THE PROGRAM OF AFRICAN STUDIES 2013-2014 Annual Report TABLE OF CONTENTS PROGRAM OF

LEADERSHIP Director 2 AFRICAN STUDIES PAS Executive Committee 3 2013-14 Annual Report RESEARCH Working Groups 4 ISITA 6 Young African Leadership Initiative 8

ACADEMICS Graduate and Undergrad Programs 12 Visiting Scholars 14

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SUPPORT Panofsky Awards 16 Awards and Funding 17 Language Awards 18 Partnerships 19 Events 2013-2014 20 LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP

African Leaders over five years. The twenty five fellows in the first Throughout the 2013-2014 academic year, the contingent joined us over the summer to participate in the Business PAS Executive committee oversaw the overall and Entrepreneurship Institute organized with the Farley Center for intellectual direction of PAS and its programs. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Center for Leadership. After a committee was made up of the following affiliated busy six weeks of classes, site visits to major business in Chicago and faculty: community service experiences, the fellows continued on to Washington, DC for President Obama’s Summit for Young African Leaders. Evan Mwangi (English) William Reno (Political Science) PAS was also proud to collaborate with the University of Illinois, Rachel Riedl (Political Science) Urbana-Champaign’s Institute for African Studies on a Department of Jeff Rice (History and WCAS Advisor) Education funded Title VI area studies grant. This grant will support Ivy Wilson (American Studies) research, language instruction, and outreach over three years Our Rebecca Shereikis, ISITA general activities of the year, events, Afrisem, and new events such as Noelle Sullivan, Global Health Studies the Global Health Case Competition were huge successes and we thank Program Will Reno, Director of African Studies (left) after you all for your participation. Please look out for the fall quarter PAS Helen Tilley, History his talk “The Changing Character of Conflicts in newsletter, with highlights of the exciting activities at PAS. As we move Africa” at Northeastern Illinois University. into the new year, I look forward to meeting new Africanists and seeing familiar faces as we continue our commitment of the University and The Program of African Studies his improved its capacity to offer its academic departments to provide resources, events and programs lectures, secure and provide funding for students and faculty, and dedicated to the study of all things Africa. cosponsor exciting events with other departments in the Northwestern community and beyond. This year the Department of State awarded - Will Reno Director of the Program of African Studies PAS a grant to host the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young Institute on Contemporary Africa, Northwestern University, 1951

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PAS’ Working Groups Award is a source of support for faculty and (ADF). Members of the group will meet on a regular basis to reflect graduate student collaborative research. The award funds interdisciplin- Access to Health and in Working Group on advances and setbacks to democracy in Africa, comparing experi- ary groups who work to address research issues in African Studies. PAS ences in the continent with those in other world regions. The working believes that working groups promote community building between The Northwestern Access to Health Project, an interdisciplinary group can evolve, in stages, to become a Colloquium on Democracy scholars working on problems of common interest. The maximum working group of law, medical and Kellogg faculty and students, in Africa which can serve the following purposes: provide guidance to award per group is $5,000. In the AY 13-14, PAS awarded three groups. has partnered with the town of Douentza, in northeastern Mali, to students, graduate and undergraduate, before and after field research Groups are encouraged to use part of their time and funds towards conduct a health and human rights needs assessment and to identify in Africa; connect faculty and students to an international network of pursuit of external grant funding. Below are descriptions of AY 13-14 sustainable, capacity-building projects and interventions consistent democracy scholars and analysts; promote student research projects working groups: with that assessment. Following the assessment and fieldwork in using the Herskovits Library and other resources; establish links with early 2014, members of the working group will return to Douentza in research and policy institutes for faculty and students; and create op- Oral History in Africa Working Group September 2014 to launch projects related to female genital mutila- portunities, via the ADF, for faculty and students to publish essays and tion/cutting, health education through music, and the Millenium De- commentaries for a global readership. This working group conducted interviews with artists from South velopment Goals. The director of the local radio stations and a local Africa and Zimbabwe whose work deals with both countries’ shifts to women’s leader, both members of the community advisory board for independence and the developments in their relationship throughout and the project, will serve as project managers. Members of the North- after that process. With this research, they’ll contribute to the many con- western working group will again return to Douentza to monitor and versations happening about the role of art in resisting colonialism and the evaluate the projects in March 2015. less examined role of art in mediating the complex relationship between Zimbabwe and South Africa. In 2014, this working group will stage a Democracy and Governance Working Group week long installation compiled of the interviews and selections/recre- ations of each artist’s work, expanding the Oral History and Performance An interdisciplinary working group of faculty and students will as Social Action archive at the Program of African Studies. be created to discuss and conduct research on democracy in Africa. A community of scholars will be developed at Northwestern in parallel At the States, Society and Development conference, fall 2012. with an online community emerging via the Africa Demos Forum

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The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) con- not as isolated objects but as parts of collections with histories of tinues to be a vital component of PAS, supporting new research on Islam ownership, usage, dispersion, and reassembly. in Africa through its publications, on and off-campus programming, and visiting scholars. Weijian Li of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was a visiting scholar with ISITA during AY 2013-14, planning, researching, and In fall 2013 ISITA published “A Handbook on Mali’s 2012-13 writing the first Chinese-language monograph of Islam in Africa, and Crisis” as part of its working paper series through the Buffett Center for presenting his work at both PAS and the Buffett Center. ISITA also International and Comparative Studies. Authored by Alexander Thur- hosted the visit of Nigerian manuscript expert Amidu Olalekan Sanni ston and Andrew Lebovich, the handbook provides resources that help of Lagos State University, who consulted the Herskovits Library’s contextualize Mali’s intersecting crises in 2012-13. ISITA continued its collection of Arabic manuscripts from West Africa and met with the collaboration with Northwestern University Press to produce two new Library’s preservation department to discuss their research into the issues of the online journal Islamic Africa. One of the highlights of the collection’s paper and ink. fall 2013 issue was Rudolph Ware’s annotated translation (from Arabic to English) of a praise poem by one of West Africa’s most famous Sufi shaykhs, Amadu Bamba. The translation was produced as part of the Ford Foundation’s “Constituting Bodies of Islamic Knowledge” grant to ISITA and will form part of a larger English-language anthology of the writings of Senegambian Sufi scholars (forthcoming 2015).

An ISITA-sponsored round-table on “The Islamic Archive of Africa” at the African Studies Association’s November 2013 meeting in Baltimore sparked lively discussion on the multiple meanings of Islamic manu- Weijian Li ,Visiting ISITA scholar in front of the script collections in Africa and stressed the need to view manuscripts Program of African Studies

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This past summer, Northwestern University had the honor of hosting League and Chicago Gospel Run, on the west side with Carole Robinson 25 of Sub-Saharan Africa’s brightest and most influential young people Center for Learning, and on the north side with Inspiration Corporation, for the Mandela Washington Fellowship—the flagship program of Refugee One, Pan-African Association, and Youth Organization Um- President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative. In partnership brella. They also met Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and State Sena- with the Department of State and their implementing partner, the tor Daniel Biss who fielded their many questions pertaining to American International Research and Exchanges Board, PAS, the Farley Center politics and how to navigate the political sphere. for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Center for Leadership operated a six-week Business and Entrepreneurship Institute that taught There were activities that highlighted Chicago’s cultural richness: the executive-level business knowledge. Art Institute Chicago, an architectural boat tour, Fourth of July festivities (where some met Governor Quinn), and a visit to Goose Island Brewery, Three days a week, they took classes with the Farley Center and the which hosted the Fellows and gave them a knowledgeable (and deli- Center for Leadership faculty, which analyzed entrepreneurialism and cious) tour of their facilities. leadership through discussion, supplemented by case studies. On the remaining days, they either participated in site visits, community At the end of their six weeks, they headed to Washington D.C. for the service, or cultural activities. Presidential Summit which featured talks by First Lady Michelle Obama, US Ambassador the Samantha Power, Secretary of State The site visits showcased successful businesses around Chicago John Kerry, and of course, a town hall session with President Barack and helped build the networks of the Fellows. These included visits to Obama. Google, IBM, WBEZ, Crain’s Business Chicago, and 1871, among oth- ers. Addressing the need for youth capacity building in Nigeria, Fellow Lawrence Afere founded and operates Springboard Farms which is dedi- The community service events served two functions: 1) to impart cated to agricultural training of unemployed youth. With skills he gained the culture of community work in hopes that they will continue and at Northwestern, Lawrence is going to expand his project to acquire spread the idea of philanthropy in their communities; and 2) to expose more land, train more young people, and generate revenue for these them to different areas of Chicago that normally go underserved. They projects through the production and sale of plantain chips. worked with organizations on the south side such as Chicago Urban YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FELLOWS

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women—on how to navigate the business world with a startup. will undoubtedly continue to initiate progress towards gender equality, Across the continent, Ethiopian Yonas Getachew works as a hospital- better governance, and socioeconomic reform. Each of their stories is ity consultant that has succeeded in bringing some of the global leaders In Madagascar, credit analyst Patricia Tahirindray works with the nothing short of inspiring and Northwestern was truly honored to have in hospitality to Addis Ababa. Despite attracting hotel giants such as Hil- Catholic Girl Scouts of Madagascar which aims to engage young women played a role in that narrative. ton and Marriott, Yonas recognized that one of Ethiopia’s (and Africa’s) and girls in capacity building and leadership training. At the summit in greatest natural resource is underutilized: its people. In the Middle East, Washington DC, Patricia was recognized by Michelle Obama as a leader For more information, please visit http://www.northwestern.edu/african- more lucrative positions that require little training have caused migration in girls’ advocacy and advancement studies/yali-washington-fellows/index.html. from the country. To counteract this human capital loss, Yonas comple- mented the entrepreneurship concepts he learned through the Farley Cen- In Uganda, Anne Kabahuma is the operations manager at Rwenzori ter with meetings to hospitality schools in Chicago to understand how to Sustainable Trade Center, which brings together women to create best establish a school that can accommodate this need. handcrafts that are sold to retailers such as US-based Home Goods. Like many nations around the world, in Uganda’s women’s opportunities are After becoming blind in his early twenties, Zimbabwean Tafadzwa limited, but Anne works to surmount those cultural norms. Nyamuzihwa discovered how easily one can become debilitated by YALI fellows demonstrate Northwesternpurple pride at visual impairment. Despite this hardship, Tafadzwa created Shine On However, as both Obamas stressed, achieving gender equality is just O’Hare International Airport. International, an organization dedicated to empowering and motivating as much about women’s actions as it is about men’s. After recognizing the blind. He also uses his radio show, which reaches 3 million people that a lender was taking advantage of women in a market in Yaounde, His countrywoman, Amina Oshiokpekhai heads a similarly motivated across the country, to advocate for the visually impaired. At every meet- Cameroon by charging about 300% interest per month, Roland Bongko pastry shop which trains young women in the culinary arts. However, ing here in Evanston and Chicago, Tafadzwa made sure to emphasize the decided to correct this injustice by starting a microfinance project that recognizing the needs to proliferate this impact, Amina utilized her need to embrace the visual impaired community when making business charged an affordable rate. He quit his job and founded a microfinance time at Northwestern to meet with entrepreneurs, clinical professors, decisions. company that provides affordable rates to over 1100 women in that and experts at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. Despite her market alone. success as a self-taught baker, Amina realized that in order to best train Regardless of vocation, these Fellows truly embraced empowerment and subsequently change her community, she needs to continue learning, and advocacy. In Mozambique, Tatiana Pereira is a founder and manag- While these are only some of our 25 Fellows stories, it is representative adapting, and innovating. ing partner of IdeiaLab, an entrepreneurial consultancy company that of the positive impact that they all have on their communities. As they aims to advise young, burgeoning businesspeople—most of whom are continue working as journalists, businesspeople, and entrepreneurs, they Andrew Akelo, YALI Fellow at the Board of Trade in Chicago, IL.

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PAS supports both undergraduate and graduate study of Africa present, and draw advice on papers and research proposals, and invites PAS fosters a uniquely interdisciplinary community of students, at all through the promotion of interdisciplinary courses with Africa content, guest speakers to address special topics. levels of study, through events, programming and opportunities offered language training, Africa-based research, and student-focused events. to both undergraduate and graduate students. PAS offers several funding It brings students together with faculty and visiting scholars in a PAS has a thriving undergraduate community. During the 2013- opportunities to graduate students, including awards for language variety of different academic and cultural settings such as informal and 2014 academic year, the Program of African Studies continued to build study, travel to conferences and archives, and a summer predissertation formal lectures, conferences, workshops, research programs, and film its adjunct major in African Studies to capitalize on rich resources of research award. Each year, PAS awards the Gwendolyn Carter/ Kofi screenings. PAS incorporates students in all fields and all schools within the university, including the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Annan Fellowship to outstanding students admitted to The Graduate the University who participate in the activities of the Program, which Studies, as well as the growing undergraduate interest in African Studies. School, providing three years support. PAS also awards the Herskovits are intended to advance the training of Africa specialists at Northwestern The major focuses on interdisciplinary and research drawing on a robust Undergraduate Research Award to three exceptional undergraduate and promote awareness of African realities in a wide context. and diverse African Studies curriculum. The adjunct major in African students, which provides course credit for research projects conducted in Studies promotes and advances awareness of African realities in a wide the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Graduate students with Africa-related research interests make context, expanding across departments and schools at Northwestern, significant contributions to the scholarly community at PAS. PhD while offering a sustained engagement with the African past, present, students at Northwestern may earn a Certificate in African Studies by and future. PAS has seen an increase in enrollment in African Studies- completing relevant language study and course work on Africa. PAS related courses and a significant rise in student groups dedicated to assists Northwestern students interested in Africa by bringing them African issues (African Students Association, GlobeMed, Center for together with faculty and visitors in different disciplines. The core of the Global Engagement) as evidenced in student participation in African- Graduate and Undergraduate African Studies graduate community is the student-led Africa Seminar related events at PAS and throughout the campus. Students may earn an (Afrisem), which provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting Adjunct Major or Minor in African Studies by fulfilling interdisciplinary Programs in African Studies for graduate students studying Africa. It is open to graduate students course requirements. As many as 30 courses relating to Africa are taught (and advanced undergraduates by permission) from any discipline, each quarter by Africanist faculty across the disciplines, including department, or school of Northwestern, at whatever stage of completion language instruction in many languages spoken in Africa. of their graduate program. Afrisem provides opportunities to develop, African Studies undergraduate students at the annual open house.

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Julius Bolade Anjorin is completing his PhD in political science at the Kennedy Opalo is a Graduate student conducting research in the fields University of Lagos, Nigeria, with the dissertation: “The Universal of comparative politics and international relations and a Pre-Doctoral Postal Union (UPU) and the Politics of Postal Regulations and Reform: Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Ruler of Law at The Case of the Nigerian Postal Service (1985-2012).” His research Stanford. His dissertation explains the observed variation in levels of interests include public policy and public administration, and he has legislative strength and institutionalization in Sub-Saharan African since published articles on decision-making theories and on poverty alleviation the early 1990s. Ken has conducted fieldwork or worked in Kenya, Zam- in Nigeria in the Journal of Communications and Governance. Anjorin bia, Ghana, and six other African countries. His other research interests has also been a public servant for twenty years and is currently Head of include the political economy of development in Africa, ethnicity and Control Administration, Complaints and Strategy, Courier Regulatory political violence, natural resource management, and public policy and Department, Nigerian Postal Service. governance.

Weijian Li is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Program of African Studies (PAS), Northwestern University. An associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of World Religions, Li obtained his PhD in Islamic studies there in 2007. His dissertation focused on Islamic jihad movements in 19thcentury West Africa. He is the author of A Historical Study of Islam in West Africa and coauthor of A Survey on Chinese-Styled Sufi Orders in Linxia of Gansu Province. Both were published in 2011 by China Social Sciences Press Visiting Scholars and are in Chinese. Li will use his residency at Northwestern to plan, research, and write the first Chinese-language historical monograph on Islam in Africa.

Graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and visitors gather for Herskovits Library of Africana librarian Patricia Ogedengbe Penny a PAS event. Warren Honorary Service Award.

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The Program of African Studies supports the research and academic advancementPanofsky of many undergraduate Awards and graduate students each year through Awards and Funding our grants and awards program. This year we have given twelve Panofsky Predissertation Awards for graduate students to travel to Africa and conduct Nathanial Matthews (History) received funding through the Guyer- research that will inform their dissertation work. The following students were awarded Panofsky funding in 2013-14: Virmani Award which allows winners to travel to conferences and archives. Student Name Home Department Country of Study Assistant Professor Rachel Riedl (Political Science) recieved the Kofi Asante Sociology Ghana John Hunwick Award, which provides funds to study Islam in Africa. Priscilla Adipa Sociology South Africa Marco Bochesse Political Science Ethiopia The African Research Leadership Award provides money for Magda Boutrose Sociologu Egypt undergraduate students to develop and lead a research project or Moses Khisa Political Science Uganda, Ethiopia program relating to African Studies. Students develop key leadership Sakhile Matlhare Sociology Germany skills by developing, managing and completing a project exploring Christopher Muhoozi History Uganda an issue related to the student’s academic interests. This year, several Jessica Pouchet Anthropology Tanzania students were granted awards ranging from $400 to $2000: Madeline Nafissatou Sall French Senegal May(Journalism), Jaclyn Skurie (Journalism), Amy Selby Political Science Tanzania Vanessa Watters Anthropology Ghana, Togo The Faculty Research Grant was created to encourage, develop and support faculty research and creative endeavors. A possible goal for Outside the Program of African Studies building. these funds could be the subsequent development of proposals for external funding, but this is not required. These awards are intended to supplement and strengthen the support that comes from both department and college resources, and other university programs. This year’s recipients included Wendy Griswold (Sociology) Huey Copeland (Art History), Krista Thompson (Art History) Sandra Babcock (Law), and Noelle Sullivan (Anthropology). Richard Joseph (Political Science) and Rachel Riedl (Political Science) recieved funds for their working group “Governance and Democracy.” Africanist scholar LaRay Denzer and Professor Karen Tranberg Hansen Graduate Student Marlous Van Waijenberg (History). at the book reception for African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance.

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and more: Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies Center for Forced Migration Studies Amy Selby Center for Global Engagement Bernard Forjwour Center for Global Health Claudia Garcia-Rojas Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Department of Anthropology Matthew Brauer Department of History Jessica Pouchet Department of Performance Studies Amy Swanson Department of Political Science Christopher Muhoozi Equality, Development, and Globalization Studies (EDGS) The Graduate School Sakhile Matlhare International Organizations/International Law Working Group Kofi Asante Kellogg Africa Business Club William Fitzsimmons McCormick School of Journalism Middle East North Africa (MENA) Group Nafissatou Sall Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights Aditi Malik Northwestern Law School Raevin Jimeniz Northwestern University Press Political Parties Working Group Graduate student Sally Nuamah (Sociology) introduces a University of Chicago’s African Studies Workshop African Author Chris Abani, English department, after recieving a conference on Ghanaian Politics. Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Board of Trustees Professor medal.

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Monday, September 30, 4 pm Wednesday, October 17, 12 pm, Tuesday, October 29, 6:30 pm Friday, November 15, 3 pm Innovations in Smallholder Agriculture: A discussion of Co-sponsored by Northwestern University Law School Red Lion Lecture Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago The Center for Global Culture & Communication and PAS present methodologies and technologies that improve incomes, nutrition and Socio-economic Rights and Development in Southern African Sasha Newell, University of North Carolina-Raleigh Achille Mbembe, WITS, South Africa Sara Nutall, WITS, South food security Democracies Africa Claire Starkey, president of Fintrac Inc Justice Dikgang Moseneke, South Africa Wednesday, October 30, 12 pm, PAS Affiliates Series Monday, November 18, 4 pm Friday, October 4, 3 - 5 pm Friday, October 18, 12 pm Equal Pay for Equal Work? UNHCR and the Violation of Refugees’ Agricultural Innovation in Africa: Gendered and Non-gendered OPEN HOUSE Co-sponsored by the Buffett Center Rights in Ethiopia Paradigm Shifts Thoughts on Backlash: Africa’s International Courts Fionna McKinnon, lecturer, Northwestern University Law Anita Spring, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Florida Wednesday, October 9, 12 pm Karen Alter, Political Science, Northwestern University PAS Affiliates Series Friday November 1, 12 pm Wednesday, November 20, 12 pm Historicizing Food Insecurity in Africa’s Past and Present through Friday, October 18, 3 pm Faculty and Fellow Colloquium PAS Panel Discussion Archaeology The Center for Global Culture & Communication and PAS present: North Africa: Comics, Cinema, and the Democratic Frame A Life In and Out of Anthropology: Interviews with Jack Sargent Har- Amanda Logan, Anthropology, Northwestern University On African Urban Time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas Ato Brian Edwards, English, Northwestern University ris Kevin Yelvington, Anthropology, University of South Florida Keith Quayson, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora Shear, U of Birmingham’s Centre for West Africa Studies Insa Nolte, U Thursday, October 10, 12:30 - 2 pm and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto Monday, November 4, 4 pm of Birmingham’s Centre for West Africa Studies Discussion of the film African Independence, ISITA Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and Professor Monday, October 21, 4 pm Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints, God’s Law, and Monday, November 25, 4 pm of Sociology and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania Socio-Cultural Supercomplexity without States: The 13th - 19th Centuries Reflections on the Islamic Body Politic in Morocco and North Africa The Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper 10, 4 - 6:30 pm Benin Kingdom as Megacommunity Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Ph.D, Ellen Amster, History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Guinea Coast” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Screening of the film African Independence D.Sc, Vice-Director for Research, Institute for African Studies, Russian Prof.Dr. Jacqueline Knörr, head of the Upper Guinea Coast Research Academy of Sciences Tuesday, November 12, 12:30 - 2 pm Group,(Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Ger- Wednesday, October 14, 7 pm Program of African Studies at the Political Parties Working Group present: many; Maarten Bedert, doctoral student; Anaїs Ménard, doctoral student Co-sponsored by Center for Global Engagement and the Buffett Center Tuesday, October 22, 12 pm Electoral Violence in Democratizing States Terry MCDonnell, Sociology, University of Notre Dame Routes out of Poverty: What are the experiences? Land and women’s rights in Tanzania Leonardo Arriola, Political Science, University of California at Berkeley Paul Collier, South Africa Kijoolu Kaliya, pastoralist and community leader in Tanzania.

20 21 COMMUNITY SUPPORT, COMMUNITY SUPPORT, OUTREACH AND PARTNERSHIPS OUTREACH AND PARTNERSHIPS Winter Events Wednesday, January 15, 12 pm, Tuesday, February 11, 7 pm Friday, February 28, 12 pm, Friday, March 7, 12 pm The Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Challenges of Postal PAS Cosponsors Buffet Center Event PAS cosponsors Buffett Faculty and Fellows Colloquium PAS Cosponsors Buffett Faculty and Fellows Regulation and Reform in Nigeria Development and Human Rights An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa The Price of Success: Purist Salafis in the Age of Decolonization Julius Bolade Anjorin, Visiting Scholar, PAS Peter Uvin, Amherst College Amanda Logan, Anthropology, Northwestern University Henri Lauzière, History, Northwestern University

Friday,,January 17, 12 pm Wednesday, February 12, 6 pm Monday, March 3, 4 pm Saturday, March 15 PAS Cosponsors Buffett Faculty and Fellows Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, The Department Who Are the Swing Voters in Kenya’s Multiethnic Democracy? PAS Cosponsors the 16th Annual Ethnography Conference Is Prebendalism now a Global Phenomenon? Reflections on the of English, & PAS Present: Jeremy Horowitz, Political Science, Dartmouth College Republication of Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria Chris Abani Reading and Book Signing for his new fiction novelThe Richard Joseph, Political Science, Northwestern University Secret History of Las Vegas Wednesday, March 5, 12 pm Democracy and Governance Working Group Friday, January 24, 12 pm Saturday, February 15, 12-7 pm Electoral Politics and Reconfigured Governance: Ethiopia and the PAS Cosponsors Buffett Faculty and Fellows PAS, Buffett Center, CGE, IPD/, Center for Global Health Sponsor: European Union Disease and Power onboard an Egyptian Steamer in 1865 Northwestern Intramural Global Health Case Competition Elise Dufief, PhD Candidate, Political Science Daniel Stolz, Science in Human Culture Wednesday, February 19, 12 pm Thursday, March 6, 5:15-7 pm Wednesday, January 29, 12 pm Democracy and Governance Working Group Democracy and Governance Working Group Democracy and Governance Working Group Development without Democracy in Africa: Responding to the State, Governance, and Development in Africa: Insights and Strong Parties, Weak Parties: Explaining Regime Outcomes in Revisionist Paradigm Perspectives of Contemporary Economics Sub-Saharan Africa Richard Joseph, Political Science, Northwestern University Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of Chicago, Rachel Riedl, Political Science, Northwestern University Dr. Celestin Monga of the World Bank, Thursday, February 20 ,7 pm and Richard Joseph, Political Science,Northwestern University Monday, February 10, 4 pm Lawrence Frank Lecture at Northeastern Illinois University Framing a History of Islam in Africa: a Chinese Perspective The Changing Character of Conflicts in Africa Weijian Li, ISITA visiting scholar, Chinese Academy of Will Reno, Political Science, PAS, Northwestern Social Sciences and Religion

22 23 COMMUNITY SUPPORT, COMMUNITY SUPPORT, OUTREACH AND PARTNERSHIPS OUTREACH AND PARTNERSHIPS Spring Events Thursday, April 3, 12 pm Wednesday, April 23, 4:30 pm Friday, May 2-4 Monday, May 12, 4 pm Autocratic Legacies, Organizational Adaptation, and the Contain- One Book One Northwestern (OBON) PAS cosponsors “Queertopia: Queering Pride: LGBTQ Identities on the South Africa: 20 Years of Democracy ment of Violent Islamic Fundamentalism in the Republic of Niger One Acre Fund Lecture Global Stage “ Sponsored by the Buffett Center and MENA Sebastian Elischer, asst. prof. of comparative politics, Leuphana University Matt Forti, director of One Acre Fund USA Mandela’s Living Legacy:The Struggle for Freedom for Young Sout Monday, May 5, 4 pm Africans Friday, April 4, 12 pm Thursday, April 24, 5 pm The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair Douglas Foster, Journalism, Northwestern University Buffett Center & Program of African Studies present: South Africa: 20 Years of Democracy Michael Deibert, journalist An Ethnography of Childhood, Caregiving, and Concealment in Zambia Democracy Rising: Citizen Power in South Africa and the World Thursday, May 22, 7 pm Jean Hunleth, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Monday, May 5, 4 pm Human Rights and Development Series Washington University School of Medicine Friday, April 25, 5-7 pm South Africa: 20 Years of Democracy Cosponsored by OBON, PAS Book launch party for Rachel Rield’s book, Black Americans and South Africa after from The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Monday, April 7, 3:30 pm Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa Pan-Africanism to Post-Racialism Rights of the Poor Reforming Customary Rule: Are There Tradeoffs Between Good Al Tilery, Political Science, Northwestern University William Easterly, NYU Governance, Political Order and Social Cohesion Monday, April 28, 4:30 pm Kate Baldwin, Political Science, Yale University South Africa: 20 Years of Democracy Tuesday, May 6, 12 pm Tuesday, June 3, 6:30 pm The End of Apartheid and U.S Segregation: Reminiscences of a OBON, PAS and GDS cosponsor EDGS/Comparative Politics Workshop Monday, April 7, 5 pm Scholar-Activist Shame: Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa Ethnic Parties, Political Coalitions, and Electoral Violence: An South Africa: 20 Years of Democracy Richard Joseph, Political Science, Northwestern University Jillian Reilly, author Analysis of Kenya’s Presidential Elections from 1992 to 2013 Library Exhibit opening reception with speaker Aditi Malik, PhD Candidate, Political Science, Northwestern University Vuyiswa Tulelo, Consul General of South Africa Wednesday, April 30, 12 pm Monday, May 12, 12 pm PAS Working Group Democracy and Governance PAS Working Group on Democracy and Governance Wednesday, June 4, 6:00 pm Wednesday, April 23, 12-1:30 pm Legislatures and the Building of Democratic States: The Cases of Sponsored by the Buffett Center and MENA Red Lion Lecture, cosponsored by the African Studies Workshop, Uni- PAS Working Group Democracy and Governance Kenya and Zambia The Derailing of the Arab Spring: Lessons Learned about versity of Chicago The Rollback of Democracy: Weakening, Accelerating, or Kennedy Opalo, PAS Visiting Scholar, PhD Candidate, Democracy and Governance Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa Stabilizing? Political Science, Stanford University Dan Brumberg, Georgetown and Carnegie Daniel Magaziner, History, Yale Larry Diamond, Sociology and Political Science, Stanford University

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