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Mamadou Diawara'spoint Sud Resource Center Needs Books / ANSA Mamadou Diawara'sPoint Sud everything in his power touse his European education, Resource Center Needs Books brilliant administrative gifts and personal charisma to (Editorial Note) bring something back to the Malian people. If you don't plan a trip to Mali anytime soon, you The Center for Research on Local Knowledge/Centre de can send the books, etc. to any of us who go back there Recherches sur Ie Savoir Local/Forschungszentrum regularly, and who will be willing to take them along. Lokales Wissen in Bamako, Mali was founded by If you should be fortunate enough to get a Fulbright to MANSA-member Mamadou Diawara. It is presently Mali, Guinea, etc., a good strategy is to exploit your located in an attractive three-story building near the new embassy pouch privileges as much as possible. bridge on the Badalabougou side of the river. Thanks to For those who are not familiar with Point Sud, the Diawara's heroic efforts in the face of enormous odds, Center was established to analyze how the uses and the Point Sud Center is developing into a very dynamic meanings of local knowledge have evolved over time institution. and to use this research to help development agencies In the past couple of years MANSA members have plan viable programs and strategies for Africa. The begun to participate in the programs and use the Center uses, as a primary source and point of departure, Center's facilities, and increasing numbers of us have the records of the Office du Niger which, as most lectured at Point Sud on various occasions. These MANSA people know, was an agency set up by the appearances usually take place in a pleasant seminar French colonial administration in the 1930s to room on the third floor of the building. That room is implement massive agricultural projects in Mali. also meant to house the library part of Point Sud's Mamadou Diawara has initiated the first phase of Resource Center. Sad to say, however, the bookshelves activities which include (1) research, (2) capacity are lamentably bare. Mamadou has mentioned to a few building, (3) development of a resource center, and (4) of us on recent visits to Bamako, that he would be very capital construction. The research component was grateful for donations of books, journals and offprints of funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. articles to fill the void, and we need to respond to this The "capacity building" increment is of particular appeal. interest. One of the most important goals of the Center Mamadou Diawara is a former MANSA Advisory for the Study of Local Knowledge involves the training Board Member, and is now a member of the Mande of local scholars. Initially five researchers from Mall Studies Editorial Board. He is doing a terrific job with will be selected by an International Advisory Council to the limited resources at his disposal, and a visit to Point train with Dr. Diawara and other Malian scholars with Sud is an inspiring experience not to be missed on the goal that they will reach a level of scholarly anyone's next visit to Bamako. BUT LET'S FILL UP sophistication that would make them competitive in THOSE BOOKSHELVES! Point Sud is one of the seeking admission to top graduate programs in Europe institutions that will be receiving each issue of Mantle and the U.S. When I spoke to Mamadou at Point Sud in Studies as it appears, but please dig down and find an January, he explained that there are six affiliated research extra copy of each of your books for the Point Sud institutions that have agreed to fund scholars for study a Resource Center. This is a kind of support that we abroad: The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, are equipped to provide for our colleague who is doing Stanford University, the North Carolina research DAVIDC. CONRAD,President, State University of New York-Oswego BARB.W E FR4."<K. Vice President, State University of New York-Sterry Brook STEPHENWOOTEN,Secretary-Treasurer, University of Oregon Advisory Board Mirjarn de Bruijn, University of Leiden Peter Mark, Wesleyan University Lucv Duran, SOAS, University of London Tereba Togola, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Bamako Yacouba Konate, Universite d' Abidjan Jeanne Maddox Toungara, Howard University Kassim KOlle, State Uni versi ty of New York-Cortland Karim Traore, University of Georgia Iria~e. the _-etherland Institute for Advanced Study, 4) Savoirs Paysans et photoperiodisme des sorghos a itutes in Berlin and Stockholm. I'Office du Niger To further enrich the Center's intellectual For further information write Mamadou Diawara, Center community, scholars from abroad who are already in for Research on Local Knowledge, B.P. 3266, Bamako, Mali for research are asked to spend time at the Center Mali. Tel/fax 00 228 285229. E-mail: to share their expertise. The same is true for researchers pointsudrs'afribone.com.ml and scholars from other African countries who will (Many of the above details on Point Sud were taken further the goal of creating an ongoing dialogue on from Mamadou Diawara's memos describing the Center) local knowledge among scholars from allover Africa. As for the Resource Center to which we need to contribute books and journals, the data collected by The Closing of the Bamako USIS Library local researchers, as well as all reports and publications (Editorial Note) resulting from the project, need to be preserved in a library, archive and data center.]n addition to the It is sadly ironic that as Mamadou Diawara's Point Sud documents, files and audio-taped interviews, the hope is Resource Center and other places like the Institut des to develop a computerized data-base that will permit Sciences Humaines and the Library of the University of aggregation and cross-indexing of the data on local Mali suffer from book famine, the USIS Library knowledge collected by the project in order to make it attached to the U.S. Embassy in Bamako has been accessible to scholars, development agencies and NGOs. closed. For as long as any of us can remember, that This is not an unrealizable dream. A walk through library on the street behind the embassy has been a the building these days, reveals Malian scholars at work well-used, climatise intellectual haven for Malian in study rooms on the ground floor, and in a room students learning to speak and read English (not to already equipped with a computer. But an advanced mention American researchers seeking refuge from the computer network will be required, with desktop heat). When Sekou Camara who has assisted so many publishing equipment and a computer data management of us in our research during the past twenty-five years specialist who could also serve as librarian, (he is now professeur de L'anglais at the Lycee Ibrahim In future, the scope of the research undertaken at Ly) heard of the closing, he expressed deeply felt the Center will be expanded to include other areas in concern: "Where will our students of English go to read which local and "global" knowledge interact, such as books in English? There is no other place! It cannot be health, nutrition, marketing and environmental done! This is very serious!" preservation. Research on the universalistic approache According to the present PAO Michael Macy, the of development agencies will also be expanded to USIS library has been closed because of the embassy include the studies of development programs funded by bombings in East Africa. The street alongside the the World Bank, the United Nations, major donor embassy (where the Cafe Ali Baba is located) has been nations and NGOs. The centerpiece of the future blocked off and embassy guards are stationed there, but activities will be the expansion of the training, even the mighty U.S. Government is unable to close conference and seminar progran1s which will help the major street that runs past the RR Station. alleviate the current crisis in training and support for One can understand the very real security risks that serious research in underfunded African universities. must be coped with by the embassy security officer, but Mamadou Diawara's great hope is to establish the what about all the books that some of us have donated Center as a focal point for intellectual acitivity and to that library through the years? When I asked PAO discussion where the vital dialogue between north and Macy what was to be done with them, he replied to the south can be facilitated and where south-south effect that the library would most likely be used by exchanges can take place. Following are the titles of embassy personnel. The U.S. Government has made an research projects so far initiated: offer to take over the old CRES compound on 1) Migration paysanne et transfert de savoirs du Pays Badalabougou hill for a new embassy location. If they Dagon a I'Office du Niger can pull this off, the embassy will have a secure, 2) Savoir populaire paysans et savoir universel sur les secluded location above the hustle and bustle of mid- rongeurs nuisibles en zone Office du Niger town Bamako, but even if they were to open a USIS 3) L'Office du Niger face au savoir faire de ses library there (which seems unlikely in light of both real exploitants and threatened USIS closings in African countries that need them the most), it would be far from the former 2 central location, and inaccessible to most students. fantastic runway photograph of one of Chris Seydou's Now, it seems certain that many of us did not fashion shows in Dakar, taken by Victoria Rovine.
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