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A Quarterly Newsletter for African Studies Association A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXXII FOR AFRICAN STUDIES APRIL/JUNE 1999 ASSOCIATION MEMBERS NO.l FROM THE EXECUTIVE ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 1998 DIRECTOR ... OFFICERS President: David Wiley (Michigan State University) Vice-President: Lansine Kaba (University of Illinois) The month of March marks the annual changing of the Past President: Sandra Greene (Cornell University) guard at the ASA. The Board will be interviewing and selecting a Treasurer: Mark Delancey (Univ. of South Carolina) new Executive Director, and the membership will be electing new Executive Director: Allen Green (Rutgers University ) leadership to lead the organization into the 21st Century. This annual ritual of renewal and change has allowed the <rganization DIRECTORS to continue its dominance as the premier Association of RETIRED IN 1998 Africanist scholars in the world, with a membership that is the Keletso Atkins (University of Minnesota) largest it has ever been. Through your efforts, we now have a Julius Nyang'oro (Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) degree of financial independence because of our modest Oaire Robertson (Ohio State University) endowment. We can publish articles and books that are intellectually significant as well as politically important. It is RETIRING IN 1999 appropriate that we reflect on the importance of your role as Judith Byfield (Dartmouth University) members in this process. It means that you, as members of the Frank Holmquist (Hampshire College) ASA, have to be actively engaged in the process of choosing new Omofolabo Soyinka (University of Kansas) leadership. You have to recognize that you do have a voice and this is the time to speak. loudly and clearly to the leadership of RETIRING IN 2000 the Association. As the issues on the African continent continue Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State University) to mount, we need the ASA to continue as a leader in educating Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers University) the world about the issues in Africa and providing the scholarly Eileen Julien (Indiana University) information that allows us to also transfer educational institutions that need this information so desperately. I encourage all of you to be activists and vote! ASA News, Vol. XXXII, No 2 Apr/Jun 1999 ISSN 0278-2219 As the Acting Executive Director of the ASA, this may be my frrst and last opportunity to speak. to the membership. In Editor: Kelli Minehan-Pereira December, I was asked to accept the challenge of leading the ASA during this period of transition. It was an honor to be able to Published quarterly by the African Studies Association. return to my intellectual roots in African history. I returned as an African historian with over 15 years of academic administrative E-mail address: [email protected] experiences willing to use these talents in whatever way would Web Page: http://www.sas.upenn.edulAfrican_Studies/ serve the organization best. I have truly come full circle. I want Home_Page/ASA_Menu.html to thank the Board for its confidence, the ASA staff f<r its Submissions to ASA News should be sent to ASA News, African support, and the membership for this important opportunity to Studies Association, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, represent you. What I have learned is that this is still the most Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901­ 1400. Deadlines for submissions are December 1, March 1, June 1, important <rganization of Africanist scholars throughout the an~ ~eptember 1. Submissions received electronically will be given world The ASA continues to foster greater scholarship on pnonty. Africa, more dialogue among scholars and their communities, and Domestic claims for non-receipt of issues must be made within six greater exposure of Africa within the US and the w<rld. It also months of the month of publication-overseas claims must be made needs you to continue to support the efforts of the Association within one year. fmancially and intellectually. The ASA is only as strong as the Notice to Members: The United States Postal System does not for­ membership that supports it As we near the completion of the ward periodicals. We must receive written notification from you at Executive Director's search, the Association will enter a new era least five weeks in advance of any change of address. Failure to noti­ and my hope is that the organization will be even stronger and fy us of your correct mailing address will result in suspension of mailings until we receive such notification. We can make address more vibrant A Lota Continua, Lazima Tushinda Mbilishaka! changes only when current dues are paid Reinstatement of member­ (The struggle continues and without a doubt we will succeed) sh~p mailings after suspension may be made by payment of a $5.00 remstatement fee. - Dr. Allen Green WE WELCOME NEW ASA MEMBERS CURATO~ ARICANA COLLECTION (who Joined between December 1, 1999 and February 28, 1999) Minimum Rank: librarian ill - IV. YALE UNIVERSITY. The Universi­ ty Ubnuy, which is a highly val­ Sonia Arellano-Lopez Robert Hinton Elizabeth Schmidt ued partner in teaching and re­ Erica L Bornstein Staffan Lindberg Malik Sekou search at the University, has more Pamela E. Brooks Jean-Marie Makang Aaron Shields than 10.5 million volumes housed Padraig Carmody Anne Maria Makhulu Valerie Thiers in the Sterling Memorial library Peter U.c. Dieke Joyce M. Malombe Bennie Visher ill and 16 school and department li­ Michael L. Fleisher Fawzia Mustafa Serena C. Williams braries. A full spectrum of library Christopher A. Galaty Vibha Pingle resources, from rare books and manuscripts to extensive world Gail M. Gerhart Charlotte A. Quinn area collections to a rapidly ex­ Vanessa Gomez Claude Raynaut panding network of electronic re­ David Gordon Sarah Cleto Rial sources, constitutes one of Yale's distinctive strengths. The Library WE THANK ASA ENDOWMENT is engaged in numerous ambitious projects such as the renovation of the main library building, the com­ DONORS plete retrospective conversion of (who contributed between December 1, 1999 and February 28, 1999) the Ubrary's catalog, and various automation projects, which include Abannik Hino Donna J. Maier Mette Shayne network access to scholarly infor­ AnnO'Hear Fawzia Mustafa SimonP X. Battestini mation and preservation imaging. Barbara C. Lewis Jack H. Mower Teresa A. Barnes QUALIFICAnONS Carla W. Heath Jon Kraus David Sperling K. P. Moseley MLS degree from an ALA­ David E. Skinner Kathleen Slobin accredited library school; OR a David P. Sandgren M. Crawford Young combination of relevant experience and training; five years of profes­ ASA's New Address sionally related library or curatori­ al experience. An advanced de­ African Studies Association gree in some aspect of African Rutgers The State University of New Jersey studies is highly desirable. Well­ Douglass Campus regarded contributions to the area 132 George Street are desired. Broad knowledge of Submissions to ASA News New Brunswick. NJ 08901-1400 African cultures, including appro­ priate language skills (ability to received bye-mail or on disk work in one more languages of the will be given priority. continent) is required. Knowledge of the African book trade is vital. Applications received by March 31, 1999 will be given first consid­ eration; applications will be accept­ ed until the position is filled. For immediate consideration send or fax your scannable letter of appli­ cation, resume and the names of We Never Close three references to Diane Y. Turn­ er, Director, Ubrary Human Re­ sources; Source Code EAA­ Need information about the ASA, or want to send membership information to a friend? Check us out on the World Wide Web: SA58047; P.O. Box 208256, New Haven, cr 06520; fax (203) 432­ http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ African_Studies/Home]age/ ASA_Menu.html 9817. Yale University is an Affir­ mative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. AprillJune 1999 ASA Resolution language to be offered: University, 493 College St, New Haven, cr 06511; E-mail: Berkeley/Stanford - Swahili il, Ill, cal44Opantheon.yale.edu; telephone: Resolution on National Institution or Gikuyu (203)787~96;Fax:(203)432-5963(a~ of Studies and Research of Guinea Boston U. - Setswana I or il tention: African Studies) or contact: Bissau UCLA- Hausa Prof. Frank O. Arasanyin, Program Given recent reports indicating Illinois - language not detemined Director, SCALI, African American that the fighting which has erupted Indiana - language not determined Studies Program, Yale University,493 onJune 7, 1998 has caused Wisconsin - Yoruba IT or ill College St, New Haven, cr06511; considerable devastation, including Yale - Zulu, Swahili I (nonFLAS) Telephone: (203) 432-1166, Fax 1: (203) the deaths and displacement of large 4322102 (Attn: African American numbers of people, and given further Language study offered at other Studies); Fax 2: (203) 432-5963 (Attn: reports that the National Institute of institutions: African American Studies). Studies of Research of Guinea-Bissau (INEP), the largest and most active ... Michigan State University: 1999 In­ research institution has suffered tensive Summer Institute in Amharic, New web site extreme damage, some of which has June 21 - July 23, 1999. resulted from the transformation of ASA members are invited to visit a the premises into barracks by web site related to a series of radio ... UCLA: Swahili I, June 28 - August programs about everyday life in a Senegalese troops; 29, 1999. Web address: http/I and given that the effects of the small Tanzanian village called nakata, www.summer.ucla.edu/calendar/ which was selected as generally repre­ fighting have included the 1999.htrn destruction of much of the previous sentative of a low-income rural village. holdings of INEP, including its The 15-part series, called "Voices ... Indiana: Swahili II, May 12 - June 16, from an African Village," explores for archives and library, photographs, 1999. Twi I, May 12 - June 17. Contact: films, all of which have recorded the the general but educated PBS audience Ani Hawkinson.
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