African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 Wednesday Speaker Series & Seminars

Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Maria Grosz-Ngaté (African Studies) offered Marion Frank-Wilson (Library) and Ruth the Fall 2006 interdisciplinary African Studies Stone () taught the Spring 2008 graduate seminar on the theme, “Contemporary seminar with a focus on “Fieldnotes in African Africa in the Classroom: New Perspectives on the Research.” Africa Volume.” Public lectures included: Steven Raymer (IU Guest lectures open to the public included: Journalism) “The Documentary Photographer: James Delehanty (University of Wisconsin) Writing with Light”; Peter M. Chilson (English and “Mapping Contemporary Africa”; John Aden Creative Writing, Washington State University) (Wabash College) “Roots and Branches: Historical “Romancing the Archivist: A Cautionary Dispatch Overview to 1870”; Takyiwaa Manuh (University from West Africa”; Kate Schroeder (IU of Ghana) “Empowering Women? Passing History/Library) and Austin Okigbo (IU Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana”; Tracy Ethnomusicology) “Recent Experiences with Luedke (Northeastern Illinois University) “Health Fieldnotes”; Daniel Reed (IU Ethnomusicology) and ”; Stephen Ndegwa (World Bank) “Fieldnotes: For Whom and What For?”; Anaba "Development Issues"; Karen T. Hansen Anankyela Alemna, (Library and Library Science, (Northwestern University) “Urbanism as African University of Ghana) “Field Notes and the Library”; Ways of Life: Thematics for an Exploration of Selwa El-Shawan Castello Branco, Changing Urban Livelihoods in the Time of (Ethnomusicology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Globalization.” Portugal) “ at Home: Revisiting the Past, (Re)Constructing Self and Others through Special Guest Lectures Fieldnotes.” John Prendergast gave a special lecture, “Stopping Genocide in Darfur,” in the Oak Room of POAET & Arts Week 2008 the Indiana Memorial Union on February 19, 2008. Presents “The Poem and the Prendergast is Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Project Emperor” and was a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies in As its contribution to Arts Week 2008, the Project 2007-08. He is the author of eight books on Africa, on African Expressive Traditions (POAET) the most recent of which he co-authored with sponsored “The Poet and the Emperor: Power actor/activist Don Cheadle, Not on Our Watch. and the Arts in Nigeria & Beyond” at the Lilly Richard Werbner, Professor Emeritus of Library on February 25, 2008. During the event, IU African , Manchester University, spent Comparative Literature professor Akinwumi several days on campus during spring semester. Co- Adesokan read from his novel Roots in the Sky. sponsored by Communication and , Harvard professor Biodun Jeyifo then offered his Anthropology, and African Studies, Dr. Werbner reflections in response. Both raised issues about spoke about “Ethnographic Film-making as writing, the state, and politics in Nigeria and more Discovery: The Quest Trilogy” and showed his film broadly in Africa and elsewhere that were further “Eloyi” on March 18. His most recent publication is pursued in discussion by the audience. A reception Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in : and an exhibit of works by Professors Adesokan The of Kalanga Elites (2004). and Jeyifo followed. Professor Werbner’s current projects include a study of séances, counseling, and subjectivities in examination of the AIDS epidemic in Botswana.

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Visiting Scholars survey A History of Art in Africa (Abrams/Prentice Hall 2000; Pierson 2007). She is currently Sponsored by the IU Institute for Advanced completing a manuscript on the methodologies and Studies, Adérónké Adésànyà was a scholar in critical issues encountered by art historians engaged residence from November 4-December 2, 2007. Dr. in research in African communities. Adésànyà is a Research Fellow/Lecturer in African Art History, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, as well as an accomplished cartoon artist. African Studies Welcomes Her current book project, Carving Woods, Making New Faculty History: Tradition, Modernity and Yoruba Woodcarvings is the first comprehensive work on Beth Lewis Samuelson joins the woodcarving tradition in the Yoruba town of Ila- the School of Education this fall. Orangun. During her residency at the Institute, Dr. Lewis Samuelson came to IU Adésànyà met with art history graduate students, from Central Michigan visited classes, and consulted with colleagues in University, where she was an several departments. She also gave a public lecture assistant professor in Education. on the Indianapolis campus and another in IU She is a 2006-2008 Spencer/National Academy of Bloomington’s Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Education Postdoctoral Fellow conducting research entitled “Contemporary Nigerian Artist: on reform of language and critical literacy education Confrontations, Contestations and Conversations in Rwanda. She also was a finalist in the 2006 with Modernity.” National Council of Teachers of English Promising Researcher competition. Before returning to The Department of Anthropology hosted academe, she was a high school EFL teacher and an Christiane Owusu-Sarpong for a lecture entitled assistant editor for a publisher of English language “The ‘Writing’ of History Among the Akan of teaching materials in Taiwan. As an adolescent, Dr. Ghana” on October 10 and a screening of her DVD Samuelson lived with her parents in the Democratic on Akan funeral rites on October 11, 2007. Dr. Republic of Congo. She speaks French and Owusu-Sarpong has a doctorate from the Université Lingala. de Franche- Comté, Besançon, and taught at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Michelle Moyd will be a new Kumasi, Ghana, until 2001. She has edited two faculty member in the History volumes of A Trilingual Anthology of African Folktalkes and published La Mort Akan – Etude Department. Dr. Moyd holds a Ethno-Semiotique Des Textes Funéraires Akan in bachelor’s degree from the addition to numerous other works. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Abdoul Sow, Dean of the Université Cheikh Princeton University and a master’s degree in Anta Diop School of Education in Dakar (Senegal), African History from the University of Florida, visited IU from May 3-9, 2008, to explore new Gainesville. She obtained her Ph.D. from Cornell possibilities for collaboration. The School of University. Her dissertation “Becoming Askari: Education hosts the ASP’s summer study abroad African Soldiers and Everyday Colonialism in program in Dakar. German East Africa, 1889-1918” is a social and On January 18, 2008, Monica Blackmun cultural history of the African soldiers known as Visonà of the Department of Art History, askari who fought in the German colonial army in University of Kentucky, offered this year’s Robert East Africa. She has received numerous grants, and Avis Burke Lecture in Art History on fellowships, and honors, and she has published “Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons articles, encyclopedia pieces, and book reviews. Peoples of Côte d'Ivoire.” Dr. Blackmun Visonà is the principal author of the critically acclaimed 3 African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 Islam, Contested Authority and Renewal and Female Authority in Contemporary Mali,” Dorothea Schulz (IU); “Ahmed Deedat and the Making of Everyday the Form of Islamic Evangelism in Nigeria,” Brian Lives in Africa Larkin (Barnard College). The keynote lecture entitled “Islam in Question: When and for Whom is ‘Islam’ the Answer?” was The African Studies Program hosted a delivered by historian Barbara Cooper, Director of conference on “Islam, Contested Authority, and the the Rutgers University African Studies Program. Making of Everyday Lives in Africa” on October 11 and 12, 2007. Organized by Beth Buggenhagen (Anthropology), Maria Grosz-Ngaté (African Studies), John Hanson (History), and Dorothea Schulz (Religious Studies), the conference brought together a noted group of scholars whose Nigerian Writer Visits IU presentations generated lively discussions. IU colleagues Kevin Jaques (Religious Studies), African Studies hosted esteemed Nigerian writer Eileen Julien (Comparative Literature), Sara and publisher Adewale Maja-Pearce this spring. Scalenghe (History), Ron Sela (Central Eurasian On April 20, Maja-Pearce read “How Pinkie Killed Studies), and Nazif Shahrani (Anthropology) a Man” and other essays from his latest collection at served as panel moderators or discussants. the Monroe County Public Library. The reading Presentations were grouped thematically in four generated an engaged discussion. The following panels: day Maja-Pearce spoke about “Exile, Foreign • “Islam In & Out of Africa”: “Rethinking Publishing, and Literary Culture in Nigeria” in Religious Conversion: A Theory of (Trans)National Woodburn Hall. Senegalese Shi’ism,” Mara Leichtman (Michigan Maja-Pearce is the author of numerous books State University); “Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, and was the editor of the Heinemann African Religious Authority and the Global Circuits of Writers’ Series from 1986 to 1997. His most recent Senegalese Muridiyya,” Beth Buggenhagen (IU). book, published in 2005, is Remembering Ken Saro- • “New Forms of Sociality & Mediation”: Wiwa & Other Essays. He lives in Lagos, where he “Islam in the National Public Sphere and the Islamic directs YAMAJA, an editorial services agency. Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” Pearce’s visit was co-sponsored by the English Goolam Vahed (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Department and the Project on African Expressive South Africa); “Muslim Masculinities at the Traditions (POAET). Movies,” Laura Fair (Michigan State University). • “Muslim Discourses”: “The Dialectics of Tradition and Reform: The Hadhrami Model of Islamic Learning and Religious Authority in Twentieth-Century Kenya,” Rüdiger Seesemann (Northwestern University); “Scripturalism and Modernity: Reflections on Islam in Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara,” John Hanson (IU); “Is Islamism a New Phenomenon? Lessons from West Africa,” Ousmane Kane (Columbia University). • “Religious Authority”: “’Kaffir’ Renner’s Conversion: Muslim Representation and the Politics of Self-Invention in the Gold Coast and Ashanti, 1880-1954,” Sean Hanretta (Stanford University); “Authority Matters: Islamic Moral

4 African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 Ghana’s 50th Anniversary of classes. It has won several international awards, including the1982 UNESCO Award. Independence Celebrated in A highlight of the celebrations was the Ghana Style Jubilee Symposium, held in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. The afternoon Ghana’s Jubilee was celebrated belatedly by a event started with a roundtable discussion by series of events at Indiana University this spring. In Ghanaian graduate students Ebenezer Ayesu and Ghana, the 50th anniversary was commemorated in Abdulai Salifu and African Studies Director March, 2007. The IU campus events were Professor Samuel Obeng, entitled “What Ghana sponsored by the African Studies Program and the Means to Us.” The roundtable was followed by two Graduate Students in African Studies and organized stimulating lectures centered on the theme of by a dedicated committee of students and faculty. Ghana’s Jubilee. Professor Kofi Baku (History, On Tuesday, March 4, Bernard Woma and his University of Ghana-Legon) reflected on “Using the troupe Saakumu inaugurated the Jubilee events at Past for the Present and the Future: Ghana’s 50th IU. Performing before a crowd at Wilkie Independence Celebrations.” Professor Jean Auditorium, the evening featured Saakumu’s vibrant Allman (History, Washington University) dancers and drum ensemble as well as the gyil, a complemented Dr. Baku’s insightful lecture with a xylophone commonly found in the northern region stimulating presentation entitled “In Search of of Ghana. During several days in residence, Hannah Kudjoe: Nationalism, Feminism, and the Saakumu also held a workshop for dance students Tyrannies of History.” The evening concluded with and performed at Bloomington’s University a dinner at Bloomington’s Samira restaurant. Elementary School and at Central East Middle Finally, African Studies faculty and students School in Columbus, Indiana. The performances welcomed esteemed master drummer, Midawo were highly interactive, giving students an Gideon Alorwoyie, and his Afrikania Culture opportunity to try out Ghanaian dances. Troupe. A master drummer, an Ewe Chief, and a On Friday, March 21, Kwaw Ansah’s 1980 film professor at the University of North Texas, Midawo Love Brewed in an African Pot was screened in Alorwoyie and his troupe gave a lively performance. Woodburn Hall. Set in 1951, the film is a love story The group played primarily the traditional musical illustrating the struggle between different social genres of the Ewe people, who live in the eastern region of Ghana and in Togo. The evening was opened by the Osagyefo Dance Ensemble, led by IU Ethnomusicology doctoral student Kwesi Brown, who also gave a stunning performance of dancing and drumming. Several members from the Osagyefo Dance Ensemble joined the Afrikania Culture Troupe later in the performance.

Saakumu dancing with University Elementary school students 5 African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 African Languages News Associate Instructors Nasra Ahmed classes in cooperation with the African language (Kiswahili), Boubacar Diakite (Bamana), instructors. Fabienne Diouf (Wolof), Hannah Essien (Akan), ASP was well represented in the teaching of Muziwandile Hadebe (Zulu), and Abdulwahid African languages during SCALI 2008 at the Mazrui (Kiswahili) participated in a workshop on University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Alwiya assessment of proficiency, January 17-18, 2008, Omar conducted the pre-SCALI workshop for conducted by ACTFL specialist Dr. Karl Otto. The language instructors and several instructors taught in workshop complemented those organized by the Institute: Boubacar Diakite (Bamana), Hannah African Languages Coordinator Alwiya Omar on Essien (Arabic), and Abulwahid Mazrui the integration of the 5Cs of the National Foreign (Kiswahili). Graduate assistant Al-Munir Gibrill Language Standards and on the use of technology in taught Hausa and Austin Okigbo taught Igbo. language teaching. The past year’s African Languages Festivals Dr. Alwiya Omar was awarded a grant in the were held on November 2, 2007 and March 28, IU Faculty Podcasting Initiative, administered by 2008. Over one hundred African languages students University Information Technology Services along with their friends and families enjoyed (UITS). She will receive equipment and software to African food and language performances through develop podcasts for use in African language skits, poems, and songs on each occasion.

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Recipients

Academic Year 2007-08 Summer 2008 Lindsey Badger (Comparative Literature and Sara Boulanger (History) – Kiswahili II at SCALI SLIS) – Wolof III Christopher Green (Linguistics) – Kiswahili I at Meghann Beer (Public and Environmental IU Affairs) – Kiswahili III Genevieve Hill-Thomas (Art History) – Bamana II Sara Boulanger (History) – Kiswahili I at SCALI Christopher Green (Linguistics) – Bamana II Jessica Hurd (Art History) – Dogon II in Mali Abbie Hantgan (Linguistics) – Bamana II Fred Pratt (History) – Akan/Twi II in Ghana Jessica Hurd (Art History) – Bamana I Summer Tritt (Library and Information Science & Jeremy Kenyon (Library and Information African Studies) – Akan/Twi IV in Ghana Science/African Studies) – Zulu II Nesrin Omer (African Studies) – Zulu III Fileve Palmer (Anthroplogy) – Zulu III Angela Stone-MacDonald (Education) – Kiswahili IV Summer Tritt (Library and Information Science/African Studies) – Akan/Twi III Katherine Wiley (Anthropology) – Arabic II Martha Wilfahrt (Political Science) – Bamana I

6 African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 Library News Dr. Marion Frank-Wilson (African Studies provide increased access to research for colleagues Collection) coordinates African Studies on the continent. The African Studies Collection participation in IUScholarWorks, Indiana in the Wells Library has continued to add faculty University’s centralized, electronic, institutional publications to IUScholarWorks, and faculty are repository for pre- and post-publication academic encouraged to consider submitting their materials. research. IUScholarWorks is a non-profit designed The African Studies Collection website has to showcase and collect academic works for their added several new features this summer, including long-term preservation and improved access. a link to new African Studies library acquisitions Intended to benefit the scholarly community at (“New Titles in the African Studies Collection”) large, there is no charge for the use of any of the and a tutorial on finding and accessing journal deposited materials. For African Studies, articles. IUScholarWorks is a particularly powerful tool to

Liberian Collections Project

Coordinated by Verlon Stone, the Liberian Liberian History–Preserving the Personal Papers Collections Project (LCP) was awarded a grant to of William V. S. Tubman, Liberia’s Longest conserve, organize and digitize approximately 6,500 Serving President. Later this year, complete sets of historic photographs from the records of William the microfilms will be sent to the University of V.S. Tubman, Liberia's longest-serving president. Liberia, Cuttington University, and the Center for The grant, from the Endangered Archives National Documents and Records/National Programme of the British Library, is for 38,491 Archives in Liberia. British pounds (about $76,750 U.S.) over two years. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The project includes researching the photographs inspected several documents from the President and creating Web tools for annotating, viewing and W.V.S. Tubman papers and viewed a photo display searching the collection. of the LCP’s archival work in Liberia during her The photographs project had its genesis in 2005, visit to IU at the beginning of May. when the Liberian Collections Project recovered and transported 22 containers of papers and other personal materials from the Tubman family Liberian country estate to IU for preservation. A conservation team found more than 2,000 Tubman- era photographs among the documents. In 2006, the Tubman family allowed Dr. Stone, LCP Advisory Board Member, Elwood Dunn and Philip Bantin, director of the University Archives at IU, to recover four additional containers of photographs from the estate. Included were many photographs of Tubman, who was president of Liberia from 1944 to 1971, with world dignitaries and African leaders. The LCP has moved into the final phase of microfilming for the project EAP027: Rescuing

7 African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 Outreach News In collaboration with the Career Development of Education met with teachers throughout the Center, African Studies held an African Careers week to discuss ways of integrating their new Night on November 27, 2007. The well-attended knowledge into their lesson plans. event allowed students to learn about opportunities ASP conducted six teacher workshops in in African Studies and to network with central and southern Indiana in cooperation with professionals. Panelists and their topics included: other IU National Resource Centers and the Center Brett Kuhnert, Peace Corps as a Gateway to an for Social Studies and International Education. The International Career; Diane Pelrine, Careers in workshops were tailored to two of the state African Art; Rachel Kenis, Journalism Internship standards for the high-school level “History and Experience in Senegal; Elana Habib, Volunteering Geography of the World” course. in Kenya; Laura Arntson, Careers with Non-Profit Several African Studies graduate students were Organizations. active in outreach to schools and community ASP Outreach Director Osita Afoaku and his groups by teaching about Africa through music and assistant Kwesi Brown organized the annual Spring dance. Muziwandile Hadebe and his Gumboot Workshop and the Summer Institute for 7-12th grade Ensemble, Austin Okigbo, and Kwesi Brown teachers. gave more than twenty performances across the The spring workshop was held on March 22, state during the academic year. The Gumboot 2008, and focused on “AIDS/HIV and Conflict Ensemble also performed for classes and events on Management in Africa.” The Summer Institute took the IUB campus. Kwesi Brown and the African place from June 23-27, 2008. IU faculty and Music and Dance Ensemble held drumming graduate students introduced teachers to a range of sessions at the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center topics relating to African history and contemporary on Friday evenings during the semester. issues. A curriculum specialist from the IU School Indianapolis Film Series – Bloomington Film Series Africa: Challenge and Hope The African Studies Program hosted an African The IUPUI Committee on African and African- film series in Fine Arts 102 on three consecutive American Studies organized a film series during Wednesday evenings in August 2008: Black History Month in cooperation with the •Ezra (Newton Aduaka, 2007), the first film to Indiana Museum of Art (IMA) and the Indiana give an African perspective on the phenomenon of University Black Film Center/Archive. Held at the child soldiers. IMA in February, each of the films was followed by •Forgiveness (Ian Gabriel, 2005), a dramatic a discussion: rendering of the search for forgiveness following the •Bamako (Abderrahmane, 2006) makes vivid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the personal and cultural effects of globalization on South Africa. post-colonial Africa through a poignant and poetic •Iron Ladies of Liberia (Siatta Scott Johnson trial of international financial institutions, set in a and Daniel Junge, 2007), an examination of courtyard in Bamako. Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s first year •Days of Glory/Indigenes (Rachid Bouchareb, in office and the challenges faced by her and her 2006) tells the story of four Algerian men who face women appointees. harsh discrimination in the French army during World War II. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2006. •Iron Ladies of Liberia (Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge, 2007) 8 African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008

The African Studies Program Donna J. Patterson (History): “Expanding Professional Horizons: Female Pharmacists in Congratulates Twentieth Century Dakar, Senegal.” Donna took up 2007-2008 Ph.D.s an assistant professor position at Wellesley College. Elizabeth Perrill (Art History); “Contemporary Kathryn V. Boswell (Anthro-pology): Zulu Ceramics, 1960s-Present.” Elizabeth accepted “Transnational Migration, War, and Forced Re- an assistant professor position at the University of patriation from Cote d’Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West North Carolina, Greensboro. Africa.” Kathryn accepted an assistant professor position at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, MA. Nathan Plageman (History): “Everybody Likes Saturday Night: A Social History of Popular Music Candace Keller (Art History): “Visual Griots: and Masculinities in Urban Gold Coast/Ghana, c. Social, Political, and Cultural History in Mali 1900-1970.” Nathan has accepted an assistant Through the Photographic Lens.” Candace accepted professor position at Wake Forest University an assistant professor position at Michigan State University. Tristan Purvis (Linguistics): “A Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of Register Variation in Christine Mathenge (Geography): “Effects of Dagbani.” Tristan has accepted a position at the Migrant Origin, Occupancy and Land Acquisition University of Maryland. on Changing Land Tenure Patterns in Southwest Uganda.” Christine accepted an assistant professor Retirements position at Austin Peay Uni-versity in Nashville, Tennessee. Professor Robert Port retired at the end of the 2007-08 academic year after 30 years of Sarah A. Mathews (Education): “An Ethnographic teaching at Indiana University. Dr. Port was Examination on Perspective Consciousness and Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Intercultural Competence among Social Studies Computer Science and a member of the African Student-Teachers in Kenya, West Africa.” Sarah Studies Program faculty. Dr. Port earned his has accepted a tenure-line position at Clemson Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in University. 1976. He specializes in phonetics, speech production and perception, Kiswahili, and Sheasby Matiure (Folklore/Ethnomusicology): dynamical models of cognition. He will continue “Performing Zimbabwean Music in North America: to teach classes in the Department of Linguistics, An Ethnography of Mbira and Marimba including “What is Phonology?” in the fall 2008 Performance Practice in the United States.” semester. Dr. Port was the first Africanist Sheasby will return to a faculty position at the Linguist faculty hired in the Program in African University of Zimbabwe in Harare. Languages and Linguistics to teach Swahili and Evelyn L. Namubira (Public Policy/SPEA): Phonetics. “Coping with Top-Down Institutional Changes in Forestry (Uganda).” Sue Hanson is retiring effective September 1st after twenty-seven years as administrative Hannington Ochwada (History): “Negotiating assistant and officer manager in the African Difference: The Church Missionary Society, Studies Program. She will be missed by office Colonial Education, and Gender Among Aâaluyi staff, faculty, and students. The ASP will honor and Joluo Communities of Kenya, 1900-60.” her for her work and dedication at the 2008 fall Hannington is a visiting assistant professor at reception on October 3rd. Missouri State University.

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African Studies Program ◊ Indiana University Summer 2008 Faculty Notes 2008, Dr. Clark presented “Lincoln Therapeutic Discourse’” in Health Green and Real Dutch Java Prints: Knowledge and Belief Systems in A.B. Assensoh (African American Cloth Selvages as Brands in Inter- Africa, Toyin Falola & Matthew and African Diaspora Studies) national Trade” at a conference on Heaton, eds. Obeng also co- published “A Historical-Cum- “ of Commodity Branding” authored a review of the Handbook Political Overview of Ghana’s at University College London, U.K. of Discourse Analysis with Christo- National Health Insurance Law,” in pher Green for the Journal of World Jane Goodman (Communication African and Asian Studies Journal Englishes. and Culture) received a Fulbright- (co-authored with Hassan Wahab) Hays fellowship and an ACLS/ Alwiya Omar (Linguistics) co- and co-authored “A Farewell Salute: SSRC/NEH fellowship for her authored a Kiswahili text book for Ousmane Sembene, A Distinguished research on Algerian theater during advanced learners with Leonce F. Filmmaker, Author, and Activist,” the 2008-09 year. Rushubirwa: Tuwasiliane kwa in Black Camera. He was discus- Kiswahili (Let's Communicate in sant for the panel “Pedagogical and Maria Grosz-Ngaté (African Kiswahili): A Multidimensional Ap- Research Issues in Teaching African Studies) presented “Religious Prac- proach to the Teaching and Learning and Latin American Courses” and tice and Ethnic Diversity in the Bu of Swahili as a Foreign Language, chaired a panel on “Third World Kunta Branch of the Qadiriyya published by the National African History and Politics” at the (Senegal)” during the Seventh Language Resource Center Association of Third World Studies International Mande Studies Con- (NALRC) Press, Madison, Wiscon- conference in Lima, Peru. He gave ference, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 sin, 2007. the invited paper “Lincoln’s Ex- June, 2008. ternal Legacy: Africa” at the 2008 Daniel B. Reed (Ethnomusicology) Abraham Lincoln International Lauren Morris MacLean (Political received a New Frontiers in the Arts Conference, sponsored by the Ger- Science) published a working paper and Humanities grant from the IU man American Institute, and pre- “The Micro-Dynamics of Welfare Office of the Vice President for sented “Ghana at 50 Years Old: A State Retrenchment and the Impli- Research for “Crossing Boundaries: Histo-Political Perspective” at the cations for Citizenship in Africa,” in An Application of Innovative School of Oriental and African Afrobarometer. Technology to an Ethnomusicolo- Studies, University of London. gical Study of Ivorian Immigrants in Samuel Obeng (African Studies Assensoh received the Research the United States.” He presented and Linguistics) published one Forum Distinguished Scholar “Embodying Diversity, Representing book, Efutu Structure, and co- Award from the Association of Africa: Renegotiations of Praxis and authored two volumes with Beverly Third World Studies and the Identity for Ivorian Immigrant Musi- Hartford: Political Discourse Analy- Eminent Scholar Award for giving cians in the Midwestern United sis and Intercultural Communi- the keynote address for the States,” at the 2007 African Studies cations in 2008. He also published University of Ghana Ahmadiyya Association annual meeting; “Mu- several book chapters: “Language Students’ Association of Ghana. sic, Masks and Identity in the Lives Maintenance among Akan-Ghanaian of 21st Century Dan,” Sogbety Dio- Gracia Clark (Anthropology) Immigrants Living in the United mande’s West African Celebration, participated in a “writeshop” with States” in Migrations and Creative Mansfield, Ohio; and “Ge Perfor- African traders entitled “Traders Expressions in Africa and the mance: Masks, Music and Identity Talk” in Nairobi at the beginning of African Diaspora, Toyin Falola, among Ivorians at Home and fall semester 2007. The event she Niyi Afolabi, & Adérónké Adésolá Abroad,” Harvard University Com- helped plan was sponsored by KIT Adésànyà, eds.; “‘If We Have mittee on African Studies Lecture Royal Tropical Institute in Amster- Something to Tell God, We Tell it Series. dam in cooperation with several to the Wind’ A Linguistic and international organizations. In May Discursive Analysis of Akan

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Beverly Stoeltje (Anthropology) Political Discourse Analysis and co- contacting Mark Miyake at chaired the organizing committee authored a review of the Handbook [email protected]. for the symposium “Rethinking of Discourse Analysis with Dr. Race in the Americas: Anthro- Samuel Obeng, for The Journal of Kate Schroeder (History) has pology, Politics and Policy” to World Englishes. He also presented accepted a position as a librarian celebrate the 60th anniversary of the “Nasal Deletion in Class 9/10 and its with the U.S. Government in Wa- IU Anthropology Department. Effect on the Augment” at the 39th shington, DC. She holds a M.L.S African Linguistics Conference. degree from IU’s School of Library Verlon Stone (Liberia Collections) and Information Sciences. chaired a panel on the W.V.S. Colleen Haas (Ethnomusicology) Tubman Papers at the Liberian received the Outstanding Service Alex Segura (African Studies Studies Association meetings. He Award from the Unitarian Univer- Certificate student) was awarded an was also an invited participant and salist Church of Bloomington for her Economics Department Scholarship. presenter at the Liberian Archives role as artistic director of the Music Angela Stone-McDonald (Edu- Symposium at the Schomburg and Diversity Concert held in cation) received a 2008-09 Fulbright Center of the New York City February 2008. IIE Grant for research on education Library. Jennifer Hart (History) was for children with developmental awarded a 2008-09 Fulbright-Hays disabilities in Lushoto, Tanzania. Dissertation Fellowship and a Summer Tritt was awarded an IU Student Notes Fulbright IIE Grant (declined) for International Enhancement Grant in dissertation research in Ghana. support of her summer 2008 Ebenezer Ayesu (History) internship at the Balme Library, conducted pre-dissertation research Clara Henderson (Ethnomusi- University of Ghana at Legon. in Ghana in summer 2008. cology) was nominated for the Academic Diversity Group award by Meghann Beer (SPEA) completed the Office of Academic Support and her Master of Public Administration Diversity as part of Sheasby Alumni Notes in May. In the summer, she led a 5- Matiure’s Mutihimira Marimba week service-learning trip for US Ensemble. Matthew Carotenuto (History, high school students to Tanzania for 2006) moved from Albion College the NGO Global Routes. Meghann Abdulwahid Mazrui (Linguistics) in Michigan to a new assistant pro- also became the executive director and Khalfan Mohammed pub- fessor position at Saint Lawrence for the Bloomington nonprofit lished Swahili: A Complete Course University in Canton, NY. Giving Back to Africa, which fosters for Beginners (Random House, education and community service in 2007). the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sheasby Matiure (Ethno- Paul Davis (Art History) was musicology) released his second awarded a 2008-09 Fulbright-Hays album, Saruwa Rako. The album is Dissertation Fellowship and a composed of traditional Shona songs Fulbright IIE Grant (declined) for arranged for the mbira nyunga- research in Mali. nyunga, and for the marimba. Re- corded in Bloomington, the full- Christopher Green (Linguistics) length album includes tracks with published “Discursive Strategies in the Mbira Queens and with the Political Speech: The Words of Dr. Mutinhimira Marimba Ensemble and Bingu wa Mutharika” in Issues in is available in local stores and by

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