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Irene Fatayi-Williams (1920-1995) A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEMBERS FROM THE SECRETARIAT ... ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 1996 National holidays are of course nothing new in Nigeria, but this summer the sky reverberated with merriment as news spread across OFFICERS the great nation that Nigeria had trounced Argentina 3 to 2 in men's President: Iris Berger (SUNY-Albany) football, winning Olympic gold, The big news from Atlanta was the Vice-President: Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown Univ) Olympics, as was the big news in Africa, The athletes from the 52 competing African nations won 34 medals, including II gold. Past President: Goran Hyden (University of Florida) Africa's best performance yet! Who could forget Josia Thugwane's Treasurer: Carol Eastman (University of Hawai'i) moving dedication of his gold medal win in the men's marathon to Executive Director: Chris Koch (University of Nairobi) "my country, and to President Mandela." Memorable also was the amazing performance of Nigeria's Chioma Ajunwa in the women's DIRECTORS long-jump as she leapt into the history books with her nation's RETIRING IN 1996 first-ever gold medal. Unforgettable was Burundi's ray of sunshine Robert Bates (Harvard University) Venuste Niyongabo as he spirited away gold in the men's 5,000m Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University) run. The list goes on and on. The Atlanta games also marked the first time there has been an official African Olympic House in a host city. Nancy Schmidt (Indiana University) Just in case you are wondering, the Atlanta games were the first time RETIRING IN 1997 the Olympic flame has passed the ASA Secretariat and you better Robert Harms (Yale University) believe that we were all out front to welcome it. Who knows, we might yet see the flame on the African continent in 2004 in the city Isidore Okpewho (SUNY-Binghamton) of Cape Town. Marina Ottaway (Georgetown University) From Atlanta to the City by the Bay, San Francisco. It is time again for another Annual Meeting and work here at the Secretariat is RETIRING IN 1998 getting hectic to say the least. The final preparations for San Keletso Atkins (University of Michigan) Francisco are underway and we hope to meet you there. Once again Julius Nyang'oro (Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) we are going to set new records for panels and roundtables on the Claire Robertson (Ohio State University) program. Toyin FaIola and his committee, working with Rainier Spencer in our office, have managed to shoehorn just about all comers onto the program. The result is 200 panels and roundtables. Norma Miller has seen to it that we have a full exhibition hall with ASA News, Vol. XXIX, No.3 Jul/Sep 1996 displays of the latest scholarly publications as well as other ISSN 0278-2219 Africana. Stop by the ASA booth and meet our new ASA Press person Tangelique Williams who will show you the latest and Editor: Chris Koch greatest from our press. Associate Editor: Rainier Spencer This year the Abiola Lecture will be delivered by Thandika Mkandawire, whose visit to our shores is supported by the award of a Published quarterly by the African Studies Association, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellowship. Mr. Mkandawire is the former Executive Secretary of CODESRIA. He will E-mail address: [email protected] also lecture in New York, Atlanta, and the Bay area. See the story on page 5 of this issue for more details. Submissions to ASA News should be sent to ASA News, Credit Un­ Martha Saavedra and Phyllis Bischof have gone all-out with local ion Building, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. Dead­ arrangements. They have planned untold delights for us that include lines for submissions are December 1, March 1, June 1, and Sep­ films and videos, exhibitions, literary evenings, theater tember 1. performances, live music, and the best deejay north of the Limpopo and south of the Bay. If you have not already, you must see the Domestic claims for non-receipt of issues must be made within wonderful local arrangements webpage put together by Karen Fung. six months of the month of publication-overseas claims must Its found on,our webpage: www.sas.upenn,edulAfrican_StudieslHome be made within one year. ]age/ASA_Menu.html under 39th Annual Meeting, Local Arrangements, Notice to Members: The United States Postal System does not Last but not least, the Annual Meeting is the wrap-up of our Do forward periodicals. 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WE WELCOME NEW ASA MEMBERS (who joined between June 1, 1996 and August 31, 1996) Babatunde Agiri Asayehgn Desta Lyndall Hare Celestin & Yvette Susan Shepler Christian Williams Ousseina Alidou DebiDorn Janet Hess Monga Frangois Sita Victoria Q Williams Anne Bailey Eileen Drew Jo Anne Hoffman C N'Cho-Oguie Cherise Smith Sharifa Zawawi Ravi Bhavnani Saul Dubow David Hoile Robert Palmeri Filomina C Steady Jill Boberg Peter Eigen Eboe Hutchful Karl Paschke Kebedech Tekleab Adams Bodomo Beti Ellerson Katie Janssen Tiffany Patterson Micholas Townsend York Bradshaw Rebecca K Gearhart Mary Jay Rachel Reynolds Ousseynou Traore Dennis Brutus Carol Gibson Deborah Johnson El-Mostafa Rezrazi Yusufu Turundu Horace Campbell Richard Goodridge Noel King Martin Rohmer YanTwumasi Michael Carter Suzanne Gott Oumatie Marajh Paula WSage Katie Tyler T Ad Chafer Les Gottesman JohMbaku Stephen Schwartz & CUgochukwu Carole Davies Albert Greve Terence Miller Kristy Cook J E Vincent ASA THANKS THOSE WHO GAVE DURING THE SPECIAL ENDOWMENT FUND DRIVE I THANKS FOR DOING IT IN JUNE • Jean Allman Guy DeLusignan Kathleen Hasselblad Robert Mortimer Sue Standing Lisa Aronson Bill Dewey Eugenia Herbert J. H. Mower William F. Steel Jennifer Astone Susan Diduk Frank Holmquist Akbar Muhammad Kearley Stewart Ralph Austen Marion Doro William S. Howard Andrea Nicolls Ibrahim Sundiata YaoAziabu Jean Doyen Sheridan Johns Julius Nyangoro Ruth Thomas Joel & Sandra Henry Drewal Willard Johnson AkwasiOsei Marina Tolmachena Barkan Roberta Dunbar James A Jones Simon Ottenberg Meredith Turshen MiSty Bastian Christopher Dunn B Jules-Rosette Pauline Peters Yusufu Turundu Eli Bentor DaVid Easterbrook Alfred Kagan John Philips M Van Beusekom Joseph Black Carol Eastman Thomas Knipp Elizabeth Plank Brian C. Vivian Jean Borgatti David Eldredge Christopher Koch Frances Pritchett Coni P. Vzelac Michael Bratton Elizabeth Eldredge Robert Lagace Leslie W. Rabine Gretchen Walsh Sarah Brett-Smith Stephen Ellmann Elizabeth Landis WC Reed Claude Welch Susan Broadhead Pierre Englebert Maria Lange Al & Polly Roberts Jerome Wells Norbert Brockman Kate Ezra David Leonard Claire Robertson Michael Whyte Barbara Brown H. M. Feinberg Edward Lifschitz John Rowe Allan Wicker James Brown Karen Fields Edirs Makward James Scarritt Lora Wildenthal Linda Brown Perkins Foss Kristin Mann Nancy Schmidt David Woods Fran Buntman Charles Frantz Jane Martin David Schoenbrun James Wunsch Rita Byrnes KarenFung William Martin Anne Serafin Jennifer Yanco Gracia Clark Nancy Gabriel Charles McClellan Mette Shayne Philip Zachemuk JamesCobbe John Gerhart Beverly McGraw Carol Sicherman JoAnne Cornwell Paula Girshick F McLaughlin & Faith Smith Lynda Day Roger Gocking L Villalon Harlan Smith II Alexander De Voogt James Graham Nick Menzies David Smock Mark Delancey Susan Hall Robyn Michaels Sonja Solland Virginia DeLancey Karen T. Hansen David C. Moore Marla Solomon October/December 1996 CSPG is a non-profit, tax-exempt Letters: educational archive which collects, Greene Elected VP preserves, documents, and exhibits domestic and international posters relating The ballots form the 1996 Vice Dear Colleagues, to historical and contemporary movements Presidential and Board elections were for peace and social justice. CSPG is the counted on August 20th. Sandra Greene Ms. Robyn Michaels' letter in the only major archive in the United States defeated Joseph Inikori for VP with 375 votes July /September issue of ASA News touched dedicated to both preserving and to his 268 votes. A total of 658 ballots were a nerve. In past years, I have written continually exhibiting this visual heritage to recieved of which 15 were blank. disappointed letters to annual program a broad and diverse audience. Often Winners in the Board of Directors committees only to receive replies that are quickly produced, controversial, election were Judith Byfield (359 votes), best summed up: "You don't appreciate how anonymous, and non-commercial, the Frank HolmqUist (317), and Omofolabo.A. much work we have done." But, time and political protest poster has been culturally Soyinka (315). Unsuccessful candidates were again the result is the same tired pattern of marginalized. Few universities, museums, Biodun Jeyifo (253), Alfred Kagan (225), and scholarly papers being read to colleagues. or public libraries collect them, and the Ray Kea (265). There were 5 blank ballots in One recent annual meeting boasted that it collections which do exist are rarely the board election. had accommodated 900 of these, meaning accessible to the public. CSPG actively Members of the 1996 Elections that almost everyone present was on some collects and preserves these rare visual Committee were Abdullahi An-Na'im panel or other.
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