed by Muhamad bin After the success of the biographic Abubakr bin Omar al-Bakari who was Barthelemy Toguo exhibition “Muhamadi Kijuma” which commonly called Muhamadi Kijuma. was on display in Iwalewa-House from He probably composed the poem 26th May till 3rd of September 2006 while he was serving the Zanzibarian (cf. NAB, Vol. VII/I Spring 2006) the Sultan as palace musician at the be- exhibition has now become perma- ginning of the 20th century lamenting nently installed in the Lamu Museum. about being far away from his home, The two curators, Clarissa Vierke and Lamu, where he was born in around Gudrun Miehe took the exhibition to 1870 and where he also died in 1945. Lamu, where it was officially opened Like other poems written by the mas- on 18th November 2006. ter poet and musician Kijuma it is still remembered and sung even though “Nina mambo yaniveme • Babukheti not everyone knows about the con- hukwambiaKupija mbawa sikome • nection with Muhamadi Kijuma on Wata kuziziwiliaEnda tena sisimame • Lamu today. Muhamadi Kijuma, who Upate kusikiliaMoyo utwetwe udhia • had been known far beyond the con- Kuwa ni mbali na Amu” fines of Lamu for his artistry in many fields, partly fell into oblivion after

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of the researchers who had come to genius, sometimes a “enfant terrible” Lamu before the Second World War or a victim of Western imperialism to do research on old Swahili poetry and missionary efforts. Especially and who benefited from Muhamadi Kijuma’s ambiguous religious affiliati- Kijuma’s immense knowledge con- on as Christian or Muslim has always cerning old Swahili written in Arabic been a matter of discussion. Even script. Through his contribution to today the lively discussions which took the preservation and interpretation place during a workshop organised by of old Swahili poetry Kijuma gained a the National Museums of Kenya to lasting fame in Western academia as accompany the opening of the exhi- well his name, so abundant in Swahi- bition on Lamu on Muhamadi Kijuma li manuscript collections in Europe, showed how different and virulent the

Kijuma in 1936 is commonly given as a reference in conceptions of Muhamadi Kijuma still the major publications of that time; are. The workshop was an interesting his death, merely surviving as a sub- several articles and a PhD thesis have platform on which ideas were very ject of academic research. However, been written on him profiting from actively and productively exchanged, a biographic exhibition on Muhamadi the many traces that he has left. Con- as apart from Gudrun Miehe and Kijuma has recently inspired a revival versant in more than one culture, Clarissa Vierke it was attended by of the interest in Kijuma in academic trained in various colonial settings as people with different backgrounds, as well as in non-academic spheres. well as in the “traditional” institutions from Lamu (some old wazee even The 6th Lamu Cultural Festival of education and knowledge transfer remembered Kijuma), the National 2006 (17th –19th November 2006), in Lamu society, Kijuma can be regar- Museums of Kenya and the Universi- the biggest cultural festival in Kenya ded as a “cultural broker” who “trans- ty of Nairobi who all brought in their where Lamu’s traditions and culture lated” poetry and its surrounding particular perspectives on Muhamadi are celebrated in a colourful mixture culture and made it understandable to Kijuma. At the end, everyone was en- of concerts, competitions and displays, the Westerners who came to Lamu, thusiastic about this exchange of ideas put Muhamadi Kijuma, praised in their the centre of classical Swahili poetry, accompanying the “bringing home of brochure as the “Lamuian Socrates”, to do research and to preserve what Muhamadi Kijuma”, as the opening of thematically to the fore making the they felt to be threatened. the exhibition and the handing over opening of the exhibition on Muha- However, Kijuma’s multifaceted of the lute, the centrepiece of the madi Kijuma the climax of the festival. personality and his liminal life oscil- exhibition was gratefully regarded. The exhibition which throws light on lating between different worlds has The symbolic dimension of the han- different aspects of Kijuma’s turbulent ever since stimulated a lot of deba- ding over of the lute had not been an- life and work was officially opened by tes and different views on Kijuma, ticipated by Gudrun Miehe who had the Kenyan Minister of Cultural He- who is sometimes considered to be a merely considered the Lamu Museum ritage, Suleiman Shakombo, who de- to be the most appropriate place for

clared to put Kijuma on the list of the Kijuma playing the kib the objects also following the will of Cultural Heroes of Kenya. her teacher Ernst Dammann who had Interestingly, the exhibition had been valued them as presents of his late fri- curated and brought to Kenya by a end Kijuma. In a fruitful co-operation German delegation of Africanists with the National Museums of Kenya from Bayreuth University, Claris- and the German Embassy in Nairobi sa Vierke and Gudrun Miehe (Chair which supported the exhibition pro- Afrikanistik I) who were overwhel- ject, Gudrun Miehe renewed the ties med by surprise given the furore the with Lamu building on a tradition of exhibition caused. The idea to do an exchange and research that she feels exhibition and to take it to Kenya was connected to – personally and as a born when Gudrun Miehe inherited researcher of old Swahili literature. inter alia a lute and a box of writing Together with Ahmed Sheikh Na- utensils carved by Muhamadi Kijuma bahany who had also been involved who once gave them as personal pre- in the exhibition project and with sents to the German Africanist Ernst Clarissa Vierke, she currently works Dammann as a sign of his friendship on an edition of manuscripts, mostly and appreciation. Dammann was one poetry, written by Muhamadi Kijuma.

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focus emerges. Obtrusive Afro- pessimistic representations of starva- tion, misery and war request to ask for the opposite. But where is this re- presented in African photography? To avoid being trapped in our own Wes- tern preconceptions the group deci- des to invite the artist to make their own subjective selection. An astonis- hing intensive dialogue between the group in Bayreuth and eight artists in Addis Ababa, Johannesburg, Luanda,

Isla Maputo, New York, Paris and Stock- Niger at eye level holm developed, which resulted is a “Aus_Sicht Afrika” multi facetted view on contemporary occurring regularly. And we were in- Results of a Seminar at the University Africa full of strength, joy, serenity terested in how the population sees of Bayreuth and sometimes surprising insights. their own condition of living. Participating Artists: During the six months of our intern- The exhibition title reflects both the Michael Tsegaye, Emeka Okereke, ships in different institutions and or- view from inside Africa as well as Fatimah Tuggar, Sérgio Santimano, ganisations from 2005 to 2006 we Africa’s potential for visions. Six Afri- Joel Chiziane, Sergio Alfonso had the opportunity to work together can photographers chose works from Curating team: with four NGOs and got the support their portfolio, which reflect their Maike Birzle, Sarah Böllinger, of UNICEF. After some lead time, view of the continent’s positive side. Julia Braune, Andrea Cordes, searching for financial and general There is a wide range of perspectives: Ludgera Ewers, Ira Hartmann, support, we started to work with the from black and white photo series Elisabeth Häuser, Therese Hertel, children. Through the local project over documentary to photomonta- Franziska Lukas, assistances, the only instruction we ges. The exhibition shows different Christoph Schneider, Leni Senger, gave to the children was, how to use works from Angola, Ethiopia, Mozam- Nadine Siegert, Benjamin Tremmel, the camera with the flash light. Waifs bique and Nigeria compassing the last Ulf Vierke, Anne-Kathrin Wilde and strays and handicapped children in 30 years. the capital town Niamey, and children During the winter term 2006/07 “Niger at eye level” living in the villages around Tahoua Bayreuth’s students of “Applied Afri- A photo-project by students from the took pictures of their environment, can Studies” took part in a seminar University of Bayreuth, studying BA which they wanted to show to other on the topic “Photography in Africa”. Applied African Studies people. Maybe just because of this A group of ten students and two lec- by Kristin Menzel amateurishness, the pictures impres- turers starts to work on developing sively overcome the common filter of an exhibition. After the first enthusi- What happens if you distribute 67 sin- exoticism and show a differentiated asm a problematic confrontation on gle-use cameras to children and youth reality, which is also characterized by finding consensus on the thematic in a country like Niger? The results dreariness and routine. are exceptional pictures which give Joel Chiziane us an unusual insight into the world of Niger at eye level children, the most innocent members of a society. Niger is on the last positi- on of the United Nation’s Human De- velopment index. But do those num- bers show us how it really is in West Africa, in a country like Niger? In the end of 2005 the western me- dia showed everything about the “ca- tastrophe” caused by drought and locusts and about the starving child- ren of Niger’s dry regions. The bitter truth is that drought and famine are

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 Asonzeh, Ukah Publications 2006 Los Expertos en religion Y La Produccion de Un Conocimiento (Religioso) Translocal: El Casa De  Alber, Erdmute & Astrid Bochow La Iglesia Critiana Redimida De Dios 2006 Familienwandel in Afrika – Ein (RCCG); in: Nigeriaö: Antipoda, 2, Forschungsüberblick; in: Paideuma, 179-207. 52, 227-250. 2006 Branding God: Advertising and  Alber, Erdmute & Tabea Häberlein the Pentecostal Industry in Nigeria; 2006 Kultur und Identität; in: in: LIWURAM: Journal of the Human- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung ities, vol. 13, 163-197. (ed.): Afrika verstehen lernen. Unter- richtsmaterialien für Schüler.  Bauer, Kerstin 2007 Kleidung und Kleidungsprak-  Alber, Erdmute tiken im Norden der Côte d`Ivoire. 2006 Drahtseilakt; in: Palmer, Geschichte und Dynamiken des G. (ed.): Mutterkonzepte. Figura- Wandels, Ende 19. Jahrhundert bis tionen. Gender Literatur Kultur, 1/06, Anfang 21. Jahrhundert; Hamburg, 2006 Léopold Sédar Senghor und 60-72. Münster: LIT Verlag. der afrikanische Aufbruch im 20. Jahrhundert; in: Spektrum Bayreuth,  2005 Drahtseilakt? ein Plädoyer Berner, Ulrich pp 48-49. für ein Leben auf vielen Füßen; in: 2006 Erwählungsglaube und Ras- Biller-Andorno, N. et al. (eds.): Kar- sismus. Das Alte Testament und die 2005 Theatre in Uganda; in: Mar- riere und Kind. Erfahrungsberichte Entstehung der Apartheid-Ideologie; tin Banham (ed.): History of African von Wissenschaftlerinnen; Frankfurt in: Kügler, J. (ed.): Prekäre Zeitgenos- Theatre; Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- & New York: Campus Verlag, 41-50. senschaft. Mit dem Alten Testament versity Press, pp 247 – 264. in den Konflikten der Zeit. Interna-   Adogame, Afe & Cordula tionales Bibel-Symposium Graz 2004; Breitinger, Eckhard (ed.) Weißköppel (eds.) Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 134-149. 2005 Emelda Ngufor Samba: Wo- 2005 Religion in the Context of Afri- men in Theatre for Development; can Migration; Bayreuth: BASS 75. 2005 Mission and Migration in the Bayreuth: BASS 74, pp 249. Roman Empire; in: Adogame, A. & C. Weissköppl (eds.): Religion in 2004 Georgina Beier: They Keep the Context of African Migration; Their Fires Burning; Bayreuth: Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies BASS 72, pp185. 75, 43-56. 2004 Katrin Berndt: Female Iden-  Breitinger, Eckhard tity in Contemporary Zimbabwean 2007 Postcolonial Theatre; in: Snell, Fiction; Bayreuth: BASS 73, pp 307. M. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Modern Drama; Indiana University. Pennsylva-  Dittemer, Clarissa, Dymitr Ibriszi- nia, pp 4. mow & Karsten Brunk 2004 Les pronoms en tchadique: vue 2007 Avantgarde Theatre; in: d’ensemble; in: Ibriszimow, D. & G. Snell, M. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Segerer (eds.): Systèmes de marques Modern Drama; Indiana University. personnelles en Afrique; Louvain & Pennsylvania, pp 8. Paris: Peeters, Afrique et Langage 8, 55-96. 2006 Wole Soyinka: Death and the King’s Horseman; in: Anjali Gera Roy  Dobler, Gregor & Ulf Vierke (ed.): Wole Soyinka An Anthology of 2006 Kauris, Schwerter, Schweizer Recent Criticism; Dehli: Pencraft In- Franken. Gedanken zu allerlei For- ternational, pp 85-99. men des Geldes; in: Weber, H.-J.

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(ed.): Fremder Leute Geld – Other  Elders, Stefan 2006 Sida dans la cité – TV-Formate Peoples‘ Money – L‘argent des Autres. 2006 Le chef comme morphème: les in der Wissensvermittlung über Aids München: Flade & Hauch, pp. 110-119. noms complexes en possesseur de in Burkina Faso und Côte d’Ivoire; et chef en kulango; in: Winkelmann, in: Drescher, M. & S. Kläger (eds.):  Dorsch, Hauke & Marko Scholze K. & D. Ibriszimow (eds.): Zwischen Kommunikation über HIV/Aids. Inter- 2005 Erfahrungen mit beweglichen Bantu und Burkina. Festschrift für disziplinäre Beiträge zur Prävention Zielen – Anmerkungen zur Ethno- Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag; im subsaharischen Afrika; Beiträge graphie unter Bedingungen der Köln: Köppe, 59-78. zur Afrika-Forschung 27; Münster: Globalisierung; in: Sociologus, 55, 2, LIT, 185-200. 143-179. 2006 Issues in comparative Kebi- Benue (Adamawa); in: Africana 2005 Otomo, der Stadtfeind – Chron-  Dorsch, Hauke Linguistica, XII, 37-88. ik einer Duldung; in: Mont Cameroun, 2006 Globale Griots – Performanz in 2, 109-124. der afrikanischen Diaspora; Hamburg,  Münster: LIT Verlag. Fendler, Ute & Susanne Greilich 2005 Cinémas mineurs’ und die 2006 Afrika in deutschen und Ästhetik der Langsamkeit: Abder- 2006 Griots in der Manding-Provinz französischen Enzyklopädien des 18. rahmane Sissakos Filme; in: Fendler, Paris; in: Wendl, T., K. Pinther & B. Jahrhunderts; in: Lüsebrink, H.-J. U. & M. Gilzmer (eds.): Grenzenlos; von Lintig (eds.): Black Paris – Kunst (ed.): Das Europa der Aufklärung und Aachen: Shaker, 167-179. und Geschichte einer schwarzen die außereuropäische koloniale Welt; Diaspora; Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Göttingen: Wallstein, 113-137.  Hahn, Hans Peter Verlag, 338-349. 2006 Sachbesitz, Individuum und  Fendler, Ute & Mechtild Gilzmer Gruppe - eine ethnologische 2006 Vor der Forschung ist schon (eds.) Perspektive; in: Burmeister, S. & Forschung – Zum Entstehen eines 2005 Grenzenlos; Aachen: Shaker. N. Müller-Scheeßel (eds.): Soziale transnationalen familiären Forsch- Gruppen - kulturelle Grenzen. Zur  ungsfeldes und zur ethnografischen Fendler, Ute & Christoph Vatter Interpretation sozialer Identitäten; Passivität; in: EthnoScripts, 8, 2, 2004 Afrika – immer noch der dunkle Münster: Waxmann, S. 59-80. 82-99. Kontinent? Wege zu einer inter- kulturellen Afrika-Kompetenz; in: 2006 Die Sprache der Dinge und 2005 Cosmopolitans, diasporists, and SIETAR Journal N° 2, 6-10. Gegenstände des Alltags; in: Sociolo- griots – the role of diasporic elites; in: gia Internationalis 44, 1-19. Weißköppel, C. & A. Adogame (eds.): 2004 Cinéma africain et enseignement Religion in the Context of African interculturel; in: Enseignement du  Hansing, Katrin & Hauke Dorsch Migration Studies; Bayreuth African cinéma et de l’audiovisuel: état des 2006 Viel mehr als Ches Suaheli- Studies Series Vol. 75, S. 56-77. lieux et perspectives. Questions de Übersetzer - Abschied von Freddy Communication ; N°2, 215-228.  Drescher, Martina & Sabine Klaeger (eds.)  Fendler, Ute & Monika Wehrheim 2006 Kommunikation über HIV/ (eds.) Aids. Interdiszipinäre Beiträge zur 2007 Entdeckung, Eroberung, Prävention im subsaharischen Afrika; Inszenierung. Lateinamerika und Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 27, Afrika in Text und Film; München: Münster: LIT Verlag. Meidenbauer.

 Eisenhofer, Stefan & Ulf Vierke  Fendler, Ute 2006 Anderer Leute Geld – 2006 Polars antillais et africains: des Einführung; in: Weber, H.-J. (ed.): enquêtes policières sous le signe de Fremder Leute Geld – Other Peoples‘ l’humour et de la sociocritique; in: Money – L‘argent des Autres; München: L’humour et le rire dans les littéra- Flade & Hauch, pp. 10-11. tures francophones des Amériques. Revue Itinéraires et Contacts de Cul- ture; Paris: L’Harmattan, 61-78.

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Ilanga Ilunga Yatii; in: Ila, 292, 63-64.  Ibriszimow, Dymitr & Guillaume Segerer (eds.) 2005 45 Jahre Süd-Süd-Solidarität? 2004 Systèmes de marques person- Cubanische Mediziner in Afrika, nelles en Afrique; Louvain & Paris: afrikanische Studenten in Cuba; in: Ila, Peeters, Afrique et Langage 8, 216 p. 291, 10-13.  Ibriszimow Dymitr & Balarabe  Hansing, Katrin Zulyadaini 2006 Cuba‘s international develop- 2006 “… who in this land is the ment assistance: a model for the fairest of all?”. Make-up and good Non-Aligned Movement? in: Focal appearance in Hausa – a cognitive Point, 7, 2-4. semantic approach; in: Winkelmann, K. & D. Ibriszimow (eds.): Zwischen 2006 Ernesto Ilunga Ilanga Yatii; in: Bantu und Burkina. Festschrift für African Renaissance, 2, 120-123. Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag; Köln: Köppe, 95-110.  Ibriszimow, Dymitr & Maarten Kossmann (eds.)  Ibriszimow, Dymitr, Rainer Vossen 2005 Werner Vycichl. Berber- & Harry Stroomer (eds.)  Khamis, Said A.M. studien & A Sketch of Siwi Berber; 2006 Ètudes berbères III. Le nom, le 2006 Uhuru wa Watumwa de James Köln: Köppe, Berber Studies 10, pronom et autres articles; Actes du Mbotela (kiswahili, 1934): un premier XXXVI + 258 p. „3. Bayreuth-Frankfurter Kolloquium roman politiquement trop correct; zur Berberologie“, 1-3 juillet 2004; in: Garnier, X. & R. Richard: Itinérai-  Ibriszimow, Dymitr & Victor Köln: Köppe, Berber Studies 14, p. res et Contacts de Cultures Vol. 38: Porkhomovsky 286. L’effet roman Arrivée du roman das 2006 Towards a typology of kinship les langues d’Afrique; Paris: Éditions terms and systems in Afro-Asiatic  Ibriszimow, Dymitr L’Harmattan, 127-138. (Hamito-Semitic): AAKTS III. Tuareg 2006 On the verb in Ngamo; in: Berber; in: Ibriszimow, D., R. Voßen Ibriszimow, D. (ed.): Topics in 2006 From Written through Oral & H. Stroomer (eds.): Ètudes ber- Chadic Linguistics II. Papers from the 2nd to Mediated Oral: Implications of bères III. Le nom, le pronom et autres Biennial International Colloquium these Shifts to the Music Com- articles. Actes du „3. Bayreuth-Frank- on the Chadic Languages, Prague, plex; in: Versions and Subversions in furter Kolloquium zur Berberologie“, October 11-12, 2003; Köln: Köppe, African Literature – Interfaces 1-3 juillet 2004; Köln: Köppe, Berber Chadic Linguistics 3, 35-47. Between the Written and the Oral/ Studies 14, 117-130. Interfaces entre l’écrit et l’oral, 2006 (ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguis- 2, Humboldt Contributions, 2; 2005 Towards a Typology of tics II. Papers from the 2nd Biennial Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. Kinship Terms and Systems in Afro- International Colloquium on the Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) – AAKTS II; Chadic Languages, Prague, October 2005 The Setting as the Unsaid in in: Mengozzi, A. (ed.): Studi Afroasi- 11-12, 2003; Köln: Köppe, Chadic Gurnah’s Paradise; in: Kihore, Y.M. atici. XI Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Linguistics 3, p. 154. (ed.): Kiswahili: the Journal of the Camitosemitica; Milano: FrancoAnge- Institute of Kiswahili Research, 67, li, 15-28.  Khamis, Said A.M. & Farouk Topan 17-24. 2006 The Female Body in Swahili 2005 Etudes ethnolinguistiques Poetry: Selection from Liyongo; 2005 Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa en chamito-sémitique: termes et Mwana Kupona Biti Sham and Kiswahili Mwanzo Hadi Leo: systèmes de parenté; in: Lonnet, A. Shaaban Robert; in: Winkelmann, K. Mafanikio na Mashindikano; in: & A. Mettouchi (eds.): Les langues & D. Ibriszimow (eds.): Zwischen Ban- Kiswahili: the Journal of the Institute chamito-sémitiques (afro-asiatiques), tu und Burkina: Festschrift für Gud- of Kiswahili Research, 68, Special vol. I; Paris: Ophrys, Faits de langues run Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag; Köln: Issue for the Jubilee Anniversary of 26, 269-290. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 125-134. the Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar-es-salaam, 128-142.

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 Klute, Georg 2006 The Mune-Symbol as the Ark of Diaspora; in: Alt, H. (ed): VUNW 2006 Le continent noir. Le savoir the Covenant between Duguwa and (Virtualität und neue Wissensstruk- des Africains sur l’Europe et les Sefuwa in ancient Kanem; in: Borno turen) - Innovationen und Reproduk- Européens dans le récrit de voyage de Museum Newsletter, 66-67, 15-25. tionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften Heinrich Barth; in: Diawara, M., P.F. (IRICS), TRANS Vol 6. de Moraes Farias & G. Spittler (eds.): 2006 Das Überleben der kanaanñisch- Heinrich Barth et l’Afrique; Köln : en Kultur in Schwarzafrika: Totenkult- 2006 Cameroun / Cameroon - Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 159 -171. bünde bei den Yoruba und in Ugarit; Les arts du Cameroun / Arts of in: Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Cameroon; Paris: Dulon. 2006 La >poesie de la révolte< sur Religioni, 72, 2, 303-345. cassette audio; in: Ibrizimow, D., R.  Macamo, Elísio Vossen, & H. Strommer (éds.): Études 2005 Die Egungun bei den Yoruba 2006 The hidden side of modernity in berbères III. Le nom, le pronom et und in Ugarit (Syrien). Ein Beitrag Africa – Domesticating savage lives; autres articles. Actes du 3. Bayreuth- der Ethnologie zur Altorientalistik; in: Costa,S., J.M. Domingues, W. Frankfurter Kolloquium zur Berbe- in: Geisenhainer, K.& K. Lange (eds.): Knöbl & J. P. Da Silva (eds.): rologie, 1-3 juillet 2004; Köln: Köppe, Bewegliche Horizonte. Festschrift The Plurality of Modernity: De- 153-166. für Bernhard Streck; Leipzig: centring Sociology; München: Universitätsverlag, 265-282. Rainer Hampp Verlag, 161-178. 2006 „Flucht zum eigenen Zelt. Sahara- Nomaden als Spezialisten der Flucht“;  Lintig, Bettina von & Tobias Wendl 2006 Die Postkolonie und die in: Inhetveen, Katharina (ed.): Flucht als 2006 Das schwarze Paris - Geschichte, Zähmung des Schicksals in Afri- Politik. Berichte von fünf Kontinenten; Kunst, Mythos; in: Black Paris - Kunst ka; in: Febel, G., A. Hamilton, M. Köln: Köppe: 63-80. und Geschichte einer schwarzen Di- Blumberg, H. de Souza & C. Sandten aspora; Wuppertal: Peter Hammer (eds.): Zwischen Kontakt und Konflikt  Klute, Georg, Birgit Embaló & Idrissa Verlag, S. 15 – 35. – Perspektiven der Postkolonialismus- Embaló Forschung: 91-100. 2006 Local Strategies of Conflict  Lintig, Bettina von, Tobias Wendel Resolution in Guinea-Bissau. A Project & Kerstin von Pinther (eds.) 2006: Da dignidade humana: A lógica Proposal in Legal Anthropology; in: 2006 Black Paris - Kunst und da história social de Moçambique; Recht in Afrika 2, 253-272. Geschichte einer schwarzen Diaspora; in: Bussotti, L. & S. Ngoenha (eds.): Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag. Il postcolonialismo nell’Africa luso-  Klute, Georg & Alexander Solyga fona – Il Mozambico contemporaneo; 2006 Borut Brumen 1963-2005; in:  Lintig, Bettina von Torino: L’Harmattan Italia, 107-132. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 131, 163- 2006 BLACK PARIS - über Kunst aus 165. Afrika und afrikanische Kunst in der 2006 Accounting for Disaster – Memories of war in Mozambique; in:  Kogelmann, Franz Afrika Spectrum, Vol.41, Special Issue: 2006 The Sharia Factor in Nigeria‘s Memory cultures, 199-219. 2003 Elections; in: Soares, B. F. (ed.): Muslim-Christian Encounters in 2006 Um País cheio de soluções; Africa; Leiden et al.: Brill, 256-274. Maputo: Edições Meianoite.

2006 Vom Kalifen Umar zu awqaf. 2006 Trepar o País pelos ramos; org; in: Stiftung & Sponsoring. Das Maputo: Editora Ndjira. Magazin für Non-Profit-Management und –Marketing, 9 (5), 28-29.  Miehe, Gudrun & Kerstin Winkel- mann (eds.)  Lange, Dierk 2007 Noun Class Systems in Gur 2006 Zwischen Wüste und Regen- Languages. Vol. I. Southwestern Gur wald: Staatengründungen südlich der languages (without Gurunsi); Köln: Sahara; in: Hogen, H. (ed.): Brockhaus Köppe. Bibliothek Weltgeschichte, Sonder- ausgabe ZEIT-Weltgeschichte, Bd. 9; 114-138.

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 Miehe, Gudrun (eds.): Zwischen Bantu und Burkina. deutsche Kolonialismus; Münster: 2006 Quelques réflexions sur la Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Unrast-Verlag, 101-108. dérivation trans-catégorielle en gur; Geburtstag; Köln: Köppe, 181-190. in: Gur Papers / Cahiers Voltaïques 7,  Verne, Markus 28-34.  Rothmaler, Eva 2007 Der Mangel an Mitteln. Kon- 2006 The Structure of Place Names sum, Kultur und Knappheit in einem 2006 La dérivation trans-catégorielle in Borno (Northern Nigeria); in: Hausadorf in Niger; Bayreuther Bei- en kaansa et en cerma; in: Gur Papers Abu-Manga, Al-Amin, L. Gilley, & träge zur Afrikaforschung; Münster: / Cahiers Voltaïques 7, 70-76. A. Storch (eds.): Insights into Nilo- Lit. Saharan Language, History and  Müller-Mahn, Detlef & Montasser Culture. Proceedings of the 9th  Vierke, Ulf Abdelghani Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium 2007 Photography: Photojournalism; 2006 Urbanisierung in Ägypten; in: University of Khartoum, 16-19 Febru- in: Middelton, J. & J.C. Miller (eds.): Geographische Rundschau 58, H. 11, ary 2004; Köln: Köppe, 363-376. New Encyclopedia of Africa; Detroit: 12-20. Charles Scribner‘s Sons. 2005 One Place – two Names:  Müller-Mahn, Detlef Examples from Borno; in: Baroin, C., G. 2006 Die Spur der Glasperlen. 2006 Die Auflösung von Norden und Seidensticker-Brikay & K. Tijani Akteure, Strukturen und Wandel im Süden: geographische Aspekte der (eds.): Man and the Lake. Proceedings europäisch-ostafrikanischen Han- Entwicklungsdebatte; in: Gebhardt of the 12th Mega Chad Conference, del mit Glasperlen Bayreuth African et al. (ed.): Geographie; Heidelberg: Maiduguri 2003; Maiduguri: 155-168. Studies Online, Vol VI; Bayreuth: IAS. Spektrum Verlag. (URL: http://opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/  Schmitt, Thomas volltexte/2006/240/pdf/vierke1.pdf). 2006 Der Suezkanal – Brennpunkt 2005 Jemaa el Fna Square in der Geopolitik; in: Geographische Marrakech changes to asocial space 2006 Sankofa – Adinkra Symbols Rundschau 58, H. 11, 4-11. and to a UNESCO Masterpiece of in the Work of Owusu-Ankomah; the Oral and Intangible Heritage of in: Melchers, J. (ed.): Traces of the 2006 Dokumentation Islamischer Humanity as a result of global Future. Paintings / Peintures 1990 Orient; in: Geographische Rundschau influences; in: The Arab World; – 2006; Herzogenrath: Artco, 81-91. 58, H. 11, 45-47. Geographer (8) 4/2005, 173-195.  Wanitzek, Ulrike & Bart Rwezaura 2006 Wasserkonflikte im Nahen 2005 Die UNESCO und der Platz 2006 The Constitutionalization of Osten – eine Machtfrage; in: Geogra- Jemaa el Fna in Marrakech. Zur Family Law in Tanzania; in: Bainham, phische Rundschau 58, H. 2, 40-48. Genese eines Konzepts zum glo- A. (gen. ed.): The International Sur- balen Schutz immateriellen Erbes der vey of Family Law 2006 Edition. Pub-  Nédellec, Brigitte Menschheit; in: Geographische lished on Behalf of the International 2006 L’expression de la qualification Zeitschrift (93) 4/2005, 237-253. Society of Family Law; Bristol: Jordan, en naténi; Köln: Köppe. 445-467.  Sippel, Harald  Polak, Rainer 2006 Koloniale Verwaltungsmethoden  Weißköppel, Cordula 2007 Performing Audience: On im Vergleich: die „Eingeborenenver- 2006 Gemischte Gefühle. Prekäre the Social Constitution of Focused waltung“ in Deutsch-Ostafrika und Dynamiken in der Forschung mit poli- Interaction at Celebrations in Mali; in: Deutsch-Südwestafrika; in: Durand, tischen Flüchtlingen; in: ethnoscripts; Anthropos 102.2007/1: 3-18. B. (ed.): Kolonialverwaltung in Afrika Hamburg: Institut für Ethnologie, 8/2, zwischen zentraler Politik und lokaler 124-144.  Roncador, Manfred von Realität, Jahrbuch für Europäische 2006 Logophoric pronouns; in: Brown, Verwaltungsgeschichte; Vol. 18; 2005 Kreuz und quer. Zur Theo- K. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Baden-Baden: Nomos, 295-314. rie und Praxis der „multi-sited- Linguistics, 2nd Ed.; Oxford: Elsevier, ethnography“; in: Zeitschrift für vol 7, 312-315. 2005 Die Reichstags-Kommission Ethnologie, 130, 45-68. zur Erforschung des Eingeborenen- 2006 Introducing reactive turns in rechts; in: van der Heyden, U. & J. 2005 Transnationale Qualitäten thematic oriented Moore interviews; Zeller (eds.): Macht und Anteil an der in Netzwerken von Sudanesen in in: Winkelmann, K. & D. Ibriszimow Weltherrschaft. Berlin und der Deutschland; in: Nord-Süd aktuell, 1,

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AIDS. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu tremely broad range of topics. The list Prävention im subsaharischen Afrika, of African languages he studied during Münster: Lit, 117-154. and after this time is very long. It cov- ers all the language phyla in Africa, with 2006 Verändert Aids die soziale the exception of Khoisan, in the form Konzeption des Kindes in Afrika? of articles and monographs, whether in: Eckart, Wolfgang U. & Elsbeth long or short. He was a meticulous

 Stefan Leonard Elders Kneuper (eds.): Zur sozialen Konz- and self-critical scholar, spending eption des Kindes. Forschungen und much time revising otherwise finished 34-44. Perspektiven verschiedener Wis- manuscripts before he was satisfied. senschaft, Herbolzeim: Centaurus, The most outstanding example is his  Winkelmann Kerstin & Dymitr 135-153. Leiden Ph.D. thesis on an Adamawa Ibriszimow (eds.) language spoken in Cameroun, which 2006 Zwischen Bantu und Burkina; 2005 Die widerstandfähigen Waisen. was published in 2000 under the title Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Zur Entstehung von Kinderhaushalten ‚Grammaire mundang‘ and which is Geburtstag; Köln: Köppe, 273 p. in Malawi; in: der Überblick 2005 (2), today considered as one of the best Themenheft AIDS mitten im Leben: studies in this language family.  Winkelmann, Kerstin & Manfred 16-18. At the beginning of 2000, Stefan El- von Roncador (eds.) ders joined the working group ‚Study 2006 Gur Papers / Cahiers Voltaïques of the Gur Languages (West Africa)‘ 7. Actes du Troisième Colloque inter- In Memoriam attached to the Chair of African Lan- national sur les langues gur, 12 au 14 guages (Afrikanistik I) at Bayreuth octobre 2005; Bayreuth.  Stefan Leonard Elders University, and devoted himself to 24.9.1965 - 19.2.2007 Kulango, a language spoken in the Ivo-  Winkelmann, Kerstin ry Coast about which very little was 2006 L’agent en retraite? Le rôle de Shortly before completing several known. He was able to continue this l’aspect dans la dérivation déverbale months of fieldwork in Mali, Stefan work up to the end of 2005 within en cefo; in: Gur Papers / Cahiers Elders succombed to a short but se- another project, also financed by the Voltaïques 7, 95-99. vere illness, due to a tropical intes- German Research Council (DFG). tinal infection. He had set out with In between he was invited to spend 2006 Nicht Tun – Nichts tun – a donkey cart as usual for a remote some time at La Trobe University in Nichttun. Zur Negation im Viemo; Dogon village, where he wanted to Melbourne (Australia), which enjoys in: Winkelmann, K. & D. Ibriszimow spend one more week collecting data a high reputation among general lin- (eds.): Zwischen Bantu und Burkina. on the local language, which he had guists. Before his death, Stefan Elders Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. been studying under extremely dif- was able to write up the results of his Geburtstag; Köln: Köppe, 265-273. ficult conditions since September research work in Bayreuth in the form 2006. Notwithstanding all the mate- of a substantial monograph on Kulan-  Wolf, Angelika, Stefan Ecks & rial hardships, he was driven by the go and to submit it to the printers. It Johannes Sommerfeld same passion and intellectual curios- is expected to be published this year 2005 Histoire et développement ity that had characterized his previous under the title ‚Grammaire kulango de l‘anthropologie médicale en fieldwork in Africa, and only a week (parler de Bouna, Côte d‘Ivoire)‘. Allemagne; in: Saillant, Francine & before he had written an enthusiastic In Stefan Elders, African Linguistics Serge Genest et. al: Anthropolo- e-mail commenting on some unusual has lost one of the younger genera- gie médicale. Ancrages locaux, défis features of this language. His work tion‘s most distinguished and enthusi- globaux. Saint-Nicolas: Les Presses de was part of an American research astic scholars. He was so fascinated by l‘université Laval, 233-260. programme, led by Jeffrey Heath, that the world of African languages that he has the aim of making a systematic re- devoted his whole energy to it, and  Wolf, Angelika cord of the Dogon languages, about it became his great passion. We will 2006 Das, was kommt, schlägt which too little is known. Stefan El- miss him for his fine, quiet sense of nicht die Trommel. Botschaften von ders was particularly well qualified to humour, his integrity, and his scholarly Aufklärungsplakaten der postko- undertake this task. work, which reflects his rich linguistic lonialen Wendezeit in Malawi; in: For his degree in comparative linguis- knowledge and his great experience Drescher, Martina & Sabine Kläger tics and African languages (Afrikaanse of African languages. (eds.): Kommunikation über HIV/ Taalkunde) in Leiden he chose an ex-

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Calendar

 April

12-14 Tuesday to Saturday. Iwalewa House Interdisciplinary Workshop “Shifting Centres – artistic positions and recent dynamics in contemporary dance, performance and music in Africa”

17 Tuesday, 19:00 pm, Iwalewa House, Blue Box Opening of the exhibition “Aus-Sicht Afrika” 19:30 pm Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Start of Term Meeting

24 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Do Cellular Phones Dream of Civil War? The Mystification of Production of the Consequences of Technology Fetishism in the Eastern Congo. James H. Smith (University of California, Davis)

26-28 Thursday to Saturday, Iwalewa House Third International conference “Agency and Changing World views in Africa” organised by the collaborative research centre “Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences”

 May

08 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Travesties in Barcelona. Kathrin Vogel (München)

10 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Opening by University president Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ruppert; Opening lecture: „Wie viele Dinge braucht der Mensch? Konsum in afrikanischen und deutschen Haushalten.“ Gerd Spittler und Hans-Peter Hahn. Afterwards: reception.

15 Tuesday, 19:30 pm Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Xhosa-Music. Dave Dargie (Fort Hare, South Africa)

22 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: African Refugees. Rose Jaji (Bayreuth)

24 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Indirekte Globalisierung. Gudrun Miehe

29 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Südseeblasen. Überlegungen zur These der Entbettung der Wirtschaft im Finanzmarktkapitalismus. Alexander Solyga (Bayreuth)

31 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Kunstwelten in Interaktion. Lokale Akteure und strategische Globalität am Beispiel der Kunstbiennalen von Dakar, Johannesburg und Luanda. Tobias Wendl

 June

04-05 09:00 am - 16:00 pm, Iwalewa House Conference: Local Islam under Global Influences, Shari`a Debates in Selected African Countries, contact: [email protected]

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Calendar

05 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Ice in Africa. Internal Combustion Engine. Jan Bart Gewald (Leiden)

12 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Leaving Asmara – Individual migration projects of Eritrea’s 2nd generation of refugees. Magnus Treiber (Bayreuth/München)

14 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Out of Africa - into Africa: Transnationale Händlernetzwerke und Geographien der Globalisierung. Detlef Müller-Mahn

19 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Häuptlingsherrschaft in Gabú (Guinea-Bissau). Anne-Kristin Borszik

21 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Kindheit in Afrika – juristische und ethnologische Perspektiven. Erdmute Alber and Ulrike Wanitzek

26 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Discourses of Islamic Liberalism. Muhammed Sani Umar (Northwestern University Chicago, currently Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin)

28 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Der Bischof und der Philosoph. Interkulturelle Dialoge im Südafrika des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ulrich Berner and Azonseh Ukah

 July

03 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Die Welt ist „leidenschaftlich religiös wie zu allen Zeiten“. Soziologische Anmerkungen über Fundamentalismus, Mission und Eurosäkularismus am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Trutz v. Trotha (Siegen)

05 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Multiple Zeitordnungen in islamischen Kontexten: Entwicklungen und Debatten in Ostafrika. Roman Loimeier and Rüdiger Seesemann

10 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: Berichte von der organisierten Lehrforschung in Burkina Faso. Marlene Dietl & Katja Rodilossi (Bayreuth)

12 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Einfluss der antiken Globalisierung auf Westafrika - einige Beispiele. Dierk Lange

17 Tuesday, 19:30 pm, Iwalewa House Anthropological Colloquium: End of term talk with students.

19 Thursday, 16:15 pm, H8 (Building GEO) SFB/FK560 Lecture Series: Lokales Handeln, globale Einflüsse. Sieben Jahre Forschung und dann? Dieter Neubert

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N A B Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth University Vol. VI/1, Spring 2007

Published by the Humanities Collaborative Research Centre SFB/FK 560 (www.uni-bayreuth.de/sfbs/sfb-fk560/) „Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences“ and the Institute of African Studies (www.ias.uni-bayreuth.de/), University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.

This newsletter can be downloaded on http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/sfbs/sfb- fk560/index-publikationen.html

Editor-in-Chief Christine Scherer, (V.i.S.d.P), Coordinator of the SFB/FK 560, Bayreuth University, [email protected]

Editorial Board Ulrike Wanitzek, Bayreuth University, [email protected]

Manfred von Roncador, Bayreuth University, [email protected]

Franz Kogelmann, Bayreuth University, [email protected]

Elísio Macamo, Bayreuth University, [email protected]

Ulf Vierke, Bayreuth University, [email protected]

Collaboration Sonja Ruff [email protected]

Ines Wimmer Bayreuth University [email protected]

Layout Britta Doffiné, Bayreuth University, brittadoffi[email protected]

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