Winter 2015/Volume 25, Number 2 NEWS AND EVENTS Program of African Studies

PAS, consortium partner awarded four-year, $2 million grant

By Hilary Hurd Anyaso

PAS and its consortium partner, the Center for African Studies at the University of at Urbana-Champaign, have been awarded US Department of Education Title VI funding for both the National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) programs. The total amount awarded for 2014–15, the first year of the four-year grant, is $518,000. The total commit- ment is expected to amount to more than $2 million through 2018. With Title VI funding, PAS’s long-standing involvement with the African continent will extend to local engagement that makes the program’s faculty and student expertise, as well as rich library resources on Africa, available to a variety of communities. The NRC grant will fund collaborative activities between Northwestern and the University of Illinois that enhance African studies on both campuses and provide new opportunities for students and faculty, including annual joint symposia, new course and concentration offerings, and strengthened instruction in African languages. PAS director Will Reno and Merle Bowman, director of the Center for African Highlights for Northwestern include development of a new Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign interdisciplinary graduate certificate in African security studies; an intensive summer workshop on Arabic manuscripts from Africa; “Title VI support for research and education is the backbone and new practicum sites in Africa for the Access to Health Project, of international studies and foreign language training in this an initiative in which students country,” said Will Reno, professor of political science and PAS and faculty from the School director. “This grant is crucial for PAS’s mission to train students Inside of Law, Center for Global and aid researchers to engage and work with counterparts in foreign Health, and Kellogg School countries. This grant will expand our program’s reach in a compre- hensive range of research, teaching, and outreach activities.” In memoriam: of Management work with a The consortium will also support the integration of African Ivor Wilks (1928-2014) 2 developing-world community to assess and design ways to studies and languages into K-12 teacher education and community PAStories 4 meet its public health needs. college curricula through partnerships with Northeastern Community news 8 FLAS funding will allow Illinois University, Malcolm X College, the Newberry Library’s Teachers as Scholars Program, and the Global Reach Initiative in Events calendar 10 Northwestern to offer two graduate academic-year fellow- Urbana-Champaign. ships and three graduate or Title VI was introduced as a part of the National Defense undergraduate summer fellow- Education Act of 1958 as a means of promoting language develop- ships per year for students of ment, with a focus on less commonly taught languages. African languages and related area studies. In memoriam: Ivor Wilks

Professor Emeritus Ivor G. H. Wilks, one of the most dis- anticolonial struggle in Palestine, where he was a lieutenant tinguished historians of Africa, died at his home in Wales in the Indian army for two years after World War II. In 1948 on October 7, 2014. He was 86 and had long been in poor he entered the University College of North Wales and, after health. graduating, accepted a teaching post in 1953 at the five-year- One of the groundbreaking Africanist scholars who old University College of the Gold Coast (later the University decolonized African studies in the late 1950s, Wilks of ). He served in various capacities: lecturer in the phi- specialized in the Asante empire and its periphery and losophy department (1953–55), resident tutor for the Northern in West African Islam. He Territories for the Institute joined Northwestern two of Extra-Mural Studies different times. In 1967 he (1955–58), resident tutor for came to the Department Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo of History, resigning a year (1958–61), senior research later to take a position fellow at the new Institute at Cambridge University. of African Studies (1961– Unhappy with Cambridge’s 63) and its deputy director offering him limited oppor- (1965–66), and research tunity to conduct research professor in African history in Ghana, Wilks returned (1964–66). to Northwestern in 1970 During Wilks’s time and remained here until his at the , retirement in 1993. He was scholars at African institu- appointed Melville J. tions explored a range of Herskovits Professor of methodologies, old and African Studies in 1984. new, to reorient the study Wilks was a dedicated of Africa to African agency and inspiring teacher and and innovation rather than adviser who took time to listen to his students. (A tribute a response to European colonialism. One of the most impor- from one of them accompanies this article.) Altogether tant new tools was the use of oral materials (local traditions, he advised 28 students who completed PhDs in African Asante stool histories, lists of rulers, songs, and life histories). history, and he served on the dissertation committees of Wilks undertook the systematic collection of such materials in another 35 in non-African fields. Akan areas, publishing many articles on transformation in state His most influential publication, Asante in the Nine- building, economies, religion, and community institutions. teenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political His academic interests ranged beyond Africa to national Order (1975), was based on wide-ranging oral history resistance in Wales and Palestine. In 1984 he published a study fieldwork. It was awarded the African Studies Associa- of Welsh resistance, South Wales and the Rising of 1839: Class tion’s Herskovits Award in 1976. Other major works were Struggle as Armed Struggle, which received the Welsh Arts Chronicles from Gonja: A Tradition of West African Muslim Council Prize for Nonfiction in 1985. More recently, he pub- Historiography (1986), coauthored with Nehemia Levtzion lished A Once and Past Love: Palestine 1947, Israel 1948 (2011), and Bruce Haight, and Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity a memoir recounting his experience as a young officer in the in Northwestern Ghana (1989). Many of Wilks’s articles British colonial army. It is available at www.northwestern.edu were republished in the collection Forests of Gold: Essays on /african-studies/publications. the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante (1993). Wilks continued writing and research in retirement. Wilks’s interest in Africa developed out of his strong Among his projects were a study of colonial Asante, an Asante Welsh nationalism. He found common cause in the biographical dictionary, and a life of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq of

2 Timbuktu. In 1995 he gave the Aggrey-Fraser- “Ivor Wilks taught history as a craft, Guggisberg Memorial Lectures at the University of Ghana, a weeklong series that was published as Ghana much like cabinet-making, and his Past and Present: One Nation, Many Histories. He told instructions were straightforward: that audience, “I have no teacher or teachers, I have no isnad, no chain of teachers extending back over genera- assemble your tools, hone your skills, tions. My real teachers were men, and sometimes women, who had no academic credentials whatsoever, but whose practice your craft. . . . Ivor was an understanding of the past was truly remarkable.” He ended the lecture series by paying tribute to six people extraordinary teacher and mentor, who influenced his interpretation of Ghanaian his- patient and generous with his time, tory, including a World War I veteran, a member of the Kumasi Nsumankwa, a head butcher, a mufti of Bobo- and remarkable in his ability to make Dioulasso, a Muslim scholar, and a Christian clergyman. Wilks donated his valuable Ghana-related manu- students—be they disoriented script collection to the Herskovits Library. The core freshmen or advanced PhD students— of the collection, some 12,000 cards, form the primary database of the Asante Collective Biography Project, feel that their ideas were worthwhile which he founded in 1972 in collaboration with Thomas McCaskie, then a Northwestern history graduate student. and deserved to be taken seriously. . . . The cards document items of biographical information drawn from a wide range of published, archival, and oral He lived by the Asante proverb ‘Nyansa sources. They include material in English translation nyɛ sika na wᴐakyekyere asie’ from Akan, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, and Hausa texts. The ACBP has two goals: to provide (Wisdom is not gold dust that should a readily accessible source of information of the Asante past and to lay the foundation for a future dictionary of be tied up and put away).” Ghanaian national biography. Provisional steps towards this latter objective are described in the ACBP’s journals —Jean Allman (PhD 1987), former student of Ivor Wilks Asante Seminar (1975–76) and Asantesem (1977–79). and currently J. H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities Many graduate students in Northwestern’s history and director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts department have contributed data to the project and used and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis data in it. A number of them now hold senior academic posts in universities and continue to publish on the history of Ghana. Wilks is survived by his wife, Nancy Lawler; four children from his former marriage with Grace Amanor- Wilks: Professor Kojo Amanoor (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana); Dede Amanoor (devel- opment consultant and politician in Ghana); David Amanoor (broadcaster with the BBC World Service); and Suzanne Peggy Amanor-Wilks (neurodevelopmental movement specialist, USA); and many grandchildren.

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Herskovits Library state building in Congo, Rwanda, and acquires papers of Burundi helped reorient the study of African history from its former Euro- Jan Vansina pean emphasis to a modern African emphasis. His first book, Oral Tradi- The Herskovits Library has acquired a tion: A Study in Historical Methodology treasure trove in the 136 boxes of docu- (translation, 1965), explored how to use ments of Jan Vansina, a major figure rigorous historical methods to document in the study of Africa. In his career the historical evidence left by the Kuba Vansina published 16 monographs and from the Belgian Congo before there more than 200 articles on central Afri- were textual records. He insisted that it can history and new sources of historical was possible to study precolonial Afri- methodology, such as oral history. can history in a systematic framework The collection, spanning the years using the oral tradition. This methodol- 1953 to 1994, includes field notes, cor- ogy instilled a sense of self-confidence respondence, photographs, maps, manu- in the new African history. scripts, drafts, and other papers used Vansina was a member of the Uni- by Vansina in his research, writing, and versity of Wisconsin–Madison history teaching over more than 50 years. The faculty from 1960 until his retirement Jan Vansina (Photo by Catherine A. Reiland/African original arrangement of the papers has in 1994 and also chaired the African Studies Program, UW–Madison. All rights reserved.) been preserved. languages and literature department. He “Professor Vansina’s gift is among pushed for its creation of a full-fledged the most major gifts to the Herskovits African history program, which began in Libyan military history,” said David Library in its history,” said David 1965. He also managed the university’s Schoenbrun (history), whose work has Easterbrook, George and Mary African research seminar and, with his been profoundly influenced by Vansina. LeCron Foster Curator Emeritus. colleague Philip Curtin, established the The entire Northwestern community— Esmeralda Kale, the current George Comparative Tropical History Program, and those from around the world, and Mary LeCron Foster Curator, which encompassed African history and but especially in Africa—should be observed that “the materials on the African studies. grateful that Vansina has entrusted the ethnography of central Africa will be of “He pioneered in placing the study Herskovits Library with the curatorial particular interest to researchers.” of precolonial Africa on a firm method- responsibility for easing access to this Vansina was a visiting professor ological basis. … There is no historian archive. It was the perfect choice.” at Northwestern in the 1950s. PAS of Africa who has not been influenced A finding aid to the Vansina collec- founder Melville Herskovits had offered by Vansina, directly or indirectly,” said tion is at http://findingaids.library him a job with Northwestern, but he Jonathon Glassman (history), who stud- .northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-afri was committed to the history depart- ied with Vansina at UW–Madison. -archon-1486. The papers are available ment at the University of Wisconsin– “Vansina’s archive . . . will draw in the Herskovits Library 8:30 a.m. Madison, where he taught for more than scholars from around the world to dig to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. 30 years. around in the copious notes, interview Appointments are recommended. For Vansina is considered one of the transcriptions, and other field materi- more information, visit the Herskovits founders of the modern study of Afri- als, which are especially rich for the full Library website or e-mail africana@ can history. His work on precolonial sweep of central Africa, from Angola northwestern.edu. and DRC to Rwanda and Burundi, but are also rich for early 20th-century

4 Northwestern well Mathews (history), who chaired the Online library guide “Violence and Political Struggle in represented at annual Kenya” panel and presented a paper created on Ebola crisis Africanists meeting titled “Oman’s African Past: Nation and Empire in the Making of the Zanzibari- As the Ebola crisis has been in the news for the past year, the Herskovits Library Several Northwestern scholars presented Omanis, 1964–Present”; and Amy Selby has created an online LibGuide (http: papers, chaired panels, or participated in (history), “New Directions in East Afri- //libguides.northwestern.edu/Ebola roundtables and panel discussions at the can History” panel chair and presenter -AfricasResponse) to provide informa- African Studies Association meeting in of “Switching the Stigma: Metaprag- tion on the disease in West Africa. Indianapolis in November. The meet- matic Discourse and Identity in World By the end of 2014 the World ing’s theme was “Rethinking Violence, War I German East Africa Concentra- Health Organization reported a total of Reconstruction, and Reconciliation.” tion Camps.” 20,206 cases of Ebola, out of which Faculty participants included Galya Other graduate students who there were 7,905 deaths. The first case Ruffer (international studies), who resented papers were Aditi Malik of the current Ebola outbreak was served on the program committee and (political science), “Ethnic Parties, Polit- reported in Guinea, followed by serious organized multiple panels with a focus ical Coalitions, and Electoral Violence: outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Liberia. on refugees and returnees, the role of An Analysis of Kenya’s Presidential Struggling economies, low per capita diasporas, and the effects of violence Elections, 1992–2013”; Jessica Pouchet income, and fragile infrastructures have on linguistic communities. Will Reno (anthropology), “The Semiotics and limited the ability of these countries to (political science) presented a paper, Scales of Violence in Biodiversity Con- fight the epidemic. Nigeria and Senegal, “The Logic of Post-State War: Violence servation: An Ethnographic Exploration however, are two success stories, now and Personal Networks in Somalia,” of Amani”; Andrea Felber Seligman declared by the WHO as Ebola free. chaired a panel titled “Ending Africa’s (history), “Barbarian Aesthetics: Reputa- Mali has reported only seven cases. Persistent Civil Wars,” and cochaired tions of the Other, Commodity Desires, While scientists work to develop a another panel, “Rebel Mobilization and and Macua Communities of 16th- and vaccine, it is important to document the Organization in Africa.” Rachel Beatty 17th-Century Eastern Africa”; and Amy affected countries’ efforts to contain the Riedl (political science) took part in a Swanson (performance studies), “Resis- epidemic. The LibGuide aims to meet roundtable on new directions in African tance and Possibility in Nadia Beugr’s this need and also provides information party research. ‘Quartiers Libres.’” about previous Ebola occurrences. In Graduate students attending the Also presenting papers were addition, an exhibit in the library meeting included Kofi Asante (sociol- Esmeralda M. Kale (Herskovits during winter quarter will focus on ogy), chair of the panel “New Directions Library), “Uncovering Hidden Gems”; several different viruses, including in East African History” and presenter William Murphy (PAS affiliate), Ebola, and infectious disease outbreaks of the paper “We Want Good Gover- “Metapragmatic Logic of Violence: War throughout history. nors and Plenty of Good Roads: Gold Narratives in Postwar Liberia and Sierra Coast Merchants and the Making of the Leone”; and Sarah Davis Westwood Colonial State, 1850–1950”; Nathaniel (visiting scholar), “Unknown Soldiers: An Early History of the Tirailleurs Haoussas.”

5 Panofsky awardees carry out summer longer-term ethnographic research. In this biodiversity hot spot partially pro- predissertation fieldwork in Africa tected by the Amani Nature Reserve, she interviewed village leaders, environ- Established to honor Hans E. Panofsky, the late curator of the Herskovits Library, mental activists, and government forest- Panofsky Predissertation Awards support Northwestern graduate students’ fieldwork ers. She also did archival research that or archival research in Africa. Eleven awardees completed trips last summer. documents the relationship between village governments and the Nature Priscilla Adipa (sociology) went to Accra strategies to combat sexual assault in Reserve as well as the role of language in the politics of forest management. to explore how physical and geographic public spaces. She interviewed 30 Nafissatou Sall characteristics of selected art venues volunteers from five different social (sociology) trav- shape cultural experiences within these movements, each founded in or after eled to both France and Senegal to do spaces. She established contacts for 2012, that have operated intervention research for her master’s thesis on the her ethnographic and interview-based teams for the protection of women Senegalese military elite and the role research. during public gatherings. She also played by the military educational sys- Kofi Asante(sociology) conducted undertook participant observation at tem in perpetuating independence-era research in England and Ghana to workshops and conferences organized “Françafrique” cooperation. She visited analyze how cracks within colonial by these movements. the military archives in Vincennes administrative structures enabled or Moses Khisa (political science) did and Aix-en-Provence in France and foreclosed certain forms of national- fieldwork in Ethiopia and Uganda on the Archives nationales du Sénégal in ist activism. He collected data in the how coalition politics during the initial Dakar. She also interviewed alumni ’s National Archives stages of a new regime sets in motion from the military academy Prytanee at Kew and the Public Records and political developments that shape the Militaire, many of whom now hold high official positions in Senegal. Archives Administration Department of nature and form of political institutions. Amy Selby Ghana, focusing on the correspondence Sakhile Matlhare (sociology) was (history) spent her sum- of various Gold Coast governors and in Berlin to research the experiences of mer in Zanzibar, undertaking interme- the secretaries of state of the colonies in African visual artists who left eco- diate and advanced Swahili training and London. He found documentation of nomically developing regions to live conducting preliminary research on a the often sharp disagreements between and work in Germany. Drawing from historical study of interactions between the official Colonial Office policies in interviews, art talks, and art archives, prisoners and the Anglican Church. Britain and the government policies in her work aims to trace mechanisms She met the retired archbishop of the the Gold Coast. underlying the sociocultural economies diocese of Zanzibar, John Ramadhani, Marco Bocchese (political science) that survive and thrive alongside the who granted her access to his private spent time in Addis Ababa research- well-documented monetary inflows and library. She identified some descendants ing relations between the International outflows in local and global art markets. of prisoners who are still active in the Criminal Court and the African Christopher Muhoozi (history) trav- Anglican Church on Zanzibar island and in mainland Tanzania. Union. He interviewed diplomats from eled to southwest Uganda to investigate Vanessa Watters African nations as well as non-African the history of ethnic thought and iden- (anthropology) diplomats about three issues: how well tification in Ankole. Visiting archives was in Accra and Lomé to explore how the ICC officials understood African and key people, he sought to unravel the economic marginalization and racializa- politics; whether African foreign policy processes underlying categorization as tion at home and abroad inform people’s experts ignored the ICC; and how par- either Bairu or Bahima. engagement with transnational Islamic ties addressed misperceptions of one Jessica Pouchet (anthropology), development organizations. another. went to the Usambara Mountains of —Compiled by Sakhile Mathile Magda Boutros (sociology) carried Tanzania, where she made logistical and out fieldwork in Cairo on grassroots administrative arrangements to begin

6 In search of Modibo Keïta

By Marcia Tiede (bibliographic services, University Library)

Documenting items destined for the Herskovits Library of When I asked David Easterbrook, then our Africana African Studies, I see and describe an abundance of rarities. curator, how this copy came into our collection, he said that One that stands out is a photocopy (pictured) of a 75-page in 2000 Mette Shayne, then a librarian at Northwestern, had manuscript handwritten in French that I pulled out of an commissioned doctoral student Christopher Hayden, who was envelope one day in early 2012. What caught my eye were the headed to Dakar to research his thesis, to photocopy items for drawings: a village domestic scene the Herskovits Library. Hayden visited both IFAN and the on the front sheet and sketches of national archives of Senegal, contributing leaves and seedpods amid the beauti- copies of numerous primary resources to fully penned text. The boldly written our collection. title was “L’Enfant Sarakolle” (The I wanted to do more with the manu- Soninke Child), and the author was script by the young Modibo Keïta than one Modibo Keïta. merely catalog it. At the African Studies There was no clue as to the ori- Association conference in Baltimore in gin or date of the document or how November 2013, I met Kassim Kone, a it happened to be in our collection. Malian author of several Bambara-related An online search eventually yielded a publications who teaches at SUNY partial answer. In a footnote to a 2008 Cortland. Kone was then president of the article in Liens, Nouvelle Série, Abdoul Mande Studies Association, of which I Sow at Université Cheikh Anta Diop became a member and to which I pro- de Dakar (UCAD) listed “L’Enfant posed a paper for the Ninth International Sarakolle,” among other documents, as Mande Studies Conference at Bobo- being a cahier de l’élève (pupil’s note- Dioulasso in June 2014. book) from 1932–36. While attending the conference, That was the key to beginning to I visited the Mémorial (Monument) situate the document and its creator, Modibo Keïta, built in Bamako in the for Modibo Keïta is the name of the late 1990s during the presidency of Alpha first president of Mali. The path led to École William Ponty, Oumar Konaré, who oversaw the “rehabilitation” of Keïta’s a government teachers’ college on the island of Gorée near reputation. Keïta’s difficult presidency was ended by a military Dakar, which Modibo Keïta from Bamako, French Sudan, coup in late 1968, when he was imprisoned for almost nine attended in 1934–36, graduating at the head of his small class, years in northern Mali without trial. In February 1977 he was and to a collection of papers known as cahiers William Ponty. transferred to Bamako, where he died under suspicious cir- More than 700 of these mémoires de fin d’études (student the- cumstances. The military regime’s announcement of his death ses) were produced between 1934 and 1946; they now form described him merely as a “retired teacher,” omitting his politi- part of the archive of French West Africa at the Institut Fon- cal legacy. damental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN) at UCAD. These texts have The memorial’s director, Modibo Diallo, and research attracted interest over the years because École William Ponty assistant, Moussa Traoré, showed me their collection of framed became known as a “nursery” for leaders of French-speaking presidential photographs of Keïta. I left them a copy of our West Africa, including the future President Keïta. Although photocopy of the Ponty manuscript, which they knew of but the Ponty teachers evaluated them only for their use of French, had not seen. So, in a small way, I returned something of the papers may provide valuable ethnographic information. Modibo Keïta back to his birthplace almost 80 years after he They are also attractive because of their illustrations. completed his student paper.

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Fantahun Ayele (2011–12 Global in Leadership in Post-Colonial Africa in Scalar Perspective.” Next spring Encounters postdoctoral fellow in (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), edited by Schoenbrun will be a visiting professor African studies) has published The Baba G. Jallow. in the Department of History at Duke Ethiopian Army: From Victory to Collapse, University. David Peyton 1977–1991 (Northwestern University (political science gradu- Helen Tilley Press, 2014). He is currently assis- ate student) was awarded the Social (history) won the Society tant professor of history at Bahir Dar Science Research Council’s Dissertation for the Social Studies of Science’s University, Ethiopia. Proposal Development Fellowship Ludwik Fleck Prize for her book this past summer. The fellowship sup- Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, César Braga-Pinto (Brazilian studies) ported Peyton’s summer research in Development, and the Problem of Scientific is coeditor of João Albasini e as luzes de the Democratic Republic of Congo Knowledge, 1870–1950 (University of Nwandzengele: a Jornalismo e politica and his participation in two proposal- Press, 2011). The book explores em Moçambique 1908–1922 (Maputo: writing workshops, the first in Berkeley, the dynamic interplay between scien- Alcance, 2014), a 400-page collection of California, and the second in Arlington, tific research and imperialism in British articles by Albasini, the prolific writer, Virginia. In addition, he received a Africa and emphasizes intersections activist, and founder of Mozambique’s Fulbright-Hays Award to support his with environmental history, develop- first black newspapers. 2015–16 fieldwork on urbanization ment studies, and world history. trends in the DRC. Christine Tolbert-Norman Robert Launay (anthropology) pre- (1968 alumna), Jessica Pouchet sented talks on “Writing Boards and (anthropology gradu- mayor of Bentol City, Liberia, has pub- Blackboards: Islamic Education in ate student) has won Fulbright-Hays lished It Is Time for Change (Amazon Africa” at the University of Urbino and Wenner-Gren Foundation research Digital Services, 2014), an anthology (Italy) and at the Zentrum Moderner grants to conduct fieldwork on her dis- of selected speeches by her late father, Orient (Berlin) last June. sertation project, “Conservation and William R. Tolbert Jr., who was presi- Conversation: Language and the Politics dent of the Republic of Liberia from Sakhile Matlhare (sociology graduate of Participatory Forest Management in 1971 until his assassination in 1980. student) took part in a November 19 Tanzania,” during 2015. Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of gallery conversation about the exhibi- Nigeria, wrote the preface. Galya Ruffer tion “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic (international studies) is Julie Santella Journey” at Northwestern’s Block coeditor of Adjudicating Refugee and (political science alumna) Museum of Art. Asylum Status: The Role of Witness, won a Fulbright grant for research in Expertise, and Testimony (Cambridge Tanzania in early 2015. Evan Mwangi (English) published an University Press, 2014). Juliet Sorensen article, “Queer Agency in Kenya’s (law) will work with David Schoenbrun Digital Media,” in African Studies (history) pre- French colleagues on West African Review 57(2), 2014. sented a paper, “Pythons Worked: health and human rights issues when Constellating Communities of Practice she participates in a faculty exchange Maavi Norman (political science graduate and Conceptual Metaphor in Northern program next June at Sciences Po. student) published a book chapter, “The Victoria Nyanza, c. 800–1200 CE,” Quest to Reform the African State: in October as part of a Society for The Case of William R. Tolbert Jr. of American Archaeology–Amerind Liberia and Jerry J. Rawlings of Ghana,” Foundation seminar titled “Learning and Doing: Communities of Practice

8 Medical and cultural anthropologist joins faculty SECOND ANNUAL GLOBAL HEALTH CASE COMPETITION SET FOR The Department of Anthropology has wel- FEBRUARY 14 comed Peter Locke as an assistant professor. Teams of undergraduate and graduate students from all Locke is a cultural and medical anthropologist schools and disciplines at Northwestern will compete to who focuses on bringing develop innovative, feasible, and sustainable global ethnographic evidence health solutions at the second annual global health case to the comparative study competition February 14. of global health and humanitarian interven- tion in postconflict societies. His field research, Cosponsored by Global Health Studies/International writing, and teaching explore the intersection of Program Development, PAS, and the Feinberg School of humanitarian work and current modes of evi- Medicine’s Center for Global Health, the case study dence production in contexts of contentious local politics and lingering histories of conflict and competition aims to train the next generation of global mass violence. health leaders through a unique experience built upon a Prior to his Northwestern appointment, real-world challenge. Locke was a postdoctoral research associate For more information, please visit the Global Health and then a lecturer for the Program in Global Health and Health Policy at Princeton, where he Studies website: https://globalhealthportal.northwestern earned his PhD in 2009. Although his disserta- .edu/nughcc. tion focused on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Locke has recently accompanied small teams of undergradu- ates on ethnographic research visits to Sierra Leone. There Locke and the students worked with the leaders, caregivers, and beneficiaries of Send your news updates a US-funded medical humanitarian nongovern- to [email protected] mental organization to explore how the dynam- so that PAS can share word with the Africanist ics of the “new world of global health” play in community at Northwestern and beyond a nation where public health infrastructure is limited. Locke will teach the following courses at Northwestern: Health and the Social Markers of Difference, Introduction to International Public Health, Qualitative Research Methods in Global Health, Medical Humanitarianism, and War and Public Health.

9 9 Events calendar Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at PAS, 620 Library Place, Evanston.

JANUARY 22 6 p.m. 14 Global Health Case Competition 22 6 p.m. Afrisem: “Print and Performance Cosponsored by PAS, International Poetry in Late 20th-Century Program Development, and the Africa Seminar (Afrisem) for Malawi,” Susanna Sacks (English); Buffett Center for International and graduate students: “‘Even If Your “Dressing Afrikan: African American Comparative Studies. Harris Hall House Is Not Nice, It Is Better Since Self-Fashioning,” Nikki Yeboah 107–108, 1881 Sheridan Road. You Have a Say Over It’: Fighting (performance studies). 18 noon–1:15 p.m. (lunch provided) for Political Smallness in 26 4–6 p.m. 19th-Century Busoga (Uganda),” “Biography, Scholarship, and William Fitzsimons (history). “HIV Prevalence in Religiously and Community in 17th-Century Jenny Sabahat Adil 21 noon–1:15 p.m. (lunch provided) Ethnically Diverse Societies,” Morocco,” (Near Eastern Trinitapoli (sociology, demography, and languages and civilizations PhD PAS Affiliates Series: “Edward religious studies, Pennsylvania State candidate, University of Chicago; Wilmot Blyden, R. E. G. Armattoe, University). Cosponsored by PAS, ISITA visiting scholar). and the Race/Culture Question in International Program Development, 5 6 p.m. West Africa,” Sean Hanretta (history). and the Center for Global Health. Afrisem. Presenters and topics to be 28 noon–1:15 p.m. (lunch provided) announced. PAS Affiliates Series: “Afrotropes: A 25 noon–1:15 p.m. (lunch provided) User’s Guide to Black Visual “The State’s Two Bodies: Oil Creeks Program of African Studies Culture,” Huey Copeland (art history) Northwestern University Krista Thompson of Violence and the City of Sin in and (art history). Omolade Adunbi 620 Library Place Nigeria,” (African Evanston, Illinois 60208-4110 USA FEBRUARY American and African studies, University of Michigan). Will Reno, Director 4 noon–1:15 p.m. (lunch provided) Kate Klein, Associate Director PAS Affiliates Series: “Orientalism MARCH Kelly Coffey, Program Assistant and Islamism: A Comparative Study 2–6 “Bodies Out of Bounds: Performance and of Approaches to Islamic Studies,” LaRay Denzer, Newsletter Editor Migration in Contemporary South Africa.” Ibrahim Hassan (religious studies, Workshop series featuring works by Matthew Pietrus, Program Assistant University of Jos; Fulbright research four South African artists. Organized Rebecca Shereikis, ISITA Interim Director scholar and Institute for the Study of by performance studies PhD students Islamic Thought in Africa visiting Phone 847-491-7323 Andrew Brown, M. Mtshali, and Nikki scholar). Yeboah. Fax 847-491-3739 5 6 p.m. [email protected] 5 6 p.m. Afrisem: “An African Resistance? www.northwestern.edu/african-studies Afrisem: “Uprooting Living Trees: Chad and the Second World War,” Opinions published in PAS News and Events do not Enslavement in the Lower Congo Gerard Letang (history); “A Singularly necessarily reflect the views of PAS or Northwestern during the Age of Second Slavery, University. Northwestern is an affirmative action, equal Acrimonious Feeling: Interest Groups Marcos Almeida opportunity educator and employer. ©2015 Northwestern c. 1811–50,” (history); University. All rights reserved. Produced by University and Power Struggles at the Inception “Out with the Old? Syncretic Relations. 1-15/125/RM-KP/1717-2 of the Gold Coast Colonial State,” Military Practices of Civil Defense Kofi Asante (sociology). Forces and the Revolutionary United 11 2–5 p.m. Front in Sierra Leone’s 1991–2002 ISITA Symposium: “The Boko Civil War,” Sarah Westwood (PAS Haram Crisis on the Eve of the visiting scholar). Nigerian Elections.” Presenters 14 “Beauty and the Black Diaspora.” include Ibrahim Hassan (see above), Workshop organized by D. Soyini “Local Perspectives on the Rise of Madison (anthropology, performance Boko Haram”; and Richard Joseph studies, and director of the Oral (political science), “Islamism, History and Performance as Social Jihadism, and Nigerian Democracy.” Action working group).

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