DOCSLIB.ORG

MEMBERS I,1 T T

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
MEMBERS I,1 T T rI ~ I FOR AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEMBERS I,1 t t VOLUME XXI JULY/SEPTEMBER 1988 No.3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ASA Board ofDirectors 2 From the Secretariat. .. 2 Minutes Board of Directors 3 Archives-Libraries Committee 15 Reincorporation of the ASA 16 Letters 24 Recent Seminars and Conferences 26 Calls for Papers 27 Grants and Awards 29 .. Announcements 33 .,. New Publications 36 l Employment Opportunities 38 International Visitors 39 Recent Doctoral Dissertations 40 I Preliminary Program: 1988 Annual Meeting 50 2 ASA BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS President: Nzongola-Ntalaja (Howard University) Vice-President: Simon Ottenberg (University of Washington) Past President: Aidart Southall (University of Wisconsin-Madison) RETIRING IN 1988 Edward A. Alpers (University of California. Los Angeles) Margaret Jean Hay (Boston University) Joseph C. Miller (University of Virginia) RETIRING IN 1989 Mario 1. Azevedo (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Pauline H. Baker (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Allen F. Isaacman (University of Minnesota) RETIRING IN 1990 Sandra Barnes (University of Pennsylvania) Iris Berger (State University of New York at Albany) Kwabena Nketia (University of Pittsburgh) FROM THE SECRETARIAT... The preliminary program for the 31st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Asso­ ciation, scheduled for October 28-31 in Chicago, Illinois, is printed in this issue. Hotel registration cards and travel information will be sent to ASA individual members in August. Those who wish to reserve their rooms early may contact the convention center, the McCormick Center Hotel, Lake Shore Drive at 23rd Street, Chicago. IL 60616. The room rate is a flat $69 per night, single, double, triple or quadruple occu­ pancy. We have included in the preliminary program only the business meetings, film program and panels. However, a lively series of social events are also planned. A gala reception sponsored by a consortium of Chicago-area institutions will be held on Friday evening. October 28, at the Field Museum of Natural History. The Chicago Public Library will host a reception on Sunday which will feature the presentation of the Porter­ Conover Award. Our annual banquet will be preceded by an Amnesty International re­ ception in the McCormick Center Hotel, while the Women's Caucus is planning another of their annual breakfasts featuring an African keynote speaker. More information on these events will be sent to members with their registration mailing. Readers of ASA News who are not current members of the Association may request the registration packet from the African Studies Association, Credit Union Building, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. Recent calls from two different quarters point to opportunities of interest to ASA 3 members. The Director of the Division of Research Programs of the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities wishes to enlarge the pool of African area grant applicants. 'The Division of Research programs provides support for the preparation for publication of texts in the humanities. for the organization of collections of reference materials, and for the conduct of collaborative research. It differs from the Divison of Fellowships and Seminars in that it supports projects requiring coordinated or collaborative efforts. An­ nouncements for two of the Divison's several grant categories are included in Grants and ... Awards. Members may contact the Division of Research Programs, NEH, Washington, • DC 20506 for complete information on all. of the Division's programs. ASA members who are regular readers ofbut not subscribers toWest Africa are urged to make use of the discounted subscription rates advertised on the inside back cover. A short piece describing the magazine's history and present fmancial difficulties explains that, should subscription numbers not be increased. the African economic crisis could terminate publication of West Africa by the end of this year. A subscription taken now thus offers us not only the convenience of receipt of personal issues but also the possi­ bility of assisting to keep this respected publication in print. PROVISIONAL MINUTES BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING Saturday, May 7, 1988. 10 a.m. Regency Board Room, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta. Present: Nzongola-Ntalaja (President), Alpers, Azevedo, Baker, Barnes, Berger, Hay, Isaacman, Miller, Nketia, Ottenberg, Southall, Bay (Exec. Sec.). Carol Thompson, Karen Tranberg Hansen, KU-l'Ilima Makidi (guests) 1. Approval of minutes from meetings of November 19,22 and 23, 1987 Alpers moved and Azevedo seconded approval. The motion carried and the Executive Sec­ retary was instructed to list the minutes for the board meetings and the ASA business meeting as "provisional" in future issues of ASA News. 2. Report of the Executive Secretary The following written report was presented: A good deal has happened in the life of the ASA since this Board last convened. Our fixed assets, inventories of published materials, and most of our records have been moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta. The Association has seen a 100% turnover in staff. We are now operating in a new location with an entirely new staff and new supporting services that include an attorney, an insurance broker and an accountant. While all of our operations are not yet as smooth as we expect them to be within the year, we are functioning and moving ahead with the business of the Association. Given the size and complexity of these undertak­ 4 ings, I believe that the transition to Emory has gone relatively well, and I am hopeful that the remaining portions of the transition will be accomplished quickly and easily. MOVING: All things considered, the physical move from UCLA went well. Arrangements confirmed between John Distefano and me in Denver called for the 1987 audit to begin with the taking of Crossroads inventory on December I, all business to cease as of December 11, and the movers to arrive during the period of December 16-18. I arrived on December 14 to fmd that the inventory had not been taken, and that business was continuing as usual. We set the moving date back to De­ cember 21, had the inventory taken on December 16, and packed 194 boxes for mailing on December 17-18. The moving truck arrived in Atlanta on December 29, the boXes sent through the mail appeared at about the same time, and unpack­ ing commenced. Following the Board's recommendation of November, we located a reliable shipper of books to Africa, the Canadian Organization for Development through Education, to whom we mailed 39 boxes of books valued at approximately $15,000. CODE has vvritten us that much of our material has already been dis­ tributed to African libraries. The move was relatively inexpensive from the Association's point of view, as is indicated by the report prepared for the Finance Committee. Emory University will be absorbing all the costs of the physical move and is contributing $13,500 towards getting us set up comfortably in Atlanta. The major cost absorbed by ASA is salary paid for the period of time during which the employment of the outgoing and incoming Administrative Assistants overlapped. In sum, the move to Emory from UCLA was made in relative comfort, and we enjoyed the luxury of being fairly liberal with moving expenses. If it were necessary, and if the Asso­ ciation did not have funds to cover moving costs, a move could be made at less cost, if for example, a rigorous house-cleaning before the move were done and if periods of staff employment did not overlap. SEITING-UP: We purchased a MAC IT as the basis for a desktop publishing operation. When the Macintosh SE purchased for our NEH project arrives this summer from UCLA, we will link the two and be able to computerize many of our operations. At the suggestion of our computing center, we downloaded the ASA mailing lists onto the MAC IT so that all of our mailing list computing can be done in-house. We hope to spend some time this summer updating the Essential Africana mailing list, a general list of some 10,000 persons interested in Africa, which appears not to have been updated for several years. FINANCES: A major preoccupation of the secretariat from January 1 has been the financial state of the Association. Additional infonnation will be given to you in the Finance Committee's report. Let me note here, however, that we have had diffi­ 5 culty in shutting down financial operations in Los Angeles. It took five weeks longer than anticipated for our bank accounts to be closed and we have still been unsuccessful in having our books and other fmancial records transferred from the custody of Eddie Huckaby. We have worked through the records that were transferred by our California ac­ countants, to which we have added what we know of encumbrances carried over from 1987. From these incomplete records, we estimate that the budget approved by this Board was overspent by more than $45,000 in 1987. When we receive our bookkeeping records, we will be able to state more definitely the amount of budget overrun and the categories that were overspent. A total of $35,437 was transferred to us in Atlanta from our California bank accounts, and we estimate the total of encumbrances carried over into 1988 at $58,112. Thus we in Atlanta inherited an organization that was approximately $22.675 in debt. I am pleased to report that we have been able to absorb more than $10,000 of that shortfall during the fIrst quarter of 1988. However, it will be difflcult if not impossible to absorb the remainder over the course of this calendar year. MEMBERSHIP: As of May I, the membership of the Association included 1615 individuals and 538 institutions for a total of 2153. We would like to ask your help in identify­ ing Africanists who are not currently members so that they may be solicited and encouraged to join.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Some Personal Reflections on the Road to Armed Struggle
    POLITICAL organise a National Convention of representatives of all our people to Some Personal Reflections work out a new democratic, non- racial and non-sexist Constitution. © Shutterstock.com Conference further resolved that if the on the Road to Armed regime failed to call such a conference a three-day strike would commence on Struggle the 29th May, the day that apartheid South Africa was to become a Republic. The apartheid regime mobilised the army, the police and intelligence services to arrest thousands of activists and carry out a reign of terror. Mandela responded that “if the government’s response is to crush by naked force our non-violent struggle, …in my mind we are closing a chapter …on non-violent policy”. In December 1961 SA was rocked by sabotage actions by MK units in the major cities. Its manifesto declared “We of Umkhonto we Sizwe …carried out the sabotage activities to achieve liberation without bloodshed and civil clashes… Our actions are against the Nationalist’s preparations for civil war and military rule… We are working in the interests of all our people, black, brown and white, whose future and wellbeing cannot be attained without the overthrow of the Nationalists …the Military action at every stage had to be guided people’s patience is not endless. The time comes in the life of any nation and determined by the need to generate and when there only remain two choices: submit or fight. That time has now promote political action, organisation and come to South Africa.” resistance. By 1962 the leadership concluded that the sabotage campaign had not been as effective as they had expected By Aziz Pahad largely because of lack of quality equipment and training.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum Vitae
    ASSATA ZERAI, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Sociology, Associate Chancellor for Diversity; University of Illinois 3102 Lincoln Hall MC-454, 702 South Wright Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 | 217-333-7119 [email protected] EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D. in Sociology Dissertation: Preventive Health Strategies and Child Survival in Zimbabwe 1993 University of Chicago M.A. in Sociology 1988 Anderson University B.A. in Sociology 1986 EMPLOYMENT University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Associate Chancellor for Diversity 2016-present University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Professor of Sociology 2016-present University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Affiliate, Women and Gender Studies 2016-present University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Director, Core Faculty, Center for African Studies 2015-16 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Associate Dean, Graduate College 2014-2016 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor of Sociology 2002-2016 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Director of Graduate Studies for Department of Sociology 2007-2012 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Core Faculty, Center for African Studies 2009-2016 ASSATA ZERAI, PH.D. PAGE 2 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor, African American Studies and Research 2002-2006 National Development and Research Institutes, New York, NY Research Fellow 2003-2005 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Associate Professor, Department of Sociology 2002 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
    [Show full text]
  • Review “African [Women] A-Liberate Zimbabwe”
    Review “African [Women] a-Liberate Zimbabwe” [1] : Review of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation by Horace Campbell, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2003. Shereen Essof The crisis of the state and governance in Zimbabwe has divided Zimbabweans, the country's southern African neighbours and the international community. Given Africa's big challenges – HIV/AIDS, trade, debt, food shortages, environmental crises and unending civil wars ravaging failed states – it is striking that such significant symbolic political investment has been made in the fate of a small country (12 million people) with a rapidly declining economy no particular strategic significance. There is no doubt that the Zimbabwean situation is serious, or that President Robert Mugabe bears responsibility for the deep political crisis pervading the country, state-sanctioned repression and the mismanagement of the economy. The standard of living in Zimbabwe is worse today than it was in 1980. Some 65% of Zimbabweans are living either in poverty or extreme poverty (Campbell, 300). By July 2003, Zimbabwe had a currency shortage and an inflation rate of 450%. Its citizens face long queues for everything from bread to petrol. An agriculturally productive country has been reduced to seeking food aid. Further, Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection on the continent, giving rise to a staggering 2 000 deaths per week. The pandemic has devastated Zimbabwe's social fabric and its productive and reproductive capacities (4, 169-70, 300), a tragic reality that has been aggravated by the sexist and homophobic public policies and practices of the Mugabe regime.
    [Show full text]
  • The Impact of Walter Rodney and Progressive Scholars on the Dar Es
    The African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals. This item is from the digital archive maintained by Michigan State University Library. Find more at: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/ Available through a partnership with Scroll down to read the article. Tile IIBPact ofW .......... y .ad Progressive SeII.lln .. tile Dar es S..... SdIooI Horace Campbell Utqfiti Vol VIII No.2. 1986. Journal SmIOT lActurer. of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University ol/Jar es $4Itwn University of Oar es Salaam The University of Oar es Salaam in Tanzania faces the same problem of the contradictory nature of University education which is to be found in all States of Africa. Discontinuities between the pre-colonial, colonial and post~ 9Ol0nial patterns and methods of education continue as the present components of formal education strive to retain relevance to the needs of the society. The interconnections between education and various aspects of the life of the socie- ty.remain problematic in so far as the structures, content and language of hi&her education in Tanzania and indeed the rest of Africa remain geared to the train- ing of high level manpower. This requirement of skilled manpower meets the needs of the administration of the people but the needs of the producers are not immediately met by the University. Throughout the African continent, the educational needs of the vast majority of the toilers are met by the transmis- sion of skills and agricultural knowledge accumulated over centuries and con- veyed through practical experience rather than in a classroom.
    [Show full text]
  • Kenya 'Samaj': Indian Merchants, Community Life, and Urban Society
    KENYA ‘SAMAJ’: INDIAN MERCHANTS, COMMUNITY LIFE, AND URBAN SOCIETY IN COLONIAL EAST AFRICA, C. 1890-1980 By Misha A. Mintz-Roth A dissertation submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Baltimore, Maryland May 2019 ABSTRACT Much scholarship about Indian populations in East Africa examines their histories through categories of race and class. Immigrant groups, according to these narratives, are often seen as agents of the British Empire or as a minority racial diaspora that experienced marginalization during the colonial and post-independence periods. This dissertation takes a different approach. Examining Indians as interconnected yet separate vocational populations, it argues that Indian immigrants played a central role in making Kenya’s colonial economy, urban society, and post- independence political order. Indian merchants—the focus of this dissertation—assumed positions of economic, social, and political prominence in Kenya, building up household wealth by situating themselves between African agrarian societies, the territory’s urban markets, and the colonial state. Despite the rise of anti-Indian sentiment during the colonial period and after independence, Indian merchants cultivated linkages to new political leaders and activated longer-standing communal connections to re-assimilate into Kenya’s post-independence environment. Community networks, I argue, not race or nation, became the primary mode of belonging among Indian merchants in twentieth century Kenya, as they migrated, settled, and accumulated wealth, among other goals. This dissertation examines a diversity of historical sources, including traders’ diaries, merchants’ memoirs, court records, commercial contracts, newspapers, and records from the Kenya and India National Archives.
    [Show full text]
  • Preliminary Program Full V3.0
    Preliminary Program nd 62 Annual Meeting Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019 Boston Marriott Copley Place Boston, MA Program Committee Chairs: Matthew Heaton, Virginia Tech James Ogude, University of Pretoria Local Arrangements Committee Chairs: Abel Amado, Simmons University Rita Kiki Edozie, University of Massachusetts, Boston Kwamina Panford, Northeastern University Eric Schmidt, Boston University Preliminary Program uploaded July 12th, 2019 Please note: This version of the program is based on data submitted during the original CFP. Updates to Names, Titles, Affiliations received subsequently are not yet reflected in this document. Updated versions of the program integrating these updates will be uploaded to the site approximately every two weeks. The next update of the program will be made available online on July 31, 2019. All requests for revision of names, affiliations, or paper titles received by July 26, 2019 will be reflected in the subsequent version. Program Theme The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting is “Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa.” While Africa is not and never has been homogenous or unitary, the existence of the ASA is predicated on the idea that there are things that distinguish “Africa” and “Africans” from other peoples and places in the world, and that those distinctions are worth studying. In a world increasingly preoccupied with tensions over localism, nationalism, and globalism, in which so many forms of essentialism are under existential attack (and fighting back), we hope that this theme will spark scholarly reflection on what it has meant and currently means for people, places, resources, ideas, knowledge, among others to be considered distinctly “African.” As scholars have grappled with the conceptual and material effects of globalization, the various disciplines of African Studies have also embraced transnational, international, and comparative approaches in recent decades.
    [Show full text]
  • Apartheid South Africa Xolela Mangcu 105 5 the State of Local Government: Third-Generation Issues Doreen Atkinson 118
    ress.ac.za ress.ac.za p State of the Nation South Africa 2003–2004 Free download from www.hsrc Edited by John Daniel, Adam Habib & Roger Southall ress.ac.za ress.ac.za p Free download from www.hsrc ress.ac.za ress.ac.za p Compiled by the Democracy & Governance Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa HSRC Press is an imprint of the Human Sciences Research Council Free download from www.hsrc ©2003 Human Sciences Research Council First published 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. ISBN 0 7969 2024 9 Cover photograph by Yassir Booley Production by comPress Printed by Creda Communications Distributed in South Africa by Blue Weaver Marketing and Distribution, PO Box 30370, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa, 7966. Tel/Fax: (021) 701-7302, email: [email protected]. Contents List of tables v List of figures vii ress.ac.za ress.ac.za p Acronyms ix Preface xiii Glenn Moss Introduction Adam Habib, John Daniel and Roger Southall 1 PART I: POLITICS 1 The state of the state: Contestation and race re-assertion in a neoliberal terrain Gerhard Maré 25 2 The state of party politics: Struggles within the Tripartite Alliance and the decline of opposition Free download from www.hsrc Roger Southall 53 3 An imperfect past:
    [Show full text]
  • Social Protests and Water Service Delivery in South Africa
    Social Protests and Water Service Delivery in South Africa _.., ___IYBNIIIMA W'IIAOirlf9oo- []-- WATER llESEAACM CC.Mf$$1011f Social Protests and Water Service Delivery in South Africa Report to the WATER RESEARCH COMMISSION by BARBARA TAPELA Assisted by Bukiwe Ntwana and Darlington Sibanda Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) University of the Western Cape WRC Report No. TT 631/15 ISBN 978-1-4312-0672-8 May 2015 Obtainable from: Water Research Commission Private Bag X03 Gezina, 0031 [email protected] or download from www.wrc.org.za The publication of this report emanates from a project entitled Social Protests and Water Service Delivery in South Africa (WRC Report No. K5/2133) DISCLAIMER This report has been reviewed by the Water Research Commission (WRC) and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the WRC, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. © Water Research Commission ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since 2004, South Africa has been hit by high volumes of social protests. Protestors claim that they protest over lack of ‘service delivery’ and water is one of the elements of service delivery. In 2012 the frequency, geographical spread and violence of service delivery-related social protests in post-apartheid South Africa reached unprecedented levels. Water service delivery issues rose in prominence among various reasons cited for protests. While this ascendance is remarkable, grievances over water services are not new. Water service delivery issues have been (and still are) a part of a range of conflated grievances that masquerade under the general rubric of ‘service delivery’ issues and underpin many rallying calls for social protest action.
    [Show full text]
  • King Solomon's Mines Revisited
    King Solomon's Mines Revisited http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.cbp1006 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org King Solomon's Mines Revisited Author/Creator Minter, William Publisher New York: Basic Books Date 1986-00-00 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Southern Africa (region), Western Europe (region), United Kingdom, North America (region), United States Coverage (temporal) 1870 - 1985 Rights By kind permission of William Minter. Description CHAPTER 1 The Lion's Share: Britain and Southern
    [Show full text]
  • Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
    DEMOCRATIC MARXISM DEMOCRATIC MARXISM SERIES Series Editor: Vishwas Satgar The crisis of Marxism in the late twentieth century was the crisis of orthodox and van- guardist Marxism associated mainly with hierarchical communist parties, and imposed, even as state ideology, as the ‘correct’ Marxism. The Stalinisation of the Soviet Union and its eventual collapse exposed the inherent weaknesses and authoritarian mould of vanguardist Marxism. More fundamentally, vanguardist Marxism was rendered obsolete but for its residual existence in a few parts of the world, as well as within authoritarian national liberation movements in Africa and in China. With the deepening crises of capitalism, a new democratic Marxism (or democratic his- torical materialism) is coming to the fore. Such a democratic Marxism is characterised in the following ways: • Its sources span non-vanguardist grassroots movements, unions, political fronts, mass parties, radical intellectuals, transnational activist networks and parts of the progressive academy; • It seeks to ensure that the inherent categories of Marxism are theorised within constantly changing historical conditions to find meaning; • Marxism is understood as a body of social thought that is unfinished and hence challenged by the need to explain the dynamics of a globalising capitalism and the futures of social change; • It is open to other forms of anti-capitalist thought and practice, including cur- rents within radical ecology, feminism, emancipatory utopianism and indigenous thought; • It does not seek to be a monolithic and singular school of thought but engenders contending perspectives; • Democracy, as part of the heritage of people’s struggles, is understood as the basis for articulating alternatives to capitalism and as the primary means for con- stituting a transformative subject of historical change.
    [Show full text]
  • Professor Horace Campbell: University of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies Installed
    Professor Horace Campbell: University of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies Installed Horace Campbell (third person, in white shirt) and members of the University of Ghana faculty and administration). The third occupant of the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, Professor Horace Campbell, has been officially installed at a colorful ceremony on Tuesday, 7 February 2017, at the Great Hall. After the installation, Professor Campbell delivered an inaugural lecture titled “Reconstruction, Transformation and the Unification of the Peoples of Africa in the 21st Century: Rekindling the Pan African Spirit of Kwame Nkrumah.” The lecture was underpinned by insights of Nkrumah concerning the building of a unified and secure Africa as a foundation for ensuring the true liberation of the continent. Professor Campbell used his lecture to outline his research agenda as occupant of the Chair. He made a commitment to deepening the work of his predecessors to amplify the messages about Kwame Nkrumah, Pan Africanism and freedom. 220 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.5, July 2017 He emphasized the unification of African peoples, and presented the Agenda 2063 of the African Union as a home-grown pathway to ensure the integration and prosperity in an African continent governed by its own people and using its own resources for its own transformation. “We need unified economic planning for Africa. Until the economic power of Africa is in our hands, the masses can have no real concern and no real interest for safeguarding our security, for ensuring the stability of our regimes, and for bending their strength to the fulfilment of our ends”, he stated.
    [Show full text]
  • China's Influence in Africa: Current Roles
    CHINA’S INFLUENCE IN AFRICA: CURRENT ROLES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS IN RESOURCE EXTRACTION Liu Haifang* ABSTRACT In the second half of 2014, some African countries felt the heavy strike of falling prices of mineral resources on the world market. The international media raised vocalex positions on the negative impact that China’s slow down might bring to the African economy. One headline read: “Chinese investment in Africa has fallen 40 per cent this year – but it’s not all bad news”.1 More recently, the exasperation intensified to “China’s slowdown blights African economies”,2 and managed to shadow the China-African Summit held in December 2015 in Johannesburg. Similarly, on the recent Africa Mining Indaba, the annual biggest African event for the mining sector, the renewed concern was stated as “Gloom hangs over African mining as China growth slows”.3 There is no doubt that China’s presence has had positive effects on Africa’s growth over the past decade. Nonetheless, only a narrow perspective would view Africa’s weak performance solely through the Chinese prism. This article addresses the afore-mentioned concerns regarding the impacts that China has in Africa. A historical approach is applied to reconstruct * PhD (Peking), Associate Professor, Deputy Director and Secretary General of the Centre for African Studies, School of International Studies, Peking University, China. Email: [email protected] 1 Quartz Africa Weekly Africa, “Chinese investment in Africa has fallen 40% this year—but it’s not all bad news”, 18 November 2015, available online at <http:/ /finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-investment-africa-fallen-40-060057915.
    [Show full text]