A .IAITEILY IE.SUTTEI 'OLIME IIII '01 A'IICAI nlllEl 'AIIAI'/MAICI 199. AIiOCIATlOI MEMIEIS 10. 1 FROM THE EXECUTIVE ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 1998 DIRECTOR ... OFFICERS President: Sandra Greene (Cornell University) I hope that the holidays have been good to everyone and that Vice-President: David Wiley (Michigan State Univ) the coming year will be a good one. No doubt the coming year Past President Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown Univ) will be an exciting one for the ASA. Treasmer: Jack Parson (College of Charleston) The last time I wrote to you I said that the next newsletter Executive Director: Chris Koch (Rutgers University) would be produced from Rutgers. Well this has not come to pass. We decided to rush this issue to press so that everyone would get the 1998 Annual Meeting Call for Papers well in advance of the DIRECTORS March 15,1998 deadline. Chicago is always a popular destination and I predict that more members will apply to participate in RETIRING IN 1998 panels and roundtables than the hotel can accommodate. So, a Keletso Atkins (University of Minnesota) word to the wise. Proposals submitted by the deadline stand a Julius Nyang'oro (Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) greater chance of getting into the program. Claire Robertson (Ohio State University) This time I am not kidding, this is the last ASA News to be produced from Atlanta. I am sitting here at my computer RETIRING IN 1999 surrounded by boxes, boxes, and yet more boxes. I have even had Judith Byfield (Dartmouth University) dreams about boxes! In just four short days a moving van will Frank Holmquist (Hampshire College) arrive and load and transport our multitude of boxes to Rutgers. Omofolabo Soyinka (University of Kansas) You can imagine the jokes around this place now. People wear boxer shorts and have boxing matches. The staff threatened to rise in a Boxer Rebellion, to which I shouted 'A Box on Both of RETIRING IN 2000 Your Houses!' Harrow Kenneth (Michigan State University) Well enough of this nonsense. Let me be brief and let me go. Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University) Yes you guessed it. I have many boxes to fill before I sleep. Eileen Julien (Indiana University) Please note our new address if you have not already done so. We do not yet have permanent voice or fax telephone numbers, nor are our email lines ready. During the month of January please ASA News, Vol. XXXI, No.1 Jan/Mar 1998 contact us only for urgent reasons and do so using our Emory ISSN 0278·2219 email
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High quality materials The selection committee for the award is includes a prize of $300 that will be While books need not be ne:w, they composed of the Past President, the presented during the 1998 annual meeting of should be in good condition and relevant to President, the Vice President, and two ASA th~ African Studies Association in Chicago, the recipient's needs. Books can be members designated by the ASA Board of Illinois. Nominations must be received by procured from libraries' duplicates, personal Directors. The recommendation of the the end of January 1998. Please include a libraries, book stores, students and selection committee is presented to the brief justification and at least one review. publishers. Board of Directors at its spring meeting and Helen Conover was senior bibliographer 3. Attention to details of logistics the final choice is made by the Board. in the African Section of the Ubrary of The project plan should include a place Congress, serving 32 years before her to store the books as they are being collected, retirement in 1963. Dorothy Porter Wesley a means of reviewing the books for physical Herskovits Prize was librarian of the Moorland-Spingam quality and relevance to the recipient's Research Center, Howard University, requ~sts, materials and manpower for Nominations retiring in 1973 after 45 years of service. packing, a means of shipping to Africa, and The first award in 1980 was presented to all necessary paperwork for customs and The ASA each year solicits nominations Julian Witherell for his The United States and shipping. The ASA cannot offer any services for the Herskovits Award from nearly 400 Africa: Guide to U.S. Official Documents and publishers of Africana in the US and (to a in arranging shipping or other logistics. 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The 1994 winners publisher and recommend nomination of the or subject areas) • the number of books, and means of were Thomas George Barton: Sexuality and title. A deSCription of the criteria for Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Anrwtated no~ation is listed below. Publishers may obtaining them • shipping and other logistical plans Bibliography (Nairobi: AMREF, 1991) and nonunate as many separate titles in a given African Books in Print (ea. Hans ZeIl) year as they desire. The deadline for • status of the project-is it already underway, or just in the idea stage? (London/New York, Bowker-Saur, 1993) . nominations is March 1, 1998. The 1990 winner was Yvette Scheven's 1. Nominations must be original • who will administer the project? Who is the liaison in Africa? Bibliographies for African Studies 1970-1986 non-fiction scholarly works published in (New York: H. Zell, 1988), in 1992 Carol English in 1997 and distributed in the United 2. Budget Sicherman's two works Ngugi too Thiong'o: A States. What are total costs of the project? How much is the request to the ASA? Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, 2. The subject matter must deal with 1957-1987 (New York: H. Zell, 1988) and Africa and/or related areas: Cape Verde, How will ASA funds be used? Ngugi too Thiong'o, the Making of a Rebel: A Madagascar, or Indian Ocean islands off the 3. Deadline Applications are due in the ASA Source Book in Kenyan Literature and East Coast of Africa. Resistance, (New York: H. Zell, 1990) 3. Works that are not eligible include Secretariat, Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George St., New Brunswick, NJ received the award. edited . collections and compilations, Further information from: Mette Shayne, proceedmgs of symposia, new editions of 08901-1400 no laterthan March I, 1998. A report on the project and brief Fra?cophonic African bibliographer, previously published books, bibliographies, Africana library, Northwestern University and dictionaries. summary for ASA News are required at the project's completion. Library, Evanston, IL 60208. Tel: (847) 491-2934, fax: .847-491-8306, e-mail: [email protected]. January/March 1998 the first group are my teachers and senior they apply themselves in their productive Mabogunje Given colleagues. The late Professor H.C. Darby of endeavours. University College, London and King's College, Over the years, I have found myself looking Distinguished Cambridge who opened my eyes as a young for the right metaphor or imagery to amjure up historical geographer to the evidence of the the reality of what I believe development should Africanist Award development process represented by various be. As the first effort of many African countries features of the earth surface. Professor William to develop their economies began to falter by One of the true highlights of our 40th Garrison, formerly of Northwestern University the late 19705, I was reminded of one of the Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio was the and Professor Torsten Hagerstrand of the numerous fables of my people, the Yoruba, to awarding of the Distinguished Africanist University of Lund in Sweden both of whom explain the rather ungainly shell cover of the Award to Prof. Akin L. Mabogunje. The assisted me in developing a conceptual and tortoise. According to the fable, the tortoise Award was established in the mid-1980s to theoretical concern in the study of geographical wanted to fly like birds do. To do this, he set recognize and honor persons who have phenomena. about collecting the feathers of different birds contributed a lifetime of distinguished The second group is made up of my and glueing them to his body. With a sufficient :, service and accomplishments to the field of younger colleagues from whose knowledge I number of these feathers, the tortoise did indeed African studies. Past recipients of the award continue even now to enrich my own fly. But as he flew up and up towards the sun, understanding. I'll mention three of them just to the glue started to melt. One feather dropped, are: 1984 Gwendolyn M. Carter; 1985 Elliott embarrass them in case they are in the and then the others in rapid sua:ession. In no Skinner; 1986 Jan Vansina; 1987 Joseph audience. The first is Professor Mike McNulty time, the tortoise found himself in a free fall to Greenberg; 1988 Elizabeth Colson; 1989 of the University of Iowa who was briefly my the ground. And what a fall that was. His shell Roland Oliver; 1990 M. Crawford Young; student during my visit to Northwestern broke up into pieces and it took the kindly act of 1992 Philip D. Curtin; 1993 J. Ade Ajayi; and University in 1963 and had remained with his a neighbour to help gather the pieces and patch 1995 Ali A. Mazrui. wife a very close friend; Professor Jane Guyer, them together around the tortoise. For me, the The ASA is pleased to reproduce the text anthropologist and Director of the Program of emphasis of the first development effort in of Prof. Mabogunje's acceptance speech. African Studies, Northwestern University, from many African countries which sought to whom I'm always learning new things about develop the people as if they had no culture or Development as Seen Through ahe Prism of an my own country; and Dr. Michael Cohen of the history, no institutions or organisations of their Historical Geographer World Bank who continues to provoke my own which could be re-oriented towards a new By Akin L. Mabogunje thinking on the issue of development. ethos of development was for me like the story Executive Chairman, Development Policy My third group contains only one person. It of the tortoise. Our current fallure everywhere Centre, Ibadan is my late friend and collaborator Professor on the continent and the pervasive poverty that Ojetunji Aboyade, an economist by training but has resulted from this is for me the price we It will be a disingenuous understatement to someone with whom for over twenty years I have to pay for a mindless and unconscionable say that I was not flabbergasted by the receipt was privileged to rub my mind on the issue of approach to development. of the fax transmission of September 30, 1997 development on a continuous, almost As we are in the process of engaging in a from Professor Gwedolen Mikell, the day-to-day basis. To all this people, dead and new and second developmental attempt with incumbent President of the African Studies alive, I shall always feel a profound sense of the emphasis on poverty eradication, on greater Association informing me that the Board of the gratitude for their influence on my scholarly adoption of the free market ethos, on greater Association had selected me as the winner of career. openness to technological innovations and to a the Distinguished Africanist Award in this 40th If I were to be asked what has been the democratic and accountable governance system, Anniversary of its existence. I felt really essence of that career over the last four decades I find myself grappling with another imagery of overwhelmed and humbled by the honour both before I retired from the services of the what development should be. I like to think of done to me. On behalf of myself and all those University of lbadan in 1981 and during the development as a three-legged race, a type of on whose shoulders and with whose support sixteen years since then, I will answer that it is a obstacle race in which we were all engaged as this honour has been earned, I want to thank continuing search for understanding how children in our primary school days. The Professor Mikell, the other members of the peoples in different climes and lands have three-legged race is about two individuals Governing Board, and all members of the striven to transform their material trying to run as if they were one. The two inner Association for this distinguished mark of circumstances and what we need to do in legs of both individuals are tied together and recognition. I hope I will continue to justify the Africa to significantly achieve such a are meant to be moved as if they were one leg. high expectation and infinite confidence in me transformation. In this regard, I have been So, in African development we have to reflected in their decision. greatly influenced by my understanding of the recognise the two identities - our inherited For me, this honour will always remain the historical geography of Britain especially culture and institutions on the one hand and, on child of many parents. First and foremost, of during the 18th and early 19th century, by the the other, our contemporary global economy course, is my wife whom I regret not being able economic history of those times and by what and institutions. Each of these constitute the to bring with me to this august event I will happened with the transformation of outer legs - our irreducible cultural heritage on always been in the debt of her quiet, brave governance at the grassroots so well captured the one hand and the modern technological and endurance of my frequent absences from home for us in the works of Sidney and Beatrice industrial economy on the other. But the really in the course of building up the scholarly career Webb. As a result, I have found myseH asking critical third leg is the inner one which requires that is here being honoured. I should also my colleagues again and again to let us think of that we transform those elements of our culture mention my children who paid the price of development less as an esoteric science, and institutions to bring their "rules of the having to make do with a peripatetic father something we require a sophisticated, game" into greater consonance with the during the period of their growth when they analytical or quantitative techniques to requirements of the contemporary global most needed his attention. But there are also the understand, important as these may be for our economy; for it is only through such innumerable colleagues and friends to whom competitive scholarly enterprise. Rather, I transformation that we are able to run efficiently this honour is partly due. I cannot, and I am argue that we should increasingly see the with the rest of the world sure, you will not expect me to name all of development process more as something In some of my writings, I have described the them. But you must permit me to mention a which, in the words of Ranis, occurs in men's concept of this transformation as one of few of them and embarrass any of them here mind, as something that impacts positively on "institutional radicalization." This entails that in present the institutions in which they have their beings, the different countries and societies that we There are, in fact, three groups of them. In and that help to change the ways and attitude study, we pay greater and more detailed
}anwny/MJlrch 1998 attention to institutions and the ways these can Policy Centre in Ibadan. This is a Centre whose behind a sustainable development process on be changed such that the majority of the people programmes are largely sponsored by the the continent. whom we are involving in the development African Capacity Building Foundation in I have certainly said enough to give you an process can still feel a familiarity with the new Harare, Zimbabwe, a foundation which in tum idea of my current intellectual pre-occupation institutions even though its "rules of the game" is the creature of the joint effort of the World and to indicate my fulsome expectation of have changed. I have also tried to show that Bank, the United Nations Development what all the disciplines represented in the this form of institutional transformation in Programme, the African Development Bank African Studies Association can contribute to which a significant measure of cultural integrity and a number of donor agencies. ensure that this second round of the is preserved has been characteristics of The need for all disciplines concerned with development process in Africa is crowned with development in many countries and that this is African development especially those that greater success. For those of us who have to why development on a global scale can no study its cultures and traditional institutions contend on a daily basis with the agonies of a longer be described as essentially a "western" and organizations to pay greater attention to failed development process within, what has phenomenon. " policy-oriented research is perhaps the only also been called failed States, there is no I have been fortunate in my career in being plea I can make to this audience this evening. alternative but to continue to work hard and given the opportunity to tryout some of my Whichever way you choose to look at it, there hope that we could help our countries to find ideas. My years as the co-director of the are notable peculiarities in the African scene the right path to sustainable growth and Planning Studies Programme at the University which must make us all conscious of the need development. We constantly need the insights of Ibadan in the 197~ helped to lay the to approach its developmental effort with of scholars of diverse disciplines to help shed groundwork for my future assay into considerable circumspection. For one thing, it is more light on our gropings. Many in this development policy and programmes. On the continent in which, to use the language of audience have done precisely that in the retirement at the age of 50, I took on the your erstwhile President, Goran Hyden, the different countries in which they have challenge of promoting development in the peasant was never really captured by other undertaken their research work. To all of them small rural town of Awe with its over a social classes. Land tenure in Africa thus look a as a native African I express my profound hundred villages based on the notion of using bewildering and chaotic dispensation. Yet, land gratitude. It has been a long and tortuous the hometown voluntary association as a is the only asset available to the vast maJority of journey so far. The history of our performance veritable instrument of change. The results of Africans. But, for most of these, it is a use asset, to date could make them feel a sense of defeat our effort especially in mobilising the farming not an economic asset. As long as this asset is and a high degree of despondency. But these population was simply outstanding. It was to outside the main stream of the market exchange are feelings they must not even allow open my eyes to many other possibilities. ~nomy owing to its lack of traceable and themselves to entertain. Eventually, it led to the government accepting incontrovertible title, for so long will most Let me, therefore, end this short address to pioneer a new programme of rural Africans, especially those in the rural areas, lack with a short story. Madam President, development through a Directorate of Food, a solid access to the modern credit system that distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the saga Roads and Rural Infrastructure based in the can pave their way out of poverty. The inability of African development should remind us of Office of the President. Through this of African governments to engage in the story of Napoleon Bonaparte and his bugle Directorate, we were able not only to improve transforming the one major asset owned by boy. In one of his many battles, Napoleon rural infrastructure but also to initiate a new most of their people such as to release its Bonaparte found his troop in an impossible programme of credit provisiOning to the rural weaIth-creating potential must thus be seen as situation the only outcome of which was population known as "community banks". I one of the most important causes of the bound to be a total defeat. In desperation, he found myself having to serve as Vice-Chairman pervasive poverty on the continent Moreover, summoned the bugle boy to him and ordered of the Directorate for some five years and to the prevailing system of partible inheritance him to blow "the retreat." The bugle boy stood become the Executive Chairman of the National found among many societies on the continent by and did nothing. Napoleon again ordered Board for Community Banks for three years also calls for attention if such transformation is him this time more earnestly and again got no before I resigned. The extent of the successes to have long-lasting effect. If the present response. In desperation, he shouted to blow that attended these two efforts of translating clamour that the continent must become host to the retreat and still the young bugle boy did ideas to action is still awaiting critical the free market economy is not to further nothing. At last, he asked to know what was evaluation. They both took place at a time when disempower a majority of the people, scholars the reason for this blatant disobedience. Nigerian universities were poorly funded and of African development must help not only to Whereupon the young boy almost in tears active research had become too costly for improve our understanding of the changes confessed that he did not know how to blow scholars to embark without external financial going on the land tenure system but also "the retreat." Napoleon then remarked: "Then support proffer some ideas as to how the system can be blow whatever you know how to blow." The What I found most exciting about this systematised and brought into the mainstream bugle boy put the bugle in his mouth and career in development is how much they forced of economic processes in the different countries started to blow "the advance." The enemy, me to appreciate the cursory nature of my on the continent. thinking new reinforcements had arrived to knowledge about the institutions in which the I believe the land situation in Africa is one relieve Napoleon's troops from defeat, broke majority of the populace have their being and of many issues on which more useful ranks and fled and thus gave the day to how relatively easy it was to mobilise and knowledge is required. The same can be said Napoleon. like the bugle boy, the African motivate them within these institutions once I for the greater knowledge of traditional Studies Association must learn never to blow began to have a hang of their nature and their systems of local governance, especially where "the retreat." It must always stick to blowing variation from one part of the country to the this will make for better power distribution and "the advance." It is in the earnest hope and other. More importantly, it led me to appreciate enhance greater transparency and expectation that your continued blowing of the multi-faceted nature of the development accountability. The question would be how to "the advance" will eventually help us in Africa process and the contributions which virtuaIIy inject an increasing dose of democratic practices to win this second battle of our development every discipline, particularly those in the social into such systems. and our gargantuan battle against the poverty sciences, can make to the process once they Another area which we need to look at of the majority of our people that I, once again, accept the distinction between academic and more critically is how to use the tremendous thank you for the honour you have done me policy-oriented research. Emphasising that informational capabilities being unleashed by with .the 1997 Distinguished Africanist Award. distinction and encouraging colleagues in all the cascading revolutions in communication I wish also that the African Studies Association disciplines with an interest in development has and remote sensing technology to accelerate will continue to go from strength to strength. been the rewarding aspect of my present career and deepen the process of institutional Thank you and God bless. as Executive Cltairman of the Development transformation and popular mobilisation
January/March 1998 ....------1!' its natural wealth. Horticulture exports are we will differ where we must. Susan Rice Addresses booming and micro-enterprise is flourishing Ultimately, only African leaders and African throughout the continent - from market people can realize their vast potential, But SRO Audience at ASA women to jua ladi craftsmen. As economic America can and must play a pivotal role. To reforms take hold, African nations are this end, the United States Is pursuing two Annual Meeting gradually becoming players in the global over-arching poliey goals in Africa. trading system, creating new opportunities for The first is to accelerate Africa's full On November 14, 1997, Assistant American business. Today, u.s. exports to integration into the global economy. As the Secretary of State for African Affairs, Susan Africa exceed those to all of the former Soviet global village shrinks and nations forge closer E. Rice, addressed. those attendees of the Union combined by more than 20%. 100,000 economic ties, Africa must not be left behind. ASA Annual Meeting who were fortunate to U.S. jobs depend on exports to Africa. Yet, the Increasing its trade and commercial links with have arrived at the Fairfield Room early U.S. accounts for only 7% of global exports to the rest of the world is crucial to the sustainable enough to get a seat or at least a spot to the continent. As the huge, mostly untapped economic growth and development Africa stand inside the room. Late-comers spilled African market of 600-700 million people needs to alleviate endemic poverty. into the hall out of both doors of the grows, and our market share increases, Success will render both Africans and packed-to-capacity room as Rice delivered thousands of new American jobs will be Americans safer and more prosperous. As her address, which is reprinted below. created. extreme poverty is checked and the !IOcial unrest Return on U.S. direct investment in Africa which often accompanies it subsides, the need A New Partnership For The 21st Century has also been dramatic. During 1990-1994, the for costly intervention by the international average annual return on book value of U.S. community will also diminish. At the same By Susan E. Rice direct investment in Africa was nearly 28 time, Americans will reap the benefits of Assistant Secretary of State for African percent, three times the rate of worldwide increased trade and investment in Africa. Affairs return. And in 1995, the return on book vaiue Integrating Africa into the global ea>nomy reached 33 percent, compared to an 11 percent requires that the United States work to ensure ladies and gentlemen, distinguished rate of return in Europe, 12 percent in latin progress in three areas. I'd like to discuss each of guests. Thank you for inviting me to speak to America, and 14 percent in the Asia-Pacific these three areas in turn, noting what we have you this afternoon. It's a real pleasure to see so region. accomplished thus far and what remains to be many familiar faces here. I am told there was a Regions of stability are also emerging done. time when State Department officials carrying throughout the continent. This decade has The first imperative is promoting out our foreign poliey in Africa were not witnessed not only the dramatic end of sustainable economic growth and development. welcome at gatherings like this one. But just as apartheid but the conclusion of protracted During the past decade, we have worked closely the continent has passed through major wars in the Horn of Africa and Mozambique. with many African countries, helping them to transformations since independence so too There is now hope for lasting peace in liberia adopt sound macro-economic policies and make have our policies. I am pleased to be with you and Angola. While this progress may be clear the transition to free market economies. In the to discuss the Ointon Administration's policy to informed observers, it is also extremely process, we have provided over $15 bUIion in in Africa. fragile. Nascent democracies In Sierra Leone developmental and humanitarian assistance to Let me begin by noting that today, in the and Congo-Brazzaville have been toppled in Africa in the past decade. wake of the cold war, Africa stands at a violent coups. And Central Africa is still a Since 1994, we have disbursed over S630 crossroads. The opportunities and challenges tinderbox. Yet in many countries - from million in assistance to South Africa alone, before the African people stand In stark relief. Namibia to Mali - reconciliation is benefiting entrepreneurs, farmers, NGO's, and There is now more reason for optimism about supplanting confrontation as the means of others. Our aid has also supported housing, Africa's future than at any time since the wave bridging differences rooted in the past. education and health services for the poorest of independence over thirty years ago. While The change that has swept the continent South Africans. conflicts, coups and corruption persist in some since the end of the Cold War has But our commitment has not been directed quarters, the larger story is that of a wave of fundamentally altered Africa's political and primarily to South Africa. President Ointon's change rolling across the African continent. As social landscape. Gone are the days of $100 million Southern Africa Enterprise South Africa's Deputy President Thabo Mbeki kleptocratic African big men when repression Development Fund has begun disbursements to t has said, we can rightfully speak of an "African was the norm. Gone are the days of command support Indigenous small and medium scale Renaissance." economies and minority rule. Gone are the business throughout the Southern African Democracy is ascendant as many African days of Africa serving as a playground for region. And U.S. technical assistance has helped countries undertake significant political superpower competition. And gone are the establish the SADC trade protocol to create a reforms. During the last decade, the number of days of when prOviding foreign aid enabled free-trade area among the countries in this same democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown some to believe they could dictate poliey. region. five-fold. While the democratization process Africa's political and economic resurgence In West Africa, we have provided technical has not been as far reaching as it could be and has led to a reappraisal by many of its leaders assistance to eliminate trade barriers and there have been setbacks, some 25 African establish a network of second generation II of their ties to the West. While there is a desire states now enjoy a democratic form of for strong and constructive relations with the entrepreneurs that provides information to government. United States in many parts of the continent, members in eleven West African countries on I Economic growth is also increasing as those we must recognize that this desire is not blind. trade flows, supplies, prices, and transport nations liberalizing their economies begin to It is tempered by the rightful determination of costs. ~ reap the benefits of free markets and economic African leaders that their relationship with the In Central Africa, we are working to rebuild reform. Annual GOP growth in Africa last year United States be that of true parlners the region after years of deadly conflict. In ~ averaged almost five percent. As Africa's parlners who listen to one another, learn from Rwanda, U.S. assistance has helped restore exports have grown, so too has its trade with one another, and compromise with one agricultural production to nearly four-fifths of the U.S. In 1996, U.S. trade with Sub-Saharan another. its pre-war level. f Africa grew by 18 percent. And this was the As a consequence, we in the United States In East Africa,. the U.S. has helped create second consecutive year that growth In U.S. must adapt our approach to pursue a new over 100,000 new small and micro-businesses in ! trade with Sub-Saharan Africa has out paced form of engagement with Africa - A uganda alone over the past five years. In Kenya, the growth in U.S. global trade. Partnership for the 21st Century. In the spirit we have supported the expanding horticulture Africa's recent economic growth owes as ! of partnership, we must pursue our common industry and promoted an ego-tourism much to the resourcefulness of its people as to interests and, in the spirit of mutual respect, Initiative, the profits of which go to local /anumy/Mmch 1998 It communities. In Tanzania. we are economic incentives to produce. When our not the creation of a standing African army but rehabilitating rural and disbict roads essential human rights and the fruits of our labors are to create a standby peace-keeping capacity so for economic activities. protected by the rule of law, we bave greater that participant nations can act in concert under To enable Africa to keep pace with the confidence in the future. We are more willing to UN auspices to prevent or resolve conflicts in global communications revolution, Congress work bard, to take risks, and invest. Africa and elsewbere. We are committed to bas passed and we are implementing the But democracy not only fosters the implementing fully the African Crisis Response Mickey Leland Initiative, which links Africa to conditions necessary for economic growth, it Initiative over the next several years and to the internet. also promotes the very stability necessary for finding innovative new ways to support African While we bave done a great deal in recent development. The historical record has shown efforts to resolve remaining conflicts. years to promote economic development in that democratic nations are far less likely to I would now like to discuss our second Africa, much more remains to be done. engage in conflict than authoritarian regimes. over-arching policy goal in Africa - protecting Development assistance alone cannot fuel We can be proud of U.S. efforts to advance the U.s. and our citizens from threats to our sustainable growth. We need only note that the democracy in Africa. We bave supported the national security that emanate from Africa as World Bank estimates 350 million new jobs creation of independent election commissions in they do from the rest of the world. In addition will be required in Sub-Saharan Africa in the eleven African counbies. We provided $20 to weapons proliferation, we must guard next generation. Economic growth on the million in electoral assistance to Mozambique against state-sponsored terrorism, narcotics continent, while improved from the stagnation and Malawi alone. We funded recent legislative flows, the growing influence of rogue states of the 1980's, bas yet to keep pace with its and executive elections in Ethiopia and have such as libya and Iran, international crime, expanding population. provided financial assistance to help educate a environmental degradation and disease. For this reason, in June of this year, new generation of young Africans wbo are To meet these threats, in 1996, we signed President Clinton announced the ~Partnership sbiving to establish vibrant civil society in their the Africa Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty for Economic Growth and Opportunity in own counbies and make their electoral eliminating nuclear weapons now and forever Africa.~ This Initiative is designed to accelerate processes work. in Africa. The U.s. has also cleared thousands of growth by promoting economic reform and Still, our record in sustaining democracy is miles and acres of land mines in Africa. We boosting trade and investment in Africa. At the uneven. U.S. plus international effOrts have provide anti-terrorism training to African heart of this Initiative is the proposal to failed thus far to restore democracy and respect counbies and information on the activities of enhance access to American markets for for human rights in Nigeria. Coups have terrorist groups. We bave worked to isolate and African exports. African countries are now toppled fragile democracies in contain the threat that Sudan poses to the able to export nearly fifty percent more Congo-Brazzaville, Niger, and Sierra Leone. United States and its neighbors through its products to the United States duty-free. And And multiparty competition has been stifled in continued sponsorship of international terror. those African counbies that undertake bold, many counbies. But the successes outnumber Earlier this month, we imposed comprebensive growth-oriented reforms would have the failures, and we will work hard to make it economic sanctions on Sudan to increase substantially greater market access. stay that way. pressure on the Sudanese regime to change Under the President's initiative, the United Conflict resolution is our third imperative fundamentally its behavior. States will also provide more technical in integrating Africa into the global economy. In addition, we are working with law assistance to African countries to enable them Peace and stability are a prerequisite for enforcement authorities from Nigeria to South take advantage of these new trade development and economic growth, and we Africa to interdict illicit drugs before they hit opportunities. Through the Overseas Private have done our best to promote peace on the the American streets, and we are sharing our Investment Corporation (OPIC), $120 million continent. U.S. leadership and resources were medical expertise through the CDC to combat has been earmarked to spur direct equity instrumental in bringing to an end protracted dangerous diseases, like malaria and AIDS, on investments in Southern Africa. Another $150 conflicts in Mozambique - and we bope in the continent. In addition, in 1996, USIA million will promote equity investment Angola. U.S. diplomats are actively engaged in developed a television documentary on elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. And a Burundi to help forge a peaceful solution to the progress in AIDS research and methods of further $500 million is targeted for conflict that persists there. We are working in prevention wbich was made available to all infrastructure investment on the continent. the Democratic Republic of Congo to fadlitate a African countries. In addition, the administration is working full accounting of buman rights violations, Fmally, to combat environmental to extinguish bilateral concessional debt and encourage the nascent democratic process, and degradation, we support biodiversity and provide multilateral debt relief to the poorest usher in a period of economic growth and reforestation programs to help save the flora African nations implementing bold economic reconciliation. The U.S. bas provided more than unique to the continent and preserve the ratn reforms. Moreover, the Secretaries of State, $90 million to the West African Peacekeeping forests of West and Central Africa. Treasury, Commerce, and the US. Trade Force, ECOMOC, in order to bring peace to The administration is committed not only to Representative will hold annual ministerial liberia. And we are the largest investor in continuing with these efforts but to intensifying meetings with counterparts from those African developing the OAU's Conflict Management them in the years to come. We will craft and nations undertaking significant economic Center. implement a concerted, continent-wide counter reforms to discuss their progress, our The Clinton Administration has also narcotics strategy. We will clear millions more assistance, and related issues. launched the African Crisis Response Initiative mines. And we will enhance our efforts to arrest This sweeping, new presidential Initiative (ACRI) to enhance the capacity of African environmental degradation and population would fundamentally alter the nature of nations to respond to humanitarian crises and growth and to combat disease. America's economic relationship with Africa. peacekeeping challenges in a timely and Realizing our principal goals of integrating Again, 1 call upon Congress to pass without effective manner. Its emphasis is on the Africa into the global economy and defending further delay the implementing legislation provision of training and equipment, primarily America against transitional threats will be The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. communications gear, to create inter-operability difficult but by no means impossible. Certainly Promoting democracy and respect for among units from different counbies. The ACRI our historic, cultural, and humanitarian ties to human rights is our second imperative in is part of a larger international effort which will Africa should motivate us to exert our best achieving the goal of integrating Africa into involve other donor nations. To date, U.S. efforts to help Africa fulfill its true potential. the global economy. Recent history bas taught training programs have been completed in But so, too, should cold, hard national interest. us that economic reforms go band-in-hand Senegal and Uganda and are underway in Stable, growing democratic African counbies with democracy. An individual's Malawi. In the months ahead, we plan to begin will be more effective partners for the United entrepreneurial spirit is unleashed when he or training in Mall, Gbana, Ethiopia and States as we seek to .work together to combat she enjoys political freedom as well as elsewhere. Let me make plain: our objective is transitional threats and open new markets for january/Mmch 1998 ,
U.S. exports. As you will see from the short list that is for publication by the Nigerian National Today, we have an opportunity to build a published in the Annual Meeting Program, the Archives, the editors provide us with a rich I, new partnership for the 21st century with range of the scholarly editions that we judged to analysis of a text made doubly dlffI.cult for Africa, a partnership aimed at turning our most closely meet these criteria is impressive, being incomplete and existing only in t mutual goals into reality. When Secretary and I would like to acknowledge the editors of translation. The care with which they Albright travels to Africa next month, she will each of these lexts for the excellence of their rontextua1ize the history of the document t pursue ways of deepening that partnership. work. further enhances their presentation of the lext, I When President Ointon travels to Africa, he which is handsomely produced by Indiana l will extend the hand of partnership to a new Allison Drew (ed.), South Africa's Radical University Press. For the scholar it provides ,i generation of African leaders - his own Tradition: A Documentary Histmy, Vol. 1 (Cape new perspectives on the turbulent history of 1 generation - leaders who are committed to Town: Buchu Books, Mayibuye Books, ucr northeastern Adamawa; for the student it improving the weUare of their own people, not Press, 1996). shows the complexity of making value padding their overseas bank accounts. judgments since Hamman Yap is "both villain Ladies and gentlemen, I firmly believe Wendy James, Geed Baumann and Douglas and victim;" for us, it is the clear winner of the Africa is potentially at the point of take-off. H. Johnson (eds.), Juan Maria Schu"OeT's Trtroels in 1997 ASA Text Prize. Today many African people can dare hope that North 'East Africa 1880-1883 (London: The Ii their children will achieve decent standards of HakluytSociety,I996). living, enjoy peace and security, and freely Van Onseln and ! select leaders who will govern responsibly and Mathias E. Mnyampala, The Gogo: Histmy, I respect human rights. U Africa can achieve Customs, and Trrulititms, translated, introduced, Mamdani Share 1997 lift-off, then we all- Africans and Americans and edited by Gregory H. Maddox (Armonk, ! stand to benefit. If Africa falls, we will all pay NY and London: M.E. Sharpe. 1995). Herskovitz Award 1 the price. The United States cannot afford to be a bystander at this pivotal point of time. And I Harold Scheub, The Tongue is Fire: South The Herskovits Prize Committee wishes t promise you that we shall not. I ask you to join African Storytellers and Apartheid (Madison: The to emphasize that this year's nominees, as a with me in helping make our partnership with University of Wisronsin Press, 1996). group, were truly exceptionaL 1996 was, f Africa grow and bear fruit. Thank you. Indeed, the year of the "Good Book.... I James H. Vaughan and Anthony H.M. Kirk-Greene (edited and introduced by), The We divided the prize between two 1997 ASA Text Prize Diary of Hamman Yaji: Chronicle of a West African boob-Charles van Onse!n's The Seed is Mine I Presentation Muslim Ruler (Blomington and Indianapolis: and Mahmood Mamdani's, Citizen tmd Subject. Indiana University Press, 1995). Others were deserving, and our error may He in I By Edward Alpers not dividing the prize further. UCLA Brian Willan (ed.), Sol Plaatje: Selected Charles van Onse1n's The Seed is MJne is Writings Oohannesburg: Witwatersrand magisterial. The book traces the efforts of a This years committee, which was University Press and Athens: Ohio University black south African family to earn a livelihood composed of Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Press, 1996). in a changing South Africa. Kas Maine is a I Eugenia Herbert, and myseU, faced the successful share-cropper in the bighve1dt, in challenge of selecting the third recipient of this Faced with this abundance of scholarly rontract with a poor white landowner after the I important prize, which has been awarded riches, we have selected The Dimy of Hamman outlaw of such relationships under the Native biennially since 1993, from among a field of Yaji: Chronicle of a West African Muslim Ruler to Lands Act. Between the 19308 and the 1950&, receive the Third Biennial ASA Text Prize. l very strong candidates. As stated in the mechanization alters the economics of farming announcement of this competition, 'The Text and the relationships between the two men. Kas Prize honors the translator, rompUer or editor As the diary of a Fulbe emir in the early Maine's famUy ropes by moving first to drier, of the best critical edition or translation into years of rolonial rule, The Diary of Hamman less productive land and finally to urban English of primary source material on Africa. Yaji has virtually no parallels. It sheds light on a employment. each move entails value choices Only works published in 1995 or 1996 are variety of subjects: the continued activities of as well as the reconfiguration of human eligible for consideration." In an effort to clarify Hamman Yaji as slaver even under colonial relationships. rule, the elaborate mechanisms he employed for The book is exemplary in several respects. I and expand the definition of works considered eligible, it further stated: "Texts dealing with maintaining his local power-especia1ly through Based on an extensive set of taped the history, literature, and other aspects of the reciprocal gift giving-and his attempts to ronversations, conducted over several years, cultures of Africa, whether in African or navigate successively through successive the biography captures the fine detail of European languages, whether from oral or domination by Germans, French and British. A everyday life-the tenor and rontent of written traditions, whether the text is being genuinely political figure, Hamman Yap ronversations-as well as the dates, places, and published for the first time or in a new edition, emerges from this diary as a complex events that populate conventional are eligible for consideration for the award. individual, negotiating a romplicated world in representatives of the genre. It communicates Children's books and straightforward lexts will his own inimitable fashion. It is an the moral dilemmas, the value choices, that not be considered. The evaluation is based on extraordinary, romplete1y original story that attend the searcj to provide for a family. At the the importance of the text, the presentation of enables us to enter the mentalitt of a cultural same time, it reaches for broader significance I the text and the critical apparatus, and the mediator whose actions are eminently rational and offers insight into the effects of economic utility of the work as a whole for scholars and from his own perspective, though these actions change on kinship, community, and racial l teachers of Africa. The ASA instituted this dearly infringe our sense of human rights and identity. The book reads like an excellent novel. prize in the hope of putting greater value on were probably considered aberrant by As such, it draws a general readership into the availability of such texts for teaching and European ron temporaries. Nevertheless, discussion of important issues in political scholarship and of recognizing the important Hamman Yap's generally terse entries would economy and intellectual history. not be fully romprehensible without the superb We find this book important not only I translating, editing and critical skills which are l required for doing it well" Your committee editing and erudite commentaries of Vaughan because of its exceptional quallties but also would like to acknowledge that these and Kirk-Greene, the two most eminent because it reveals the power of a neglected guidelines were most helpful in informing our scholars of the region. Working from a unique genre to illuminate the process of social change. decision. copy of a document generously made available As a field. we produce too little biography. That /anwuylMRrch 1998 If Kanda Matulu, an untutored painter from may be because intellectual predilections have of government often seems very limited. Others Shaba. Fabian adds a written transcription of long militated against an interest in individuals, may wonder whether the imposition of a single conversations between Tshibumba and h1mseH, as opposed to dasses, groups, or communities. legal system, whether the English common law, centered on the subject matter of each canvas. However, tracing one person's experiences, the law of Islam, or the law of another The second part of the book contains an encounters, and strategies can illuminate the community, would have produced power ethnography of this unique African voice. relationship between the individual, the group, relationships and incentives significantly Allen Isaacman's Cotton is the Mother of and broader social processes. The Seed is Mine different from the legal dualism Mamdani Poverty takes cotton as a focal point for studying manages to be both scholarly and intimate. It is describes. There is a lot to argue with here, and an instand classic. our field will be the better for taking the book the evolution of cash crop production. Set in Mahmood Mamdani's Citizen and Subject up on its challenges, both through empirical Mozambique, the study draws on 160 poses a big q\le5tion and offers an answer that investigation and through the effort to frame interviews as well as exhaustive examination of is both coherent and provocative. Mamdani alternative understandings of similar breadth or archival and secondary sources. The book offers wants to understand the character of scope. a rich exposition of peasant and labor theory contemporary African politics, writ large. He Citizen and Subject has practical as well as and shows the often dramatic struggles of men suggests that despite the continent's great social scholarly implications. "U power reproduced and women to maintain a degree of autonomy from both state policy and the concessionary and cultural diversity, political life shows many itself by exaggerating difference an denying the common features across societies. Some of these existence of an oppressed majority," Mamdani companies. features are worrisome. He is concerned about asks, "is not the burden of protest to transcend John Pemberton and Funso Afolayan's the persistence of personalism and these differences without denying them?" Yoruba Sacred Kingship is a methodologically authoritarianism despite the desire of many Democratization requires the deradalization of sophisticated treatment of kinship that draws on African for more meaningful popular civil power and the detribalization of customary orall evidence and historically important visual participation. He is puzzled by the high power. Mamdani sets the stage for policy materials and photographs collected over a salience of identity politics and ethnic division debates in South Africa and beyond. twenty-year period. The author's at a time when the quest to liberate from Our finalists included five other special documentation and analysis of the synamism poverty should unite. He argues that the books. • and relevance of the institution of divine institutions ofindirect rule have deeply affected Frederick Cooper's Deco/onization and kingship and its continuing flexibility in political organization, behavior, and policy in A{ricmI society is a masterpiece. It will be valued contemporary African politics and society are post-independenceAfrica-institutions that have for years to come for its detailed investigation unique. The book is a major contribution to our both colonial and contemporary variants. In his of colonial British and French labor policies. The understanding of the evolution of divine view, South Africa is not the outlier, or book differs from past efforts in its careful kingship and poltical culture in Africa. exceptional case; it is instead an extreme attention to hoow people framed sodal Peter Delius's A Lion Amongst the Cattle manifestation of a pattern observable elsewhere issues-how they chose and understood the explores the ways the struggles against racism and traceable to legal and economic dualism. categories they used to describe and analyze and capitalism in South Africa have altered the Citizen and Subject is a big book. For a labor conditions. It fuses this investigation with character of rural and urban society. Delius variety of reasons, our field has tended to focus more conventional history, which informs the charts the experiences of the people who live in on the "micro-study" of a small community or a reader of the substance and sequence of key what was once the Pedi Kingdom. An example single country. These contributions have often events, deliberations, and policy changes. The of historical writing at its best, the book allowed us to reveal and correct misconceptions book is both a tremendous scholarly resource dramatically recounts the determined resistance and to deepen understanding-- and they will and a model for integrating the study of ideas, of this small community against the Apartheid continue to do so. They provide only policies, and political outcomes. state by focusing on two major revolts, thirty fragmentary glimpses of larger phenomena, Johannes Fabian's Remembering the Present; years apart (the Sekhukhuneland Revolts of however. Citizen and Subject breaks with the Painting and Popu1ar History in Zaire does what 1958 and 1988). In the course of the account, Delius tries to document and address important norm and offers us a sweeping, broadly most scholars do not do: It takes seriously the Sociological issues that arise-for example, the comparative argument It integrates seemingly fact that in traditionally non-literate cultures, intermingling of anti-apartheid activity and disparate empirical themes in an effort to verbal and visual arts are an extremely attacks against witches. A remarkable total of understand broad similarities. important means of expression, preserving 125 interviews are blended with extensive Our field will long debate many of the culture as well as recording and retrieving archival research to illuminate fin-de-si.ecle propositions in the book. Not everyone will history. Replete with dazzling color plates, the South Africa. agree that formal rules have the enduring first part of the book deals with the history of effects described, in this period, when the reach the congo (ex-Zaire), as described by Tshumba lHold All Calls! By the time our members receive this ASA Has Moved! issue, the Secretariat will have relocated from Emory to Rutgers. As you can African Studies Association imagine, it will take some time to unpack, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey hire additional staff, and get our Douglass Campus communications going. As of this 132 George Street printing, phone service is not yet ready, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400 and we already know that our computer lines will be delayed, so we ask that all communications be conducted via e-mail directed to our Emory address We Never Close ([email protected]). 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There are I for the conference is Tiyambe Zeleza of the sense of Africa's multiple encounters and eight Sponsored Organizations (Africana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. confrontations with, and accommodations Ubrarians Council, Arts Council of the AS}.. and contributions to, the soon-to-expire Current Issues Council, Electronic century? What Technology Group, Gays and Lesbians In Theme: Africa's Encounter with the 20th adaptations/reconfiguratlons/ dislocations African Studies, Outreach Council, Pan Century have the epistemological frameworks and African Caucus, and Women's Caucus); four This has been one of the most the discursive systems through which we Associate Organizations (Association of I tumultuous centuries in world history. have sought and seek to understand this Concerned Africa Scholars, Association of Whether in culture and the arts, economy rendezvous undergone during the course of, New Scholars of Africa, Ghana Studies and society, science, medidne and and under the pressures occasioned by, this Council, and MANSA); six Affiliate technology, polities and ideology, relations extraordinary century? Organizations (Africa Today, African I of race, class and gender, demographic and The conference theme offers the American Institute, Environmental Briefs spatial structures, environmental and Africanist community an opportune Corporation, Foundation for Contemporary epidemiological conditions, epistemological, moment to conduct both scholarly diagnoses Research, H-AFRICA, and Sahara Fund, theoretical and representational-expressive (where Africa and the study of Africa have Inc.); and four Allied Organizations systems, the twentieth century is been/are) and prognoses (in what directions (American Council of Learned Societies, characterized by massive, complex, and the two might fruitfully go). It is only Association of African Studies Programs, contradictory transformations in all domains appropriate that, a year before the close of National Council of Area Studies, and of human experience. the century, we take intellectual stock of the National Humanities Alliance). I It has been a century of Janus-faced salient transformations that Africa and the The National Panels Chair is responsible extremes. The twentieth century sees the study of Africa have undergone in the for assuring that panels conform to apogee of mass production and mass twentieth century. But this should not leave standards set out by the Board and the marketing and their consummation in mass us fixated on what has passed and is Panels Committee. The National Panels consumption and mass leisure; it passing. As we take stock, we need also to Chair has full authority to add or delete inaugurates the age of mass communication tum in the direction of what lies ahead - the presentations on panels In order to and mass education; it ushers in the era of twenty-first century. In other words, it accommodate proposals for individual mass nationalisms and mass revolts driven behooves us, based on our understandings papers and to enhance the overall quality of by utopian ideals. But it is also a century of of twentieth century Africa, to attempt to the program. Efforts will be made to contact mass hysteria and mass murder, mass chart alternative possibilities and visions proposers of panels affected by these oppression and mass poverty, mass of!for Africa and African Studies in the changes when they are made; however, ignorance and mass disease. The century of coming century. publication deadlines may take precedence unparalleled technological and scientific over such notification. All paper and panel achievement, economic prosperity and PROPOSING A PANEL OR A proposals must be submitted through the population growth, progressive ROUNDTABLE ASA Secretariat on the appropriate forms. modernization and globalization, is also one ASA Policy on Panel Acceptances-The All papers, whether submitted Individually marked by unprecedented global warfare Board reaffirms its poliey that the National or as part of complete panels, will be and genodde, seemingly lrrecondlable sodal Panels Chair, working with his or her reviewed separately. and goo-political divisions, major population committee, bears final responsibility for dislocations, national and ethnic conflicts, acceptance or rejection of all paper, panel, IMPORTANT: All individuals proposing racial, factional and religious chauvinisms, and roundtable proposals for the Annual panels or papers should designate the various manifestations of colOnialism, Meeting. The sole exceptions are panels section for which the proposal Is most authoritarianism and totalitarianism. For all proposed by ASA-Sponsored Organizations; appropriate. If the proposal can be included the epic victories won by the movements for such organizations may propose up to two in two or more sections, Indicate first and national liberation, for ciass and gender panels annually that will be accepted second choice sections. If none of the equality, and for civil and human rights, this without review by the Panels Committee. sections is appropriate for the proposed century nevertheless closes with the gaps These two unreviewed panels proposed by paper or panel, or if you are unclear as to between the rich and poor, both within and ASA-Sponsored Organizations must be the right section, deSignate Section U. All between nations, growing ever-wider. identified as such in writing at the time of proposals will be reviewed by a section What has the nature of Africa's submission by the organization's chair who will make reconunendations to encounter with this most global of coordinator. Merely identifying them as the Panels Committee. centuries-with its triumphs and tragedies, sponsored panels will not grant them The deadline for submissions is March its accomplishments and failures, its unreviewed status. Such unreviewed proposals 15, 1998. Three copies of all proposals and passionate pronouncements and painful must meet all administrative requirements, abstracts must be sent to the ASA Secretariat reversals, its uneven developments and including paper and panel abstracts, and in New Brunswick for entry into the central complex demands-been? In what ways membership and preregistration status far database. Send proposals to Program have the peoples and polities, the societies participants. Coordinator, ASA, Rutgers University, and states, the psychologies and cultures, the In addition to the two panels from each Douglass Campus, 132 George St, New economies and ecologies, of the continent of the ASA-Sponsored Organizations, the Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. been af~ed by - on the one hand-and National Panels Chair may, but is not required to, accept panels which will be Janumy/MPrch 1998 Who May Submit Proposa~Persons who weak abstracts are uniikely to be given high proposal form we can schedule the rooms so propose presentations or organize panels priority. Two or more weak abstracts may that equipment set-up, rental, and and roundtables for the program must be eliminate the panel altogether. tear-down costs to ASA are as low as we can 1998 members of the African Studies Individual paper proposals should be posSibly get them. When you request A/V Association with dues and annual meeting submitted in the same format as proposals equipment late, that piece of equipment preregistration paid by the time of for panels. as described above. Panels will carries a separate set-up, rental, and submission. Scholars who are not resldent be created by the Panels Committee from tear-down cost that ASA will not pay, since in North America or whose major area of individual submissions with common it defeats the purpose of early planning to expertise Is not Africa may request themes. Individual proposals may also be minimize costs. exemption from the membership added to constituted panels at the discretion Q: Last year when requesting A/V requirement. Such persons must submit of the Panels Committee. In no case will a equipment I wrote in a request for a their non-member preregistration fees with co-author be added after a paper has been "cassette player;" as well as a "486 computer their proposals. International scholars accepted by the Panels Committee. (8mb ram, 14.4 bps modem, CD-ROM should indicate in their correspondence with Use only the standard forms, and make player), color monitor, mouse, mouse pad, ASA if they are unable to submit funds sure that the copies are legible. The authors keyboard, internet connectivity, Netscape 2.0 from overseas because of currency exchange of all paper abstracts should sign the paper software. Adobe Acrobat reader software. problems, keeping in mind that the proposal form. Proposals sent via e-mail or and sound applications software." I imposition of a fee for a US money order fax will not be processed. Proposals lacking specifically wrote that my panel must be does not constitute a currency exchange abstracts will not be processed. supplied with the aforementioned problem. The regular fee for non-member equipment. but we didn't get it. What preregistration is $90; non-members FREQUENTIY ASKED QUESTIONS happened? currently teaching in African universities REGARDING PROPOSALS A: ASA provides to conference pay a special preregistation fee of $40. Q: Why can't I submit my proposal by participants-at absolutely no charge to Refunds of preregistration fees will be made e-mail? them-three different items of A/V if the presenter's proposal is rejected. Other A: The proposal forms are designed to equipment (slide projectors, overhead refunds of preregistration fees will be made facilitate efficient entry of information into projectors, and VCRs), providing they only in extraordinary circumstances, will the database. Even when the order of an request such equipment on their proposal incur a $15 service charge, and will in no e-mail proposal follows the form, data entry forms. 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Q: Will delinquent payment status affect What Makes Up a Proposal-An organized A: The first presentation received by the consideration of my proposal? panel usually has a chair, four paper Secretariat will be the proposal of record. A: Yes. If you have not paid 1998 presenters, and a discussant. A roundtable Additional proposal~ither individual or membership dues and annual meeting consists of a chair and four or sometimes as part of a constituted panel-will not be preregistration, your proposal will not be more speakers. processed. processed. Additionally, a panel or A proposal for an organized panel Q: Last year I didn't make my A/V roundtable proposal containing one or more consists of the panel proposal and each equipment request at the time I submitted delinquent/non-members will not be individual paper proposal, complete with my proposal and I had to rent the processed. its own abstrac:L The paper abstract should equipment myseif at the conference. 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Janwny/Mmch 1998 into one of the thematic sections, designate whom, who navigates (sets agenda) and who witnessed the birth of profesSional academic Section U. Proposals that have no steers (follows in the direction 00, the role of philosophy and its growing dissemination to designation will have to await a decision as resources in privileging certain scholars and different parts of the world. Its evolution has to their disposition. Providing no scholarship, a continental versus a been mediated by the tension, sometimes designation at all jeopardizes your chances sub-Saharan perspective, the role of creative, sometimes destructive, between for full and early consideration. Diaspora studies in scholarship on Africa, indigenous philosophical systems and the availability of scholarship on Africa in practices and those of Europe and America, CHECKUST FOR PROPOSALS Africa, unequal power relations in African the principal sources of the colonization and Incomplete proposals will neither be Studies organizations, the integration of acculturation processes that the continent acknowledged nor processed by the gender and sexuality, among many others. has undergone this century. Having said that Secretariat. Panel and paper proposals for this section one must not ignore another mediation Before mailing an individual paper can address any of the above issues through supplied by the tension, agaln sometimes proposal, check to ensure that it is time and space, as well as others that seem creative, sometimes destructive, between the COMPLETE by including appropriate. indigenous philosophical systems and -3 copies of paper proposal forms with practices and those of Islam which have a signature(s) Section B: Colonial and Postcolonial longer genealogy in many African societies -3 copies of the abstract Histories and Historiographies and are occasionally indigenous to Africa. -membership dues and annual meeting In the twentieth century African history But the discourse about African Phllosophy, preregistration for 1998, or non-member appeared as a discipline in academic Philosophy in Africa, and Africa and preregistration for non-ASA members institutions in the West and in the continent's Philosophy, that has dominated the North universities. The historiography has American mindscape has in the main been Before you mail a panel or roundtable reflected the political perspectives of framed by pedigree questions-"Is it proposal, check to ensure that it is scholars in both areas and incorporated Philosophy?"- others regarding the COMPLETE by including: debates between and among African and conditions for its possibility, and -3 copies of the panel/roundtable Africanist scholars. In the current historical anthropological problema tics marked by a proposal forms with signature(s), juncture the presence of African scholars in reluctance to accommodate African -3 copies of the abstracts of each western academic institutions has created an discourse within specifically philosophical member, unprecedented opportunity for dialogue disciplinary boundaries signified by such -membership dues and annual meeting between scholars on the continent and for locutions as "traditional thought" or "modes preregistration for 1998, or non-member mainstreaming African history in of thought". What have been missing are preregistration for non-ASA members. institutions of higher education. This panel serious efforts at presenting to a global encourages submissions on the precolOnial, audience the substantive philosophies that Confinn that no one on your panel is colonial and post colonial history of the practitioners in both professional academic appearing on another panel before submitting continent that both reflect past debates, and non-professional non-academlc realms your proposal. Ensure you have the permission theories and preoccupations as well as new have constructed in both local and foreign of the individuals you place on r»nels or approaches that mark the path for future idioms and syntaxes. The theme of the roundtables, as this will affect any other research. We are particularly interested in conference offers a good framework. within presentations they may plan to make. panels that engage the new social histories which to present to a wider world some of and cultural studies, probe such themes as the striking instances of substantive SECTION SUB-THEMES the formation of pre-colonial identities, the philosophy, in all areas-eplstemology, gendering of power, the study of leisure, the metaphYSiCS, ethics, aesthetics, logic, Section A::. Evolution of African Studies contested nature of colonial rule and political philosophy, social philosophy, Paradigms post-independence struggles for popular philosophy of religion, history of The project of African Studies has not democracy. Similarly we encourage philosophy, philosophy of history, etc.- that been the same through time and space. The submissions that revisit "old" topics using African and Africanist scholars working in production of scholarly knowledge on Africa new data, and theoretical perspectives, such various areas of Africa and its diaspora have has varied among regions and diSciplines; as the new work. on the slave trade, labor done. We invite panels and papers that has had diverse institutional bases, and decolonization. We also welcome explore substantive philosophical ideolOgical motivations, and intellectual submissions that permit cross disciplinary contributions based on the various sources agendas, and has catered to different consideration of historical problems adumbrated above. We implore contributors constituencies, including states, business incorporating such groups as archeologists, to cast their nets widely to reflect the global interests, cultural and nationalist urban studies specialists, literary theorists, dimensions of what is ordinarily adjudged movements, and academic communities. Not social scientists, etc. or link. the study of local African experience, philosophical surprisingly, as a discursive formation, Africa with the Diaspora in the Atlantic and biographies, and the like. The aim is to put African studies has been characterized by Indian Ocean worlds. Finally, we also before our audience intimations of the recurring epistemological and ideological encourage panels that explore the ways that philosophical traditions domiciled in the contestations. Particularly the latter half of African history in the academy interfaces African world. the twentieth century has seen the with other historiographies and encourage development of various and sometimes thematic panels that incorporate Section D: African Religions contending paradigms for presenting non-Africanists and present opportunities Africa is a continent of many religiOns. scholarship on Africa and for organizing for a dialogues that can help mainstream the The two currently dominant religions, } African studies that were influenced by the field in the American historical community. Christianity and Islam, are both deeply independence of African nations and by rooted in the history and cultures of many lengthy liberation struggles, as well as by the Section C: African Philosophies and Social African societies. The local or "traditionar Cold War. Major issues (not necessarily new Thought religions remain vibrant. Out of this vibrant issues) have arisen over who speaks for The last quarter of this century has and diverse religious history have emerged
/anuarylMmch 1998 complex syncretic religious movements and the ancestors and earth spirits may continue and the role of scientists in development, traditions. Proposals for panels and papers to bestow blessings, and children may among many other relevant issues. are invited that address the changes in continue to be possessed by spirits or African religious experiences this centmy. initiated into traditional cults; modernity Section Ii: The Otallenges and Prospects They could examine the history, may offer genuine cultural and intellectual of Urbanization anthropology and theology of specific resources for cultural renewal as children, During the 20th centmy, annual growth religions, including Chrisrianity, Islam. and with their indomitable imaginations, rate of African cities has far exceeded the the fttraditionalft religions. Also welcome are reinvent their worlds with typical creativity. rate of industrialization producing "over papers on the growth and status of other Moreover, efforts have been and are being urbanization". The role of cities in Africa's religions, such as Hunduism. Judaism. and made by some governments, NGOs and development has been the subject of Bahaism; the development of various community based organizations to considerable debate. Some see cities as independent and syncretic religious ameliorate the lot of children and dynamiC centers of growth and innovation, movements; relations between religion, the hard-pressed families. In short, the lives and others see them as parasitic centers that state and politics; religion and society; prospects of Africa's children have drain rural areas of much needed religious conflicts; and the rise of religiOUS undergone complex changes in the course of development capital, promote urban fundamentalism this centmy, as have Africa's families in dualism and exacerbate poverty. Urban terms of their composition, organization, and growth has been accompanied by complex Section E: Cultures and Cultural Change values. This section invites scholars to changes in the economic, cultural and African cultures, however understood, submit abstracts for papers addresSing any political roles of African cities and difficult have undergone profound and intricate issues devolving from the above challenges in hOUSing, water and sanitation, changes during the twentieth century, as a considerations or related ones. Perspectives waste disposal, employment, crime, result of internal transformations and under from diverse diSCiplines, including but not transport and communication. What have the impact of external influences, including limited to history, political science/political been the salient determinants of African colonialism and western modernity, and the economy, cultural anthropology, sociology, urban growth in the 20th centmy and what complex interactions between these medical anthropology, demography, role have cities played in national economic processes. Panels and papers are invited for psychology, human development and family development, cultural and social change this section that address specific aspects of studies, literature, and art history, would all and the production of political power? How cultural change in any given African society be welcome. have African governments addressed the or country, or those that interrogate difficult challenges of rapid urban growth in conceptualizations of African cultures and Section G: Science, Medicine, and an environment of harsh economic realities, focus on debates among historians, Technology increasing national debt and globalization? anthropologists, cultural theorists, and The above theme provides a broad forum Panels and papers are invited that address sociologists on the invention of tradition, the for exploration of original and review data any of the following or related issues in the social construction of cultural identities, relating to the challenges of Africa's context of 20th century African urbanization modernity and tradition, African cultural Scientific, medical, and technological from various theoretical vantages: problems particulars and universals. development. Africa is a vast continent with and solutions of urban housing; urban enormous untapped natural resources, economic structure ]anwny/MJuch 1998 into the 21st Century it is important to take a tensions inherent in the shifting complexes explore possible theoretical alternatives to closer look at the demographic and of internal and external material relations, the popular constructions of gender as a environmental changes the continent has institutional forms, cultural and symbolic category, alternatives in which the meanings experienced and to examine the possIble repertoires, and ideologies of power that and expressions of the differences of underlying factors and implications of these have defined the trajectory of modem state maleness and femaleness, the differential changes. Thus thls broad theme encourages formation and the exercise of power in 20th levels of access to power and authority, get panel and paper proposals on Africa's century Africa. The transcendence of the expressed. Also welcome are papers that environmental and demographic changes at crisis must remain the central preoccupation interrogate how various academic both the macro- and micro-levels. The as we take stock of the meaning of this disciplines methodologically and papers could be theoretically or empirically century for Africa and contemplate the epistemologically deal with the question of based and approach the subject from various continent's prospects in the next millennium. gender. theoretical persuasions. Papers need not The panels grouped under thls section will necessarily try to find a connection between thus be devoted to new and innovative Section M: The Development of African the two parameters (i.e. population and conceptualizations of historical antecedents, Economies environment) but can independently address contemporary expressions, and implications Panels and papers under this theme a specific aspect of each, e.g. change in for the future of the internal and external should address historical and current issues demographic parameters such as fertility material, cultural, political and institutional of economic development in Africa. Papers and mortality; the environment; issues of forces that have defined the post-colonial may focus on specific sectors, such as sustainability; the role of economic crises; the state and its articulation with society. The agriculture, industry and manufacturing, role of poverty or economic growth and panels will critically examine, among other trade and commen:e, finance and other fon:es in demographic change, etc. The phenomena, the constitution, dynamism and investment, or specific moments and events environment here is broadly defined and can limitations of civil society as arenas for such as the impact of the Great DepresSiOn. include its physical manifestations, such as political action; social movements as Also encouraged are papers which analyze soil, air, trees, water, and other natural historical and contemporary agencies of the various development strategies pursued resources, and its social/cultural political transformations; Inflections of race, by colonial and postcolonial states, the manifestations, such as farming systems, class, gender and other social-constructed successes and £allures of regional integration health and disease, and can also be seen in hierarchies on practices and the exercise of schemes, and the capadty of African terms of environmental ideologies and power; the politics of communal contention institutions to cope with liberalization and movements. based on regional, religious and ethnic other changes associated with Structural identities as mirrors of contests over the Adjustment Programs and that assess the Section J: Land and Society moral authority of the state, the meaning of distributional and growth consequences of Papers and panels on this theme might citizenship, and the rights (collective versus those programs. Papers should have a consider questions related to access to, individual) of political representation; and substantial empirical component, should control and management of land at different the cultural embedding of dominant apply theory in new and creative ways, and scales; changing land rights systems; land ideologies of power and popular discourses whenever applicable should have some disputes; land refonn; inter-state boundary through which this power is contested. poliey relevance. conflicts; land use practices leading to land conservation or degradation. Other topics Section L: Gender, Sexuality, "Tradition" Section N: Africa and the Wider World: might address cultural delimitations of and Otange From Antiquity to the 20th Century territory and space; maps and map making; The panels and papers in this section "Africa's encounter with the 20th peoples and parks; environmental planning should address issues of gender and Century" can only fully be understood and the politics of land use; liberalization, sexuality in Africa, past and present The viewed against Africa's millennial-Iong decentralization, privatization, and land papers should explore issues such as the interactions with the wider world. This holdings, and the meaning of land. Papers social construction of gender: of masculinity, section invites proposals for panels and and panels are welcome that address these femininity and transgendered identities. papers which seek to contextualize the and related topics in creative and original They should examine gender roles and traumas and triumphs of the twentieth ways. gendered subjectivities, and how these have century within a longer time frame and changed over time. Other topiCS for changing geographical frames of reference. Section K: Politics, Power, and Social exploration include the question of sexuality, Specifically it challenges African1sts to Movements focusing on constructions of African demonstrate the relevance of earlier periods This decade opened with high optimism heterosexuality, and Gay and Lesbian Issues of African hiStory to an understanding of about the poSSibility of an African political in Africa. These two issues, gender and 20th century Africa and the relevance of renaissance as the authoritarian post-colonial sexuality, do intersect of course, and it is Africa's relationship with the world of Islam state was besieged by popular forces likely that many of the papers submitted will and the civilizations of India and China to its demanding the democratization of politics. explore both points of convergence and changing relations with Europe and Despite strong evidence of continuities with points of divergence. Papers should look America. past patterns, the social movements and critically at some aspects of the ways in popular forces contesting state power are which genders have been constructed from Section 0: Global Africa redefining in complex and unexpected ways different perspectives; in other words, Sought under this theme are panels and the practice of politics and the organization moving beyond the fiction that gender paper proposals that address Africa's of power in unexpected ways the practice of relations were equal and harmonious in existence and influence as a transnational politics and the organization of power in precolonial Africa. Whlle papers should phenomenon - whether it be in the fields of Africa. The crisis of the post-colonial state is explore the ways in which gender is and is culture and politics, the drculation of an acute manifestation of contradictory not a useful or universal category of analysis peoples, including intellectuals, ideas and experiences of Africa's encounter with as some have argued in the case of certain fashions, or social movements and popular western modernity - a playing out of the precolonial societies, they should also culture. Welcome are papers that examine January/Mmch 1998 the historical dimensions and the conceptual quasi-divides of mediates our relations with others, and serves contemporary manifestations of these tradition/ modernity, oral/ written; the as a vehicle of our cultures: It is omnipresent. processes. Papers oould focus on Panafrican language of African writing; nation and the In this panel, therefore, we seek presentations linkages, including the older ones mediated proper relations within it between power that will examine and explore the role of through churches, trade unions, and and culture; the rehabilitation of Africa in language in educational development, creative political parties and the educated elite, or appropriate forms, styles and conventions; writing and performances, political, cultural, the newer ones mediated through the establishment of African autonomy and and economic developments. Papers in government agencies, NGOs, the mass authenticity; masculinity, femininity and the anthroplogicallinguistics, sociolinguisticS, and media, women's and business groups, as struggle over social authority; and the place language acquisition drawing on indigenous well as address the connections and of African literature in postrnodernism and and varieties of imported African languages disconnections, oonvergences and postcoloniality. Papers can also assess what (e.g., English, French, Portuguese) are divergences in the current wave of impact, if any, haVe our debates had on the welcomed. Black/ African nationalisms from creative medium, in terms of formal, afrocentrisrn, through popular music and stylistic and thematic innovation? How, on Section S: Human Rights and Current culture, to movements and million the other hand, has the creative literature Conflicts in Africa two/man marches in the US, Europe, and influenced, and shown us ways in which to The panels and papers sought for this the continent that seek to fight against past recast the terms of, debate? Do these theme are those that address racist and current neo-racist ideologies, debates, as we have oonducted them contemporary human rights issues, institutions, and movements in their global hitherto, have any valency in the African debates, and movements as well as the causes and regional manifestations. and wider world about which our and nature of political and sodal conflicts in late Please indicate if this is a proposal for a panel __or a roundtable __ Panel or Roundtable Title ______ Section 088lred______ Chair ______Affiliation ______Address ______E-Mail ______TeVFax ______ By submitting this panel proposal form I acknowledge that I have personally consulted with the participants listed on this form, and have ascertained that they have not proposed themselves for other presentations at the 1998 ASA Annual Meeting. Chair Signature ______ PRESENTERS Name ______Affiliation ______Paper Title ______t I ~ Address ______E-Mail ______1 ______TeVFax ______! 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Nomination For further information and application Information &. Application Forms Contact: materials may be sent to my attention at the forms, please contact: The Field Director, Dr. Paul A. Koley, Hausa &. Yoruba GPA above address. IU-CLE Project, PO Box 23933, Kampala, Administrator, Center for African Studies, Uganda. Tel: 256 41 347223/235900 Ext 427 Grinter Hall, University of Florida, UCLA Fowler Museum Exhibition 711/353, fax: 256 41 347521/235674,web Gainesville, FL 32611 Phone #: 352-392-2183 • Beads, Body and Soul: Art and Light in the site: www.lli.org. or 392-7015 email [email protected] Yoruba Universe, Jan. 25-July 19, 1998. Among the Yoruba peoples of Africa and the West African Summer Study African Journals Support and Development Diaspora, rich concepts of color, light and • DREW IN WEST AFRICA is a unique Centre philosophy are embodied in their art, which summer study program in Cote d1voire • A new initiative in support of scholarly includes some of the most sumptuous which allows participants to explore the rich journal publishing in Africa was launched beadwork found in the world. Diaphanous cultural and artistic traditions of West on the 6th August 1997 at the Zimbabwe crowns, lush ceremonial regalia, shimmering Africa. Under the directorship of Jerry International Book Fair. The African Journals contemporary paintings and sculpture, and Vagel, the program includes courses on the Support and Development Centre (AJSOC) even a royal throne, are among the 150 peoples and cultures of Cote d1voire and on will be based at the African Academy of works on view. Representing past and the arts of the Baule, Senufo, and Dyula. Sciences (AAS) in Nairobi, Kenya with a present, West Africa and the Americas, the Students are able to work directly with brief covering marlcetins- distribution, exhibition is the first to encompass a wide African artists in their villages and education and training initiatives, income range of Yoruba beaded traditions. workshops in the areas of ceramics, fibers, generation and research. and metals. Program dates: July 19 to Two projects which up to now have been August 16, 1998. Program cost: $4,150 located in the United Kingdom are being (includes Ik:redit tuition, air fares, lodging transferred to the newly-formed Centre. AWARDS & and some meals). Application deadline: They are the African Periodicals Exhibit FELLOWSHIPS April 1, 1998. For further information and (APEX), a collective exhibit of African application form, contact: Philip M. Peek, scholarly and professional periodicals, and Drew in West Africa, Dept. of March I, 1998-NEH 1998 School Teacher the African Journals Distribution Summer Seminars Anthropology, Drew University, Madison, Programme (AJDP), which ensures that NJ, 07940; telephone (973) 408-3383; African scholarly journals are available in • Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study [email protected]. African university libraries. The Southern opportunities for school teachers to African Book Development Education Trust Film Resource Guide (SABDET) and the International African strengthen the teaching of the humanities. Among the 20 seminars offered are studies • CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL has released Institute (IAD, the organisations previously of the industrial revolution, Communism in its 1998 Library of African Cinema resource individually responsible for APEX and the America, Native American literature, guide including 40 African produced feature AJDP respectively, are collaborating with the autobiographies of the Harlem Renaissance, January/March 1998 as well as Latin American nationalism, and May 1998-Cro88-Radal Identities e-mail:[email protected]. the the history of the Irish famine. In • Submissions for a special edition of Mots addition, eight institutes will be held at Plumls, on the subject of inter-racial, June 26-29, 1998-African Studies locations such as the Folger Shakespeare multi-racial, multi-ethnic, or cross cultural ... Annual Conference of the African Studies Library, Harvard's Graduate School of identities from scholars of Africa and other Association of Australasia and the Pacilic Education, the National Humanities Center, regions. Contact Maureen Perkins, (AFSAAP), to be held at Latrobe University, and the Renaissance Society of America. See Department of History, University of Melbourne, Australia. Contact David the complete slate on NEH's home page: Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia 6907. Dorward, Director, African Research www.neh.fed.us/html/seminarl.html. For E-mail: [email protected]. Institute, laTrobe University, Bundoora, printed copies of the slate of 1998 NEH Submissions may be in English or French. Victoria 3083, Australia. E-mail: Seminars and Institutes call 202/606-8463 or [email protected]. The Third e-mail [email protected]. Annual Post-Graduate African Studies MEETING Workshop will be held in conjunction with New CCWH-Prelinger Scholuship the AFSAAP Conference. Contact Tanya • The Coordinating Council for Women CALENDAR Lyons, Politics Department, University of in History is pleased to announce that it will Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005. award a S10,o00 annual scholarship January 29--February 1, 1998-Higher E-mail: [email protected]. beginning in April 1998 to a scholar of Education excellence. Named the CCWH-Catherine ... Sixth American Association of Higher July 8-11, 1998-Third Sector Reseuclt Prelinger Award Scholarship in memory of Education conference on faculty roles and ... 3rd International Conference of the former CCWH president and nontraditional rewards, to be held in Orlando, FL. Contact International Society for Third Sector scholar Catherine Prelinger, the award is Pamela Bender, Program Coordinator, Research, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. intended to enhance the work of a Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards, Theme: "The Contribution of the Third contemporary scholar who has not followed AAHE, One Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Sector to Social, Economic, and Political the traditional academic path of Washington, DC 20036-1110. Fax: (202) Change." For information contact ISI'R, The unintenupted and completed secondary, 293-0073. Johns Hopkins University, 551 Wyman Park undergraduate, and graduate degrees Building, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, leading to a tenured faculty position. March 25-29, 1998-African Literature MD 21218-2688. Tel: (410) 5164678, fax: Deadline for completed applications is Feb. ... 24th Annual Conference of the African (410) 516-4870. 15,1998. Contact Marguerite Renner, CCWH Literature Association, to be held in Austin, Executive Director, 1500 N. Verdugo Rd., TX. Theme: Multiculturalism and Hybridity September 5-9, 1998-Papyri and Glendale College, Glendale, CA 91208. Tel: in African Literatures." For information Inscriptions (818) 240-1000 ext. 5461. contact Hal Wylie, French Department, ... The Center of Papyrological Studies and University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 Tel: Inscriptions of Ain-Shams University wlll PAPER CALENDAR (512) 471-5531, fax: (512) 471-8492, e-mail: hold an International Congress on the theme, [email protected]. "Palestine on the Light of Paypri and January 30. 1998-African Studies Inscriptions." Contact Alia Hanaft, Center of • Submissions for the Annual Conference of April 3-4, 1998-European Expansion Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, Ain-Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo the African Studies Association of ... 2nd biennial meeting of the Forum on Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), to be European Expansion and Global Interaction, 11566, Egypt. Tel: 002022844283, fax: 00202 2859251. held June 26-29, 1998, at Latrobe University, to be held in San Marino, CA. Contact Melbourne, Australia. Contact David David Hancock, Charles Warren Center for Dorward, Director, African Research Studies in American History, Robinson Hall, Institute, laTrobe University, Bundoora, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. Victoria 3083, Australia. E-mail: Tel: (617) 495-3591, fax: (617) 496-2111, EMPLOYMENT [email protected]. The Third e-mail: [email protected]. OPPORTUNITIES Annual Post-Graduate African Studies Workshop will be held in conjunction with May 8-9, 1998-Politic:a1 Science Environmental Anthropology the AFSAAP Conference. Those interested in ... 52nd Annual Conference of the New York participating in the workshop should contact State Political Science ASSOCiation, to be held '*' The Dep't of Anthropology, University of Georgia, seeks to bring an African American Tanya Lyons, Politics Department, in Albany, NY. For information contact University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Cynthia Ward, Department of Public perspective to its program in holistic Australia, 5005. E-mail: Administration, Sage Graduate School of the ecological/environmental anthropology, [email protected]. Sage Colleges, 140 New Scotland Avenue, through recruitment for a new, tenure-track, Albany, NY 12208. Tel: (518) 445-1724, fax: Assistant Professor position, beginning Fall February I, 1998-Papyri and Inscriptions (518) 465-5414, e-mail: [email protected]. 1998. The successful candidate is expected • Submissions for an International Congress to have demonstrated research expertise in held by the Center of Papyrological Studies May 21-23, 1998-Africanist Archaeology some aspect of ecological/environmental and Inscriptions of Ain-Shams University, ... 14th Biennial Conference of the Society of anthropology; this expertise may from September 5-9, 1998, on the theme, Africanist ArchaeologiSts, hosted by complement or expand eXisting research "Palestine on the Light of Paypri and Syracuse University. Contact Christopher R. interests of the faculty. Contact Stephen A. Inscriptions." Contact Alia Hanafi, Center of DeCorse, SAfA Secretary and Conference Kowalewski, Dept of Anthropology, Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, Organizer, Department of Anthropology, Bald win Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, run-Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo Syracuse University, 209 Maxwell GA 30602-1619. Deadline January 10, 1998. 11566, Egypt. Tel: 00202 2844283, fax: 00202 Hall,5yracuse, NY 13244. Tel: (315) 443-4647, 2859251. fax:(315)443-4860, Janumy/Mlrch 1998 History Chair forest, TtmWlia. PhD., Oregon State U., 1997. Kone, Kassim. Bamana verbal arl: an ethnogmp/lic • Howard University invites applications 9?34032. study of proverbs [MIIliJ. Ph.D., Indiana U., 1996. for chair of the department beginning; July 9727945. 1998. All applicants should be seasoned AnthropolOl)' Miescher, Stephan Felix. Becoming a man in Kwar.uu: scholars qualified for a senior appointment Agu, D.C. An eXll11li1llltion of the Nri-Igbo concept of gender, law, personhood, and the construction of with an area of specialization in the African Chi in the light 01 oral tmditions [Nigeria}. PhD., masculinitits in colonial Ghana, 1875-1957. Ph.D., Oiaspora This may include the Diaspora in London, Sch. of Oriental &: African Studies (U.K.), Northwestern U., 1997. 9731305. the Americas (including the United States), 1991. in Europe, or in Asia. Send Applications to Porter, Karen Ann. Kinship and commWlity in South Emory Joel Tolbert, Chair, History Auslander, Mark Jacob. Fertilizer has lm1ught poison: Pare, Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Rochester, 1997.9729044. crises 01 reproduction in Ngoni society and history Department, Howard University, [ZambiaJ. PhD., U.ofChicago, 1997. 9729839. Purpura, Allyson. Knowledge and agency: the social Washington, Dc 20059. Application deadline relations 01 Islamic expertise in Zanzibar town. Ph.D., February 2, 1998. BromJing, Chifflyn Marie Alexander. Images of street City U. of New York, 1997. 9732962. children: a study on naming and framing a social proIIIem at UNICEF BrazU, headquarters and Egypt. EdD., Regis, Helen A. Bod sauce and the withholdillg of the RECENT DOCTORAL Harvam U., 1997. 9734784. rains: medicine and cultural pluralism among the Fulbe of Northern cameroon. PhD., Tulane U., 1997. Cairoli, M. Laetitia. Garment foctory worl:ers in 9732441. DISSERTATIONS Morocco. Ph.D., Columbia U., 1997. 9728162. Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer Richard, Matthew Joseph. Contours of power: an Champagne, Suzanne. Femmes solitaires plus que ethnography of time-space ill Tunota. a peri·uroall villllge (Michigan State University) solidaires chez les Mossi du Yatenga: le dlifi des in Botstomul. Ph.D., State U. 01 New York at interventions fl;ministes de dlivdoppement en milieu Binghamton, 1997. 9724882. TIte theses listed below were reported in africain patriviriloca1 (Burkina FasoJ. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 1996. NNI7322. Dissertation Abstnlcts International (VAl), voL 58, nos. Sanford, Mei·Mei Elma Cooper. Puwerful water, 3-5; or in Index to 11uses, with Abstmcts, Accepted for living wood: the agency of art and nature in YorubIz Higher Degrees I1y the Universitits of Grrat Britain and Colquhoun, lan Charles. A predictiVl! s.odoecologicaJ ritual [NigeriaJ. Ph.D., Drew U., 1997. 9732799. Ireland (As/ill), v. 46, no. 3. Each citation ends with study of the black lemu.r (Eulemur 7IIIICIlCO macaco) in the order number, if any. American theses are nmt1rwtstem Madagascar. Ph.D., Washington U., Schwartz, Gary Todd. Taxonomic and {unctionaJ usually available from University Microfilms 1997.9730934. aspects of enamel cap structure in South Africa International (PO Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI Plio-Pleistocene hominids. Ph.D., Washington U., 1997. 481()6.1346). For British or UK theses (with DX Dapila, Fabian Naangmensuma. Inculturation and 9730978. prefix) contact British Thesis Unit, British Library ancestor venemtion: the case 01 the Dagaabo Catholics [Ghana}. Ph.D., U. 01 Ottawa (Can.), 1995. NN1571l. Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby, Seeman, Don Farrell. One people, one IIIocd: religious LS23 7BG; email: !arnwy/M1lrch 1998 \ ! ------I! t [)jop, Mamadou. Design and analysis of open nucleus Carg, Ashish Bhushan. Essays on human capital and Dare, A.L. Educational reftmn lIS a development DrmIing systems fOr aJtt1e in Senegal. Ph.D., U. of institutional development in poor econamies {Ghana]. strategy: the experience of Ghana. PhD., Hun (U.K.), Nebraska - Uncoln. 19'17. 9734613. Ph.D., Harvard U., 19'17. 9733293. 1995. , Cros, Paule Marie. Cunservaticm status of cheetahs in Haider, M.A. Water resources management in a Ebeigbe, Isaac Preset. The development and East Africa: esti7rUlfion, determinants and projections. semi-arid region: an explorotion of ta::hnica1 and signifiamce of Catholic secondary edUClltion in tile Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, 1997. 9728624. institutional IssJ/l!S {Libya]. Ph.D., Trinity Coli. Dublin Ardldiocese of Benin City: implications fOr tile future of Kouame, Kenan Lucien. Seasonal abundance of the hro (Ire.),1995. Catholic education in Nigeria. Ph.D., U. ai Dayton, maiu stem borers {Benin}. Ph.D., Simon Fraser U. 19'17. 9729088. (Can.), 1995. NNI6956. Hailu-Shawel, Shawel. Determinants of commercial btmk reserve behavior in an open economy: Kenya, Focbes, Mona Yvonne. A comparative analysis of Masinde, Codfred Lubano. The dyntmliC$ of 1976-1991. Ph.D., Wayne State U., 19'17. 9725832. health beliefs and birth outc0mt5 of hro ethnic groups in hro I'I1giona1 hospitals Ghana. Ed.D., Wayne State I PlasmalilOll faJciparum variation in western Krnya. of Ph.D., Tulane U., 1996. 9731950. Henstridge, N.M. Coffee and money In Uganda: an U., 19'17. 9725826. I economic analysis. D.PhiI., Oxford (U.K.), 1995. M Mwaura, Lucas Githenji. Dynamics of Magubane, Zine. From noble _ge to native problem: Berko, Joseph Kofi. Barriers to electric energy efficiency trans-traditionaJ {ormation Il1!d rea{fimralion of personal images of South AfriCtln blacks in British colonial in Gha1l/L PhD., V. of Delaware, 1997. 9733553. identity. PhD., Duquesne V., 1997. 9725233. discourse, 1806-1910. Ph.D., Harvard U~ 1997. 9733358. Walker, N. UrbGn crisis in South Africa 1986-1993: the Mwombeki, Fidon Rwezahula. Bibliall interpretalion politics of the lnIilt environment. Ph.D., Leeds (U.K.), in a current AjriCtln situation: the CtlSe of blood Mariko, Soumaila. L'ac&s au premier emploi t Bamako 1996. [TfltIZImlaJ. ThD., Luther Sem., 1991. 9734341. [Mali]. Ph.D., V. de Montreal (Can.), 1996. NNI7250. Women's Studies Nwosu, Rowland Cbioma. The Seventh-Day Naidoo, Davaniamah. Women's empowermmt in Adventist philosophy of wholeness within the Afrii:4n Il1terrIate WOIt orgtmi%ations Il1!d community Tamale, Sylvia Rosita. When hens begin to crow: gender (lgllo) wholistic context INigeria}. D.Miss., FuDer development: the CtlSe of Z/mI1llbwe. Ph.D., Arizona State and parliJlmentary politics in contemporary Uganda. Theo.Sem., 1997. 9732464. V., 1997. 9725319. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1997. 924188. Sung. N. Yong. Worlduiew themes regarding spiritual Nangami, Mabel Namubuya. 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