A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXXI FOR AFRICAN STUDIIS FROM THE EXECUTIVE ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 1998 DIRECTOR ...

OFFICERS PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS AFRICA Night after night President: Sandra Greene (Cornell University) for almost two weeks it continued, was I back in Nairobi? No not at Vice-President: David Wiley (Michigan State Univ) all. I was in the US, yet I kept hearing it. "Today in Africa." Every Past President: Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown Univ) night the evening news started with "Today in Africa." Has the news Treasurer: Jack Parson (College of Charleston) ever started like this before? It has not, but then again, never has a Executive Director: Chris Koch (Rutgers University) sitting president made such an extensive visit to the continent. "Today in Africa," I relished the words while wondering how many DIRECTORS Americans could find on a map just one of the six countries the president was visiting. RETIRING IN 1998 President Clinton's 12 day six nation safari seems to have Keletso Atkins (University of Minnesota) taken much of the continent by storm. Most heads of state lined up to be unequivocal praise singers, with the exception of President Julius Nyang'oro (Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Mandela. Will the President's trip change anything in Africa, I have Oaire Robertson (Ohio State University) my doubts. Just perhaps though. the true legacy of the trip might be in the way Americans view Africa. I was moved by Carol Castiel, who RETIRING IN 1999 in writing for West Africa magazine, draws our attention to a Judith Byfield (Dartmouth University) statement made in Senegal: "I will never forget as long as I live the Frank Holmquist (Hampshire College) many faces Hillary and I have seen in these 12 days. In them I have Omofolabo Soyinka (University of Kansas) seen the beauty and intelligence energy and sprit, and the determination to prevail. I have seen the faces of Africa's future." I RETIRING IN 2000 pray the president has a long memory and a long life. Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University) ASA ARRIVES AT RUTGERS Welcome to Rutgers, a blue Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University) and white 56 foot moving van was parked next to 132 George Street. Eileen Julien (Indiana University) The day was January 5, 1998, the African Studies Association had arrived on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University. Could we possibly own so much stuff? It had taken us nearly two good days to ASA News, Vol. XXXI, No 2 Apr/Jun 1998 load in Atlanta and now the prospect of unloading the van and ISSN 0278-2219 starting afresh at Rutgers was as exciting as the air was crisp. A great deal has happened since that January morning. We are Editor: Chris Koch hiring and training staff plus settling into our new quarters. We have been having problems with the Rutgers Personnel Department. The Associate Editor: Rainier Spencer first two jobs we posted were classified too low, this resulted in disappointing applicant pools and has necessitated us having the Published quarterly by the African Studies Association. posts reclassified and readvertised. A slow and painful process to say the least. but that's life in the fast lane. Nevertheless, we are making E-mail address: [email protected] great progress. With the help of our good friends here we reposted our Web Page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/ positions, moved forward, and hired. Home]age/ASA_Menu.html Also, we have secured 1,000 square feet of additional space for the ASA Press. This gives us the space we need to handle production Submissions to ASA News should be sent to ASA News. African Studies Association, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, tasks as well as shipping and billing. In addition, the new space will Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick. NJ 08901­ be used for warehousing our publications and as a conference area. All 1400. Deadlines for submissions are December 1, March 1, June I, in all we are very excited and pleased to be associated with Rutgers. and September I. Submissions received electronically will be given ASA TO FORGE CLOSER LINKS WITH RUTGERS The priority. Board of Directors approved a bold new program, proposed by the Domestic claims for non-receipt of issues must be made within six Executive Director, which will link ASA and Rutgers in promoting months of the month of publication-overseas claims must be made African studies. The program has three thrusts. First. the board will within one year. endeavor to hold at least every other Spring meeting at Rutgers. Second, the ASA will make funds available so that one or more board Notice to Members: The United States Postal System does not for­ ward periodicals. 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April/June 1998 PROVISIONAL MINUTES we are as well-placed as we can be. I remember correctly. Next we took up new BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING Development: Our National Endowment of fundraising efforts, the result of which is the Present: Directors Gwendolyn Mikell the Humanities Challenge Grant is now over. enclosed outreach proposal. The discussion (Chair); Sandra Greene; Iris Berger; Marina Unfortunately we missed our goal by less than covered problems with organizing Ottaway; Keletso Atkins; Julius Nyang'oro; a thousand dollars which we will have to conferences either within Africa or the U.S. Claire Robertson; Judith Byfield; Robert return to the Endowment. We should be proud with Africa-wide organizations. The limited Harms; Frank Holmquist; Omofolabo A. of our achievement, our endowment has a effort with WARA/ CODESRIA in Dakar last market value of almost $600,000. Now is the Soylnka; Chris Koch (Executive Director); June whereby ASA sponsored several panels time that the Board will want to consider new Jack Parson (Treasurer & AASP was not successful. Few people attended the development issues. Representative) Annual Meeting: Work has begun on this panels and poor judgment was used in year's annual meeting in Chicago. We plan to selecting chairs. The discussion then moved Thursday, November 13 contract the production of the Call for Papers to on to devise ways cross-contlnent organizing 9:30am-12:00pm (Olair: Mikell) Dr. Rainier Spencer, who has joined the could be done. The result was the second 1.0 Approval of Minutes The Minutes of University of Nevada. This will allow for the part of the outreach proposal aimed at the Spring Board of Directors Meeting were publication of ASA News while our office is in organizing targeted workshops or approved pending the correction below. transition. The National Panels Chair, Paul conferences at African universities, which 1 6.0 Annual Meeting Committee Zeleza is working on the theme statement and was felt to be manageable and poSSibly Report. The sentence which reads "...Cheryl has begun to put his committee in place. effective. Taking into account the input of Johnson-Odlm will organize the local Publications: Our publications are almost the Summit on Africa people at one of the arrangements committee for Chicago in on schedule. African Studies Review 40(2) has Board meetings, we also came up with the 1998." should read " ... Johnson-Odim will just been sent to the printer as has Issue 25(1). idea of the first part of the proposal, assist in organizing the local arrangements As you know our publication program has been promoting efforts to improve images of and committee..." scaled down in preparation for our move. knowledge about Africa in the U.S. as well The move to Rutgers University: The as interconnections with Africa via the 2.0 Elections Committee Report (l(och) painting and general refurbishing of our new internet. Vice Presidential And Board Elections. For Vice offices at Rutgers is almost complete. We have President: Richard Joseph 132 and David Wiley also hired Ms. Karen Bryant (new Assistant to 6.0 Publications Committee Report 162"; spoiled ballets 0 and blank ballets 10; the Executive Director), who was able to join us (Berger) Members of the Publications and learn from these meetings. We were not so Total Votes Cast For Vice President 3M. For Committee met with editors of ASA Board of Directors: Kenneth W Harrow 180"; lucky in our attempt to hire a secretary. Rutgers rated the position too low and no qualified publications to discuss issues of concern Dorothy L Hodgson 156" Eileen Julien 154"; both to the editors and the Board. Reporting Della McMillan 111; Ropo Sekoni 141; Wosene applicants were found. We are now in the process of having this position upgraded. on African Studies Review were both Mark Yehu 121; spoiled ballets 0 and blank ballets 4. Delancy, then current editor and the Total Votes Cast For Board 867. Committee incoming editors, Mitzi Goheen and Ralph members: Chris Koch (Chair), ASA; Mustafah 4.0 Finance Committee Report Dhada, Qark Atlanta University; Benjamin (Holmquist) The Committee noted with Falkingham. All agreed that the transition Odhoji, Emory University; and Ephraim Josiah, deep regret the recent death of our process was going extremely well Mark Qark Atlanta University. As reported the 19th Treasurer, Carole Eastman. Her many Delancy had been invited to the Five College of September 1997. contributions as Treasurer of the Association area to meet with the new editorial board After presentation of the report it was went far beyond the ordinary. We offer our and manuscripts and books had been turned agreed that the executive director allow staff to sympathy to her husband and family. over. open the outside envelopes, which contain the We were pleased that Jack Parson has Discussion centered on various ideas and ballot envelopes, upon receipt. agreed to be acting Treasurer for one year. issues of concern to the new editors: dealing The Committee noted that institutional with the backlog of books for review, 3.0 Executive Directors Report (l(och) memberships were dropping because of increasing the base of reviewers, plans to be Membership: As of the end of October we have library cutbacks, including USIS sub­ proactive in generating new manuscripts, 2,187 individual members who have paid dues scriptions. The Committee also suggested encouraging submissions from Africa. for either 1997 or 1998, of these 80 are life that those who were six months behind on Editors expressed concern about getting ASR members. There are 541 institutional members the membership renewals should be to African libraries since the AAAS program who have paid dues of either 1996 or 1997. The reminded that their publications will stop. has ceased and new ways to increase total membership, and circulation of members' communication between African scholars publications, is 2,728. It should be noted that The Budget appeared to be "on track" in the period April to November. The Committee and scholarship and the ASR. this figure is normally lower than that reported David Henige, editor of History in Africa, at the Spring meeting. This is due to the fact expects that there will be unusual expenses that in the Fall we drop members who have not during the transition to Rutgers, but the was particularly concerned about the sent their renewal payment for the current budget has made allowances for this period possibility of outsourcing ASA publications year. of uncertainty. and what this might mean for the costs of Finances: Into the second quarter of our In discussion following the report it was production of our journals. He argued fiscal year, we continue to be well within our agreed that the president should accompany cogently that rising costs make it difficult for proposed budget. This is welcome news since the treasurer on his annual visit to the ASA libraries to afford many journals, particularly this could be a year of fiscal uncertainty owing Secretariat. in the sciences. He observed that HIA is now to our move to Rutgers. Throughout the second becoming profitable and could be more so if and third quarters I expect ASA Press sales to 5.0 Development Committee Report kept at current the price. He proposed that slump while we move and re-staff our office. (Robertson) The initial discussion centered the formatting of the journal be done at At this time our priority will be the processing around the final report of the NEH Wisconsin so that the ASA could have of membership renewals. Last Spring we fundraislng effort, which Chris Koch had not camera-ready copy to send to the printer. passed a budget that allows for the yet prepared but which was given orally as Beverly Hawk, who is completing her uncertainties involved In our move to Rutgers, we only had to return to NEH some $1000, if term as editor of Issue, raised a number of particularly increased labor costs, so I feel that April/June 1998 issues that she wished the committee and the (Music, Ohio State), Odum Balogun (Uterature, anniversary. We wish to remind everyone that Board to consider. She also asked for Delaware State), John Harbeson (Political the ALC is also 40 years old. From the inception clarification of some aspects of the Science, CUNY), Beverly Hawk (Political of the ASA in 1957, there was a '1ibrary relationship between the editor and the Science, University of Alabama), Sheridan rommittee". 50, let us celebrate together! Board. She suggested. that free copies of Issue Johns (Political Science, Duke University), The ALC is observing its 40th anniversary with an international symposium, "Africana be sent to an international and U.S. press list Stephen Ndegwa (political Science, College of so that it could be used. more effectively as William and Mary), and Richard Roberts librarianship in the 21st century: treasuring the (History, Stanford University). The committee past and building the future." This conference an outreach tool. This would publicize the members were, from the Board, Keletso Atkins, was held on November 13, 1997, in the Hyatt ASA and might bring in more members. She Judith Byfield, Sandra Greene (Chair), Robert Regency Greater Columbus Convention Center. also recommended faster turnover time to Harms. The non-Board members were Sandra The symposium was made possible in part insure more timely treatment of current Barkan, Salah Hassan, and Nancy Schmidt. through a grant from the Rockefeller questions. There was general agreement that there Foundation. The ALC wishes to thank the ASA The rommittee members then turned to was a need for guidelines for the Executive for its support in helping to ronsideration of a new editor for Issue. Based Nominating Committee. administer the grant. The ALC also appreciates on the responses to the call for nominations the support received from the ASA International and self-nominations published in ASA News 10.0 Bilateral Agreement with RutgeIS Visitors Program and the additional support and announced on the ASA Home Page, the University (Koch) It was decided that the from the ASA Women's Caucus for the committee then agreed on the selection of Board forward the agreement to the symposium's keynote speaker, Kay Raseroka (Director, University of Botswana Ubrary). Dr. Steve Orvis, a political scientist at Hamilton Association's legal council and that we get a Nancy J. Schmidt of Indiana University College, as the next editor of Issue. Possible separate side letter from the Rutgers Dean of new directions for Issue might include a ([email protected]) and the ALC 40th Arts and Sciences regarding the three work anniversary committee are to be commended for Francophone issue and more guest-edited. study positions. assembling an impressive array of librarians issues. and archivists from the United States, Botswana, The rommittee members then turned to 11.0 Application of AAWS &; CIES to be Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South consideration of the bids to produce ASA Coordinates The Association of African Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, England, Sweden, publications that came from five publishers: Women Scholars applied to berome a and Norway. The all-day ronference included Lynne Rienner, Indiana University Press, co-ordinate organization and the Council for panels on rollection development, cooperation, University of Rochester, Transaction Press, International Exchange of Scholars requested reference and bibliographic instruction, and a and NISC (National Information Services to berome an affiliate member of the ASA. It dinner session on reminiscences of the past and Corporation). After careful and detailed was agreed that the AAWS application be predictions for the future. The proceedings of examination of the bids that centered. carried over to the Spring meeting when the ronference will be published in May 1998. particularly on comparison between current more information would be available. The During the past year, the ALC and its production costs and those projected. in the CIES application was declined, however it members have also been pursuing a number of bids, the committee recommended that the was agreed to offer OES free space at the projects in cataloging and bibliography. Under the leadership of ALC Cataloging Board as a whole examine in greater depth annual meeting for a meeting with Fulbright Committee Chair, Elizabeth Plantz of the proposals from Lynne Rienner and scholars. Indiana. Northwestern University ([email protected]), an Africana Subject 12.0 Appointment of ACLS Delegate 7JJ Appointment of Editor for Issue Heading Funnel Project is progressing slowly 0/198-12/31/01) It was approved that Iris with over 116 new headings submitted and 20 Stephen Orvis of the Hamilton College was Berger would succeed. Gwen Mikell as the revised headings accepted by the Library of named the new editor of Issue following the ASA's delegate to the American Council of Congress since late 1996. The newly-established expiry of Beverly Hawk's tenn of office. Learned Societies. headings rover a range of subjects, induding Stephen Orvis will serve a two year tenn. African languages, ethnic groups, geographical 13.0 Consideration of Proposals to terms, and historical periods. The rommittee is 8.0 Annual Meetings Committee Report Publish ASA Journals After ronsiderable also providing on-going consultation to the (Greene) The rommittee received reports discussion the board agreed. to follow the Library of Congress' revision of the Dewey from Barbara Lewis and Rainier Spencer on rerommendation of the Publications Decimal Oassification Area the successess and difficulties experienced. Committee and enter into further discussion Table for 50uth Africa. this year. All expressed. regret as' well as with Lynne Rienner Press and Indiana Among the bibliographers in ALe, two exasperation at the difficulties encountered.. University Press about pUblishing African cooperative projects are under way. First, Communication issues emerged as one of Studies Review and Issue. Africana librarians representing African Studies the most critical problems that plagued the centers with US Title VI government funding have joined with the Cooperative Africana 1997 Annual Meeting. Efforts to rectify the Saturday, November 15 Microform Project of the Center for Research problem were then discussed. The 3:00pm - 5:30 pm (Chair: Greene) committee resolved to assemble a manual Libraries (Chicago) to work with the National 14.0 CommiHee Assignments (Greene) Archives of the Center for Research Libraries that outlines in a more formal manner the New Board members were assigned to (Chicago) to work with the National Archives of various tasks and responsibilities of those rommittees as follow: Kenneth W Harrow, Senegal (Dakar) on a cooperative microfilming involved in putting together the annual Finance and Publications; Dorothy Hodgson, project. The staff of the National Archives of meeting. Development and Publications; and Eileen Senegal are producing microfilm sets of colonial Julien, Development and Finance. court rerords for their own institution and for 9.0 Nominating Committee Report the Center for Research Ubraries. The latter sets (Greene) The 1998 Committee nominated the 15.0 Sponsored Groups Forum will become available to researchers in North following people: for Vice President; Lansine 15.L Mrkana Librarians Council America through interlibrary loan. A Kaba (History, University of Dlinois, Chicago) (Joseph Caruso) The Africana Ubrarians background trip report by Dr. Joseph Caruso is and Jack Parson (political Science, College of Council (ALQ wishes to congratulate the accessible on the Internet at: Charleston); for the BoarcL Daniel Avorgbedor African Studies Association (ASA) on its 40th http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv

Aprilflune 1998 /area/Africa/SGproject.html Fund-Raising Committee met and sent letters to The ETG listserv was launched in 1996 and Second, the ALC hopes to sponsor in the members and friends of ACASA soliciting for was aimed to stimulate discussion and coming year a new cooperative venture funds. This remains an on-going program. communication within the ETG members involving the compilation of a Union List of ACASA continues to grow. As at October about issues that pertain to information African Newspapers to be published on the 1996, there were 276 Paying, 182 Regular, 75 technology in Africa, African Studies and to Internet. The goal is to include on such a list the Special, 11 Institutional and 8 Lifetime serve as a bulletin board. The list which has location and holdings of all major collections of members. Our electronics site also continues to now more than 60 subscribers from the US and African newspapers in paper and on film in the grow. Managed by Ray Silverman and Michael abroad, has been moved from Abiline United States, Europe, and Africa. This project Conner, H-AfrArts currently has more than 200 Christian University, to Syracuse University, will be funded through the Global Resources subscribers, 58 of whom are ACASA members. and it now resides at University of program of the Association of Research This site has become very useful for sharing Pennsylvania. Libraries. the United States, Europe, and Africa. information and ideas among members, as well ETG Newsletter: During 1996-97, the ETG This project will be funded through the Global as for viewing exhibits and critical reviews of has electronically published two issues of its Resources program of the Association of publications. (The Electronic Newsletter of the African Research Libraries. During the year, our energy has been Studies), edited by Brian Murphy. The Other accomplishments of ALC members focused on raising funds for our Triennial and newsletter featured news and activities that since November 1996 include: the Electronic for the Endowment. But we have also been took place in different parts of the world and Journal of Africana Bibliography working on making the New Orleans Triennial touches the issues of information technology in (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/proj/ejab/), a success. Working in conjunction with Africa, as well as reviews of relevant web sites edited by the late Dr. John Bruce Howell of the Conferon, ACASA has secured the New that cover Africa. University of Iowa Libraries; the International Orleans Marriott as the venue. It has also ETG Collaboration with the ASA: Directory of African Studies Scholars contracted a professional organization, the Management of the ASA web page has Repertoire international des specialistes de UNO Conference Services to undertake the continued throughout the year, and major ASA l'Afrique registration process. projects have been accomplished in this regard (gopher: / / gopher.cc.colum bia.edu:71 /11 / cliop 15.3. Current Issues Council (Michael such as: Jane Guyer's book, ASA Minutes Ius/scholarly / Afr /Scholars), edited by Dr. West) The Council this year remains interested Meetings, ASA publications, and the ASA 40th Joseph Caruso of Columbia University in a number of contemporary issues, both Annual Meeting related-materials Libraries; and, the Africana Libraries intellectual and political, sponsoring two (announcements, preliminary program, etc..) Newsletter-Online panels. The first panel centered on the question ETG Collaboration with other ASA (http://www.lib.msu.edu/lauer/aln), which of reparations for African slavery, an issue that Groups: In fulfilling its goal to ... .facilitate the offers electronic access to news about the ALC's received considerable national attention earlier initiation and maintenance of listservs, web activities and other articles of related interest, this year, including suggestions (never carried pages, and databases that are requested by under the editorship of Dr. Joseph Lauer of out) of a presidential apology to African sponsored groups.." the ETG has developed a Michigan State University Libraries. Americans. The panels participants included web page for GLAS, and it also received web The ALC is also proud to announce the Professor J. Ade Ayayi and Mr. Dudley materials for a Women Caucus web page. launching of its own Home Page at: Thompson, both members of the OAU's ETG First Workshop: In order to expand its http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/aned/9asa.html eminent persons group on reparations. The work beyond the normal activities at the ASA Thanks go to Joanne Zellers of the Library of second panel dealt with refugees and conferences, and to reach out for a wider Congress for making the home page a "virtual" intervention in Africa, another burning issue audience, and to generate some financial reality. throughout the length and breadth of the support, the ETG has organized this year its 15.2. Arts Council of the ASA (Dele African continent. first workshop on "Uses of Information Jegede) At the November 1996 San Francisco As in previous years, members of the Technology in Teaching about Africa" on Nov. ASA meeting, four members came on board: Council have also been involved in debates on 11, 1997, at the Ohio State University. The Polly Nooter Roberts, Kathleen Bickford, the status of African Studies in the United workshop was organized in collaboration with Michael Harris and Dan Avorgbedor who States, both within and outside the academy. the office of Emerging Technologies at became our new Newsletter editor, replacing Council members were among those who University Technology Services, the Ohio State Janet Stanley. They replaced Rowland Abiodun, participated in a retreat in January on University. Nii Quarcoopome and Janet Stanley. Standing constituency building for Africa, an event Advertisement for the workshop was also in for Kathy Curnow as Secretary/Treasurer sponsored by the Washington-based Africa coordinated with the ASA Teachers Workshop was Rosalinde Wilcox. At that same meeting, Policy Information Center. Additionally, where discounts was offered for those want to Dele Jegede was elected president; he several Council members have contributed to attend both workshops. The one-day ETG succeeded Bill Dewey, who became past the on-going dialogue on the past, present and workshop was divided into two session the president. future of African Studies in Africa Today. first session was covered by Dr. Egondu For the first time ever, ACASA's 1998 15.4. Electronic Technology Group (Ali Onyejekwe, and Dr. Robert Dixon from OSU, Triennial Symposium on African Art would be Dinar) The ETG is a sponsored organization and Ali Dinar was responsible for the second held in a hotel The venue, New Orleans, was authorized by the African Studies Association. session. This year the workshop was attended believed to be a good site for this major It has been operating since 1990 as an informal by 14 participants. initiative, for which ASA's model would be grouping of about 100 ASA members interested ETG 1997 Booth: After securing a booth for adopted. The theme adopted was "African Art in the development of computer-mediated the Ohio meeting this year, the ETG has Studies at the Millennium." technologies for African research and negotiated and won the approval of Dr. Having been given permission by the ASA, information exchange. Onyejekwe for equipping the booth with ACASA decided to go on with its Endowment New ETG officers was elected during the enough computers and internet accounts, all and Fund-Raising project. A committee was 1996 ASA annual conference, with the free of charge. Moreover, Dr. Onyejekwe and formed, comprising Roy Sieber and Jean following responsibilities: Ali Dinar, U Penn her assistants were also in charge of instaIIing Borgatti and. The objective was to raise funds to (Chair); Brian Murphy, U Mass. (Deputy these equipment at the ETG booth to guarantee enable ACASA bring its colleagues in Africa as Chair); David Cole, Syracuse U. (Secretary); and their workability. Without Dr. Onyejekwe well as graduate students from within the Karen Fung, Stanford U. (Treasurer). Following collaboration, both the ETG workshop and the country to attend the Triennial. The Mr. David Cole's own decision to close his booth may have taken a different course. Endowment Fund was set up as a separate activities with the ETG, a new member will be ETG 1997 Conference Panels: As an project. During the year, the Endowment and elected this year to fill the vacant office. obligation for its membership, the ETG has

Aprilnune 1998 organized 2 panels this year, and the was noted that GLAS was originally created Leslie) The major focus of outreach centers is to participants were from the US and abroad. The as an organization to meet the intellectual and assist teachers and communities in general main themes include: '1nformation Technology soda! needs of gay, lesbian, and bisexual acquire appropriate African materials in order and SocIal Practices in Africa~, and ~owards Africanists and that it was important to ensure to understand and teach about the continent Enhancing Electronic Resources about Africa". that GLAS continue to fulfill this purpose. It more effectively. The following are some of the An LCD panel and overhead projector were was suggested that a second organization major activities which the various centers also secured (free of charge) from OSU for use could be established to bring together all organized last year in order to meet that goal: in these panels, thanks to Dr. Onyejekwe for those-regardless of sexual orientation--who 1. Africa and the New Technologies: In her assistance. were interested in broad issues of sexuality order to make information easily accessible The future plans for the ETG includes: ­ and sexual identity in Africa and that GLAS most centers provide information through the expand and continue the previOUS current should work closely with other organizations, internet. Almost all the centers have created activities initiated by the ETG. - develop funded such as the Women's Caucus in ASA, whose websites. The University of Pennsylvania, for projects that will enhance collaborative work to members were also interested in these issues. instance, provides a wide range of information address information technology in Africa, It was agreed that GLAS should emphasize its on Africa. Centers also provide advanced through training and research. - develop a desire to be an inclusive organization with a activities such as interactive video distance book, on the practices of information and diverse membership and that discussion learning. At Indian University the outreach communication technolOgies in Africa, based should continue through the electronic program presented an inaugural program called on the past papers from ETG panels and from distribution list about the membership and South Africa today. invited contributions from Africans and aims of GLAS. The proposed by-laws were Some outreach centers, including the Africanists working in this area. - develop ways then adopted by consensus. University of Florida, also took part in a to engage ETG members on different projects IV. Budget and dues structure GLAS nation-wide video conference entitled: Africa: which may help in crystallizing the goals of the currently has $150.00 in its bank account after What's in it for the United States? The ETG and promote unity within the group. covering this years expenses. It was agreed conference was organized by Old Dominion 15.5. Gays &.: Lesbians in African that GLAS should budget approximately University. Studies (Matthew Roberts) Gays and $800-1,000 to meet expenses for the coming 2. Teacher Training: Outreach centers Lesbians in African Studies (GLAS) held a year and, in particular, that the organization increased the number of workshops for business meeting at the annual meeting of the should seek to raise funds that would be used teachers. Most outreach programs offer African Studies Association (ASA) in to ensure that members in Europe and Africa workshops throughout the year. Some centers Columbus, Ohio, on 15 November 1997. can participate in GLAS activities at future also offer summer institutes which allow more Matthew Roberts, GLAS convener, opened the ASA meetings. The following dues structure in-depth instruction on Africa. The University of meeting and presented the agenda, which was proposed: Regular voting members Florida offers a summer institute every year. included the adoption of by-laws, the election making over $40,000 annually $30.00; Regular Teachers Abroad Projects: This is the best of GLAS officers, and the discussion of future voting members making less than $40,000 way for teachers to be acquainted with the plans. annually $20.00; Special voting members continent. Last year some outreach centers 1. Survey of past year activities During the (students and non-US members) $10.00; and induding. Indiana University, University of past year, GLAS has established an electronic Affiliates (non-voting members) Free. Florida, took teachers and students to African distribution list to promote communication V. Election of GLAS officers The follOwing countries under the auspices of the study among members; currently, there are 112 members of GLAS were elected by abroad program. people on the list. GLAS organized a acclamation to serve as officers for the coming Conferences: Centers for African studies roundtable at the 1997 African Studies year: Matthew Roberts (President); Dennis increased the number of conferences held. The Association meeting on the subject of Cordell (President-Elect); Vicky Ferguson University of California at Berkeley, Indiana Homosexuality and the Current Evolution of (Treasurer); and Katherine Fritz (Secretary). University, University of Florida held major Gay and Lesbian Identity in Africa. A GLAS The following members of GLAS volunteered conferences on African Studies. panel was planned, but had to be canceled to serve as committee members: Workshops: Special workshops such as because overseas participants were unable to Mutapha-Kemal Mirzeler and Fred Smith Kente Ooth-making. African music, and art attend. (1998 ASA Panels Committee); Leslie were held throughout the year at various II. Selection of election officers Natalie Townsend (Fundraising Committee); and centers. Taylor and Mark Hinchman volunteered to Natalie Taylor (Information Resources Communication: Outreach centers last year serve as election officers. Committee) created a listserv to facilitate communication III. Adoption of GLAS by-laws Following VI. Other business Matthew Roberts among themselves. They also produced "A the presentation of the proposed by-laws, there requested that members provide information Guide to Title VI African Outreach Centers" and was discussion about the terminology about about soliciting grants and other possible their annual newsletter. sexual identity used in the proposed by-laws. It sources of funding for future GLAS activities 15.7. Pan-African Caucus (Cheryl was suggested that the term "transgendered" and projects. Norbert Brockman announced Johnson-Odim) At the Annual ASA meeting in should be added to the list along with gay, that Howard University Press is pursuing a Columbus, Ohio the PAC had two sponsored lesbian, and bisexual in Article One, Section book project on homosexuality in Africa and panels, and also held a reception at which One. There was also considerable debate about that he will follow up on this through the approximately 75-100 people attended over the whether GLAS was intended primarily to be an GLAS electronic distribution list. Vicky space of two hours. The annual PAC meeting organization defined by its membership, i.e. as Ferguson announced that the Washington was combined with the reception that we an organization of gays and lesbians involved Office on Africa/Africa Policy Information hosted. We have published one newsletter. in African studies, or whether it should be Center is interested in distributing documents There is still no official slate of officers, but defined by its focus of study, i.e. as an and information on human rights, economic rather, a steering committee. I have been organization of all those interested in broad development, and other subjects of interest to operating as the liaison with the ASA Secretariat issues of sexuality and sexual identity in Africa. GLAS members. David Easterbrook, from the and Board. I represented the PAC at the meeting Concern was expressed that GLAS might be Herskovits Collection at Northwestern with the ASA Board in Columbus, for instance. perceived as excluding people who did not University, urged GLAS members to send We are expecting to publish a newsletter during define themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or copies of publications and documents to them 1998, and to sponsor two panels at the 1998 transgendered, which could deter people from to become part of the official archives of the meeting in Chicago. We also expect to sponsor a participating in GLAS activities or working in ASA and related organizations. reception at the Chicago meeting. collaboration with GLAS. At the same time, it 15.6. Outreach Council (Agnes Ngoma 15.8. Women's Caucus (Jennifer Yanco)

Aprilllune 1998 The Women's Caucus of the ASA seeks to African University. his institution's choir for the conference; the promote the study of gender within the III. Issue: A Journal Of Opinion Philomina Ohio University colleague was responsible for various disciplines represented in the Okeke, convener of the Women's Caucus, the K-12 workshop. Association; to ensure an active and organized and edited a special issue of Issue: A Several events were organized by the representative role for women scholars and Journal Of Opinion entitled "African Women in committee. In addition to the traditional members of the Association within and the Age of Transformation: Voices from the activities, we decided to have an exhibition of outside the continent; and to develop links Continent" (August 1997, VoL XXV. no.2). African art. I mention this in order to draw between the Association and women in Africa, IV. Through Women's Eyes: Recent Films attention to the immense dilficulties we and between scholarship and activism. By And About African Women This film series encountered. It is a venture I would not 1997 Officers: Conveners: Jennifer J. Yanco which will run during the ASA meetings on recommend to future committees unless they (Boston University) 96/97 &; Philomina Okeke Thursday and Friday evenings and on Saturday have a lot of money, which was not quite the (University of Alberta) 97/98; Treasurer: all day, is jointly sponsored by the ASA case with us. Our task turned out to be even Margot Lovett (Saddleback College) Steering Women's Caucus and the Women's Studies more difficult because we were dealing with an Committee Members: Teresita Antonellis, Program of the Ohio State University. art gallery that is all the way in New York. We Judith Byfield, lidwien Kapteijns, Lynette V. Reception/Business Meeting This year, thus found ourselves saddled with all sorts of Jackson, Stanlie James, Nakanyike Musisi, the Women's Caucus is hosting a brief reception bills: for the packaging and transportation of Hudita Mustafa, Nkiru Nzegwu, Molara just prior to our business meeting on Friday, the works, for preparing them ourselves for the Ogundipe-Leslie, Mojubaolu Olufunke November 14, at 5:30 pm. Our business meeting exhibition once they got to Columbus, insuring Okome, Kathleen Sheldon, Judith Van Allen. will follow at 6:15 pm. Preliminary agenda: 1. them and so on. We did manage in the end to Activities Of The Women's Caucus: I. Election of officers, steering committee; 2. put up a creditable exhibition, but were sorely Women's Caucus Newsletter Two issues of the Nominations for future Luncheon speakers. disappointed that not more conference newsletter were produced this year, a spring Maria Mayiga of F10A, the Uganda Association participants were able to see it. This was issue and a fall issue. Since many of our of Women Lawyers, was selected as the 1998 because the conference took place in town, members are now on email, we have Luncheon speaker. Ms. Mayiga is featured in while the exhibition was in various locations on developed a listserve and send out the the film "I have a Problem, Madam;" 3. campus. newsletter electronically to all of those who Proposals for panels, roundtables, and other The welcoming reception and the dance have email. We are grateful to Sheryl McCurdy activities for the 1998 ASA meetings; and 4. were perhaps among the most successful (Penn State) for taking this on. Dean Shailor's Women's Caucus Webpage activities we organized. We had a cash bar, and office at Douglass College, Rutgers University, VI. Financial Report: Our newsletter costs the music was provided by a local OJ. As part of has kindly taken over the reproduction and have been substantially reduced this year the welcoming reception we also had the OSU mailing of the newsletter to those who do not thanks to the assistance of Douglass College Jazz band in attendance. have email. Other newsletter related costs (mailing of hardcopy) and of Sheryl McCurdy We were pleased to be able to present an were covered by the Boston Women's Health (emailing electronic version). Our costs were evening of cultural entertairunent by the Book Collective and by the Caucus. minimal, involving some postage and phone. African Students Association of Ohio State II. 1997 Women's Caucus Luncheon The Costs associated with our activities at the ASA University. This is something we would keynote speaker for the 1997 Women's Caucus (reception, film screening) are not yet in. A full recommend to any Local Committee. It Luncheon is Professor H. Kay Raseroka, Head report prepared by the treasurer reflecting these contributes variety to the events, while at the Librarian, University of Botswana. She is being costs, as well as revenue from memberships, same time giving the opportunity to African sponsored jointly by the Africana librarians will be forwarded to the ASA at the close of the associations in the area to showcase their work. and the ASA Women's Caucus. Professor fiscal year. The Local Committee was not at all involved in Raseroka is the Chair of the Gender Policy and the organization of this particular evening. All Programme Committee of the University of Sunday, November 16 we did was to ensure that a room was available Botswana. Her work has centered on 9:00am- 4:30pm (Chair: Greene) at the hotel, and to schedule the time for the developing policy on sexual harassment. She is Present: Directors Sandra Greene (Chair); event. also the Botswana Programme Representative Keletso Atkins; Judith Byfield; Kenneth W On the whole, our committee greatly enjoyed its work. We found the secretariat for the African American Institute. Harrow; Frank Holmquist; Eileen Julien; The title of Professor Raseroka's luncheon extremely helpful. Although our task was not Gwendolyn Mikell; Julius Nyang'oro; Claire presentation is "Confronting Sexual very clear in the beginning.. it took only a few Robertson; Omofolabo A. Soyin.ka; David Harassment in an African University," the phone calls to clarify it. We were pleased to be abstract of which follows: The paper discusses Wiley; Chris Koch (Executive Director); Jack closely involved in the choice of the Abiola sexual harassment in tertiary institutions in Parson (Treasurer & AASP Representative) speaker. We were also lucky to have a large Southern African universities, identifying team of student volunteers to help us with the common perspectives on the phenomenon and 16.0 Annual Meeting Reports work: stuffing the conference packets, manning the emerging collaborative research work on 16.1 Report from 1997 Arrangements the video-room, assisting with the registration the Issue. A case study of the experiences of Chair (John Conteh-Morgan) Thanks to the and sundry other details. the Gender Policy and Programme Committee, very close cooperation between Ohio State 16.2 Report from 1997 Panels Chair University of Botswana, in negotiating the University's Local Arrangements Committee (Barbara Lewis) This year's meeting marked establishment of policies to combat sexual and the ASA Secretariat, preparations for the four decades since the ASA's founding -- and harassment within the institution is presented November 1997 conference proceeded four decades since Ghana's independence. The through the analysis of an institutional smoothly. Very early in our arrangements, we first generation of post colonial Africans faced framework and governance. It touches upon decided, on the initiative of the African Studies very dilferent constraints than the realities underlying attitudes of the university Center Director, to include on our committee facing the post Cold War Africa of today. Many community, sociocultural conflict rooted in not just OSU faculty, but also colleagues from a of the panels reflected the consequent search for traditional gender relations which must cope number of assisting institutions, including patterns over the long term as well as new with an increasing recognition of human and Otterbein College, Ohio University in Athens perspectives exploring colonial institutions and individual rights in a society in transition. It and Central State University. This, on hindsight, their post colonial impact. Historians and concludes by proposing areas of research, turned out to be a good move as it guaranteed historical anthropologists contributed more which may assist in increasing awareness, the active participation of those institutions in than ever to studies of current African society, understanding of the phenomenon, the extent, the organization of the conference. The Central while analyses of religious and cultural trends nature and forms of sexual harassment in an State colleague was able to secure the services complemented economic and political foci.

April/June 1998 Panels included South Africa not so much as an 2) PAS in conjunction with the committee committee. exception as a case compared with other will plan and sponsor a 'dance' party with 19.2 Committee Procedures It was African societies. Sponsored panels included (hopefully) a live band that plays contemporary agreed that chairs of committees would ever more discussions of electronic technology, African music on Friday evening. The party present written procedures for their poSitions rich interdisciplinary perspectives in the panels mayor may not be at the hotel since we are also at the Spring meeting. of the Mande Studies Association and others. scouting alternative venues near the hotel, such 19.3 Hiring of a Publications Director The panels also reflect the diversity of our as the famous House of Blues and the Hothouse The Executive Director will discuss this concerns, ranging from "democracy's third here in Cllicago, both of which have often position at the Spring Board Meeting. wave" to eco-feminlsm, from praise songs and featured African bands. The party will follow a 19.4 Problems with the Exhibition at electronic media bridging diasporas to the major reception again sponsored by PAS to this Annual Meeting It was agreed by all upsurge of religious identities in post colonial honor its 50th anniversary. The reception may that the exhibition time was too short. It was societies. And once again we welcome or may not be at the hotel since we are scouting noted that this took place because the hotel alternative venues such as the Field Museum colleagues from around the globe, including took the opportunity to rent the hall to views from African universities presented by a (which has a permanent exhibit on Africa that another group on November IS, 1997, thus panel of USIA franco phone and anglophone people could tour by themselves during the shortening our show by one day. This came USIA visitors equipped to provide reception). We would like to ask the Board and simultaneous translation to the audience. the Secretariat to not sponsor a reception since about by inadequate contract protection. The Special speakers included Susan Rice, US PAS will do its reception in that Friday time discussion led to the suggestion that Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, who slot, but whatever money (no matter how small) exhibitors were due compensation for a presented a look ahead regarding US policy the ASA may have spent on its reception we shortened show, the matter was not resolved toward Africa to a packed hall. I think that the would ask that it be contributed toward the and was referred to the Spring Board 1997 meetings fulfilled the great intellectual reception and 'dance' party. The reception and Meeting. promise I and my section chairs saw as we put party need to be Friday night since Saturday is BUSINESS MEETING together the 1997 program Halloween. Saturday, November 13, 1997. 5:30-6:30 pm I also acknowledge the difficulties many 3) We are putting together a packet Franklin Ballroom members encountered in this year's annual containing such things as African restaurants, meetings. Many of you were deeply blues and jazz clubs, and Cllamber of The Columbus Hyatt inconvenienced by the late publication of the Commerce type things. This packet will be LO Installation of New President preliminary program; indeed some were stuffed by volunteers from Loyola, NU, and Gwen Mikell opened the meeting by unable to obtain travel funding. Some panelists DePaul and delivered to the hotel to be handed introducing the new president, Sandra scheduled for the late session on Sunday had to out with the programs. Greene. Greene thanked Mikell and the leave before their panels, while others were 4) We will supply volunteers for retiring past president Iris Berger. She also unable to attend the two-day book exhibit I registration and to staff the video marketplace. thanked the retiring members of the Board: hope that the Board is revising ASA procedures 5) Northwestern is planning some activities Marina Ottaway; Isidore Okpewho; and to ensure that these inconveniences do not for its alumni on the Wednesday before the Robert Harms for their hard work on behalf recur. However, members should realize that conference begins. As part of this they have of the Association. Mikell thanked the the panels committee can best assemble applied for money to bring a Nigerian National Panels Chair, Barbara Lewis, and coherent panels only when it receives playwright who will produce an original play at the Columbus Arrangements Chair, John some venue in the Chicago or Evanston area. if proposals promptly; under current regulations, Conteh-Morgan, for making this year's this requires that those proposing papers and this happens it will also be going on during ASA and we will advertise it in the packet. Annual Meeting a success. She then handed panels promptly pay preregistration and dues. over the Chair to Greene. Thus our annual ASA meetings can best 6) We are working on ways of involving the provide all of us with the invaluable huge Ethiopian, Ghanaian and Nigerian 2.0 Report of the Executive Director opportunity to share our work. communities in Chicago in our planning, Refer to the report in the Minutes of the 16.3 Report from 1998 Panels Chair particularly the reception and 'dance' party. Board of Directors Meeting of 13 November (Paul Zeleza) No report was received by 7) We are scouting out people to work with 1997, item 3.0. press time. the Outreach Council on planning the Teacher 3.0 Report of the Treasurer (Parson) 16.4 Report from 1998 Arrangements Workshops. The audited financial statements ending Committee (Cheryl Johnson-Odim) We 8) We are submitting the following names June 30, 1997 indicated that the financial base of as potential Abiola Lecturers to the Secretariat the Association is sound and that the recently met at the Program in African Studies to be submitted to the Board: Nelson Mandela, management of resources is efficient. The (PAS) at Northwestern University (NU) with Gracia Machel, Clara Otunnu (a new appointee auditors did not raise any issues for correction. the following people present myself, Jane by Kofi Annan to the UN, he is at the IPA) and The NEH endowment campaign finally Guyer, Deborah Mack, Akbar Virmani, Basil is an appointee as head of Children's Rights I ended on July 31, 1997 and ultimately it was Ounie, Paul Breidenbach, Oement Adibe. Usa believe, and another woman whose name necessary to return $860 in matching funds. Brock and Ralph Austen are on board but escapes me since I didn't bring my notes to the After the deduction of this amount, the could not make the Monday evening meeting. I office today. I have information on Olara endowment fund stood at $713,021 on June 30, had already suggested to Jane that she release Otunnu which I will send to the secretariat for 1997. On the same date the operating fund was Akbar's time for this, she was lukewarm, I sharing with the Board, and I will send the $215,957 and the Life Income Fund was $64,278. think because she felt it would signal PAS as name of the fourth person as well within the The total of all funds on June 30, 1997 was the responsible party and by implication next week. $993,256. herself as Cllair of Local Arrangements. 9) We will meet with officials of the aty of Nonetheless, at the meeting NU committed to The significant growth in the endowment in Cllicago to see if they can do anything to recent years creates the welcome opportunity to several things. This is where we are so far: facilitate our efforts, e.g., provide shuttle buses realize additional income supporting the work 1) We will operate as a collective and ask for transportation, etc. We are not too hopeful the ASA to simply list our names in of the Association. We are working with our in this regard. investment councilors to maintain significant alphabetical order as the Local .Arrangements growth and realize additional income which Committee. However, I have agreed to be the liaison between the committee and the Board 17.0 National Summit on Africa, may be used to support existing programs such as the international visitors program, the books and the ASA secretariat. Meeting with Executive Director MacArthur DeShazer and his associate Michael DePass project and ASA Press operations as well as

Apri1/June 1998 possibly funding new initiatives. provide books to African institutions. The 1997/98 budget projects a modest Board Proposes surplus, a welcome outcome considering the 7.0 Reports of Sponsored Groups By-Law Amendment costs associated with moving the Secretariat to Refer to the reports In the Minutes of the Rutgers. It is in large part due to the generosity Board of Directors Meeting of 15 November of Rutgers University that the financing of 1997, item 15. In the last ten years, the African Studies on-golng operations of the Association have not Following the reports, Joseph Caruso and Association has doubled in size and has been more disrupted by the move. Jennifer Yanco announced that the Africana become the host of the world's largest annual Once In Rutgers, the Association will need meeting devoted to the scholarly exchange of to secure the services of a new auditing firm. It Ubrarians Council and the Women's Caucus respectively, now had their own web pages. knowledge about Africa. The complexity of is essential to have an auditing firm locally, the Association's operations is such that it has however much we have valued the services of become necessary to codify as has not been CarlVann. 8.0 Any Other Business necessary before the various tasks of those, In sum, the Association appears to be in 8.1 President Greene's Statement on the sound financial health and its resources appear Annual Meeting both Board and non-Board members, who to be managed efficiently. Before opening the floor for discussion of have volunteered their services to the issues that have not been included in the Association. Much of this codification simply 4.0 Elections Committee Report agenda for this meeting, I would like to first involves putting in written form a schedule (submitted by Koch) The ballots from the 1997 invite those who have any concerns to share of responsibilities to be accomplished by Vice Presidential and Board Elections. For Vice them here at the business meeting, as there is no these volunteers. It has not been poSSible, President Richard Joseph 132 and David Wiley scheduled town meeting this year. however, to apply this same procedure to the 162"; spoiled ballets 0 and blank ballets 10; I would also like to acknowledge the Executive Committee because of the changed Total Votes Cast For Vice President 304. concerns that members have expressed about nature of its duties. More is required. For Board of Directors: Kenneth W Harrow the delayed publication of the preliminary The Executive Committee's primary 180"; Dorothy L Hodgson 156" Eileen Julien program. We are aware that members responsibility has been to advise the traditionally use this version of the program to 154"; Della McMillan 111; Ropo Sekoni 141; President and to act on behalf of the Board check exactly when their panels are scheduled Wosene YeEru 121; spoiled ballets 0 and blank between the Fall and Spring Board meetings so they can make travel plans. We are also ballets 4. Total Votes Cast For Board 867. when tasked to do so by the entire Board. Committee members: Olris Koch (Chair), aware that there were other problems associated with this meeting. With our efforts to institutionalize certain ASA; Mustafah Dhada, Oark Atlanta administrative practices, however, the University; Benjamin Odhoji, Emory We ask members to try to be understanding and to be patient. All those involved with the Executive Committee now also conducts the University; and Ephraim Josiah, Oark Atlanta annual review of the Executive Director of University. As reported the 19th of September program have worked this year under very the Association and handles on behalf of the 1997 unusual circumstances. For the first time, for example, we have Board, contract negotiations with the 5.0 Nominating Committee Report been enforcing the policy approved by the Executive Director and the institution that Board three years ago that members who (Green) The 1998 Committee nominated the hosts the Secretariat of the Association. appear on the program must not only pay Given the nature of its task, the Board following people: for Vice President; Lansine membership dues or non-membership fees, Kaba (History, University of Illinois, Chicago) believes it is important to have as necessary they must also pre-register. This has caused and Jack Parson (Political Science, College of members of the Executive COmmittee, the some confusion. For this, we apologize, but it President, Vice President, Past President and Charleston); for the Board, Daniel Avorgbedor has proven increasingly difficult from a (Music, Ohio State), Odum Balogun (literature, Treasurer. financial perspective to continue to allow large As currently structured, however, the Delaware State), John Harbeson (Political numbers of people to participate in the program Science, CUNY), Beverly Hawk (Political without paying the fees that the organization only necessary member of the Executive Science, University of'" Alabama), Sheridan needs to run the annual meeting. Committee is the President. According to our Johns (Political Science; Duke University), The Executive Office is in the process of current By-Laws: Stephen Ndegwa (Political Science, College of moving from Atlanta to Rutgers. This also has William and Mary), and Richard Roberts created some unusual difficulties. ARTICLE N (COMMTITEFS) (History, Stanford University). The committee Other issues which emerged unexpectedly Section 1. Executive Committee. The members were, from the Board, Kelel50 Atkins, have only compounded the problems Board may initially appoint an Judith Byfield, Sandra Greene (Chair), Robert experienced with this annual meeting. Executive Committee to serve during Harms. The non-Board members were Sandra I want to assure you that these particular the interim until the next ensuing Barkan, Salah Hassan, and Nancy Schmidt. difficulties are peculiar to this year and that we annual meeting of the Board and, are working to insure that the annual meeting 6.0 Development Committee thereafter, the Executive Committee next year and in future years will run with the shall be elected annually at the annual Refer to the report in the Minutes of the usual smoothness and efficiency with which meeting of the Board. The Executive Board of Directors Meeting of 13 November you have become accustomed. 1997, item 5.0. Committee shall consist of the We do wish to apologize, however, for the President of the Corporation, and not A spirited discussion by the 20 or so inconveniences and difficulties you may have less than two nor more than four people (12 of whom were Board members or experienced because of the unfortunate and additional Directors as may be fixed officers) present followed the report. There frequently unavoidable convergence of was general agreement in the room that circumstances that have made the 1997 annual from time to time by the Board. The additional Directors shall be chosen by three areas of interest could be addressed by meeting particularly challenging for all of us. future ASA projects. They were: 1) possible a plurality of the votes cast. Vacancies project with the National Summit on Africa; With no further business to discuss, the in Members of the Committee may be 2) workshops with African universities that meeting adjourned at 6:25. filled by the Board at any meeting, but only from among the Board of would allow for the two-way transmission of knowledge; and 3) projects which would Directors. Any Member of the Executive Committee may be removed

AprillJune 1998 from membership on said Committee filled through election by the Board at these studies encompassed neither the at any time with or without cause by a any meeting, but only from among the breadth of his academic interests nor his vote of the majority of the Board at any Board of Directors. Any Elected political commitments as a citizen which meeting of the Board. Member of the Executive Committee were to the democratic left, to advancement The Committee shall, during the may be removed from membership on of the well-being of organized labor's rank intervals between meetings of the said Committee at any time with or and file, and to the ideal of a university and Board, possess and exercise all the without cause by a vote of the majority a city enriched by the many cultures of powers of the Board in the of the Board at any meeting of the immigrants from Latin America, the management of the affairs and Board. Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. As Chancellor property of the Corporation except as from 1992 to 1990 he articulated eloquently otherwise provided by law, the and persuasively the ideal of a truly Bylaws, or by resolution of the Board. multicultural university, one that would be The presence of a majority of the Joseph S. Murphy a beacon to immigrants of color in this members of the Committee shall be By John W. Harbeson City University of generation as it was to those coming from necessary and sufficient to constitute a New York Europe in earlier eras. quorum and the act of a majority of the He made his philosophical and personal members shall be the act of the Joseph S. Murphy, a great friend of commitments influential where it counted Committee. The Committee shall keep Ethiopia and scores of Ethiopians, died on through the skills he possessed and honed full and fair records and accounts of its January 17 in an automobile accident east of not only as Chancellor (and earlier as proceedings and transactions; All Addis Ababa. He was 64. Former Chancellor president of Queens College within CUNY actions by the Committee shall be of the City University of New York., Joe-he and of Bennington College) but in reported to the Board at its next was 'loe" to everyone-was a Professor of government. In addition to two tours as a meeting su~g such action and Political Science in its Graduate School and Peace Corps administrator, he held shall be subject to revision and University Center at the time of his death. positions in the then Department of Health, alteration by the Board, provided that Joe Murphy's love affair with Ethiopia Education and Welfare and as director of no rights of third persons shall be took root when became Peace Corps director the Job Corps in the Office of Economic affected by any revision or alteration. there from 1968 to 1970. He won the loyalty Opportunity. of a generation of Ethiopians when he The legions of us who admired Joe The Board of Directors recommends the resigned to protest the killing by then Murphy for his skilled leadership, vision, following change in the first paragraph of Emperor Haile Selassie's soldiers of many and devotion to Ethiopia, and who were the Bylaws concerning the Executive university students demonstrating against privileged to know him as a warm and Committee. This paragraph defines the his regime's repressive policies. Over the caring friend, will miss him greatly even as composition of the Executive Committee of next twenty-etght years, he deepened and we continue to celebrate his life. the Board of Directors. We believe that the broadened his association with young proposed change will facilitate the work of Ethiopians, supporting many from his own the Executive Committee, the Board and the personal resources, and with others who Ade M. Obayemi, Association. It will insure continuity in the campaigned and fought for a more transition between Presidencies and will democratic, more egalitarian Ethiopia. A 1943-1998 guarantee that all decisions made are done fluent Amharic speaker, he traveled the By Elisha P. Renne & Ehiedu E.G. so with the knowledge and consent of the country frequently and extensively, touching Iweriebor Treasurer who handles the financial the lives of countless people In all walks of concerns of the Association. life. He was probably one of the most Professor Ade M. Obayeml died on 2 The proposed change would read as traveled Americans In Ethiopia in recent February 1998 in Ibadan after brain surgery. follows: times. During the dark years of Mengistu He was 54 years old. He was at the time of Haile Mariam's military dictatorship, he kept his passing, the Head of the Department of Section 1. Executive Committee. The alive interest In Ethiopia within the United History, University of nOrin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Board may initially appoint an States, not least by underwriting several Professor Obayeml had an active Executive Committee to serve during conferences in New York City on Ethiopian professional life, family and community life the Interim until the next ensuing political, socioeconomic, and cultural life. with many distinctions Including being annual meeting of the Board and, After the overthrow of Mengistu, Joe named Honorary Secretary for the Historical thereafter, the Executive Committee participated in conferences called to help the Society of Nigeria as well as taking the title shall be elected annually at the annual new regime shape a better future for of Chief Olumo of UEe (lffe)-Ijumu. As a meeting of the Board. The Executive Ethiopia and offered his advice to the many Professor of History and Archaeology at Committee shall consist of the high officials of the new government whose Ahrnadu Bello Unlversity, Zaria, and President \lice President Past trusted friend he already was. subsequently the University of norin, nOrin, President. and Treasurer of the Joe Murphy brought to his love of he encouraged students to think critically Corporation, and not less than two nor Ethiopia the wisdom of an academiC career about Nigerian history and material culture, more than four additional Directors as not in the study of African politics or the inspiring them to research further Nigeria's may be fixed from time to time by the politics of developing nations but in political contribution to the history of humankind. BoaId. The additional Directors shall philosophy. His two books were "The He did significant pioneering work in be chosen by a plurality of the votes Theory of Universals In Eighteenth Century the archaeology, prehistory and history of cast. Vacancies In the Elected British Empiricism" (1961) and "Political the states and societies of the Niger-Benue Membership of the Committee may be Theory: A Conceptual Analysis" (1968). But Confluence. He thereby opened up this area for scholarly attention and research. HIs AprilUune 1998 numerous publications included general legacy in this area was his effort, in excavation staff at Aksum. Richard's reassessments of Yoruba migration/origin difficult economic circumstances, to make professional contribution to the Aksum myths, the Sokoto Jihad, and the history of the museums part of the Nigerian people's project was a very thorough study of the the O-kun states and societies of living heritage. pottery, published in the excavation report Niger-Benue Confluence. His many In May 1992, the opening of the Akodi (Excavations at Aksum, BIEA Memoir 10, unpublished lectures ranged from analyses O-kun-a Cultural Centre, now known as 1989) prepared by Munro-Hay after of Confluence masquerading traditions to Akodi Afrika Cultural Centre, Museum and Chittick's death. Richard's other contribution considerations of Yoruba historiography and Institute-at Ufe-Ijumu fulfilled a lifelong at Aksum was to commit to memory art dream, the establishment of a museum and numerous anecdotes about the excavations From 1987-1991, Professor Obayemi research centre with a focus on O-kun and their director. Who can forget Richard's served as the Director General of the Yoruba hiStory and culture. The Centre tales of Chittick's stormy relationship with National Commission for Museums and housed an extensive library, performing art Ethiopian Airlines? After Aksum, Richard Monuments. This appointment was an arena, museum of local archaeological and taught for ten years at the University of appropriate acknowledgment by the nation material culture, as well as research facUities Addis Ababa, weathering the revolution and of the pioneering work and important and housing, a remarkable achievement in the ensuing unsettled years with his contributions which Professor Obayemi (as the prevailing economic climate. As founder customary ingenuity. He learnt Amharic and one of the early indigenous archaeologists and director, he organized several it is perhaps not surprising that the British and prehistorians) had made not only in conferences and performance events, government continued to supplement his unearthing the material remains of Nigeria's including the conference on the O-kun salary for years after such schemes had been heritage through archaeological digs, but his people and their civilization held in June terminated elsewhere. Richard astutely efforts at their preservation and the 1995 at which over 25 scholars from deflected suggestions that he was 'our man dissemination of knowledge about this academic institutions throughout Nigeria in Addis,' while reveling in the aura of heritage. presented papers. This concern with mystery that he was creating. Despite all the During his tenure as Director-General, investigating O-kun history carried over into difficulties, Richard was a dedicated and he attempted to energize the Nigerian his support of local scholars, in his serving as caring teacher, as well as a friend and museum system and tried to convert it from chief launcher of the Ajight! People (a history facilitator to numerous foreign expeditions, being merely a storehouse of the material of Olle-Bunu written by Ibisagba et al., 1995), as is noted for example in Johanson and and artistic remains of Nigerian culture to a as well as providing historical evidence at a Edey's Lucy. Richard also undertook a study source and center of living heritage. He government hearing in 1987 on the on-going of the Borana of southern Ethiopia under the attempted to revive many moribund chieftaincy dispute in Kabba. In his many auspices of the International Livestock museums and abandoned museum building roles and activities, Ade M Obayemi Centre for Africa, prodUCing a preliminary projects. Though museums are a national personified the contribution of the O-kun word list of the Borana language. responsibility of the Federal Government, he people to flthe building of the modern In 1983 Richard Leakey persuaded sought, though visits to states' chief Nigerian Nation state." Richard to return to Kenya to become Coast executives and offiCials, to get state ArchaeolOgist for the Kenya Museums. He governments to invest in the establishment held this position for five years, in which he and/or maintenance of museums as Richard Wilding mostly facilitated the research of others repositories of the peoples' heritage and By Peter Robertshaw whUe quietly improving the library and centers of continuing cultural education for Cal-State, San Bernardino comparative archaeolOgical collections young and old alike. His vision of the stored at Fort Jesus in Mombasa. When museum was as a place not just for weekend Richard WUding, who earned his BA and Richard's contract expired, his slender visits and relaxation, but also as centers of MA at Birmingham University in England publication record-a result of his own popular cultural education and and his PhD from the University of Nairobi, unrelenting perfectionism-and esoteric enlightenment. He saw them as places was a kind and generous man of many interests prevented him from landing a which people would actively patronize and talents; an educator, pottery expert, linguist, position in archaeology, so he returned to an to which they would contribute their and raconteur. In 1970 Richard began a earlier career in high-school teaching, but knowledge through documents and graduate studentship at the British Institute this time primarily as an administrator. His information about recoverable and in Eastern Africa that was to provide him administrative skills had been honed not preservable material remains of the people's both with a lifelong interest in the Swahili only by his professional work but also by his heritage. In short, he wanted to make the and with a friendship with Neville Chittick, considerable voluntary efforts for charitable people conscious participants in the the Institute's flamboyant director, that organizations. He became the principal of preservation and celebration of the country's would keep him supplied with wonderful various schools, first in Mombasa and later vast and rich heritage. stories for years to come. Chittick in NairobI. Richard Wilding was killed in a Professor Obayemi also had long-term encouraged Richard to devote his energies to car accident, at the age of 53, on October 2, plans to promote awareness of the the study of pottery, a good match for 1996 while traveling from Naivasha to importance of museums to the youth Richard's painstaking attention to details Nairobi. through integrating Museum Studies into and his enthusiasm for somewhat arcane the school curriculum, so that the present subjects. The eventual result of this work and future generations who, though living was an enormous tome on the ceramics of in a more literary and visual age with large the Lamu archipelago, which was presented external cultural infusions, would be as a doctoral dissertation for the University grounded in knowledge of their heritage. As of Nairobi but never published. This work a scholar he attempted to revive and/or had taken many years to complete, years in establish scholarly journals and popular which Richard lived in Ethiopia. magazines to promote general knowledge of Richard's first archaeological work in Nigerian and African cultural heritage. His Ethiopia was as a member of Chittick's

Aprilflune 1998 By its size, its complexity, the make-up of various aspects of the study of Islam in Delancey to be ASA its body, the breadth and depth of its fields, Africa, and history, politics and society in Treasurer the ASA in 1998 is different from the 16th.century Songhay. My books, Le Hnon Wde association I joined in 1970. It has weathered la Guinee au general de Gaulle and Kwame At its Spring meeting the Board of many crises and has adapted to the N'Krumah et Ie reve de "unite a{riClline, and Directors of the Association appointed Mark conditions that have affected the academe in numerous articles on Guinean politics under W. Delancey Treasurer. He will serve until the U.S. and politics in Africa, as a glimpse at President Sekou Toure testify to my interest the 2003 annual meeting. Mark is the annual meetings' programs shows. New in contemporary history in general and well·known to ASA members in his past paradigms and concerns have replaced the decolonization and the first decades of incarnation as both the general editor old ones, and the creation of new sub.area nation-building in particular, while my (1991·1997) and the book review editor associations has reinforced the dialogue recent monograph, Lettre a un ami sur la (1989-1997) of AfriClln Studies Review. He also among the specialists working in these fields politique et le bon usage du pouvoir, underlies served as a mem.ber of the Board of Directors and/or regions. Significantly, African­ from 1984-1987. my approach to ideology and the practice of Americans and African-born scholars have power. I have contributed to several edited Mark is currently a professor and chair played a major role in the ASA. Women, in books and served On the editorial board of of the Department of Government and greater num.ber, too, and gay and lesbian several reviews. My current project delves International Studies at the University of scholars have been active in its affairs, into the study of Muslim leadership and South Carolina at Columbia. His past thereby ensuring inclusion and diversity. colonial power in Guinea from the 1870s to involvement with Africa includes teaching My experience on the ASA Board, and the mid-1950s. appointments in Cameroon, Nigeria, my involvement with the Concerned Somalia, and South Africa. Africanist Scholars Association in the 1970s Jack Parson and Mansa Studies Association since its Statement of Candidacy founding indicate my familiarity with the The African Studies Association deals ASA and my commitment to knowledge as a with issues of Africa and African area 1998 ASA ELECTIONS source of activism. To follow the ASA's studies in the United States. Currently, the positive tradition of inclUSiveness, should I The following persons hRve been nominated most Significant issue of Africa continues to be elected, I will seek the advice and input of to stand for election as officers and members of be the methods and means for effective the ASA Board of Diredors. Return envelopes the Councils, Associations and Caucuses on political and economic transition in the all major issues, and will initiate large and a ballot for the election hRve been inserted in post-cold war environment. This includes discussions of the ASA's future as well as copies of this newsletter sent to 1998 individual issues related to the unequal articulation of members. that of Africanist studies; I will encourage African economies to the world economy, dialogues with the university African the international political relations of this For the Vice-Presidency Studies programs, and will support their articulation, and transitions in political life outreach programs in their efforts to within African countries. While progress is Lansine Kaba integrate African humanities and social being made and renewal grows, much Statement of Candidacy studies into the elementary and secondary remains to be learned and done. Within the To contribute, with the Board and the school curricula; I will pursue close relations United States, the issues are a continuing members, to charting the ASA's course at a with the research institutions established in debate on area studies and the role of Africa special moment of its history, and to Africa, and will solicit everyone's assistance therein as well as ASA's role in the context of articulate its collective decisions, I am in the effort to increase the membership. new national initiatives like the National accepting its Nominating Committee's A few words about myself are now in Summit on Africa process and legislative invitation to have my name placed in order. This is a task that I do not particularly initiatives such as the African Growth and candidacy for election to the vice presidency. relish since, in my tradition, one should not Opportunity Act currently before the Senate. The context is exceptional indeed. The ASA's beat the drum for oneself Suffice it to say The compleXity and diversity of these headquarters have just moved from Emory that my interest in the serious study of issues has led to increasingly diverse and to Rutgers, which involves important Africa began at home in Guinea. My complex patterns of research, scholarship, administrative adjustments; it must answer undergraduate education jointly at the Lycee membership, organization and action within other internal issues pertaining to the Board's Henri IV and the SOlbonne in Paris, and my the ASA. As the premier profesSional relations with the Executive Office, and the doctoral studies at Northwestern University association of scholars of Africa in the USA, many Councils, scholarly AsSOCiations, and led me to history and its ancillary the ASA must take the lead in creatively and other groups, too many to be enumerated diSciplines. From 1970 to 1986, I taught in the flexibly responding to these facts. The here, whose initiatives and dynamism have Department of History at the University of challenge is to find ways for the Association well served us. It must deal with a variety of Minnesota in Minneapolis 0 also chaired the to encourage imagination and creativity in old and new challenges, ranging from the Department of African and African its internal organization and action and in its defense of African studies at the age of American Studies). At the University of relations with other organizations and the computer, globalism. and skepticism toward Illinois at Chicago since 1986, I headed wider public. academic values, to the need of more African-American Studies before assuming The ASA relates to this challenge and funding for area studies, and support of in 1996 the deanship of the Honors College. exists to serve those who practice African democratization and human rights in Africa. My commitment to teaching and area studies in five key ways: one is to hold a Through cooperation with numerous groups scholarship resulted in a Herskovits Award high quality, efficient, open and accessible and agencies in a way that does not in 1975 for my book, The Wahhabiyya: Islamic annual meeting; second, the ASA provides contradict its principles, the ASA can have a Refrmn and Politics in French West AfriCll, member publications; third, it works to positive voice here in the U.S. in the efforts to 1945-1960 and a Distinguished Teacher maintain a link between the African area change Africa's image, and abroad in the Award in 1978. My scholarship deals with studies community and colleagues in Africa struggle to improve political conditions in both the relatively distant and recent past, and the African Diaspora; fourth, it provides African countries. and includes works in English and French on a network and support for African studies

April/June 1998 scholars in a wide spectrum of institutional Southeastern Regional Seminar on African among the Anla-Ewe, and a collective settings; and fifth, it represents the African Studies (SERSAS), a twice yearly vibrant volume on performance and social area studies community to policy makers forum for Africanists in the Southeast If aggression in Africa. I am strongly and the wider public. elected, I pledge to do my utmost to translate committed to African studies, especially Providing service in these key areas this background into effective leadership of along its interdiSciplinary dimensions, and requires the maintenance of a well the African Studies Association. my current poSition as editor of ACASA managed, professional secretariat and (Arts Council of the African Studies Asso­ organizational structure responsive to key For the Board ciation) partly reflects this commitment. priorities established by the officers and Statement of Candidacy Board of Directors. The officers and Board, Daniel K. Avorgbedor As a prospective board member, I hope in tum, have the responsibility to represent Biographical Information to bring to it a wealth of experience and the diversity of opinion found within their I am currently an assistant professor in ideas that would promote dialogue among constituencies, the membership of the the School of Music and in the Department scholars of diverse diSciplinary concerns, Association. of African- American and African Studies, and to strengthen communication among The Association faces a number of Ohio State University, Columbus, where I African scholars at home and the worldwide challenges in addressing issues and teach courses and seminars that include intellectual sphere; the growing resources of servicing its members: the transition of the urbanization and the performing arts in the Internet should promote this dialogue Secretariat to Rutgers requires a good deal Africa, African continuities in the Americas, and I plan to work toward encouraging the of attention; changes in the editorship of the extensions of art music in Africa, music and use of computers/Internet among African ASR and Issue require the forging of new social aggression in the African context, scholars to facilitate their personal research patterns of work; thinking through relations innovation and renewal in music and work and to partake in the international with colleagues in Africa and the network of religion in Africa. I am also developing community of scholars. In addition, I hope Africanist scholars in the US in light of new additional interdisciplinary courses that to: (1) encourage educational opportunities technologies requires creativity and an open integrate folklore, religion, art, drama, and abroad for African women through the help mind; new opportunities to play a role music at the undergraduate and graduate of ASA and non-profit organizations, (2) nationally in the US require new ways of levels. work toward reducing the current thinking and acting. My research focus and intellectual brain-drain of the African continent by If elected, I pledge to spend my service inquiries have always addressed, directly seeking special funds and advanced as an officer in meeting these challenges. I and indirectly the relevance of the notion of technological resources that would allow believe I am well prepared to do so. My interdisdplinarity, especially in the ways in returning scholars to pursue meaning formal education includes a BA from the which it engages and clarifies our research at home, and (3) work toward a University of Minnesota, an MA from assumptions about and perspectives on broader paritication of non-US overseas Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, various artistic traditions of Africa, including scholars in the ASA programs. and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. I oral culture. In addition, it is an integral part worked in Uganda, at Makerere University, of my research projects, which involve F. Odun Balogun for four years and as a faculty member of fieldwork experiences under varying Biographical Information the University of Botswana for five years. settings and theoeretical concerns, to address The interdisciplinary door of an unlikely Since 1980 I have worked at the College of the importance aspect of dynamism or specialization in Slavic Studies led me to the Charleston, a 10,000 student public largely reslliency that continues to characterize entrance to African Studies. I started out undergraduate institution during which many aspects of African social, personal, and with an MA in Russian Philology from the time I have published two books as author cultural expressions. then Leningrad State University, Leningrad, and editor/contributor on Botswana and a I received my Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology USSR. in 1973, and a Ph.D in 1977 in Slavic number of pumal and other articles, most and Folklore in 1986 at the Indiana Languages and Literatures with a minor in dealing with aspects of democratic theory University, BlOOmington, where I had the American Literature from the University of and practice most focused on Botswana in chance of working and studying with Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. With this Southern Africa. Two Fulbright research leading Africanists, many of whom have excellent educational preparation and the grants facUitated this work. I have worked worked their entire lives to sustain the security of an appointment as a lecturer in at the College of Charleston - away from a African Studies Association. I was editor of the Department of English and Literature, large African studies center - where, the African Studies Program newsletter of University of Benin, Nigeria, I felt qualified together with a very few Africanist Indiana University, co-edited series enough to become a self-taught student of colleagues, we try to develop curriculum Cross-Rhythms, and served as full-time editor African Literature! Being an African, a related to African studies, do research with of the international reference publication on writer, and also living and teaching in relatively heavy teaching loads, and develop the performing Arts, RIlM Abstracts ofMusic Africa, of course, greatly facilitated this institutional and community interest in Literature (1989-1994). As current regional atternpt at furthering my literary education. African countries and issues. The ASA chair of the chapter of the International Thus, since 1977, I have concentrated my became the most important professional Committee on Urgent Anthropological and research and publications on African organization for me in this work. Ethnological Research I have worked literature and, recently, I also resumed my I also recognized a responsibllity to do consistently to monitor and report on education in African-American literature in associational work which supports our various spheres of research activity 'that an attempt to engage African and professional lives. As a result, I have served focus on Ghana. My most recent publications African-American literatures in a dialogue. as a member of the Board of Directors of the include an entry in the Garland Encyclopedia All this is my roundabout way of saying ASA, currently am finishing a year as of World Music (1988), and a review essay in that I am a comparative literature student! It Treasurer, and also serve as the Chair of the progress for a forthcoming Garland also explains how I came to be a member of Association of African Studies Programs Encyclopedia of World Folklore. Works in ASA and have attended its conferences for a (AASP) which is closely allied to the ASA. I progress include a book manuscript on decade. also served as a Coordinator of the urbanization and musical performance

Aprilflune 1998 My research has been supported with information about Africa, even though many University of Nairobi where I was also a postdoctoral fellowship and seminar grants of the journalists, unlike ASA members, have Research Fellow in the Institute for by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Social no specialist knowledge of the continent and Development Studies. From I served as Science Research Council, and the National Its peoples and are generally interested only Regional Democracy and Governance Endowment for the Humanities. A summer in selling sensational stories which are often Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa study grant from the latter in 1994 facilitated superficial in the knowledge of facts. I (1993 to 1995) in the U.S. Agency for the commencement of my current book believe ASA should create a Public International Development. From 1998 to project which aims at providing a theoretic Education Committee which would explore 1999 I will be a Senior Fellow at the U.S. model for a comparative reading of Black ways to regularly provide information on Institute for Peace. literature's narration of identity construction African issues to the American public. New My current research and writing in reference the selfs relationship to the selfs initiatives might involve expanding the progress center upon dimensions of place of habitation. I have two previous functions of ASA's present electronic democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, publications, two of which are critical facilities to include the publication of a including issues and problems of studies, the third a book of fiction. The first, popular electronic journal or magazine, consolidating the democratic transitions, the Tradition and Modernity in the African Short adding more panels on public issues in impact of external intervention on Story (1991), remains the only book-length Africa to the annual conference program and democratic development, the relationship of and comprehensive study of the genre. The ensuring media coverage of such panels. The democratization to problems of second, Ngugi and African Postcolonial need for the American public to be more strengthening fragile states, and the Narrative (1997) analyzes Ngugi's recent informed about Africa has become more contributions that I expect African narrative experimentations and his radical urgent now that the US administration is democratization to make to enriching our generic transformation of the novel from a beginning to show a long-delayed interest in understanding of democracy both in theory monogenre to a multigenre by virtue of African affairs. It may well begin to happen and in practice. My published books include adopting the oral narrative aesthetics of his soon that American politicians have to go to The Ethiopian Transformation: The Quest for the African language. The third book Adjusted their constituencies to seek mandate on how Post-Imperial State; Nation BUilding in Kenya: Lives (1995) is a collection of my short stories to vote on legislative initiatives concerning The Role of Land Reform; and edited volumes which won the Association of Nigerian Africa. No doubt, we would want such on Civil Society and the State in Africa (with Authors (ANA) 1995 award for prose. I have mandates to be well informed; otherwise, Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan), also contributed several essays as book our hard-won research discoveries would Africa in World Politics (with Donald chapters and to journals such as African serve no practical purpose. ASA also needs Rothchild) the third edition of which is Studies Review, Research in African Literatures, to take practical steps to sensitize the forthcoming; Responsible Government: The African Literature Today, Okike, African multinationals doing business in Africa to Global Challenge (with Raymond Hopkins American Review, Journal of Black Studies, the humanitarian obligation of generously and David Smith) and The Military in African Comparative Literature Studies, etc. My short providing funds for the resuscitation of Politics. In addition I have another ten stories have appeared in book antholOgies African nations' dilapidated educational monographs, seventy articles, and seventy and in international journals and magazines. infrastructures, especially at the universities. papers to my name, including papers at I taught for thirteen years (1977-90) at the I will also support initiatives on membership almost every ASA convention since University of Benin, Nigeria, and I am now a drive to include the participation of those receiving my Ph.D. in 1970. professor of English at Delaware State who should be natural members of ASA Statement of Candidacy University. Also I have had visiting such as scholars in African Literature and 1. My central objective, if I am elected to appointments at The Ohio State University, African-American Studies associations. the Board, will be to work to strengthen the Columbus, University of Illinois, Urbana, capacity of the Africanist community to and George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. John W. Harbeson advance scholarship and learning about My administrative experience Includes a Biographical Information Africa within society at large. In the case of current appointment as a Special Assistant to I am a professor ofPolitical Science at the the academy, it should not be necessary to the Dean of Arts &: Sciences, Delaware State Graduate School and University Center and justify or explain African studies; yet the University, and formerly a tenure as at City College in the City University of New reminders that we must do so have been chairman of the English and Literature York. In addition to Africa, I teach a range of many and frequent in recent years. Simply Department, University of Benin, Nigeria, a courses in the subfields of comparative stated, I do not believe scholarship reaching founding chairman of a state branch of the politics and occaSionally in international for global applicability can legitimately Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), and relations and political philosophy. I earned achieve worthwhile ends so as long as it twice a convener of the association's national my Ph.D at the University of Wisconsin gives only short shrift to Africa. Yet, in many annual conference at the University of Benin. where I coupled an interdisciplinary African areas of our academic vineyard, the Statement of Candidacy Studies minor with my work in Political contributions of African experience continue ASA has recorded significant Science. I received my M.A. from the often to be undervalued if not overlooked achievements in its two major areas of University of Chicago and my B.A. cum altogether. Redressing this imbalance has activities: academic research and positively laude from Swarthmore College. been a key objective in my own teaching and influencing the lives of Africans, its subject I began my career as a charter faculty scholarship as it will be of my service on the of study. The opinion of many, however, is member at the University of Board. that the association still has much to do by Wisconsin-Parkside. I have directed OUtreach programs to schools and way of linking theory and practice. I seek multidisciplinary International Studies communities are an essential part of this election to the ASA Board of Directors Programs at City College and at Parkside agenda. I ha ve personally witnessed both the because I wish to contribute to the task of where I was also the Program's founding hunger in the schools for this knowledge and devising practical steps by which to make director. I have taught at the Johns Hopkins their warm receptivity to such Initiatives. ASA more relevant to the subjects of its University School of Advanced International 2. I will actively support and participate research. Specifically, the American public Studies and for two year tours each at the in our Association's efforts to increase still depends largely on journalists for University of Addis Ababa and at the understanding within policymaking arenas April/June 1998 of the importance, problems, and ~eeds of juxtapoSition of negative and positive improved cooperation. I wish to apply my Africa. Working to improve the saliency of images of Africa, their power to carry value experience with the mentor directory to Africa within the academy will serve this judgements of evil and good, and their promote better communication in the end over the long term, but the Association implications for American policy toward Africanist network worldwide. I hope that, as should also strive directly to deepen the Africa. an Association, we can offer our expertise to all-too-shallow reservoir of expertise and From 1992-1995, I was chair of the ASA organizations and programs that teach Africa enlarge the all-too-small company of Women's Caucus Mentor Directory Project. Studies outside the university in our Africa's friends in the public sector. The resulting Mentor Directory is a collection communities. 3. I will work actively to expand of one-page biographies of Africanists As a board member, I also wish to opportunities and ensure equity for each of offering to mentor women in the profession. represent Africanists who teach under­ the diverse constituencies among us. That With 175 participants from various graduates for a living, who are isolated on their means doing whatever we can to expand the disciplines listed in the latest edition, the campuses with few colleagues who understand access of African scholars and universities in directory promotes ties among scholars their work, and who give themselves each day Africa to electronic and other information worldwide. to the promotion of better understanding of sources, to expand cultural exchange pro­ For the last four years, I have been editor Africa in the United States. grams, and to broaden publication outlets of Issue for the ASA. These eight numbers for scholarship from within Africa. It means concern The News Media and Africa, Sheridan Johns ensuring equity and opportunity for all the Human Rights in Africa, The Future of Biographical Information diverse US.-based constituencies within our African Studies, Rwanda, Issues in African I came to African Studies via Moscow. midst, thereby to enrich our intellectual and Higher Education, African [Diaspora] After graduating from Amherst College in intercultural communication. Studies, Commentaries in African Studies, American Studies, I complemented my BA 4. I applaud the Board's "town meetings" and African Women's Voices. My with an MA from Harvard University in Soviet at the Annual Meetings and will champion philosophy as editor was simple one: to Studies. In a seminar on the Soviet foreign all such measures as we can devise to keep the journal good, to keep it hot, and to policy, while researching the policy of the sustain good communications between the expand the breadth of voices represented in Communist International on colonialism, Board and the Association's members. the publication. During 1993-1994, I served national liberation, and the 'Negro' question, I as Senior Fulbright Scholar the University of learned about Africa's first nonracial party, the Beverly G. Hawk Nairobi. Upon my return, I led in the Communist Party of South Africa, founded in Biographical Information creation of the Alabama Chapter of the 1921. Its history became the subject of my My undergraduate work in Political Fulbright Association. I am presently doctoral dissertation in the Department of Science at John Carroll University provided Assistant Professor of Government at the Government at Harvard University and I have me with an introduction to the complexity University of Alabama at Binningham, been an Africanist ever since. My American of political inquiry. My subsequent graduate where I teach African Politics, Comparative teaching bases have been Brandeis University study challenged me to question the Politics, International Relations, where I taught in the Department of Politics assumptions of those prevailing paradigms International Political Economy, and after receiving my PhD, and Duke University in the Social Sciences. In 1980, I received my Research Methods. In 1996, I received the where I have been in the Department of master's degree from the African Studies UAB President's Award for Excellence in Political Science since the 197Os. I also have and Research Program at Howard Teaching. I have served as a local leader in taught at African universities, spending three University, where my research focused on the improvement of communication and years on the faculty of the University of American Press Coverage of the War in collegiality among faculty from community Zambia, in 1968-70 and then again in 1974-75 Zimbabwe. I received my Doctorate in colleges and four year institutions. In this as a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer, and teaching Political Science from the University of capacity, I convened a citywide conference short-term as a visiting lecturer at the Wisconsin at Madison in 1988. My to improve teaching and increase University of Zimbabwe in 1983 and 1985. For dissertation examined the consequences of graduation rates. In the city of Binningham, four summers over the period 1986-1991 I the 1965 US. Immigration Law for African my work includes initiatives of the United organized and conducted an undergraduate applicants. Nations ASSOCiation, the Birmingham Public Duke University Summer Program, utilizing Although American lawmakers and Schools, the Binningham Civil Rights the campuses and faculty colleagues of the many academics claimed that this law Institute, and the UAB Chapter of the University of Zimbabwe and the University of removed discrimination from American NAACP. Botswana. immigration law by eliminating quotas from Statement of Candidacy My research has focused upon radical and the selection process, my research found I believe ours is a service profession. I African opposition movements in South Africa, that non-quota barriers were equally have a knack for getting people with with a secondary interest in para statal bodies. I effective for the exclusion of African differing points of view to work together am the editor of From Protest to Challenge: applicants. My research about Africa's toward a common goal, and I would like to Documents of African Politics in South AfriCJl, image in the press led me to edit a book, offer this approach in service to the African 1882-1964, Volume I, Protest and Hope, 1882-1934 Africa's Media Image (Praeger, 1992), that Studies Association. Communication and (Hoover, 1972) and co-editor of MIlndela, combines original essays about U.s. Press Cooperation are free. They do not depend Tambo, and the AfriCJln National Congress: The coverage of Africa from twenty-one leaders on foundation money, the federal budget, or Struggle Against Apartheid 194.8-1990, A in print and broadcast journalism. media the size of our respective salaries. As an Documentary Survey (Oxford, 1991). My study research, and African studies. That diversity organization, our ability to achieve our of the Communist Party of South Africa of viewpoints is one reason why it received objectives is in our hands. recently appeared in South AfriCJl, Raising the the US. Society of Professional Journalists I wish to support the continuing work of Red Flag: The International Socialist League and Sigma Delta Chi award for best research the ASA, the ASA Women Caucus, the the Communist Party of South Africa, 1914-1932 about journalism. My most recent work, Association of Concerned African Scholars, (Mayibuye Center, University of the Western Split bnage: Rwandan Bloodmth, South AfriCJln and the Fulbright Association. We have Cape, 1995). I have done field research on Elections, explores the importance of the common initiatives and can benefit from parastatals in Zambia and Botswana and also

Aprilflune 1998 in Cote d1voire in 1981. After having been believe that the ASA should embark on a In addition, my research has benefitted denied entry to South Africa for over twenty systematic effort to survey the changing from research grants from the Rockefeller years I returned as a Fulbright Research nature of intellectual and institutional links Foundation, the American Council of Learned Scholar at the Centre for African Studies, between African studies and African­ Societies, and the US Institute for Peace. I have University of Cape Town, in 1994. My American studies. With comprehenSive also undertaken a number of policy and research has also been supported by the information about these developments the consulting engagements in the United States American Philosophical Society, Inter­ ASA will be better positioned to take and Africa. national Research and Exchanges Board, and advantage of them to deepen its Statement of Candidacy the National Endowment of the Humanities, longstanding commitment to an ever more This is a time for renewal for both African among others. I am presently working with inclusive African studies. Studies and Africa. As the Cold War fades three Russian academics to edit and publish The central concerns of the ASA board away, Africa and Africanists faces new documents from the archives of the remain the enhancement of the ASA as the challenges as well as opportunities. Apart from Communist International in Moscow. primary forum for Africanists, as an the well-known challenge of the loss of the Statement of Candidacy effective advocate for African studies, and political imperative that brought attention and As a member of the ASA board I would as a vibrant connection to Africa-based funding - albeit instrumental- to area studies, draw from my experiences in Mricanist scholars and institutions. Its capabilities can there is the enduring challenge of bringing the organizations at both the regional and be stretched by modest, but still potentially community of scholars residing and working in national level. From 1985 to 1988 I was the fruitful, initiatives, including interfaCing Africa into the very core of the Africanist co-chair of the Southeastern Regional with regional Africanist groupings such as enterprise. This, for me, is the most significant Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) and I SERSAS, solidifying collaboration with the challenge for the Mricanist community. served as associate chair of the Association AASP, and seeking to capitalize on the The present context provides an of African Studies Programs (AASP) from convergence of African studies and opportunity to bring this cohort of Africanists 1991 to 1993, and then as chair from 1993 to African-American studies. To these into the center of Mrican Studies. I believe we 1995. For more than twenty years SERSAS enterprises I would particularly devote my must be more committed to breaking down the has been an effective vehicle for building energies as a member of the ASA board. barriers that keep African scholars, eSpecially and maintaining links among Africanists at those practicing on the continent, at the universities and colleges scattered Stephen N. Ndegwa margins of not only their parent disciplines but throughout the southeast. Despite an Biographical Information also of African Studies. As a scholar, I am extremely modest budget, SERSAS has I received my BA from The College of conscious of his imperative and over the last succeeded in holding two weekend seminars Wooster in 1990 and my PhD in political few years I have made small steps to realize a year, hosted by Africanists at their home science from Indiana University in 1993. this goal. For instance, as book review editor institutions. The AASP, an organization also Thereafter, I served as Assistant to the for Africa for the Journal of Asian and African with a modest budget, brings together Director of African Studies at Indiana Studies, I have successfully included many representatives from African studies University from 1993 to 1994. Since 1994, I scholars in Africa as book reviewers in order to programs of all sizes and types, also for have been an Assistant Professor of give both visibility to their analysis as well as twice-a-year meetings, to discuss common Government at the College of William and access to current books which have become problems confronting African studies. Mary, Virginia. increasingly expensive given the economic Originally a home primarily for the large My research interests include hardships facing scholars on the continent. national resource centers, the AASP through Non-Governmental Organizations, civil Similarly, in my scholarship I have sought to the 1990s has steadily drawn in more society, and, more broadly, democracy and create respectable space for colleagues in medium and small programs, most recently governance in Africa. My previous research Africa. For instance, in a volume I am currently through outreach to Africanist scholars from has focused on NGOs in Kenya, Zimbabwe, co-editing with Professor York Bradshaw HBCUs. The now more diverse AASP has Namibia, and South Africa as well as ethnic (Indiana University), we have succeed in become a more useful forum for interchange politics, constitutionalism and transition bringing a balance between scholars from and the sharing of information. It is politics in Kenya. My current work includes outside Africa and those working in Africa to important to undergird the existing bonds research for a book on citizenship rights and offer analyses of political and economic between the ASA and the AASP. Equally, it land reform in southern Africa (Zimbabwe, developments in southern Africa - where the would be valuable to consider ways in Namibia, and South Africa) where I have abundance of African scholarship has which the ASA could draw upon and conducted field work. remained largely marginalized in works strengthen regional groupings of Africanists. Among my publications is recent work available in the west. Rising campus interest in Africa, on the African development crisis and Finally, I am committed to bringing African particularly among undergraduates, is structural adjustment,women and AIDS in Studies from the margins of the host paralleled by rising interest in Africa, NGO project implementation and disciplines. In my own experience, I have tried African-American studies. New dynamiCS sustainable development, and the relevance to do so in my own research by seeking to and intellectual currents within both African of electoral systems to democratic publish not only in the Africanist journals but studies and African-American studies, development in Kenya. My book, The Two also in the leading political sdence journals. I perhaps most notably the heightened Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in believe that the excellence of Africanist salience of the African diaspora, have drawn Africa (Kumarian Press,1996) was scholarship over the last three decades - not In the two academic communities together. nominated for the Woodrow Wilson Award mention the survival of African studies in a IncreaSingly African studies and African­ of the American Political Science resource starved academic environment - can American studies also are coming together Association. My other publications have only be sustained by an engagement with institutionally in common centers or appeared in numerous journals, including questions that are at the heart of the programs. Unkage is driven by common the American Political Science Review and the disciplines. In short, we must not only be scholarly concerns, but also by the African Studies Review, and the International relevant to Africa, but also to the host academic imperatives of budget-conscious Journal of Comparative Sociology. diSciplines. administrations. In light of these trends I

April/June 1998 R.ichard R.oberts regularly supervise undergraduate honor African Studies Collection in the Main Library Biographical Information theses on Africa and maintain an active is a nationally known resource in the I have been teaching African history at teaching schedule of courses on Africa and humanities and social sciences for teaching and Stanford University since 1980. I began as an African history. research on Sub-Saharan Africa, comprising acting assistant professor and I am currently Statement of Candidacy some 100,000 cataloged volumes. Materials are professor and director of the Center for From my perspective as director of collected in major world languages and African Studies. All my formal education has African Studies at Stanford for the past hundreds of African languages, with focus on taken place in public institutions. I attended seven years, I have come to appreciate two 30 major languages and language families. public schools in New York City, then perennial, but increasingly important issues Particularly strong are collections in received a BA from the University of facing Africanists and the ASA. The first is anthropology, ethnomusicology, fine arts, Wisconsin in 1970. I received my MA in the need to encourage the highest possible folklore, history, linguistics, literature, North African history from Simon Frazer visibility of Africanists as public economics, political science and government. University in British Columbia and intellectuals. Afrlcanists must continue to Significant African research materials are conducted a year's field work In Tunisia. serve the academy and to insure that we housed in the Lilly Library (rare books and Increasingly, however, I was drawn to the remain active on university and college manuscripts), the Fine Arts Library, the Fine interdisciplinary excitement and challenges campuses throughout the nation. But Arts Museum, and the Archives of Traditional of sub-Saharan African history. I pursued Africanists can not lose sight of the crucial Music. my doctoral studies at the University of role they must play in terms of making Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Toronto, focussing on the little known accessible the inSights of academic Director of Collection Development, the history of Mali, and received my degree in knowledge to the public and policy debates librarian is responsible for building and 1978. on Africa, Africa's relations with both the maintaining a collection of materials produced For the past twenty years, I have wider world and with her neighbors within about Africa or in Africa in all media to conducted research on the social and the continent, human rights, environmental support the current and future needs of the economic history of francophone West protection, development, and poverty. The Indiana University academic community; Africa, with a concentration on Mali. Association must encourage Its members to teaches annually, "Introduction to the Working on Mali has been a wonderful participate in public fora close to home as Bibliography of Sub-Saharan Africa," a experience because its history is so rich and well as regionally and nationally. The required course for the African Studies the people so willing to share their memories Association must not let Africa and the graduate minor; and participates in the African and their oral traditions. In my writing, I studies of Africa be marginalized and Studies Program, chairing its Library Committ have consistently sought to ground my neglected. ee. Assists in developing external funding Interpretation In the local processes of And second, I have come to appreciate sources; maintains and develops cooperative change while addressing the interests of a our need to collaborate and the challenges programs for exchanges, gifts and wider audience. I have published two of making collaboration work Even resource-sharing; and provides advanced monographs, Warriors, Slaves, and Merchants: Africanlsts at relatively well endowed reference service in African Studies. Works The State and the Economy in the Middle Niger institutions like Stanford can not expect to with other library units to acquire materials Valley, 1700-1914 (Stanford, 1987) and Two thrive intellectually and politically without and provide access to them, including Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional building alliances both within our preparation of collection guides, web site Economy of the French Soudan, 1800-1946 institutions, with institutions in Africa, and development, and digitization projects; (Stanford, 1996) and articles in many with other regional institutions. I will press participates in meetings and activities of the Africanist journals, including The Journal of the ASA to develop strategies and programs Subject and Area librarians Council and of African History, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, that will promote collaboration for students Academic Information Services. Supervises a International Journal of African Historical and faculty. I am especially eager to see the half-time support staff assistant and a student. Studies, and Canadian Journal of African Association develop regional summer Qualifications Required: ALA-accredited Studies. Because I enjoy the healthy institutes on thematic issues In order to masters degree in library science with graduate give-and-take of collaborative work, I have provide opportunities for faculty, graduate work in African Studies or equivalent also co-edited three volumes on African students, and undergraduates to explore combination of education and experience in an social history. With Suzanne Miers, I edited new issues in African Studies. I will also academic research library or special library; The End of Slavery in Africa (Wisconsin, 1988); urge the Association to seek ways of knowledge of electronic resources with an with KrIstin Mann, Law and Colonialism in collaborating with African universities to interest in developing innovative services; Africa (Heinemann, 1992); and with Allen establish similar programs on the African familiarity with African Studies curricula and Isaacman, The Social History of Cotton in continent. area studies research trends nationally and Colonial Africa (Heinemann, 1995). Martin internationally; excellent written and oral Klein and I are currently proposing a general communication skills; good interpersonal skills history of 'Africa in the Twentieth Century' and the ability to work as part of a team in order to fill an important need among the Preferred: MLS and Doctorate in field general public and college and university specializing in African Studies and field students. I have also served as co-edltor of Librarian for African experience in Africa; bibliographic knowledge African Economic History and will begin terms Studies of other European and African languages, in as co-editor of the JAH and the Journal of particular French, Portuguese, German, Legal Pluralism. I have also been deeply Available: Augusll,1998. Swahili, Hausa, Bamb ara, South African or committed to my graduate and Ghanaian languages; familiarity with The Indiana University libraries are undergraduate students. I have brought to publishing patterns in Africa, the African book completion fourteen dissertations In African seeking an experienced and innovative trade and Afrlcana vendors; and teaching history. Two more will be completed this individual to oversee the African Studies experience. summer, and I have seven other graduate collection and services for the Indiana Salary and Benefits: Salary negotiable and students in various stages of their research. I University libraries at Bloomington. The competitive, dependent upon experience,

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For more information and to June 26-29, 1998--African Studies utopian, and apocalyptic groups, download an application fonn see the ... Annual Conference of the African Studies individuals, literature, attitudes, and website: www.plu.edu/-hamesgl/ or Association of Australasia and the Pacific movements, secular as well as religious, contact Gina Hames, CCWH Awards (AFSAAP), to be held at Latrobe University, from all cultures and periods of history. Committee Chair, History Department, Melbourne, Australia. Contact David Submissions are welcomed from scholars of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA Dorward, Director, African Research all disciplines, including religion, sociology, 98447. E-mail: [email protected]. Institute, laTrobe University, Bundoora, history, psychology, and literature. Authors November 16, 1998-Kellogg Institute Victoria 3083, Australia. E-maU: Aprilnune 1998 [email protected]. The Third Bajor, William J. Discussing "human rights": an Annual Post-Graduate African Studies EMPLOYMENT anthropological exposition on "human rights" Workshop will be held in conjunction with OPPORTUNITIES discourse [Sudanl. Ph.D., U. of St. Andrews (U.K.), the AFSAAP Conference. Contact Tanya 1997. 9801543. Lyons, Politics Department, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005. African History Bergman, Jeanne Louise. A willingness to remember: E-mail: [email protected]. '*' Truman State University (formerly the persistance of Duruma culture and collective Northeast Missouri State), Kirksville, memory [Kenyal. Ph.D., U. of Califomia, Berkeley, July 8-11" 1998-Third Sector Research Missouri seeks applications for a 1997.9803125. .& Third International Conference of the tenure-track Assistant Professor of History Bikales, Thomas James. From culture to International Society for Third Sector position, beginning August 17, 1998. commercialization: the production and packaging ofan Research, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. Contact James J. Lyons, Head, Division of Social Science, Truman State University, 100 African cinema in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Ph.D., Theme: "The Contribution of the Third New York U., 1997.9808356. Sector to Social, EconomiC, and Political East Normal, Kirksville, MO 63501-4221. Change." For information contact ISJR, The Bobe, Rene. Hominid environments in the Pliocene: Johns Hopkins University, 551 Wyman Park an analysis of fossil mammals from the Omo Valley, Building, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, RECENT DOCTORAL Ethiopia. Ph.D., U. of Washington, 1997. 9806959. MD 21218-2688. Tel: (410) 516-4678, fax: DISSERTATIONS (410) 516-4870. Bock, John Andrew. The determinants ofvariation in Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer children's activities in a southern African community September 5-9, 1998-Papyri and [BotswanaJ. Ph.D., U. of New Mexico, 1995. Inscriptions (Michigan State University) 9804690. .& The Center of Papyrological Studies and InScriptions of Ain-Shams University will Oiggett, Lisa. My mother's keeper: changing family The theses listed below were reported in hold an International Congress on the theme, support systems fur the elderly in the Gwembe Valley, Dissertation Abstracts International (DAl), vol. 58, Zambia. Ph.D., Indiana U., 1997. 9805404. "Palestine on the Ught of Paypri and nos. 6-9, parts A and B. Each dlation ends with Inscriptions." Contact Alia HanaS, Center of the order number, if any. American theses are Eason, Djisovi lkukomi. A time of destiny: Ifa Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, usually available from University Microfilms Ain-Shams University, Abba ssla , Cairo culture and festivals in ne-Ife, Nigeria and Oyotunji International (PO Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI African village in Sheldon, South Carolina. Ph.D., 11566, Egypt. Tel: 00202 2844283, fax: 00202 48106-1346). For Canadian theses (with NN Bowling Green State U., 1997.9804302. 2859251. prefix), contact either UMI or the National Library of Canada (395 Wellington St., Ottawa Flynn, Karen Coen. Food provisioning in urban October 22-24, 1998-S0RAC 98 KIA ON4). For details, see DAI or Mwanm, Tanmnia. Ph.D., Harvard U., 1997. .& International Three-Day Conference on wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/main. This is 9810737. Africa hosted by the Society of Research on the 38th quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's African Cultures, at Montclair State Ghannam, Farha. Remaking the modern: space, University, NJ. Theme: '1mages of Africa: Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 (Atlanla: Crossroads relocation, and the politiCS of identity in a global Cairo Press,1989). Stereotypes and Realities." Contact Daniel [EgyptJ. Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 1997. Mengara, Department of French, Montclair 9802875. State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043. Agriculture Tel: (973) 655-5143, Heck, Simon. In the presence of neighbors: land Kabore, Koudougou Blaise. Variabilite du e-mail: [email protected]. property, and community in AnbJle, Uganda. Ph.D., Colletotrichum graminicola chez Ie sorgho et Boston U., 1998. 9804551. lutte culturale contre "anthracnose [Burkina November 8-9, 1998-Millenial Studies FasoJ. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 1997. NN20175. .& Third annual conference of the Center for Jindra, Michael Charles. The proliferation of Millennial Studies, to be held at Boston ancestors: death celebrations in the Cameroon Martinez, Teresa Angelica. An evaluation of the Grassfields. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1997. University. Theme: "Knowing of a Time, effects of the CIlrrier state of heartwater on the 9724811. Knowing the Time." For information: PO productitJity of Dorper-Merion cross ewes and Box 239, Allston, MA 02134. Tel: (617) pre-weaning lambs [Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., U. of Konate, Moussa. Tunga: a study of Malian Soninke 975-0299, e-mail: [email protected]. Florida, 1996.9800155. labor migration to France. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1997. 9803958. June 1999-Post-Emancipation Mauritius Ogol, Callistus K.P.O. Agrofcrrestry fur Kenya: pest impact and biocuntrol in a trre legume-maize .& Conference organized by the Centre for Krautwurst, Udo Rainer. Tales of the 'Land of inlercrop. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 1996. Mauritian Studies, MGI, and the African stories ": settlers and anti-modernity in German Cultural Centre commemorating the 160th NNl8088. colonial discourses on German South West AfriCll, Anniversary of the ending of Apprenticeship 1884-1914 [Namibia]. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, on the theme, "Post-emancipation Turk, Robert Daniell. Survey and 1997.9737416. Mauritius." Comparative perspectives species-screening trials of indigenous trees from the welcomed. For list of panels and more vicinity of Rmwmafima National Park, Madagascar. Lambert, Joanna E. Digestive strategies, fruit Ph.D., North Carolina State U., 1997. 973767l. details, contact Moka Mauritius, fax: (230) processing, and seed dispersal in the chimfkltlZee5 (Pan 433-2235; or Vijaya Teelock, e-mail: Anthropology troglodytes) and redtail mcnkeys (Cercopithecus vteelockOintnet.mu. ascanius) of Kibale National PlUk, Uganda. Ph.D., U. Askew, Kelly Michelle. Performing the nation: of illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.9737171. SWI'lhili musical performance and the production of Tanzanian national culture. Ph.D., Harvard U, Lucas, Kimberley. .Risky business: Agricultural 1997. 9810'7l3. ' di-oersifim,tion and social relations in the southern highlands of TanZiltlia. Ph.D., U. of Kentucky, 1997. Aprilnune 1998 9735622. erolutionary mechanisms of the gastropods Connecticut, 1997. 9806182. (Prosobranchia: Thiaridae) of Lake Tanganyika, East Meintjes, Louise. Mediating diffe:rence: producing Africa. Ph.D., U. of California, Los An~es, Osborne, Theresa Kay. The efficiency of grain MMqanga music in a South African studio. Ph.D., 1997.9737331. markets and price variability in Ethiopia pre- and U. of Texas at Austin, 1997.9802958. post-liberaliZAtion. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1997. Earth Sciences 9809174. N'Diaye, Diana Baird. Collaborative cultural resatTch and public sector folklore presentation: an Bandyayera, Daniel. Formation des laterites Pana-Cryan, Regina. Egyptian import demand for ethnographic study of the African immigrant nickllifb-es et mode de distribution des Iltments du United States wheat. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 1996. folldife project. Ph.D., Union Inst., 1997.9810062. groupe du plantine dans les profi/s lateritiques du 9800167. complexe de Musongati, Burundi. Ph.D., U. de Nave, Arl. Marriage and the maintenance of ethnic Quebec Ii Chkoutimi (Can.), 1997. NN20294. Perkins, Annabel Catherine Jane. Fertility and group boundaries in Mauritius. Ph.D., U. of household bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: how California, Los Angeles, 1997. 9800534. Basu, Debnath. CharacteriZAtion of thin-bedded large is the husband's influence? Ph.D., Cornell turbidites from the Permian Tanqua Karoo U., 1997. 9804873. Ogembo, Justus Mozart H'achachi. The rise and submarine fan deposits, South Africa. Ph.D., decline of communal violence: an analysis of the Louisiana State U., 1997. 9800579. SaIl, Samba. A characteristic-approach to adoption: 1992-1994 witch-hunts in Gusii, southwestern the case of improved rice varieties in southern Kenya. Ph.D., Harvard U., 1997. 9810745. Chaker, Mohammed. Geochimie et m/tallogenie Senegal. Ph.D., Kansas State U., 1997. 9736786. de la mine d'or de Tiouit, Anti-Atlas Oriental, Sud Omran, Sobhy AM el-Alim eI-Sayed. Eamomic du Maroc [Morocco]. Ph.D., U. du Quebec Ii Woollery, Trevor Anthony. Tropical forest transformation and food security in developing Chicoutimi (Can.), 1997. NN20295. depletion: assessing the forest products trade and countries: the case of Egypt. Ph.D., U. of economic influences on the forest area industrially Connecticut, 1997. 9810519. Groschel-Becker, Henrike M. Formational logged [Ghana]. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 1997. processes of oceanic crust at sedimented spreading 9802399. Pfeiffer, James T. Desentendimento em casa: centers: perspectives from the West African income, intrahousehold resource allocation, labor amtinental margin and Middle Valley, Juan de Education migration, and child growth in central Fuca Ridge. Ph.D., U. of Miami, 1996.9805900. Mozambique. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Akankwasa, Richard Rwagalla. Teachers and An~es, 1997.9803529. Scott, Erik Douglas. Tectonics and sedimentation: national development in Uganda. Ph.D., U. of the evolution, tectonic influences and correlation of Alberta (Can.), 1997. NQ21543. Popenoe, Rebecca C. Girls work is stomach work: the Tanqua and Laingsburg subbasins, Southwest female fatness, sexuality, and society among the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Ph.D., Louisiana State Alidou, Hassana. Education language policy and Azawagh Arabs (Moors) of Niger. Ph.D., U. of U. & A&M Col., 1997. 98!E780. bilingual education: the impact of French language Chicago, 1997.9800632. policy in primary education in Niger. Ph.D., U. of Economics lllinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. 9737030. Smith, Kevin Christopher. From livestock to land: the effects of agricultural sedentarization on Abel-Ratovo, Henri Lucien. Design of a Bunyi, Grace Wangari. Language, education and pastoral Rendille and Ariaal of northern Kenya. socioeconomic monitoring and evaluation system to social selection in Kenya: an ethnographic study of Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 1997.9802751. manage integrated amservation and development two schools. Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 1996. projects in Madagascar. Ph.D., U. of Florida, NNI8990. Wooten, Stephen R. Gardens are for cash, grain is 1997. 9802258. for life: the social organiZAtion of parallel Diarra, Mohamed Cherif. Educational costs and production processes in a rural Bamana village Krizan, Cornell John. External economies of scale cost recovery in developing countries: the case of [Mali}. Ph.D., U. of lllinois at in Chile, Mexico, and MJJrocco: evidence from Mali. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. & A&M Col., Urbana-Champaign, 1997. 9737293. plant-level data. Ph.D., Georgetown U., 1997. 1997.9808735. 9801228. Biological Sciences Gaddis, Kelly. Participatory mathematics Leonard, Kenneth Lynch. Contractual structure curriculum development: a case study from Gonzalez, Patrick J. Dynamics ofbiodiversity and of health care in rural Cameroun. Ph.D., U. of Kwazu/u/Natal, South Africa. Ph.D., Cornell u., human carrying capacity in the Senegal Sahel. California, Berkeley, 1997. 9800274. 1997. 9804964. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 1997. 9803206. Muonekwu, Ike Jude. Impact of the naira Groener, Zelda Lynette. Adult education and Hale, Elisabeth A. An investigation of the utility devaluations on Nigeria's foreign trade and training in the South African transition of feeding angles among Lake Malawi rock-dwelling investment. D.B.A., Golden Gate U., 1997. (1990-1994): a study of policymaking. Ph.D., U. of cichlids. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 1997. 9806516. California, Los Angeles, 1997.9803996. 9802642. Nwafor, Ferdinand Chibueze. ,Models of Kagoda, Alice Merab T. Geography education in La Farge-England, Catherine. Systematic studies exchange rate behavior: application to the parallel Uganda: a critical analysis ofgeography programs in of the tropical genus Leuroloma Brid market-based Nigerian eamomy. Ph.D., Howard national teachers colleges. Ph.D., U. of Alberta !Madagascar]. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), U., 1997. 9804141. (Can.), 1997. NQ21583. 1997. NQ21587. Okidi, John Alphonse. Issues in collective action Ka1Ion, Michael R. An interpretive study of Teshome, Awegechew. Fadors maintaining for common resources: some evidence from western planned educational reform in Sierra Leone: the sorghum landrace diversity in North Shewa and Uganda. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, primary school and teacher education. Ph.D., U. of South We/a regions of Ethiopia. Ph.D., Carleton 1997.9724119. Toronto (Can.), 19%. NNI9009. U. (Can.), 1996. 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A kingly craft: manuscripts, ideology, and society in 18th-19th Kreutzer, Natalie Jones. The nature of music Milich, Lenard B. Characterizing and relating century Ethiopia. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 1997. acquisition among selected Shona speaking people of mriability in satellite images of the West African 9808096. rural Zimbabwe as reflected in the vocal Sudano-Sahel to desertification and food security. productions of children from birth to set1etI years. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 1997. 9738974. Ojukutu-Macauley, Sylvia V. Women, power and Ph.D., Indiana U., 1997.9805421. change in northwestern Sierra Leone, 1896-1993. Geography Ph.D., Howard U., 1997. 9804133. Kustaa, Friedrich ]osafat. The international dimension of school failure and racial inequalities in Kikombo, nunga Ngoy. Spatial and temporal Rieker, Martina E. The Sa'id and the city: the history ofadapted colonial education in Namibia patterns of forest rover in the central Western subaltern spaces in the making of modern Egyptian and South Africa, 1652-1989. Ph.D., U. of New Cascades of Oregon and southeast Zaire: a test of history. Ph.D., Temple U., 1997. 9737987. Mexico, 1997. 9736115. distance decay and deforestation models. Ph.D., Oregon State U., 1997. 9736863. Smythe, Kathleen Ramage. Fipa childhood: White Lusweti, Vivian. Cross-cultural perceptions of Fathers' missionaries and social change in Nkansi, gender differentiation among African, Asian, and Segosebe, Eagilwe M. Pastoral management in Ufipa, 1910-1980 [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of Latin American female rollege students in the Botswana: a comparative study of private and Wisconsin Madison, 1997. 9728006. United States. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College communal grazing management in the Kweneng Park,1997.9736595. and Southern district. Ph.D., Oark U., 1997. Tsikoane, Tumelo. A history of public health 9809054. policy in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1900-1980. Malindi, Ellard Stephano. The development of a Ph.D., Boston U., 1998.9738664. sociometric model for selecting rontact farmers Health Sciences [Malawi]. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Home Economics Urbana-Champaign, 1997. 9737186. Bohlke, Mark William Karl Hermann. Potential pharmaceutical value of tropical forest plants of Malindi, Grace Margaret. Gender-based adoption Matomela, Eucalia Nandipha Mzikazi. Costa Rica and roastal Ghana. Ph.D., U. of Illinois of agricultural, health and family planning Educational and occupational aspirations of high at Chicago, 1997. 9801589. technologies by individuals within rural households: school students in South Africa. Ph.D., U. of the Malawi case. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Iowa, 1997.9805699. Chandler, Phaik Sim. Risk factors associated with Urbana-Champaign, 1997. 9737187. first symptomatic infection of Cryptosporidum Nebedum-Ezeh, Georgina Chizoba. 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Peer ron tent analysis of extra- and intra-media data 1997. 9805707. education and support for AIDS preuention among sources. Ph.D., Southern Illinois U. at women in South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Carbondale, 1997. 9738078. Oluka, Silas Omoding. Towards eroscience: Chicago, 1997. 9801598. environmental and sociocultural perspectives in Language science: some insights from Uganda. Ph.D., U. of Seloilwe, Esther Salang. Family psychiatric Alberta (Can.), 1997. NQ21616. caregiving in Botswana: experiences, demands, and Alidou, Ousseina Dioula. A phonological study of social support. Ph.D., U. of California, San language games in six languages of Niger. Ph.D., Pedro, Enrico Graham. Equality and education Francisco, 1997. 9738381. Indiana U., 1997. 9810755. in South Africa: a policy analysis. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1997.9738810. Shaibu, Sheila Cynthia. Caregiving on the edge: Aroga Bessong, Dieudonne Prosper. Le family caregiving of the elderly in Botswana. 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April/June 1998 \ \ I t Law New York, 1997. 9807945. j Sun, Uqiang. A modeling study of climate Beecham, Ama B. New directions fur the rule of Messiha, Inas Tawfik. Le status de la femme: une mriabilily uoer Western and Eastern Africa. Ph.D., law and development in Ghana: the ombudsman etude multiculturelle: Chedid, Des'Clignes, Sarraute North Carolina State U., 1997. 9809274. I alternatiw for the twenty-first century. D.Jur., [EgyptJ. Ph.D., U. ofTennessee, 1996. 9735343. York u. (Can.), 1997. NN20349. Political Science Moukhlis, Salah Mohammed. The subject Of the Djossou. Jean Maurice. L'Afrique et Ie GAIT des Maghreb: authenticity, modernity and fictianal Alb~ Francesco Joseph. Parks, people, and territoires dowmiers coloniaux aux membres de identity [Algeria & MoroccoJ. Ph.D., State U. of paradigms: protected areas in Ecuador and l'OMC. U.D., U. Laval (Can.), 1996. NN20105. New York at Stony Brook, 1997. 9807392. Botswana. Ph.D., American U., 1997.9809505.

EI-Torgoman, Sameh Y. The dispute settlement Newton, Robert Clark. The epic cassette: Boansi, Kwabena Okofo. Africa in a changing system in the Egyptian capital market and economic technology, tradition, and imagination in internatiana/ political economy. Ph.D., U. of development. J.5.D., Stanford U., 1997. 9810068. contemporary Bamana Segu [Mali]. Ph.D., U. of Delaware, 1997.9810854. Wisconsin - Madison, 1997. 9723738. Library Science Buntman, Fran Usa. The politics of conviction: Ouedraogo, Jean. Redts de /'indicible: political prisoner resistance on Robben Island, Grand, Bululwami. An investigatian of the articulation, translation de l'histoire chez Maryse 1962-1991, and its implications fur South African information seeking behavior of nurses in Botswana. Conde et Ahmadou KDurouma (Mali & Cote politics and resistance theory. Ph.D., U. of Texas Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 1997.9736406. d'Ivoire]. Ph.D., U. of Georgia, 1997. 9735552. at Austin, 1997. 9802833.

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