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From the Executive Director...... i From the President ...... ii New Members ...... 1 2005 Membership ...... 3 Contributors to the Endowment...... 4 Fundraising Campaign ...... 6 In Memoriam ...... 7 2004 Election Results ...... 8 2005 Election Candidates ...... 9 2005 Election Candidates' Statements ... (see insert) 2005 Annual Meeting ...... 9

Announcements...... 21 Grants and Fellowships ...... 22 Recent Doctoral Dissertations ...... 23 Advertisements...... 42 Top Ten Reasons to Become an ASA Member ...... 46 ASA Deadlines ...... 48 ASA Advertisement Rates ...... 49 ASA Publications Order Form ...... 50 2004 Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai ...... 52 From the Executive Director ... ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 2005 This issue is a combined January/April ASA News. The unusually high OFFICERS level of activity at the Secretariat, including work related to designing President: Bruce J. Berman the online system, resulted in production delays that, combined with (Queen's University) Vice President: Joseph C. Miller financial considerations, led to the Board of Directors' decision to (University of Virginia) publish this joint edition. Past President: Sandra T. Barnes (University of Pennsylvania) The Secretariat is pleased to report that the online Annual Meeting Treasurer: Sandra Barkan proposal submission process that was inaugurated in February was a (University of Iowa) strong and positive step towards a new level of technological efficiency. Executive Director: Carol L. Martin, PhD Despite the inevitable challenges associated with a new process, (Rutgers, The State University of New approximately 45 percent of users experienced no difficulty in navigating Jersey) the system. In the spirit of inclusiveness, and with the approval of the DIRECTORS Board, all individuals who had attempted to submit a proposal on or Serving Until 2005 before the March 15 deadline as evidenced by an incomplete proposal Maria Grosz-Ngate (Indiana University) in the system, or voicemail, email, fax, or office visit were construed to Kasongo M. Kapanga have met the deadline. The Secretariat followed up with everyone until (University of Richmond) all the attempted submissions were complete. The absence of paid Aili Mari Tripp membership and/or pre-registration fees was a leading cause of / (University of Wisconsin-Madison) incomplete panel and roundtable proposals. In addition, in a substantial Serving Until 2006 number of cases, the proposal was incomplete because it had been Jean Allman (University of Illinois) saved in edit mode, but had not been submitted for review. The James Pritchett (Boston University) Secretariat had hired and trained two temporary staff members in Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University) addition to the four-member permanent staff to be available to assist Serving Until 2007 ASA members beginning in late February. It was impossible to predict, Toyin Faiola (University of Texas at Austin) however, that nearly 90% of proposals would be entered the Saturday, Alcinda Honwana Sunday, and Monday preceding the Tuesday, March 15 deadline! (Social Science Research Council) Kathleen Sheldon (Research Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles) Board members and the Secretariat have received comments both positive and negative concerning the system, and I would strongly ASA News, Vol XXXVIII No.1 and No.2, encourage anyone who would like to offer specific feedback with the January and April 2005 aim of improving the system to contact the Secretariat at Editor: Carol L. Martin, PhD [email protected]. In the meantime, the Secretariat and the Published three times a year by the Board have already addressed a large number of concerns, many of African Studies Association which were likely to have been averted had it been possible to make Email: asapub@ rci. rutgers.edu technical modifications based on feedback from member experience in Website: www.africanstudies.org using the online system during the first weeks of the inauguration of the Submissions and advertisements for the ASA online system. The Secretariat will also incorporate greater on-screen News should be sent to [email protected] instructions into the system, for more step-by-step assistance. A list of or ASA News, Rutgers, The State University of pointers to facilitate greater advance planning, especially by members New Jersey, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. who intend to organize panels and roundtables, is also being Deadlines for submissions and assembled. advertisements are December 1, March 1, and June 1. Materials received electronically are givenlpriority. Some members expressed serious concern because PayPal cannot be accessed to process online credit card payments throughout the globe, Domestic claims for publications that are not received must be made within six including all the countries in Africa because of limitations that are J months of the publication month. Overseas imposed either by the country in which a credit card was issued, or by claims must be made within one year. the banks that service the credit cards. After a thorough review of the Please note that the United States Postal issues and the alternatives during the 2005 Spring Board Meeting, the Service does not forward publications. To ensure uninterrupted delivery, the ASA must Board has voted to continue to use PayPal. As has always been the receive written notice of a change of case, individuals are welcome to pay by check; indicate the check address at least five weeks before the new number online and mail the check to the Secretariat: Rutgers, The State address goes into effect. Address updates may be made online or in writing to the University of New Jersey, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Secretariat. If a publication is returned, the ASA Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. Individuals may also contact the Secretariat will suspend all future mailings until the new to process credit card payments manually. The Secretariat and the address is received. Returned and suspended mailings will be forwarded upon payment of a Board will continue to monitor PayPal to ensure that the ASA receives $5 reinstatement fee. the best online payment service possible. (continued on page 8) ASA News - January and April 2005 :J From the President. .. the staff and office procedures have been restructured and reorganized. Assisting Carol are Kimme Carlos, the Annual Governing the ASA: We Are What We Contribute Meeting Coordinator; Maggie McLaughlin, the Executive Administrator; and Sandra Smith, the Office Manager. After In June 2004, with then President Sandy Barnes and a year and a half as vice president and president, I can Executive Director Carol Martin, I attended a leadership say without hesitation that they are as capable and seminar for the officers of scholarly associations organized dedicated a group of professionals as I have ever had the by the American Council of Learned Societies for thirteen pleasure to work with and they have brought the of its sixty-seven member organizations. The ASA, with Association back to a high level of administrative about 2,500 individual members, is a medium size functioning. In addition, the position of a Publications and organization between the giant Modern Language Information Coordinator has been created as part of the Association with 29,500 members and the Society of staff restructuring process. An extensive search has been Dance History Scholars with 465 members. One of our underway to fill the new position. sister area studies societies, the Latin American Studies Association, which has 4,300 members, was also present. The primary focus of the Association's board and staff are The seminar focused on issues of organization, the annual meeting, publications, and member services, management and finances shared by all non-profit including relations with the ASA's coordinate organizations. scholarly societies, regardless of their size. Being able to The annual meeting is the largest regular gathering of talk to and exchange ideas with the officers and Africanist scholars in the world, and has for many years administrators of other organizations was an added benefit attracted approximately 1400 registered participants. The of the program. All of the organizations basically do the Association publishes two academic journals, African same things: publish journals and other publications, Studies Review and History in Africa; a review of current organize annual meetings, and provide a variety of other African affairs, African Issues, its newsletter, ASA News, services, differing largely with the scale of the buqget and and occasional books under the imprint of the ASA press. the staff of the society. The Association has no less than eleven sponsored organizations, with which it shares a 2/3 common With its annual budget of some $531,100 in 2004 and four membership. These include the African Islamic Studies full-time staff at the Rutgers-based Secretariat, the ASA is Association, the African Politics Conference Group, the a substantial enterprise with a complex program of Africana Librarians Council, the Arts Council of the ASA, activities to sustain. For comparison's sake, disciplinary the Association for the Publication of African Historical societies like the American Anthropological Association, Sources, the Current Issues Council, Gays and Lesbians the American Historical Association, and the American in African Studies, the Information and Communication Political Science Association, to which many ASA Technology Group, the Pan African Caucus, and the members also belong, have between 12,000 and 16,000 Women's Caucus. There are also eleven associate members with annual budgets of $3 to $3.5 million and 23­ organizations with 1/3 common membership with the 25 full-time employees. The ASA's elected officers and Association, six affiliated organizations, three foreign board members have general responsibility for policy affiliates, and six allied groups in which the ASA has decisions and for administrative and financial oversight. membership, including the American Council of Learned The Board of Directors consists of three elected executive Societies, the Coalition for International Education, and the officers, the president, vice president, and the past National Council of Area Studies Associations. The ASA president, and nine elected board members, with the also has a special relationship with the Association of Executive Director and the Treasurer (chosen by the African Studies Programs. In addition, the Association executive and board members) serving ex officio. In organizes and coordinates nine prize committees, between the Fall and the Spring board meetings, an including the Book Donation Award, the Distinguished executive committee of the three elected officers and two Africanist Award, the Graduate Student Paper Prize, the of the board members has decision-making power, Herskovits Prize, and the International Visitor Award although constant consultation with the full board is (funded by a Ford Foundation grant). routine. Membership services for the ASA include ensuring The day-to-day running of the Association is entrusted to member eligibility and access to all of these activities and the Secretariat, which is housed on the campus of Rutgers publications, organizing the ASA elections, accounting for University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. At the end of members' dues and conference fees, and in particular, the 1990s, the Association experienced significant receiving and organizing the panel and individual paper administrative transitions. Since 2002, under the very submissions for the annual meeting that are vetted by the effective management of Carol Martin, who served as Program Committee. It is in this area that the Board and Interim Executive Director beginning in September of that the Secretariat have labored in recent years to improve the year, and then as the Executive Director from March 2003, economy and efficiency of services, particularly through

ASA News - January and April 2005 ii the development of a fully online system for processing Another serious issue for the annual meeting and ASA membership and annual meeting submissions and finances is the free rider problem that constitutes an registration. This year is the first time that the system is additional and unreasonable cost to all responsible fully operational and despite a few glitches, by the end of members. While there were just over 1,700 paid March no less than 693 individual papers and 121 panels registrations in New Orleans, an estimated 1,900 people and roundtables had been processed, which should allow were actually in attendance. This means, in effect, that earlier preparation of the preliminary program, which will about 200 people snuck into the meeting without paying, be available to the membership on the ASA website thus depriving the Association of approximately $20,000 in beginning in July. In addition, since every mailing to the full revenue. Since it is likely that many of the people who did membership costs around $3000, the online system not pay registration also did not pay annual membership represents an important savings for the ASNs fees, the cost to the membership is probably considerably overstretched budget. more. Such irresponsible behavior ultimately affects the entire membership through additional pressure on the Finally, the ASA is an active promoter and defender of budget, forcing the Association to take such measures as African studies both in the academy and to government. In significantly increasing membership and registration fees 2004, through its membership in the Coalition for in the face of inevitably rising costs. International Education, the ASA was involved in protesting the attempt in the Congress to insert into the renewal The last thing that I would like to mention is the ASNs legislation for the Title VI programs a provision for a review endowment fund. Non-profit associations normally take board for the Title VI area studies centers comprised of 4.5-5.5% per year of the market value of their endowments political appointees and officials of intelligence services. for current operating expenses. This is a particularly The Association also joined the protests against the valuable supplement to other sources of revenue. The attempt by the Treasury Department to ban editing, under endowment consists of two components: restricted funds threat of criminal penalties, all manuscripts emanating that apply to particular purposes, such as book prizes and from authors in countries like the Sudan, North Korea, other awards; and unrestricted funds, which can be Iraq, and Cuba. While the protests from academic and applied to general revenue and expenses. In January commercial publishers throughout the US led to the 2000, the Association's endowment was valued at withdrawal of these restrictions, the Title VI issue remains $768,000. By the end of 2002, it had declined to $510,550, open. When the Congress failed to pass the renewal reflecting both the decline of the securities market, and legislation in the run-up to the 2004 election, the existing financial exigencies that led to substantial transfers from legislation was continued for a further year, and the the principal of the fund in 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 2004, renewal issue will be considered again this year. the Board did not authorize any transfers from the The primary sources of the Association's income are endowment to allow it to grow with the markets. At the end members' dues and annual meeting registration fees, of last year, the endowment had recovered to $724,500. which normally account for 70-75 percent of the annual revenue. The annual budget is spent on member services, The ASA is the institutional focus of a vibrant international primarily on salaries for the staff who coordinate the community of teachers, practitioners, and scholars. Its volunteer energies that members contribute as panel annual meeting and its publications are the prinCipal organizers, committee volunteers, officers, board forums for presenting research, exchanging ideas, and members, and donors, and on the ASNs publications and developing personal and professional relationships for all the annual meeting. In the past few years, however, the of us. However, the Executive Committee, the Board of annual meeting expense has been hit by the soaring cost Directors, and the Secretariat ultimately depend on of audio visual equipment for the meeting rooms, membership input and support. I hope this column can particularly the cost of LCD projectors for power point provide members with a better understanding of the ASA's presentations, which can be $300 per room per day. At the activities, challenges, and needs. I encourage you to 2002 annual meeting in Washington, DC, the AV cost was provide us with the constructive feedback and participation $17,500, an amount that soared to $31,171 in 2003 in that will improve the quality of the Association's programs Boston, and to over $40,000 at the New Orleans meeting and services. I look forward to seeing you at the annual last year. Increasing demand for that technology, often not meeting in Washington, DC in November. actually used, is an uncontrolled expense that threatens the Association's entire budget. This is a problem that the ASA shares with other academic associations, several of which no longer provide such equipment for free. I ask members to take the costs into consideration and to limit their requests to real rather than hypothetical needs. I encourage members to prepare slides and transparencies for use on much less expensive overhead projectors. iii ASA News - January and April 2005 2005 ASA Election Table of Contents Candidates for Vice President The following individuals are standing for election as Stephen N. Ndegwa ...... i officers and members of the African Studies Pearl T. Robinson ...... ii Association Board of Directors: The candidates for Vice President are: Stephen N. Ndegwa (The World Candidates for the Board of Directors Bank and Northwestern University) and Pearl T. Akwasi B. ("A. B.") Assensoh ...... iv Robinson (Political Science, Tufts University). The Tabitha Kanogo ...... v candidates for the Board of Directors are: Akwasi B. Gregory H. Maddox...... vi ("A. B.") Assensoh (African American Studies and Jamie Monson ...... viii African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University­ Elisha Renne ...... ix Bloomington),Tabitha Kanogo (History, University of Michael Schatzberg ...... xi California, Berkeley), Gregory H. Maddox (History, Texas Southern University), Jamie Monson (History, The Nominations and Membership Committee con­ Carleton College), Elisha Renne sisted of Board Members Bruce Berman (Chair), (Anthropology/Afroamerican and African Studies, Jean Allman, Kasongo M. Kapanga, and James A. University of Michigan), and Michael Schatzberg Pritchett, and non-board members Andrew Apter (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). (University of California, Los Angeles), Francis Abiola Irele (Harvard University), and Phyllis Martin The candidates' statements and the ballots will be (Indiana University). The ASA Board of Directors mailed to ASA members who renewed on or before thanks the Committee for its service. the March 15 membership renewal deadline. Individuals whose membership renewals are The Nominations and Membership Committee took processed between March 16 and August 15 will care to present a diverse set of individuals who have also be mailed ballots. The returned ballots must expressed their commitment to contributing their be postmarked on or before September 1. unique experience in furthering the ASA and its mis­ sion. Vote today! CANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stephen N. Ndegwa Stephen N. Ndegwa (The World Bank and Northwestern Statement of Candidacy University) Biographical Statement The African Studies Association is intellectually robust, thriving in its diversity, and exuberant in its sense of purpose. I am honored to follow many illus­ I am currently a Public Sector Governance trious Africanists whose leadership has left us Specialist at the World Bank, a Visiting Scholar deeply enriched. Among the several profeSSional at Northwestern University, and a Fellow at UCLA's associations I belong to, the ASA is the most stimu­ !!, Globalization Research Center/Africa. Born and lating, paSSionate, and empathetic about what and raised in Kenya, I earned my PhD in Political whom we study. Yet, more must be done to secure Science and African Studies from Indiana University the institutional prosperity of the ASA, enhance its I. in 1993. After serving a year as Assistant Director of presence in the intellectual currents that shape our African Studies at Indiana, I joined the Department times, and promote the reach of its members' of Government at The College of William and Mary knowledge about Africa for Africa's benefit - espe­ where I was a tenured Associate Professor until cially in policy circles. My professional achievements 2004. My research, teaChing, and consulting focused as an Africanist and political scientist, previous serv­ on African development, democracy, civil society, ice on the ASA Board, and successful blending of decentralization, and citizenship. I have published academic and policy careers will serve the ASA three books, including The Two Faces of Civil uniquely well. Society and A Decade of Democracy in Africa, and twenty-plus articles in journals such as American As vice-president and president, I will dedicate Political Science Review and African Studies myself to three associated challenges. Review. For more information, please visit: www.ndegwa.com. ASA News - January/April 2005 rCANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Financial security, administrative excellence: Pearl T. Robinson Foremost, the ASA must secure its financial health (Political Science, Tufts University) in order to support the intellectual pursuits of its Biographical Statement members. I will build on the stewardship of past offi­ cers through three initiatives: a) a review of our Langston Hughes' poem "A Negro Speaks of investments and investment practices; b) a consulta­ Rivers" sparked my earliest fascination with Africa. tive and consensual review of the membership fee was 12 years old at the time. Ten years later I structure and cost-effectiveness of services; c) a landed in Niamey and finally saw an African river. I thorough modernization of the interface with mem­ had joined the Peace Corps to work as a public bers - e.g. fully web-basing membership and confer­ health educator in Niger. That was the beginning of ence registration, member directory, newsletter, and a lifelong quest to understand Africa from the elections. ground up.

Bringing African Studies Back In: I will aggres­ I received my Ph.D. in Political Science and a sively promote a re-envisioning of the intellectual Certificate in African Studies from Columbia merit of Area Studies to counter the effects of years University and am presently Associate Professor of of battering from several disciplines. The aftermath Political Science at Tufts University. I direct Tufts' includes the lagging replacement of retiring interdisciplinary minor in Africa and the New World Africanist faculty, declining funding for graduate and and formerly headed the Program in International African students, and eroding exchanges with Relations. I have also been Ford Foundation African institutions. This even as policy actors, Visiting Professor at Makerere University, Visiting including the World Bank, now readily recognize Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, and a country specificity - founded on deep country knowl­ research affiliate with Abdou Moumouni University in edge - as absolutely essential to policy success. Niger. Working with Single, multi-discipline, or apex bodies (e.g. ACLS, CODESRIA), the ASA can successfully As a Political Scientist I study the politics of interest press for greater recognition and support for area representation, comparative democratization, the studies. political economy of development, and Africa's changing cultures of politics. I have published more Leveraging our knowledge for policy: The ASA than 30 articles and book chapters, am co-editor and a co-author of Transformation and Resiliency in has always paid attention to policies affecting Africa. and a co-author of Stabilizing Nigeria: However, our impact has been limited by lack of Sanctions, Incentives and Support for Civil Society. access to those who make/influence policy, by a My articles have appeared in Comparative Politics. reactive posture to events/policies, and by our own Political Science Quarterly, Comparative Studies in inability/unwillingness to embrace Africanists within Society and History, The Journal of Modern African centers of policy. Since I straddle these two commu­ Studies, African Studies Review, Africa Today, Sage: nities, I will energize our conversations with the poli­ A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, The cy community. For example, the Board could invite Economist Intelligence Unit (Niger), and the the African Development Bank's President, the University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection. World Bank Vice-President for Africa, and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission Involvement with the NGO sector has been a con­ for Africa to palavers at the 2005/2006 ASA meet­ stant in my career. I have served on the national ings; annually sponsor a panel on how to success­ boards of Oxfam-America and TransAfrica, on the fully engage with policy-makers; and enhance our Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations' communication instruments (e.g. African Issues) to Center for Preventive Action, as an advisor to insert our knowledge about Africa into policy delib­ National Council of Negro Women's International erations in, for, and about Africa. Division, and on the ForeignPolicy Advisory Committee of the NationalSummit on Africa. While a graduate student J spent a year at The Ford Foundation as a Training Associate. I am presently a member of the CFR's National Program Committee.

ii ASA News - January/April 2005 CANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF TH E BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1 My past professional service includes terms on professor. I would welcome the opportunity to the ASA's Herskovits Award Committee, the become part of an ASA leadership team working to APSA's Standing Committee on Professional connect these worlds more intimately with each Ethics, Lincoln University's advisory board for other. I believe that the ASA could do much to incu­ its Center for Public Policy and Diplomacy, and bate and nurture a variety of bridging mechanisms 3 years as Chair of the SSRC/ACLS Joint (North-South-South, professional organizations, Committee on African Studies. I participated research networks, HBCUs, etc.) and promote local­ in international observer missions for the global linkages as sites for intellectual engagement. Nigerian Presidential elections in 1999 Community-Building and Niger's local elections in 2004, and was an The ASA's annual meeting offers unique opportuni­ international observer at Niger's Sovereign ties for community-building. From my vantage as a National Conference in 1991. political scientist, feminist scholar and policy activist, the possibility of interacting with interdisciplinary In 2000 I initiated a Curriculum Co­ knowledge networks of Africa specialists is particu­ Development project to link International larly valuable. I consider the Women's Caucus Studies courses at Tufts, Makerere and Dar Luncheon and the annual Roundtable sponsored by through shared web sites. Grants from Ford, the Current Issues Council two stand-out events: Carnegie, and US-AID's EDDI and Leland Both relate to large, cross-cutting constituencies. initiatives built the first computer lab for Both create spaces that connect what we study with Makerere's Faculty of Social Sciences, what we do - in the academy and in the larger introduced E-Iearning pedagogy to both world. If elected, I want to work closely with future campuses, equipped their Main Libraries with Annual Meeting Chairs to assure that these two pro­ high speed scanners and digitizing software, grams do not conflict. Our collective life is dimin­ and launched a prototype interactive course ished when members are obliged to choose on "Regionalism in African International between attending one or the other. Relations". This project received Special Recognition from the ACEIITT in 2003 for its More Bandwidth at Lower Cost use of technology as a tool for internationalization. I would like to see the ASA in the forefront of a cam­ pajgn to define access to the Internet for African Pearl T. Robinson universities as a global equity issue. Anyone who has used the Internet in Africa can attest to its Statement of Candidacy shortcomings: systems are slow, unreliable, and not widely available. Universities are straining their The vitality of our organization as we resources to pay for Internet access, yet are unable approaches the 50th anniversary speaks volumes to acquire sufficient bandwidth to meet the ever-spi­ about the impact of African Studies in raling demand. Simply put, the price is too high. today's academy. Three years of service on On average, consumers in Europe and North the Herskovits Prize Committee have America pay $100 a month for more bandwidth than reassured me that our field is anchored by African universities get for $10,000 a month. It is many fine works that combine the highest time for concerned Africanist scholars to speak to level of scholarship about Africa with weighty this issue. The message: "More bandwidth for contributions to the disciplines. Thus my Africa at Lower Cost!" candidacy for VP proceeds with confidence that the ASA is on firm footing. I am running Build the Endowment on a 4-point platform: My candidacy is motivated by 3 passions: a pas­ sion for Africa, a passion for African people, and a Bridge-Building passion for ideas about Africa. I know that the My career connects with three worlds of African ASA's ability to provide member services rests on Studies: the world of US research universities, the money and is therefore tied to the success of the world of historically Black colleges and universities, Endowment campaign. I believe that I can help sell and the world of African universities and research the organization with a clear and passionate articu­ networks. I have spent considerable time crisscross­ lation of its mission and vision for the future. ing these spaces as a research scholar or visiting

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Akwasi B. r A.B. ") Assensoh in History from New York University (with an empha­ (African American Studies and African sis on European Expansionism in Africa) in February 1984. Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington) I have since 1984 served in varied academic and Biographical Statement administrative positions: as Associate Professor of History and Founding Director of Honors Program at I currently serve as Professor and the Director of Dillard University, New Orleans. While there, I Graduate Studies and Admissions in the Department received a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research grant to of African American and African Diaspora Studies do publishable research in several Southeast Asian (AAADS) on the Bloomington campus of Indiana countries. I also served as Director of Research and University. I became a member of the African Associate Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Studies Association (ASA) in 1981 as a graduate Papers Project and a History Professor at Stanford student in History at New York University. University, California/King Center, Atlanta; as Research Scholar at Emory University, Atlanta; as I was born in Ghana, West Africa, from where I tenured Associate Professor of African/Afro­ received my early education. Initially, I studied American History and Director of Graduate Studies Journalism and Communications in Great Britain , in the Social Sciences at Southern University in after which I worked in varied editorial (journalistic) Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and at Indiana University­ positions in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Belgium, Great Bloomington as a tenured Associate Professor. In Britain, Sweden and the United States. In Liberia, I 2001, I was promoted to the rank of full Professor. served in editorial positions for Liberian Star as well For the 2003-2004 academic year, I served as as Daily Listener, Saturday Chronicle; and Sunday Richard A. Bernstein Research Professor at Digest newspapers in Monrovia. In Ghana, I was the University of Maryland's Eastern Shore campus Sub-Editor of The Pioneer newspaper of Kumasi. (UMES); and returned in the Fall of 2004 to Indiana When I moved to London, I worked for several Pan­ University's Bloomington campus. Over the years, I African publications, including Africa Magazine; West have held postdoctoral fellowships at various Africa Magazine, and African Development American and overseas institutions, including Magazine (now called New Africa Magazine). When I Harvard University, The Ohio State University, and lived in Stockholm, Sweden, I served as the University of Oxford, UK. Apart from my member­ Managing Editor of African-Scandinavian Features ship in ASA and historical associations, I am also an Service and as a commentator for Swedish Radio active member of International P.E.N. writer's asso­ and Television. My first book, a novel, titled African ciation. Woman, was published in the 1970s. My various published books have included: Martin In 1975, I came to the United States for the first time Luther King, Jr. and America's Quest for Racial as a Scholar-in-Residence at Lincoln University and Integration (1985; 1986); Kwame Nkrumah of Africa: University of Pennsylvania. My research was later His Formative Years and Politics (1986); African published by Stockwell Publishers of Devon, Great Political Leadership (1998); and African Military Britain as Kwame Nkrumah: Six Years in Exile, 1966­ History and Politics, 1900-Present (2001; 2002). 1972. Studying later at University of New Orleans (UNO) and Dillard University in Louisiana, I earned a B.A. degree, with a double major in History and Political Science in May 1981. Later, I studied African and European history at Tulane University, New Orleans. I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees

iv ASA News - January/ Apri 2005 CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS developing this type of program on a broader scale. agricultural history of the Kilombero valley in south­ I would also like to work on developing a more com­ ern Tanzania in 1991. prehensive program of support for academic confer­ ences in Africa that would draw more African partici­ In 1991 I took a joint position in African History at St. pants into ASA supported activities. Olaf and Carleton Colleges in Minnesota, and since 2002 I have been teaching full time at Carleton The ASA has always sought to serve as an organi­ College. My scholarly work has continued to focus zation that brings together scholars committed to on East African agricultural and environmental histo­ Africa from all types of academic and other institu­ ry; I was part of an early group of scholars interested tions. Working at a comprehensive university, the in Tanzanian environmental history that contributed ASA has been the critical way that I have main­ to the volume Custodians of the Land in 1996, edited tained contact with the broader field. Hence I by Gregory Maddox and James Giblin. I have subse­ believe that it is absolutely critical the ASA continue quently developed a strong interest in historical to be an open and responsive organization. I will memory and narrative, and in African life histories. I work, if chosen to the Board, to continue this tradi­ have published two articles on memory in the tion of openness within the organization. Journal of African History, one on the history of the Maji Maji war, and the other on memory and migra­ Finally, the ASA recently has seen its administrative tion. I am currently co-directing a collaborative proj­ and financial position improve greatly. I will work ect on the history and legacy of Maji Maji with a with other members of the board and the organiza­ group of international scholars. My other publica­ tion to help ensure that the Association has the tions have appeared in the International Journal of resources and capacity to continue to play its impor­ African Historical Studies, African Economic History, tant and vital role. The Board serves as the crucial and several edited volumes. oversight mechanism for the smooth running of the organization. I would bring to the board direct expe­ My most recent project has been a history of the rience in the funding and administration of programs TAZARA railway in southern Tanzania. This railway and can help provide the oversight and advice nec­ was built in the late 1960s and 1970s with the sup­ essary. port of China, and was China's most ambitious proj­ ect in Africa. I am interested in the history of Afro­ The ASA as an organization has always been Asian solidarity and Chinese development coopera­ marked by it openness and responsiveness to its tion, especially the way this history challenges our membership. If I have the opportunity to serve as a notions about north-south and east-west global rela­ board member, I would strive to maintain that tradi­ tions. At the same time, my project focuses on the tion. I would seek to ensure that members have a local level and seeks to understand the way TAZARA means to have their ideas and concerns addressed has been experienced in rural communities in the by the organization. railway corridor. My book manuscript is forthcoming in the Heinemann Social History of Africa series. Jamie Monson One of my strongest commitments as an Africanist (History, Carleton College) has been to interdisciplinary and international col­ Biographical Statement laboration. As two-term president of the Tanzania Studies Association (2001-2003) I led initiatives to My academic study of Africa began in the mid­ strengthen institutional collaboration between the 1980s, when I completed an interdisciplinary M.A. in TSA and the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). African Studies at UCLA. Like many Africanist Our activities included bringing Tanzanian scholars to scholars of my generation I was motivated to pursue the ASA annual meeting and providing support for graduate study by my experience as a Peace Corps academic scholarship at UDSM. In the past four volunteer in Kenya, where I had worked for two and years as co-director of our project on the Maji Maji a half years as an extension worker with rural war I have carried out historical field research in women farmers. My scholarly interest at UCLA Tanzania with an international team of faculty and began with rural development, then quickly turned to graduate students. We have disseminated the African history. I completed my Ph.D. thesis on the results of our research at workshops in Tanzania, the viii ASA News - January/April 2005 CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Akwasi B. ("A.B.") Assensoh grants to enable them to attend annual meetings Statement of Candidacy regularly. With several friends and colleagues serv­ ing in leadership positions on African university campuses, my plan is also to help in building mutu­ I am a candidate for membership on ASA Board of ally-beneficial collaborative bridges for research Directors because I wish to lend my expertise to our and joint projects. great association in areas of my scholarship on Africa and the African diaspora, journalism and uni­ Fourth, I will work well with others to improve the versity as well as editorial administration, as I feel way that we mentor and assist the younger genera­ very strongly that ASA has served as a beacon of tion of Africanists. My past experience as Director inspiration for me as well as other individuals and of a university-wide honors and other programs pro­ institutions interested in African studies. As I recall, vided me with the opportunity to mentor students fresh from graduate school to teach in Louisiana I across disciplinary fields, and I will utilize the expe­ served as the Co-Chair of the Local Arrangeme~ts riences in the interests of ASA, with the ardent Committee for the annual (1985) meeting of ASA in belief that among today's youth can emerge our New Orleans, Louisiana. I have since then remained future ASA officers and board members. an active member of ASA, by publishing in some of its publications, presenting at the annual meetings and encouraging others to join. Tabitha Kanogo (History, University of California, To help maintain ASA prominence in research on Berkeley) Africa, I will work diligently with other Board mem­ Biographical Statement bers. If elected, I also pledge to work hard by build­ ing on its excellent history of progressive leadership and helping the organization in the following four I received my BA and Ph.D. degrees from the areas: First, with my ongoing experience with African University of Nairobi, Kenya. My international links and European journals that are dedicated to African began with a Rhodes Post-doctoral Fellowship at issues, I plan introduce to ASA my existing personal Somerville College, Oxford University (1982-85) and professional relationships with international and a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship at the news organizations to help strengthen the visibility of Department of History, University of California, our association and diversity of scholarship that it Berkeley in 1990. Since the late eighties when I publishes in our scholarly journals. attended my first ASA meeting, I have continued to appreciate the opportunity to be part of an interna­ Second, as the immediate past president of the tional interdisciplinary Africanist fraternity that Association of Third World Studies (ATWS), which is brings together and senior scholars in an atmos­ an organization devoted to research and the study of phere of collaboration and mutual enrichment. I the entire Third World, I wish to explore opportunities taught at the History Department Kenyatta for ASA to work with ATWS and other similar organi­ University in Kenya until the end of 1992 when I zations to improve collaborative efforts among schol­ returned to UC Berkeley where I am an Associate ars interested in research, humanitarian efforts and Professor. fund-raising activities involving African and other Third-World nations. I will also help to intensify mem­ My key publications Squatters and the Roots of bership drives as a Board member, just as I suc­ Mau Mau, 1905-1963 (1987) and African ceeded in doing for ATWS; I will also ensure mean­ Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950 ingful collaboration between ASA and ATWS, which (March1, 2005 release date) are punctuated by is holding its 2005 annual meeting in the Dominican numerous articles/chapters on diverse aspects of Republic. the colonial encounter. My research focuses on social, economic and political aspects of the colo­ Third, as an ASA Board member, I also wish to nial encounter with particular emphasis on agricul­ assist the ASA to attract funds from all bona fide tural labor, nationalism, education, missions, sources to cushion ASA coffers as well as assisting women, and socio-cultural change. My current proj­ ASA members, particularly younger as well as over­ ect revolves around what I broadly call seas-based members, with travel and research "Endangered Childhoods in Colonial Kenya". ASA News - January/April 2005 v CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

As well as my commitment to the teaching of tate the preparation and publication of these manu­ African History at UC Berkeley, I have participated scripts. This is especially urgent with regard to in a range of outreach programs working with High young African scholars who lack vital School students and Teachers, and Community connections/access to major journals and publishing College lecturers concerned to improve the teach­ houses. A related concern revolves around a matter ing and incorporation of African History in their that has received great attention and support from Curriculum. The outreach addressed issues of suit­ ASA, namely, "book famine" in Africa. I see the ASA able resource materials, teaching methodologies as a facilitator, with the individual members of the and the identification and use of appropriate pri­ organization supporting the vision of the ASA. I am mary sources. The outreach sessions included hopeful that the ASA Board will receive the undivid­ workshops organized for K-12 students and teach­ ed support of all its members on this matter. ers, and Community College lecturers. As well as Individual and regular donations over time seem individual invitations, some of this community out­ more feasible compared to huge conSignments that reach has taken place under the umbrella of the call for external funding. It is worth exploring the Berkeley-Stanford Center for African Studies, and pairing of ASA members with individual/departmen­ the California Social History Program at UC tal recipients in Africa for these personalized deliv­ Berkeley, among others. Over the years, I have con­ ery of small, regular, and suitable donations. sistently participated in the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program The need for ASA to collaborate with scholars from (URAP). This mentorship program matches under­ Africa and to incorporate ideas from scholars in graduates with individual professors on a one on Africa in its agenda possibly calls for the creation of one basis, a process that allows professors to both regional "chapters" of ASA in Africa. Housed within mentor and collaborate with students regarding var­ existing regional research/teaching institutions, this ious aspects of research (crafting of projects, identi­ strategy might help coordinate a whole range of fication and retrieving of sources), and all the nitty issues that the ASA attempts to address without the gritty of preparing manuscripts. Participation in pre­ advantage of identifiable partners/facilitators on the dissertation graduate student workshops has ground in Africa. This is an idea worth exploring. served the same goal of honing the methodological and research skills of young scholars. Finally, the ASA should encourage greater graduate student partiCipation in the administrative affairs of Tabitha Kanogo the ASA. This way, the organization will strengthen its mentoring role and create a strong cohort of Statement of Candidacy Africanists nurtured in the overall vision of ASA.

With a global constituency and a membership that Gregory H. Maddox frequents Africa with predictable regularity, the ASA has a tremendous potential to facilitate and expand (History, Texas Southern University) intellectual exchange between continental (African) Biographical Statement scholars and their counterparts located in the West and beyond. Part of this collaboration calls for a I came to African studies cold, without any connec­ greater recognition of the large volume of manu­ tion to Africa in my background. What I found was scripts, especially doctoral dissertations, that more than enough to fill a life. I was raised in the remain unpublished and therefore inaccessible American South and had little exposure to any infor­ beyond institutions of their production. As editors of mation about Africa until my undergraduate educa­ major journals, book series, and publishing houses, tion. I took my first course in African history as a ASA members based in the West have the opportu­ distribution requirement. I chose it because it was nity to explore, and where possible initiate the publi­ the area of the world about which I knew the least. cation process of these works. The challenge My course with Joseph Miller at the University of before ASA is to encourage its members in their Virginia inspired a fascination I have yet to lose. I individual and corporate capacities to aggressively moved on to doctoral work at Northwestern where I reach out and network with continental scholars in focused on environmental history in East Africa and the course of their archival/fieldwork trips in to facili­ did field work in Tanzania in the late 1980s. vi ASA News - January/April 2005 CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

My scholarly work has focused on two themes. The exchange between scholars inside and outside of first is African environmental history. I began by Tanzania. I currently serve as president of that studying the history and causes of famines and food organization. I also had the opportunity to work on shortages in Tanzania. I have published a number a linkage program between my university and histor­ of works on the boarder environmental history of ically disadvantaged institution in South Africa. Over Tanzania and Africa, and have served as an associ­ the last few years, I have also developed a study ate editor of the journal Environmental History pub­ abroad program for Texas Southern in Tanzania. lished by the American Society for Environmental This program has taken students who generally History. In that capacity I sought to bring the would not have the opportunity to participate in such insights of Africanist environmental history to the programs to Tanzania. These trips have been broader field. I have also focused on the local pro­ among the most fulfilling experiences of my career. duction of historical knowledge. My translation of Mathias Mnyampala's, The Gogo: History, Customs, I have also engaged in service to the profession and and Traditions was a finalist for the ASA Text Prize in to the Association. I served as Local Arrangements 1997. I have worked with local historians, especially Co-Coordinator for the Annual Meetings in Houston Ernest Kongola of Dodoma, Tanzania, to explore the in 2001. I successfully mobilized institutional and production of a "useful" history in local terms. My public support for the meetings from variety of insti­ work with Kongola will be published within the year. tutions. I also served as a section chair for the 2004 Annual Meetings Program Committee. I hope to Since I finished my doctoral degree, I have held a have the opportunity to continue to serve the position at Texas Southern University, a historically Association and the cause of the promotion of study black university in Houston, Texas. At the University, about and for Africa. I have worked to build the beginnings of an African studies program. It has been an interesting experi­ Gregory H. Maddox ence. Working with my colleagues at the University, Statement of Candidacy we have developed an initiative that has won sup­ port from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the Title VI If elected by the membership to serve on the Board Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign of Directors of the ASA I will bring the same inter­ Language Program. We have reintroduced the study ests and energy to the Board as I have brought in of the Swahili language to the campus and taken my career. I will focus on generating support for rel­ several groups of students and faculty on study tours evant, collaborative research about Africa by both and study abroad programs to Tanzania. We have African and foreign scholars. I will work for pro­ developed connections and programs in several grams that continue the efforts to broaden the par­ countries in Africa. Recently, I have been named an ticipation in the general life of the field and in the associate dean and charged with further developing ASA, especially among scholars and students work­ international programs at the University. I have also ing and learning in teaching and comprehensive worked with scholars in neighboring institutions to institutions. I will work to generate support for develop a collaborative environment for the promo­ African studies and exchange with Africa from tion of African studies in the Houston area. appropriate and private institutions. I have had suc­ cess in all these endeavors in past, and I will bring Over the years, I have had the good fortune to have that experience to the board and will be ready to extensive experience in Africa. In 1993-1994, I playa role in the collaborative efforts that the ASA taught at the University of Dar es Salaam as a requires in order to continue to be the major aca­ Fulbright Lecturer. That experience gave me a great demic voice for scholars committed to Africa. admiration for the struggles faced by academics in African universities and the necessity for cooperation The ASA has several ongoing projects to strengthen and collaboration between scholars inside and out­ ties to scholars working in Africa. I want to work to side the continent. This experience led me to take a extend these projects. In particular, the Tanzania leading role in the formation of Tanzania Studies Studies Association has developed a program to Association, associate organization of the ASA. It help support research by graduate students enrolled has worked to support scholarship in Tanzania and in Tanzanian universities. I would like to explore

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U.S. and in Germany. Closer to home, I have been From the generation and distribution of knowledge committed to developing linkages among academic across national and continental boundaries. The institutions in Minnesota's Twin Cities region. approaching fiftieth anniversary (2007) of the Together with colleagues from other colleges, I co­ African Studies Association will be an opportunity founded the Twin Cities Africanist Consortium in for reflection as well as a time of celebration. At this 2002. I organized our first interdisciplinary confer­ time in its history, it is critical for the ASA to contin­ ence at Carleton College in spring 2003. This group ue to playa central role in facilitating Africa-related has become a vital networking and support organi­ research and its dissemination. Legislative chal­ zation for Africanists from a range of different institu­ lenges to academic freedom in international educa­ tions. I have also been involved in academic tion will continue to be a concern. The distribution of exchange and served as Academic Director of the research and analysis is already constrained by Lutheran Colleges Consortium in Tanzania for three dwindling public funding for academic publishing. It years. Through this innovative program I facilitated will take hard work to be sure that research is car­ visits by Tanzanian scholars to four American col­ ried out unfettered by legislative interventions. It will lege campuses, and an undergraduate study abroad be equally difficult to ensure that knowledge, once program in Dar es Salaam. generated, is widely shared through publication and distribution, especially in Africa. We can enhance Jamie Monson our effectiveness by networking with other scholarly and professional organizations to develop coalitions Statement of Candidacy and alliances to deal with these issues. Through such collaboration, we can strengthen our common I have been a member and supporter of the African cause while also expanding our presence and influ­ Studies Association since my graduate school days, ence as Africa specialists. and have rarely missed an ASA annual meeting. In my experience, the ASA is unique in its ability to Elisha Renne bring together scholars and professionals from multi­ ple disciplines and perspectives. Members of the (Anthropology/Afroamerican and ASA care deeply about important issues and there African Studies, University of Michigan) is a strong tradition of activism in the history of the Biographical Statement association. The ASA has long played an important role in disseminating research and knowledge about My initial participation in African Studies began with Africa, both in academia and to a wider public. I an interest in African textiles, which as anyone who would welcome the opportunity to strengthen these has worked in Africa knows, are a visually striking ASA goals as a member of the Board of Directors. and important part of social life. Textiles are also an important part of African economic life, as the at the heart of my profes­ Collaboration has been recent WTO agreement to end textile trade quotas sional activity during the last decade. am deeply I has made clear. While my Ph.D. (New York committed to developing linkages between African UniversitY,1990) research focused on colonial law, and American institutions through collaborative marriage, and gender relations in southwestern research as well as institution-building initiatives. Nigeria, I also examined how women's work as Through my work with the Tanzania Studies weavers declined during the colonial period. This Association, the Maji Maji project and the Twin Cities research formed the basis for my book, Cloth That Africanist Association I have gained experience and Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social seen the positive results of multi-disciplinary, inter­ Life (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), institutional connections between the United States which was a finalist for the 1996 Herskovits Award. and Africa. I have also become aware through my From 1991-1993, I was a post -doctoral fellow at current position as a research fellow at the Australia National University, Canberra, where I col­ Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and through my links laborated with demographers studying fertility with China that we can further broaden our definition change in southwestern Nigeria. Several publica­ of international collaboration. The ASA can and tions have come out of this research including the should continue to strengthen connections with edited volumes, Population and Development scholars and sister institutions in other parts of the Issues: Ideas and Debates (Ibadan: world. I would welcome the opportunity to facilitate ASA News - January/April 2005 ix CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

African BookBuilders, 2000), co-edited with J.A. global poverty and to make available generic anti­ Ebigbola; and Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, retroviral treatment-as well as continuing to inform Practices, Interpretations (University of Chicago various publics about African perspectives and con­ Press, 2001), co-edited van de Walle; and the cerns. One way of maintaining connections is book, Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town through cyberspace, particularly through the use of (IAI: Edinburgh/Michigan, 2003). More recently, Dr. websites-such as the ASA website-and online jour­ Babatunde Agbaje-Williams and I have co-edited the nals, such as GEFAME, which was recently pub­ volume, Yoruba Religious Textile: Essays in Honour lished by the University of Michigan. As a member of e.o. Adepegba (African BookBuilders, 2005), a of the editorial board, I see this online journal and H­ study of textiles used in religious worship in 20th Africa web resources out of Michigan State century southwestern Nigeria, sponsored by the University as important sources of timely information Getty Foundation's collaborative fellowship program. about conferences, fellowships, and related materi­ Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in als for African colleagues as well as a venue for 1998, I taught at Ondo State University-Ado-Ekiti; at cross-continental dialogues and exchanges. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, as a Another way of maintaining connections is through Fulbright Scholar; and at Princeton University, where the ASA annual meetings, which present an oppor­ I was a Mellon Research Fellow and Lecturer. I con­ tunity for supporting international economic and tinue to research issues relating to gender relations, health initiatives and for providing political analysis, textiles, fertility, and development. Current projects exemplified by public lectures and roundtables at include the conclusion of a study of married Hausa last year's meetings on the UN's 3-by-5 Initiative, on women's attendance at Islamiyya schools in the the situation in Darfur, and on US foreign policy and Northern Nigerian town of Zaria (funded by NSF and oil resources in Africa. the University of Michigan) and a new collaborative research project on the effects of technologies asso­ I have had the honor of being asked to serve as the ciated with embroidered robe production on gender program chair of the 2005 annual meetings and relations in Zaria, Nigeria. This latter project relates have selected the theme, "Health, Knowledge, and to the anthropology courses I am presently teaching, the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora." which focus on gender, contemporary African social This focus on health is meant to refer to the well­ issues, and child/maternal health. Finally, my being of Africa in terms of social, economic, political, research and teaching in and about Africa has been literary, and aesthetic concerns, as well as medical complemented by service. I am presently on the ones. It is my hope that this conference will inspire boards of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, the collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to the Arts Council for the ASA, and am the director of research and publication which I see as being the non-profit organization, Queen Amina another important function of the ASA. This collabo­ Embroidery, which commissions and markets rative work should also be encouraged through ASA Northern Nigerian women's hand-embroidery work. programs which facilitate teaching and student exchanges as well as research fellowship opportuni­ Elisha Renne ties. As a faculty of the Center for Afroamerican and Statement of Candidacy African Studies at the University of Michigan and as a visiting faculty at the Ondo State University-Ado­ Ekiti and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, I have It was at the African Studies Association meeting in experienced the immediate and long-term benefits New Orleans in 1985 that I first presented an aca­ of these collegial exchanges. As a member of the demic paper. Not surprisingly, I think of the ASA as Board of Directors of the ASA, I would work to foster being my professional "home" and have continued to these connections-between those in Africa and in present papers and attend the annual meetings the African Diaspora and between members of ASA since that time. Presently, I see the ASA as being in and of other area studies associations and to sup­ the extremely important position both of maintaining port the Association's continued important work pro­ connections with colleagues and programs in Africa moting African Studies scholarship and teaching as and of supporting economic and health initiatives­ well as progress and peace in Africa. such as the recent UN-sponsored efforts to reduce x ASA News - January/April 2005 CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michael G. Schatzberg leave; at Virginia Tech I was very much a "lonely (Political Science, University of Africanist." In 1981 I moved to Washington, D.C. to begin an appointment at the School of Advanced Wisconsin-Madison) International Studies (SAIS). As part of a two-per­ Biographical Statement son African Studies program, I taught occasional courses on African history and anthropology as well My initial involvement with Africa was accidental. as a repertoire of courses about politics in Eastern When I graduated from Tufts University in 1969 I had and Central Africa. During the 1980s I used my never studied Africa and knew almost nothing about perch in D.C. to learn from the wide range of African it. Although I then wanted to pursue an academic visitors who came through Washington. I was also career, my interests were focused on Soviet politics. able to spend time in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Congo­ The circumstances of history, and a war in Southeast Brazzaville, Senegal, Rwanda, and Brussels. Asia, put my academic plans on hold. The Peace Research in Brussels was an imperfect substitute for Corps sent me to Cameroon (1969-1971) where I fieldwork in Zaire, but the regime had denounced my found people friendly and faSCinating. When I published work (for me, a badge of honor). During returned to the U.S. in 1971 I landed in Madison, this period I published a second book on Zaire, The Wisconsin, studying African politics at a university Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (1988) which that nurtured a commitment both to deep disciplinary focused on what the state was, and did, at the local rigor and to the wide breadth of interdisciplinary level. It was also about the state's instruments of knowledge and research. coercion and how people interacted with the state in these situations. Also appearing during this time Local politics in Mobutu's Zaire formed the core of was a monograph on U.S. policy toward Zaire, my doctoral research. Most of my fieldwork occurred Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, in Lisala, in the northwest quadrant of the country 1960-1990 (1991), as well as three other volumes (1974-1975) where I investigated the local dynamics which I either edited or co-edited: The Political of political oppression and social class formation. Economy of Zimbabwe (1984), The Political Here, for the first of many times, I was confronted Economy of Cameroon (1986, with I. William with the disjuncture between the expectations of Zartman), and The Political Economy of Kenya Western social science theory and African reality. (1987). Although political scientists at that time were routine­ ly writing of the various crises besetting newly inde­ I returned to Madison in 1991 as a professor of polit­ pendent states, time in the field persuaded me that ical science. Since then, my work has taken a more the people of Lisala were far more interested in the cultural turn, and in 2001 I published Political beer crisis (as in "Why doesn't enough beer ever get Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, and to Lisala?") than in the legitimacy, identity, and pene­ Food. This study attempts to understand political tration crises that the SSRC had defined. So I inves­ legitimacy in eight African states by trying to discern tigated the local political economy and political cul­ the conceptual lenses through which people view ture of beer, in part by doing participant observation political phenomena. That these lenses do not research in the local bars. The result was both a dis­ always resemble those of Western theory no longer sertation (1977) and an eventual book entitled surprises me. And, as is true of much that I write, Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business, this book is about the importance of culture, context, and Beer in Usala (1980). and the politics of the quotidian. My current research retains these concerns, but focuses on the After graduate school my teaching career took me politics of football in Africa. Long an active member first to Dalhousie University (1978-1979) in a tempo­ of UW's African Studies Program, in 2004 my col­ rary capacity, and then to Virginia Polytechnic leagues elected me as its chair - something I con­ Institute (1979-1981). Dalhousie had a small but sider a great honor. lively African Studies Program that I was sorry to

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Michael G. Schatzberg realized how just how exemplary the ASA's commit­ Statement of Candidacy ment to diversity of all types really is. I was occasion­ ally stunned to find no women, no Africans, no peo­ ples of color at conferences or meetings about Africa. I would be honored to serve the ASA as a member In my experience diversity along all sorts of lines fos­ of its Board of Directors. In fact, I feel privileged just ters intellectual strength, a plurality of intellectual per­ to be considered. Let me explain. First, I have been sp~ctives, and a creative methodological cross-polli­ a member of the association since the 1970s, and I nation between disciplines. owe it a great deal. While still a graduate student I presented my first academic paper there in 1976. Third, I have appreciated the ASA's role in defending This occurred in what I later came to understand the freedom of inquiry. This remains critical, not only was an unusually open and supportive intellectual for scholars on this side of the Atlantic, but for schol­ environment. As my career got under way and as I ars working in African universities as well. As we worked at a variety of institutions with widely differ­ more regularly find ourselves needing to defend the ing ranges of support for the study of Africa, I always general notion of area studies from increasingly point­ knew that I could, once a year, attend a conference ed domestic political criticism, the ASA has a vital role that would enable me to learn from others who to play in continuing to assert and defend the reasons shared my intellectual passion for Africa. I knew, why t~e i.nterdisciplinary study of geographic regions moreover, that I could also find and relate to keen remains Intellectually vital and politically necessary. thinkers in a wide array of disciplines. The ASA ~hose who would ignore the richness and complexi­ helped broaden my intellectual perspective by ties of culture and context do so at their own peril. encouraging me to remain open to other approach­ es, inSights, and observations. In short, I would be most pleased to make whatever Second, it was not really until I attended several con­ s~all contribution I can to the ASA's ongoing mis­ ferences in Western Europe during the 1990s that I sions.

xii ASA News - January/April 2005 New Members, New Lifetime Members, and Contributors to the Endowment

ASA New Members July 1, 2004 - December 31,2004 Mohammad Sanni Paul Diakite Zetoile Imma Ernest Mohochi Irene Isoken Salami Abdulkadir Cheikh Ahmadou Inga-Britt Isaksson Ingrid Monson Matteo Salvadore Holly Adams Dieng Faris Lester Monts Said Samatar Tomi Adeaga Vernon Dorjahn Obiwu Iwuanyanwu Lioba Moshi Alicia Sanabria Os ita Afoaku Michael Eastman Elias Eliezar Jengo Jason Mosley Kwaduso Sarfoh Austin Ahanotu Myron Echenberg Bill Jong-Ebot Patrick Muana Jon Saye Jeffrey Ahlman Laura Edmondson Ephraim Josiah Aaron Mushengyezi Antonia Schleicher Mohamed Ahmed Gretchen Ehle Camille Kalombo Dusty Myers William Scott Gerard Akindes Andrew Eisenberg Anthonia Kalu Aissata Naindou Ousmane Sene Oheneba Akwesi Maureen Eke Martin Kalulambi Peter Nazareth Kudzai Shava Akyeampong Felix Ekechi Pongo Conchita Ndege Rebecca Shereikis Kidane Alemayehu Abeer Elahraf Sheba Kane Kemei Maigenet Shifferraw Mohammed Hassein Walle Engedayehu Flora Kaplan Madeleine Ndobo Jesse Shipley Ali Chielozona Eze Sidney Kasfir James Newman Eric Silla Ousseina Alidou Ina Fandrich Ronald Kassimir Charles Ngugi Kelwyn Sole Sarah Anyal1g Agbor Paulo Farias Ray Kea Kwaku Nuamah Aliko Songolo Steven Arojjo Erin Finley Jeremy Keenan Chidiebere Abdoulaye Sounaye Esailama Artry-Diouf Jeffrey Fleisher Leah Wambura I\lwaubani John Spencer Francis Zunuo Wiebke Foerch Kimathi Celia Nyamweru Edward Steinhart Bacho Amadou Fofana Martin Klammer Ogochukwu Nzewi Katherine Sthreshley M.Alpha Bah Laurent Fourchard Abigail Koch Agnes Odinga Tilo Stolz Laurence Becker Barbara Frank Premesh Lalu Mojubaolu Okome Verlon Stone Ayele Bekerie Jose Garcia-Rojas Frederick Lamp Jenkeri Zakari Ian Sutherland Jesse Benjamin Christraud Geary Paul Landau Okwori Azeb Tadesse Charles Benjamin Jerry Gershenhorn April Langley Lauris Olson Anne Tanyi-Tang Winston Benons Kathryn Geurts Andrew Lepp Olateju Omolodun- Paul Kipkosgei Milena Bereket Christopher Gibson Nghana Lewis Adesida Tarus Ann Biersteker Gordon Gill Mark Lilleleht Edward Opoku- Barbara Tedrow Thomas Bimba Amanda Gill David Lloyd Dapaah Tirusew Teferra Simon Bockie Siri Gloppen Kenneth Lohrentz Francis Orech Paul Thompson Catherine Bogosian Edith Suzanne Gott Patricia Lott Akwasi Osei Dzodzi Tsikata Louise Bourgault Karen Greenough Paul Lovejoy Oyekan Owomoyela Gert van der Craig Brookins Ndeye Gueye Stephen Lucas Eustace Palmer Westhuizen Ernest Brown Carolyn Hansen Joao Baptista Sharon Panoff Antonia Vann Timothy Burke Kathleen Hasselblad Lukombo Donna Patterson Tony Waters Andrew Burton Sean Hawkins Brandon Lundy Megan Plyler John Watkins Abena Busia Christopher Hayden Anh Ly Jessica Powers Lisa Watkins- Judith Byfield Samuel Hickey Kinuthia Macharia Robin Poynor Theodore Elise Carpenter Janell Hobson Alphonse Maindo Robert Pringle David Westley Linda Carty Alcinda Honwana Beth Malchiodi Emmanuel Quarcoo Kenneth Wilburn Robin Chapdelaine Jon Hooper James Matory James Quirin Kara Wilkins Robert Charlick Jeffrey Hoover Andrew Mwenda Nadia Rabesahala Heinrich Willemse Emmanuel Chiabi Ellen Hoover Mbatiah Horning Tiffany Willoughby- Peter Chilson Mark Horton Eric Mbok Neo Lekgotla laga Herard Diane Ciekawy Ambassador Robert James Mbuva Ramoupi Louis Wilson Baira Clark Houdek James McCann Stephane Rey Elaine Wolo Paul Clough Mathurin Jamie McGowan Banegas Richard Jacqueline Woodfork ~Iill Coelho Houngnikpo Beverly McGraw Nina Robbins Robert Wyrod Cynthia Dapaah Mickie Hudson- Ken Menkhaus Maria Rodriguez- Dennis Young William Darkins Koster John Metzler Feo Nicole Zehfuss David Davis Abdulai Iddrisu Lindah Mhando Inge Ruigrok Elke Zuern Ariane Deluz Annette Ihle John Middleton Lucia Saks

ASA News - January and April 2005 1 ASA New Members rJanuary 1, 2005 - March 31,2005 Asma Abdel Halim Caroline Butt James Ferguson Manuel Jordan Beverly Mc Graw Fowsia Abdulkadir Elizabeth Campbell Wlliam Fisher Perez John McCauley Sabella Abidde Jeffrey Cannon Cyprian Fisiy Ngeta Kabiri Mike McGovern Hussein Adam Ben Carton Richard Ford Alice Kang Lisa McNee Melinda Adams Christey Carwile Elliot Fratkin Joyce Kannan Quinn Mecham Adeyemi Adeleke Joanna Casey Susan Frazier- Tabitha Kanogo Karen Milbourne Aderonke Adesanya Odile Cazenave Kouassi Kimuli Kasara Kim Miller Jemima Agyare Joelle Chabwine Libbie Freed Ssebunya Kasule Mohammed Cheryl Ajirotutu Joy Chadya Eric Fripp Kinsey Katchka Mohammed Nurudeen Akinyemi Nicholas Andrea Frohne Brandon Abdinur Mohamud Sandra Allen Cheeseman Wilfred Gabsa Kendhammer Sanyu Mojola Jessica Allina- Brian Child Margaretta Gacheru Ruth Kerkham Jamie Monson Pisano Reuben Chirambo John Galaty Darren Kew James Moore KhuumbaAma Wonbin Cho Ian Gary Veromaue Kialu Mary Moran Dede Amanor-Wilks Hycent Chukwuka Ezekiel Gebissa Jean Kidula Robert Mortimer Jude Andreasen Todd Cleveland Kim George chris Kimaru Michelle Moyd Douglas Anthony Victoria Coifman Solomon Getahun Erin Kimball Colman Msoka Frederick Appah Herbert Cole James Giblin Paul Kollman Akbar Muhammad Andrew Apter Jean-Gael Collomb April Gordon Susi Krehbiel Raymond Muhula Stephen Arbogast Allan Cooper Assane Goudiaby Margaret Kroma Carol Muller Abukar Arman David Coplan Lyn Graybill Gary Kynoch Bianca Murillo Mary Arnoldi Walter Cross N. Hakansson Josephine Lairap Laura Murphy Richard Ashford Paul Dambowic Sondra Hale Gina Lambright Godwin Murunga Adam Ashforth Allison Davis Tiffany Hamelin Mitch Land Evan Mwangi Mehretab Assefa Sheila Davis Pernille Hamilton Pier Larson John Nauright Mba Atinga Ferdinand De Jong Rebecca Hanlin Babatunde Lawai George Ndege Ralph Austen Rosa De Jorio Sean Hanretta Mara Leichtman Abdou Ndoye Gareth Austin Mark De Lancey Rebecca Hardin David Leonard Deborah Neill Mariama Awumbila Data Dea Matthew Harsh Roger Levine Fred Nelson Deidre Badejo Mesfn Debrezion Rachel Harvey Anne Lewinson Melsome Nelson- Josaphat Bill Derman Wendi Haugh Peter Lewis Richards Balegamire Papa Meissa Dieng Julia Heckl William Little Denise Nepveux Cedric Barnes Hansjoerg Dilger John Heilbrunn Mbaye Lo Helene Neveu Sophia Beal Joyce Dixon-Fyle Katie Hejtmanek Jennifer Lofkrantz Kringelbach Cynthia Becker David Donkor Eugene Hermitte B. Ikubolajeh Logan Cheikh Niang Wendy Belcher Mauna Dosso Shannen Hill Roman Loimeier Beatrice Nicolini Matthew Bender Beth Dougherty Markku Hokkanen Timothy Longman Mario Nisbett LeG race Benson Kelly Duke-Bryant Bonnie Holcomb Carol Lorenz Raphael Njoku Josephine Beoku- Anene Ejikeme Svend Holsoe Candice Lowe Wandia Njoya Betts John Ejobowah Robert Honerkamp Chipasha Luchembe Twagiramungu Noel Carol Berger Caroline Elkins Kirk Hoppe Joe Lunn Christopher Nshimbi Mellissa Betts Joy Elliott Christian Horton Wyatt MacGaffey Obi Nwakanma Fortunatus Bijura Marc Epprecht Dolan Hubbard Jose Carlos Maia Lydia Regina Birner Jennifer Esala Peter Hudson Anne-Maria Makhulu Nyati Ramahobo Stephanie Bjork Suzanne Essama Jill Humphries Edris Makward Daniel Ogbaharya Peter Bloom Lalla Essaydi Nancy Hunt Kristin Mann Don Ohadike Matthijs Bogaards James Essegbey Mark Hunter Carrie Manning Valentina Okaru- Vaughn Borden Essoh Essis Stacey Hynd Kathryn Manzo Bisant Laurian Bowles Amal Fadlalla Victor Igreja John Marah Augustine Okereke Cynthia Brantley Laura Fair Andrew Isiguzo Shula Marks Ephraim Okoro Benjamin Brower Lubayna Fawcett Andrew Ivaska Angela Martin Ikem Okoye Sherri Brown Ogbaraeono Fawole Fiona Etumudon Lesley Masters John Oloya Jesse Bucher Kayode Fayemi Iworh Sarah Mathis Osaak Olumwullah Debra Budiani Bichaka Fayissa John Janzen Clapperton Naana Opoku- Fran Buntman Rebecca Feeley Alan Jeeves Mavhunga Agyemang Gary Burgess Pamela Feldman- Eliza Johannes Jonathan Mayer Eghosa Osaghae Jan Burgess Savelsberg Laird Jones Achille Mbembe Wayne Osborn

2 ASA News - January and April 2005 Brempong Osei-Tutu Kathryn Rhine Priscilla Shilaro Bridget Teboh Michele Wagner Simon Otten berg Amanda Robertson Juli Shinaba Mwizenge Tembo Lars Waldorf Meshack Owino Gemma Rodrigues Margrethe Jennifer Terrell Immanuel Carlos Oya Katherine Rogers Silberschmidt Mussie Tesfagiorgis Wallerstein Oyeronke Oyewumi Ryan Ronnenberg Richard Sincere Meskel Edna Wangui Randall Packard Maria Roof Daniel Smith Bridgette Thomas Herman Wasserman Tanya Peck mann David Rosen Michael Larmas David Thomas Julie Weiskopf David Penn Eric Roth Smith Barbara Thomas- Timothy Welliver Kimberly Perez Joshua Rubongoya Thomas Smucker Slayter Jennifer Rebecca Peters Jose Saavedra Danielle Snoddy Katrina Thompson Westmoreland Ayo Peterson John Sagala Jacqueline Solway Marshall Thompson Gregory White Sheila Petty Abdoulaye Saine Alioune Sow Teshale Tibebu Lindsay Whitfield James Pfeiffer Lidya Sambwa-Kane Sadibou Sow 'Dimeji Togunde Kathleen Wicker Barbara Eve Sandberg Kevin Stanley Leslie Townsend Kathleen Williams Plankensteiner Witney Schneid man Howard Stein Konrad Tuchscherer Christian Williams Helena Pohlandt- Rohland Schuknecht Christopher Steiner Christopher Udry Sigismond Wilson McCormick Dorothea Schulz Jed Stevenson Monica Udvardy Ben Wisner Jeremy Pool Joyce Scott Erin Stiles Theresa Ulicki Julian Witherell Henry Porter, Jr. Gerhard Seibert Eileen Stillwaggon Lantana Usman Tekle Woldemikael Allyson Purpura Sherrill Sellers Deborah Stokes Peter Vakunta Mimi Wolford Carina Ray Renata Serra Hallie Stone Darci Van Duzer Elias Wondimu Will Rea Heather Sharkey Johanna Svanikier Jorge Varanda Brian Yates Sean Redding Mohamed Sheikh Ali Elinami Swai Ferreira Paulette Young Kristin Reed Vanessa Shepherd Randy Tanner Stephen Volz Abebe Zegeye Elisha Renne Kole Shettima Tonya Taylor Nicholas Waddy

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ASA News - January and April 2005 5 Verburg, Piet. Climate effects on Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), 2003. Bil/mark, Kaycie Ann. lake circulation and its importance to NQ89554. Characterization of regional aerosol the pelagic ecosystem in Lake sources in southern Africa using a Tanganyika, East Africa. Ph.D., U. of Chea, Ashford C. Factors that combined chemical and isotopic Waterloo (Can.), 2004. NQ92039. influence the survival of women­ approach. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 2004. owned small business start-ups in the 3135418. Vogler, Amy Joel/. Analyzing the city of Tema, Ghana. Ph.D., Union molecular evolution and epidemiology Inst. & U., 2003. 3133570. Edelman-Furstenberg, Yael. of recently emerged bacterial Macrobenthic ecology, paleoecology pathogens using VNTR markers Gbadamosi, Saeed Tokunbo. and taphonomy of high-productivity [Madagascar]. Ph.D., Northern Fraud: Its nature and causes in systems: Upper Cretaceous Mishash Arizona U., 2003. 3118495. Nigerian banking system. Ph.D., Formation (Israel) and the modern Union Institute and U., 2004. Benguela system [Southern Africa]. Vonesh, James Richard. Sequential 3120163. Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 2004. 3116976. predation in a complex life-history: Interactions among egg, larval, and Konwufine, Elias N. Foreign direct Gilbert, William Henry. The Daka post-metamorphic predators of the investment to African countries of the Member of the Bouri formation. East African treefrog, Hypero/ius zone Franc CFA after the period of Middle Awash valley, Ethiopia: Fauna, spinigu/aris. Ph.D., U. of Florida, devaluation: An economic and political stratigraphy, and environment. Ph.D., 2003. 3127693. approach. D.B.A., Nova Southeastern U. of California, Berkeley, 2003. U.,2004. 3132806. 3121490. Whiting, Alison Swindle. Phylogenetic systematics and Ojide, Donatus Chukwuemeka. The Ismail, Ahmed Mahmoud Ali. evolution within the family Scincidae factors that determine foreign direct Geophysical, hydrological, and [Southern Africa]. Ph.D., Brigham investment in Nigeria. DBA, U. of archaeological investigation in the Young U., 2004. 3119327. Sarasota, 2003. 3121116. East Bank area of Luxor-southern Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Missouri - Rolla, Wood, Jason Donald. Okoro, Edmund Albert. 2003. 3115167. Communication and spatial cohesion Comparative analysis of the of the African elephant, Loxodonta environment and effectiveness of Lamanna, Mathew Carl. Late africana [Namibia & South Africa]. transformational leadership style of Cretaceous dinosaurs and Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, 2003. management used by transnational oil crocodyliforms from Egypt and 3121010. companies in implementing corporate Argentina. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, social responsibility and sustainable 2004. 3125851. Zanne, Amy Elise. Adaptations to development in the Niger Delta heterogenous habitats: Life-history Region of Nigeria. Ph.D., Capella U., Mariita, Nicholas O. An integrated characters of trees and shrubs 2004. 3123493. geophysical study of the northern [Uganda]. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2003. Kenya rift crustal structure: Implications for geothermal energy CINEMA prospecting for Menengai area. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Barnes, Kristen Gail. Contemporary Ph.D., U. of Texas at EI Paso, 2003. cinematic constructions of French and 3118500. Amofa, Felix Rex. The influence of Francophone African immigrant business ethics on multinationals in identities. Ph.D., Duke U., 2003. Mladenov, Natalie. Evaluating the emerging economies: The case of 3114960. effects of hydrologic change in the Ghana. D.B.A., Masstricht Sch. of Okavango Delta of Botswana: Management (Neth.), 2004. 3126980. Analyses of aquatic organic matter EARTH SCIENCES transport and ecosystem economics. Ba, Leona. Knowledge management Ph.D., U. of Colorado at Boulder, Akingbade, Atinuke Olubunmi. and organizational culture: A social 2004. 3130307. Reflection seismic interpretation of action perspective [Senegal]. Ed.D., deepwater fold-thrust structures, Niger George Washington U., 2004. Molwalefhe, Loago N. Geochemical Delta [Nigeria]. Ph.D., U. of Missouri 3126188. and isotopic characterization of - Rolla, 2004. 3126854. shallow basinal brines from the Brotheridge, Celeste M. Structuring Angielczyk, Kenneth David. Makgadikgadi Pans complex, deference and solidarity in a Phylogenetic approaches to northeastern Botswana: Determination manager-expatriate employee dyad in reconstructing the paleobiology of of the sources of salinity. Ph.D., the context of changing anomodont therapsids [South Africa]. Western Michigan U., 2003. communications media within the Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, 3123762. Mennonite Central Committee [Chad]. 2003. 3121386. 26 ASA News - January and April 2005 ANTHROPOLOGY Deme, Alioune. Archaeological gender, identity, and social space in investigations of settlement and Fes, Morocco. PhD., Princeton U., Abrams, Elizabeth Tonia. Malaria emerging complexity in the Middle 2004. 3120429. during pregnancy: Physiological and Senegal Valley. PhD., Rice U., 2004. evolutionary perspectives on poor 3122461. Oram, Elizabeth E. Constructing birth outcomes [Malawi]. PhD., U. of modern Copts: The production of Michigan, 2004. 3121882. Hassett, Miranda Katherine. Coptic Christian identity in Episcopal dissidents, African allies: contemporary Egypt. PhD., Amantana, Vivian. Leaving home for The Anglican communion and the Princeton U., 2004. 3127938. the streets: Voices of youth from globalization of dissent [Uganda]. Ghana's streets. Ph.D., Oregon State PhD., U. of North Carolina at Chapel Otanez, Martin Gilbert. 'Thank you U.,2004. 3133376. Hill,2004. 3129723. for smoking': Corporate power and tobacco worker struggles in Malawi. Beehner, Jacinta Catherine. Female Hettena, Anita M. A three­ Ph.D., U. of California, Irvine, 2004. behavior and reproductive success in dimensional analysis of age-related 3132402. a hybrid baboon group [Ethiopia]. change in the adult craniofacial Ph.D., Washington U., 2003. skeleton [South Africa]. Ph.D., Johns Owens, Geoffrey Ross. On the 3117052. Hopkins U., 2004. 3130699. edge of a city: An historical ethnography of urban identity in the Benjamin, Judy Ann. Gender Hildebrand, Elisabeth Anne. Enset, northwestern suburbs of Dar es analysis of risk-taking and AIDS yams, and honey: Salaam, Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of among Rwandan refugees in Ethnoarchaeological approaches to Wisconsin - Madison, 2004. Tanzania. Ph.D., State U. of New the origins of horticulture in southwest 3128058. York at Binghamton, 2003. 3132677. Ethiopia. Ph.D., Washington U., 2003. 3117062. Peterson, Kristin. HIV/AIDS and Bratton, Angela R. Teenage democracy in Nigeria: Policies, rights, pregnancy, education and the Kaiser, Kevin Robert. Water, milk, and therapeutic economies. Ph.D., construction of sexuality in Ghana. beer and wine for the living and the Rice U., 2004. 3122523. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2004. 3134109. dead: Egyptian and Syro-Palestinian Bes-vessels from the New Kingdom Plyler, Megan G. The power of Burlington, Robert Gary. 'I Love through the Graeco-Roman period. connections: Agency, inequality and Mary': Relating private motives to Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, human rights in Tanzania. PhD., public meanings at the genesis of 2003. 3121538. Michigan State U., 2004. 3129533. Emilio's Mutima Church [Zambia]. Redeker Hepner, Tricia M. Eritrea D.Miss., Biola U., 2004. 3124526. Khaja, Khadija. Female and exile: Trans/nationalism in the circumcision: Life histories of Somali Horn of Africa and the United States. Buzzard, Paul Jason. Interspecific women. PhD., U. of Utah, 2004. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2004. competition among Cercopithecus 3123801. 3129534. campbelli, Cercopithecus petaurista, and Cercopithecus diana at Ta·' Manspeizer, /lyssa. ConSidering Scott, Monique Renee. Up from Forest, Cote d'ivoire. Ph.D., wildlife conservation in Zambia at the Africa: /\Jatural history museums and Columbia U., 2004. 3128928. turn of the millennium. Ph.D., State the making of ancestral meaning U. of /\Jew York at Binghamton, 2004. [Kenya]. PhD., Yale U., 2004. Chauvet, Violaine. The conception 3132669. 3125305. of private tombs in the late Old Kingdom [Egypt]. Ph.D., Johns McGovern, Michael. Unmasking the Siex, Kirsten S. Effects of population Hopkins U., 2004. state: Developing modern political compression on the demography, subjectivities in the 20th century ecology, and behavior of the Zanzibar Cheney, Kristen E. Pillars of the Guinea. Ph.D., Emory U., 2004. red colo bus monkey [Tanzania]. nation: Child citizens and Ugandan 3124119. Ph.D., Duke U., 2003. 3114985. national development. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Cruz, 2004. Mironko, Charles K. Social and Steele, Matthew Stephen. Male 31335048. political mechanisms of mass murder: microbicides, genital hygiene, and HIV An analysis of the perpetrators in the risk behavior among Kenyan men. Citron, Lisa Nicole. Continuity and Rwandan genocide. Ph.D., Yale U., PhD., U. of Washington, 2004. change: Anthropological perspectives 2004. 3125265. 3131230. on the informal economy in Marrakech, Morocco. Ph.D., Newcomb, Rachel. 'Singing to so Sterling, Sarah L. Social complexity Columbia U., 2004. 3128936. many audiences': Negotiations of in ancient Egypt: Functional differentiation as reflected in the 24 ASA News - January and April 2005 The ASA thanks the 2004 Prize Committee Members

The ASA Board of Directors would like to thank the 2004 Award Committee members for their service on the following committees:

Book Donation Award Edmond J. Keller, University of California - Los Akilah S. Nosakhere, Chair, Atlanta University Angeles

Children's Africana Book Award Graduate Student Paper Prize Brenda Randolph, Chair, Africa Access Sara Berry, Chair, Johns Hopkins University Meena Khorana, Morgan State University Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institute Patricia Kunz, Madison (Wisconsin) Metropolitan August Nimtz, University of Minnesota School District Agnes Ngoma Leslie, University of Florida International Visitor Award John Metzler, Michigan State University Aili Mari Tripp, Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison James Sleight, Michigan State University Jean Allman, University of Iiinois Sandra Barkan, University of Iowa Claude Ake Memorial Award Sandra T. Barnes, University of Pennsylvania Vivian Awumey, The Africa-America Institute Bruce Berman, Queen's University Carolyn Brown, Rutgers University Michael Chege, University of Florida Judith Byfield, Dartmouth College Beverly Grier, Clark University Kenneth Harrow, Michigan State University Maria Grosz-Ngate, Indiana University Adele Jinadu, Center for Advanced Social Studies, Linda M. Heywood, Boston University Port Harcourt, Nigeria Kasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond Carol L. Martin, African Studies Association Patrick McNaughton, Indiana University Stephen Ndegwa, College of William and Mary James A. Pritchett, Boston University Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, Ohio State University Conover Porter Award Gregory Finnegan, Chair, Harvard University Melville J. Herskovits Award Elliott P. Skinner, Chair, Columbia University Distinguished Africanist Award Mamadou Diouf, University of Michigan Babatunde Lawai, Virginia Commonwealth University Beverly Grier, Chair, Clark University Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University Sandra T. Barnes, University of Pennsylvania Parker Shipton, Boston University Bruce Berman, Queen's University Margaret Jean Hay, Boston University

The ASA thanks the 2004 Journal Editors

African Issues: Cyril Daddieh, Co-Editor, Providence College Jo Ellen Fair, Co-Editor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

African Studies Review: Ralph Faulkingham, Co-Editor, University of Massachusetts Mitzi Goheen, Co-Editor, University of Massachusetts Eugenia Herbert, Book Review Editor, Mount Holyoke College

History in Africa: David Henige, Editor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Visit www.africanstudies.org for pre-registration information and forms today! The deadline for pre-registration is September 30! writers, including Mariama Ba (on mental illness), Buchi time. researchers interested in social organization and Emecheta (on the lack of medical facilities in colonial community have analyzed "coping" or "survival" strategies Nigeria), and Chris Abani (on chronic illness associated utilized by African families, households, and communities with the urban poverty in Lagos). We welcome panels that as they respond to the varied health crises they face. explore the wide range of issues relating to illness and health, in either the oral or written literatures of Africa and In what ways does recent scholarly work on the the Diaspora. Papers that explore these and other relationship of health and economy add to, or move disciplinary topics in African Studies are encouraged. beyond, these perspectives? What have we learned about the relationship of health and economy, past and present, in specific locales and more globally? L. Legal, Public Policy and National Security Issues This section calls for papers and panels that examine the Howard Stein (University of Michigan) intersection of health and economy in Africa from a wide [email protected] variety of perspectives and in a variety of contexts. There are essentially two basic perspectives from which the The duality and dependent nature of bodies as both health/economy relationship can be viewed: the effects of personal and political domains invokes an array of health on economic activity and economies, and the relational issues. At the most fundamental level, there is effects of economic activities and policies on health. the question of human rights broadly constituted. The legal Papers using these perspectives can examine the recognition of an individual as a member of a body politic health/economy intersection in a variety of situations, from has been a defining element in the rights of access to specific local contexts to broader national, regional, and public goods such as health care and the economic global ones. opportunities associated with livelihood and sustenance. Yet, in a number of African states, we have seen sudden This section especially welcomes panels and papers that shifts in the definition of human rights, even for long consider health and economy in local contexts. How do standing citizens where violence threatens the physical basic economic conditions, including poverty, access (or and mental health of entire communities. The frequency lack thereof) to good nutrition, safe water, and health care and ubiquity of conflicts have added to growing numbers providers, affect the health of specific communities and of refugees, whose fluidity of movement has always been populations? Conversely, what is the effect of poor health present around African borders which were imposed and poor access to health care on local economies and without regard to ethnicity or history. Furthermore, communities? Papers on the relation of women's health economic crisis has driven people to new countries, both and economic activities are of special interest. within and outside of Africa, in search of survival. Those in charge of policy priorities of governments are torn between At the same time, this section is interested in papers and panels that address health/economy interactions in the public health and security implications of refugees and national and international contexts. How have poliCies, "illegal" immigrants without access to basic private and including macro- economic policies of governments and public goods and the need to maintain the integrity of the international organizations, affected health and health definition of citizenship. This problem has been care? To what extent does the lack of government exacerbated by the scarcity of public resources due to the investment in basic infrastructure, such as water and protracted economic crisis and austerity imposed by the sanitary facilities, lead to the declining overall health status macroeconomic conditionality of international loans. in many countries? What is the role of transnational National and international comparative case studies of the corporations, especially the pharmaceutical industry, in health implications of variations in immigrant and refugee shaping the overall health of people in Africa? Does policies are especially welcome. Papers that explore investment and interest in certain diseases and not others these and other disciplinary topics in African Studies skew health outcomes? Are there examples of are encouraged. companies that have ameliorated the health situation in particular locales? Discussions of the economic impact of specific diseases have mainly focused on HIV/AIDS. However, malaria and other parasitic diseases, as well as M. Economies infectious diseases also have potentially serious economic Lillian Trager (University of Wisconsin-Parkside) effects. Papers are welcomed that examine the economic trager@ uwp.edu impact of such diseases. Papers that explore these and other disciplinary topics in African Studies are Recent research on the relationship of health and encouraged. economy has emphasized several broad themes. There have been portraits of the devastating consequences of specific diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, for local and N. Development and Education national economies. Other work has examined the Victor Agadjanian (Arizona State University) debilitating effects of macro-economic policies, especially [email protected] Structural Adjustment Programs, on national health systems and on individuals and families. At the same Education and health care have always been significant

16 ASA News - January and April 2005 local and international levels-have shaped the evolution diseases to a lower one of chronic diseases with less and development of health programs. Theoretical health disparities. All this is yet to occur. analyses that combine debates and innovative ethnographic approaches in the study of health programs The sub-theme on health and inequality invites papers are encouraged. This section is also interested in studies which focus broadly on the problem of health disparities at that compare and contrast past and contemporary health the micro (household), meso (community, province, state) initiatives in rural as well as urban areas against the and macro (national, regional and global) levels. We backdrop of shifting ethnic, racial, and regional identities. encourage entries that seek to go beyond "cultural Papers that analyze the application of indigenous deficiency" models to address historical, social, and knowledge, therapies, and institutions in specific contexts, structural factors that have influenced and still impact health outcomes, public policies, or community strategies. as well as the appropriation of such knowledge and its It is important to examine the dominant paradigms that subsequent incorporation into mainstream health have been used to explain inequalities in health. programs are also welcome. Finally, the section welcomes a broad range of submissions that provide With economic globalization, the concept of exciting insights into the interface of power and health in impoverishment has become more important than the Africa. Papers that explore these and other term, "poverty," and needs to be examined. In what ways disciplinary topics in African Studies are encouraged. are whole communities, or sections being relegated to specific economic niches with the growth of global capitalism, and what are the health implications? Local F. Dangerous Diseases, Disabilities, and Pain responses to economic globalization may have health Julie Livingston (Rutgers University) [email protected] impacts, in so far as locals are redefining rights and obligations to each other, the family, the nation/state and From the pains of childbirth to the creaking bones of the international/global institutions. elderly and the suffering brought by HIV/AIDS, dangerous disease, disability, and pain are fundamental bodily states. Methodological issues that interrogate the generation of As such, they provide a rich set of symbolic references knowledge about the health of sub-populations (children, through which people make sense of ongoing changes in women, lower income groups) can offer insights for policy social, political, moral, and cultural life and the impact of development. Finally, papers focusing on the HIV/AIDS these changes on the web of relationships through which pandemic that cut across any of the issues enumerated resources and ideas flow. Yet Africans must cope with a above (or others), are relevant to this sub-theme. Of disproportionate share of these linked problems of special interest is research that uncovers strengths in disease, disability, and pain, complete with the moral, community, organizational and local programs, which now social, demographic, political, and economic challenges address AIDS, and may reduce disparities (e.g., gender they pose for people in their attempts to marshal and youth differentials). Papers that explore these and intellectual and practical responses to the vagaries of other disciplinary topics in African Studies are embodied life. These states expose and test the links encouraged. between self and society, the health and vigor of the social body, and relationships of care and community. For this section we seek proposals that explore material or H. Production and Reproduction metaphorical aspects of these issues. We welcome Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (Carleton College) papers and panels that probe for example, the cancerous pfeldman @carleton.edu nature of political corruption, African interpretations or Notions of fertility, generation, and regeneration are at the representations of the symbolic pain of the crucifixion, or center of numerous African modes of thought and popular debates about the crippling nature of debt. practice-from ritual systems and cosmologies, systems of Equally welcome are those papers and panels that take a governance, and family formation to agriculture and other more literal approach and address such questions as the economically productive activities. The health of the body role of corporal punishment in African education, the politic is often conceived of in terms of its ability to demographic or social ramifications of the emergent reproduce itself socially as well as to (re)produce people. epidemic of cervical cancer, the politics by which certain Focusing on both women's and men's reproductive health, diseases are labeled dangerous, or the impact of this section will attempt to bridge the too familiar widespread amputations as a technology of war. Papers dichotomy between production and reproduction. When that explore these and other disciplinary topics in African and where do the symbolism and figurative language Studies are encouraged. surrounding male and female reproductive processes draw on ideas and imagery of productivity in other realms? What are the associations between reproductive health, G. Health and Inequality fertility, and labor? How does contemporary and historical Tola Olu Pearce (University of Missouri-Columbia) rhetoric regarding the body politic reflect reproductive pearcei@missourLedu ideals? How do they call up the specter of reproductive disruptions (e.g. infertility, hyperfertility, births out of place For decades, the focus on health in Africa has been on the and time, miscarriage and abortion, as well as children lost possibility of a transition from a heavy burden of infectious to slavery and migration)? In what ways do changing

14 ASA News - January and April 2005 victims and refugees, the poverty and inequality which A. Gender underlies much of the social disorder in Africa also Olufunke Okome (City University of New York-Brooklyn) contributes to the unequal distribution of I\lHTs. This [email protected] particular form of inequality is exacerbated by the cost of some of these technologies. While access to web-based The papers in this section will focus on the intersection of information may be an option for some, this, too, is largely gender and health in African social and political systems restricted to cities or to areas with a well-maintained and on the study of these phenomena from a diverse array infrastructure. Nonetheless, African medical professionals of disciplines and perspectives. They will document and may bring equipment such as ultrasound, HIV-AIDs testing explicate the ways in which ordinary people conceive of the gendered nature of health, disease, and healing; and equipment, and CAT-scanning machines to establish examine popular and scholarly understandings of the clinics and to train medical technicians in their home social and political dimensions of health, disease, and countries, although largely to urban areas. How the healing in both indigenous systems of thought and importation of this technology has affected concepts of externally-influenced African philosophies in medicine, basic health care needs is less well known. political science, sociology, anthropology, law, literary Finally, increasing emigration from the continent analysis and criticism, and popular culture. The historical, raises questions about health and the body/politics beyond generational, local, regional and global dimensions of the Africa. As African medical personnel work in the Middle relationship between gender and health also ought to be East, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe, how problematized, and the discourses and analysis that shape are they transforming medical knowledge in these places? these realities exposed to reveal their power in shaping a Similarly, what is the impact of African migrants on particular kind of social and political order through which healthcare in their new homes? How are their host boundaries are established, consequent upon the previous societies accommodating different cultural practices, ordering of differences. What, for example, are the effects languages, and health problems associated with African of the historical processes through which Western immigrant populations? Furthermore, the legal issues biomedicine with its own gendered connotations, came into Africa on the interplay between gender and health? raised by immigration also warrant consideration, To what extent was expertise construed as gendered? To particularly during the era of HIV-AIDs, when countries are what extent was there a difference in the gendering of considering ways to restrict the movements of HIV positive expertise in indigenous as compared with biomedical individuals. What are the legal and human rights therapies? To what extent was access and quality of implications of these policies? Additionally, how are treatment shaped by gender? To what extent did history human rights concerns surrounding health used by repeat itself during the immediate postcolonial and aspiring African emigrants as the basis for seeking asylum contemporary period in terms of the construction of in Europe and the United States and how are these cases expertise, access to both biomedical and indigenous affecting immigration law? health care therapies, and belief in the efficacy of one or While the relationships between health, the other kind of therapy? What are the cross-cutting knowledge, and the body/politics in Africa is the effects of state policy, class, and in some parts of Africa, conference theme, not all panels and papers need focus race, on access to and consumption of healthcare on these issues. Papers and panels that explore these therapies? topics in comparative perspective, drawing on experiences from the African Diaspora, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin These questions have always been important, but they are made more so by the persistence and even increase in the America, as well as contributions which examine incidence of some diseases, and the emergence of fundamental topics in African Studies are also encouraged. sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV-AIDS, into pandemiC proportions. What are the effects of gender Program Sub-Themes ideologies and dynamics on the prevention and treatment of such diseases? What are the effects on assessments A. Gender of which bodies are susceptible to infection, what therapies B. Arts, Aesthetics, and Beauty are effective, what resources are deployed to address C. Politics of Human Rights and Violence identified issues and problems? How do women's D. Knowledge, Measurement, Health Technologies, reproductive roles and the constructions that surround Internet MDs them shape the nature, form, and content of indigenous E. Power, Politics, and Policies: Colonial/Neocolonial and biomedical public health education? In essence, who F. Dangerous Diseases, Disabilities, and Pain has power in the formulation, selection and dissemination G. Health and Inequality of health care information and the selection and H. Production and Reproduction implementation of health care policies? How have these I. Social Context of Health, Past and Present relationships changed over time? What are the social, J. Healing and Religion economic, and political consequences of these changes? K. Illness and Health in Literature What are the philosophical and ethical implications? What L. Legal, Public Policy and National Security Issues are the effects of gender on the manner in which people M. Economies experience these problems and fashion responses and N. Development and Education solutions? Papers that explore these and other O. Environment disciplinary topics in African Studies are encouraged. P. Histories

12 ASA News - January and April 200S Annual Meeting Theme Health, Knowledge, and the BodylPolitic in Africa and the African Diaspora Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan

The social and political dimensions of the health of period, the health of Africans has been affected historically Africans and of African systems of medical knowledge by a range of political and economic practices and beliefs, have frequently been examined by scholars and including those held by colonial practitioners of Western professionals. Metaphorical representations of health and biomedicine who sought to portray the so-called illness in fiction and non-fiction also make reference to deterioration of African health as a maladaptive response social and political concerns-as in anorexia associated to "modernization." More recent analyses of the HIV­ with anomie depicted in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous AIDS epidemic in Africa, which may inadvertently Conditions, and as unhealed wounds associated with reproduce colonial associations of sickness, sexuality, and disorder in Wole Soyinka's Open Sore of a Continent. The race, suggest the pressing need to consider the ways that 2005 ASA meeting theme will focus on health, knowledge medical discourse has, in the past, and continues in the and politics, broadly construed, from a range of present to emphasize cultural difference, rather than perspectives, e.g., sociological, medical, economic, historical and materialist factors, in explaining disease rel!gious, historical, political, anthropological, literary, and trajectories in Africa. How the body-individually as well legal. It will also include metaphorical and moral as in groups-in various states of health and illness has representations of health and the body as well as different historically been viewed and treated in Africa reflects a views on the politics of health care and medical range of political, cultural, social, ethical, economic, and knowledge: colonial and postcolonial; global and local; legal concerns. gendered and generational. This point leads to another major theme Several broad themes will be considered. The concerning health, knowledge and the body/politic. That extent to which biomedical knowledge and practice has the health of bodies is achieved not by default but rather reinforced the power and control of colonial and post­ reflects the efforts of individuals and communities, their colonial governments has been studied in a number of knowledge, and national health programs is an obvious yet African societies. While biomedical approaches based on often over-looked observation. In the face of present-day Western medical models are pervasive, they nonetheless economic hardship, the provision of public health services do not dominate African medical practice. Medical by many African states has been undermined, with pluralism, evident in many African societies, is seen in the increases in childhood diseases, due to inadequate range of health treatments available-traditionalist, immunization, and in childbirth complications and maternal naturalist, biomedical, and church-based-and in the mortality, due to declining prenatal care. While the lack of continued importance of herbal and psychological health public health care is being taken up by private health practices. This may be due, in part, to the continued clinics, some of which offer excellent services, the high benefits of indigenous African systems of medicine which cost of private care has contributed to inequalities in health some see as treating social and psychological health treatment. Yet despite these enormous difficulties, many problems which Western biomedicine is unable to address. Africans are managing to sustain their health, even under Medical pluralism may also reflect the early introduction of less than optimal conditions. One of the ways that people Islamic systems of healing, the association of Western are maintaining health, particularly when government biomedicine with miSSionary-doctors (with its services have been curtailed and private clinics are understandings of health and morality which are not unaffordable is through religious practices which have long shared by a" Africans), and the fact that many public been associated with health in Africa. Traditional healing health programs were introduced during the late colonial specialists often combine religious and psychological period so that they never superseded extant knowledge approaches, along with knowledge of herbal remedies, in and practices. treating illness. Along with missionary church hospitals This pluralism of therapeutic practice also reflects established during the colonial period, more recent church another aspect of health, knowledge, and the body/politic clinics and faith healing hospitals also serve as an in Africa, namely, the ways that impoverishment and poor­ important source of cure. Aside from institutional sources working conditions have affected African men and women, which provide health treatments, African women and men's whose widespread incorporation in world economic everyday knowledge of hygiene-learned in primary and systems as export commodity producers, as miners, and secondary schools-have also contributed to the ways that as day-laborers in building projects, contributed both to they can better care for themselves and their children. declines in their health and in their need for affordable Along with these everyday health behaviors, some ritual therapies. Whether this impoverishment-fiscal and practices have been revived to address contemporary physical-was due to economic policies and taxation health problems. Indeed, the knowledge of disease during the colonial period or to trade imbalances and transmission has historically been expressed in a range of structural adjustment pOlicies during the post-colonial media, including depictions of deities and spirits in shrines,

10 ASA News - January and April 2005 Please visit www.africanstudies.org and click on the "ASA Please continue to support the membership drive, and ONLINE" link to access the online system to update your thus the Association's financial viability. Display the "Top personal information, including your password, change Ten Reasons to Become an ASA Member" that is available your address, and pre-register for the Annual Meeting, and on the ASA website prominently and encourage colleagues to make subscription payments or endowment or other to join. Membership dues are for the calendar year, contributions. Please complete the personal information as January 1-December 31, with a membership renewal fully as possible, not only to enable the ASA to understand deadline of March 15 to ensure that individuals receive the its own membership profile and hence how best to develop maximum membership benefits possible. programs and services, but also to assist with fundraising efforts, particularly in the context of the approaching 50th Current ASA members should watch for the 2005 election Anniversaries of the founding of the ASA in 1957, and of ballot package in the coming weeks. Until supplies last, the first annual meeting, which took place in 1958. Many ballots will continue to be mailed to individuals who renew potential donors are interested in such data as the their membership on or before August 15. The completed percentage of members who are in the humanities, the ballots are due at the Secretariat on or before September Association's demographic make-up, and members' 1, 2005. Don't delay - vote today! professional career paths, geographic areas of interest, and language abilities. While you are online, check out the Watch the website for updates about the 2005 Annual ASA's new logo, which was launched in conjunction with Meeting, "Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa the 50th Anniversaries Fundraising Drive during the 2004 and the African Diaspora" November 17-20, in Annual Meeting. Washington, DC at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Prospective Annual Meeting participants may check the On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to offer ASA website beginning in July for the status of their congratulations and appreciation to the Program Co-Chairs proposal after it has been reviewed by the Program and the Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs who Committee. The meeting dates overlap with the Middle made the 2004 joint Annual Meeting with the Canadian East Studies Association annual meeting on November 19 Association of African Studies an unqualified success for and 20 and joint initiatives are being planned to take the 1712 individuals who partiCipated in a record 313 maximum advantage of the coincidence. scheduled panels and roundtables: Dennis D. Cordell, Southern Methodist University and Philip Zachernuk, Dalhousie University and Donna A. Patterson, Dillard University and Jacqueline Woodfork, Loyola University New Orleans, respectively.

2004 Election Results

For Vice President: Joseph C. Miller (History, University of Virginia)

For the Board of Directors: Toyin Faiola (History, University of Texas at Austin)

Alcinda Honwana (Social Science Research Council)

Kathleen Sheldon (Independent historian, Research scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles)

The ASA Board of Directors congratulates the new officer and the new board members and extends its sincere appreciation to all the candidates for their commitment to serving the Association.

8 ASA News - January and April 2005 In Memoriam

Johanna Agthe Yves Benot Roger McGuire Phaswane Mpe Kay Williamson Emmanuel Arinze Donald Ekong Claude Meillassoux Carl Schlettwein

In Memoriam: Robert W. July independence. Two other ambitious works (1918-2004) encompassed the entire continent. Precolonial Africa (1975) helped pioneer the study of economic

Robert W. July was an astute and prolific life for ordinary people before the European contributor to historical scholarship in African occupation. A History of the African People, studies. Although his methods were mainly originally published in 1970, is a felicitously written traditional, emphasizing archival sources, his and widely praised text, currently in its fifth edition. masterpiece, The Origins of Modern African After his retirement as Professor of History Thought, published in 1967 and republished by at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the Africa World Press in 2004, identified early African City University of New York, July taught American pioneers of the "new history" that emerged in the history at Hunter College for fifteen years without mid-twentieth century. July's lucid contributions to remuneration. He personified the ideal of combined the intellectual, cultural, economic and political scholarship and teaching as an intrinsically valued history of Africa were widely admired. In 1982 he way of life. Shortly after his death, on November 6, was a candidate for vice president and president­ 2004, Bob's life was fittingly memorialized at the elect of the African Studies Association. Schoenberg Center for Research in Black Culture. July lived and taught in Nigeria and Kenya from 1963 to 1968, serving as professor of history Richard L. Sklar at the universities of Ibadan and Nairobi. At Ibadan, he explored a field of letters that had been largely neglected by scholars: the retrievable ideas of West African intellectuals who wrote in response to the impact of European imperialism, colonial rule, and their consequences. Twenty years after publication of The Origins, July's dedication to the study of cultural history reached fruition in publication of An African Voice, devoted to the contributions of West African artists, artistic performers, dramatists, educators, musicians and litterateurs to the movement for cultural, as well as political,

ASA News - January and April 2005 7 2005 Election Candidates

Candidates for Vice President

Stephen Ndegwa ...... i Pearl Robinson ...... ii

Candidates for the Board of Directors

Akwasi B. Assensoh ...... iv Tabitha Kanogo ...... v Gregory H. Maddox ...... vi Jamie Monson ...... viii Elisha Renne ...... ix Michael G. Schatzberg ...... xi

2005 Annual Meeting

The 48th Annual Meeting will be held November 17-20, 2005 in Washington, DC at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The Program Theme is "Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Oiaspora." The Program Chair is Elisha Renne, University of Michigan. The Local Arrangements Co-Chairs are Margaret Lee, John Hopkins University, and Gilbert Khadiagala, John Hopkins University. The pre-registration deadline is September 30, 2005.

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ASA News - January and April 2005 9 ritual performances, masquerades and dance, and more and its tragic consequences. Research has been recently, in popular videos, and in educational conducted on transmission and treatment programs, on announcements on radio and television which warn of government policies and actions, on AIDs education, and health risks associated with certain lifestyles. on health interventions in areas of southern Africa affected Another broad theme touched upon by these by the political legacy of apartheid, where huge disparities educational messages, particularly evident in the in wealth have contributed to poverty, hunger, and transmission and treatment of sexually transmitted subsequently, the spread of HIV-AIDs. With some infections such as HIV-AIDs, is the way that gender exceptions, less work has been done on the relationships dynamics in African societies is also part of a discussion of between environmental damage and HIV-AIDs, as in the health, knowledge and the body/politic. That the Niger Delta where oil production has affected the fragile transmission of STls reflects a particular set of gender riverine ecosystem, with a subsequent loss of work for relations-e.g., familial, economic, and cultural-has been fisherwomen who consequently become involved in a primary area of investigation when examining the social commercial sex work. While the introduction of and micro-political dynamics of health. However, a antiretroviral drugs through NGO programs and pressures consideration of how gender ideologies and ideas about put on large pharmaceutical companies to allow the sale of sexuality, more generally, contribute to thinking about the generics in Africa have led to a greater availability of more susceptibility of men and women to particular types of affordable treatment, the workings of national treatment illnesses-both physiological and psychological-affect the programs and the distribution of antiretroviral drugs are kinds of therapies used, might also be examined. The just beginning to be studied. Furthermore, debates over physiological fact that women give birth also underscores the efficacy of local cures and trajectories of blame the pOint that there are different gender concerns continue. Finally, the consequences of the disability and regarding health. Gender ideology and dynamics also death of large portions of adult populations due to HIV­ come into play in clinical and hospital practice, when AIDs, particularly the effects on generational relations and authority and knowledge are associated with Western­ health, has only recently been examined. When there are trained, male medical doctors, underscoring the communities without elders, what are the consequences importance of understanding gender dynamics in for young people's responsibilities, education, and unraveling the relationships of knowledge, power, and the support? politics of health in Africa. In discussing the consequences of the HIV-AIDs How people define health and disease, how are epidemic in Africa, it is important to remember that other these definitions relate to views of the body, and how diseases may be seen by Africans themselves as more certain bodies are associated with susceptibility or immediate problems for their health and well-being. Thus resistance to certain diseases have political and social the decision of Western-based agencies to focus on HIV­ consequences. Thus, during the pre-colonial period, AIDs and reproductive health may be seen as problematic, Africans viewed European bodies as susceptive to tropical underscoring the politics of health care, while more diseases which prevented Europeans from penetrating the pressing diseases such as malaria, measles, and yellow continent, while during the colonial period, Europeans fever, continue to afflict Africans. Who has the power to portrayed African bodies as inherently unhealthy, an idea determine the agenda of health programs and how do I which was used to justify racial segregation. Furthermore, fears of global transmission of particular diseases motivate how affliction itself has been conceptualized has had health agendas, rather than community or country important implications for medical practice. The types of concerns? Some NGOs and international foundations are public health interventions which are initiated may depend addressing local problems, in programs that provide on whether an illness is explained as the result of specific treatment for malaria and diabetes. However, health or multiple causes' affects. Indeed, how bodies and the economics has also affected people's ability to participate body politic are imagined and portrayed as healthy or as in preventative health care and treatment programs. diseased have long had philosophical and ethical Furthermore, the introduction of user-fees and the shift dimensions in Africa. Philosophies of health and illness from horizontal health delivery systems such as primary also inform aesthetic representations of the body as when health care to the vertical health delivery initiatives which concepts of beauty, bodily cleanliness, character, and focus on specific diseases may leave many without basic health are conflated. Yet some practices associated with health care. body beautification may be unhealthy. The importation, Another general theme concerning sociocultural manufacturing, and sales of carcinogenic skin-lightening and political dimensions of health in Africa is specifically creams have been banned by several national related to civil war and other forms of violence. Studies governments in an attempt to reduce their use by African have considered psychological trauma resulting from the women. Less well-known products, including tablets and genocidal civil war in Rwanda as well as the psychological injections, are currently being advertised in popular healing resulting from Truth and Reconciliation hearings in journals and on websites to address a range of men's South Africa and elsewhere. The rehabilitation of war "sexual dysfunction" problems, which also imagine an refugees, including how concepts of disability and pain idealized male body. affect ideas about healing, are issues which have also Any consideration of health, knowledge, and the been addressed. While the use of new health technologies political contexts of cure in Africa must consider HIV-AIDs (NHTs) may ameliorate the health problems of some war

ASA Ne\~'s - January and April 2005 11 B. Arts, Aesthetics, and Beauty D. Knowledge, Measurement, Health Technologies, Martha Anderson (Alfred University) Internet MDs [email protected] Misty Bastian (Franklin and Marshall College) [email protected] Scholars have revealed "the body" to be a complex entity, which can be defined variously in medical, religious, and The measurement of illness through a range of political terms. An understanding of local notions of "the technological apparatus presents a particular form of body" proves to be fundamental to the study of African knowledge of illness and disease which has implications expressive culture, because artistic representations can for health care and who has the authority to provide it. This signify individual and/or corporate well-being, morality, and section will include papers that examine the use of various aesthetic beauty, and may even be thought to affect them. health technologies which incorporate measurement-from A broad spectrum of African arts, from power figures scales and thermometers to dialysis and scanning employed to restore an individual's health to murals that machines-as a means of constituting medical knowledge, address the global spread of HIV/AIDS, operates within of objectifying patients, and contributing to medical the medical arena. The body itself serves both as a site for art and as an artistic medium. Various art forms, authority. How, for example, has medical knowledge including masquerades and shrine sculptures, embody­ based on measurement and the utilization of a range of and sometimes control-otherwise nebulous spirits. Music, technologies-from injections to ultrasound-contributed to dance, and possession, which affect both the mental and the power of medical workers to define health physical state of the body, can transport people from the interventions. Also, by what processes is the measurement mundane to the sublime. of health outcomes as reported in statistical studies privileged over non-clinical studies of illness and lived With its focus on aesthetics, health, and beauty, this experience? Furthermore, how have various forms of section offers manifold possibilities for panels on the arts, technology been taken up by traditional healers as a way which the following list of suggested topics does not begin of legitimating their authority and practice? Papers which to cover. How have the arts, including new media, examine these questions and related issues, as well as contributed to the body of medical knowledge about the the effects of recent access to the advice of international spread of diseases? How have African artists responded to internet MDs by internet users in Africa (and the ways this health crises, whether cholera epidemics or substance advice has been used), are invited to participate. Papers abuse? How is "the body" defined in African art: are that explore these and other disciplinary topics in morality and aesthetics linked? What shapes African African Studies are also encouraged. notions of the ideal body and have these responded to interaction with other cultures? Has recent scholarship on "the body" in Western culture affected the study of African E. Power, Politics, and Policies: Colonial/Neocolonial art? Papers that explore these and other disciplinary Toyin Faiola (University of Texas-Austin) topics in African Studies are encouraged. toyi n.falola @mai I. utexas. edu

From the dawn of colonial age in Africa, and the C. Politics of Human Rights and Violence William Reno (Northwestern University) introduction and institutionalization of Western biomedical [email protected] approaches, there have been conflicts and compromises over the issues and meanings of sickness, health, and The UN Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural therapy. These tensions were originally driven by the Rights includes the proposition that access to decent determination to provide health care to Africans as well as standards of health care constitutes a basic human right. to the European settlers in the colonies. The desire Violence and human rights abuses, on the part both of outlived colonialism and remains an important goal in large organizations and more generally throughout postcolonial Africa. Critical in the health care debates, both societies, pose significant barriers to the realization of this in the colonial and postcolonial period, has been the goal. In this general vein we are most interested in papers question of how to set priorities, mobilize resources, and that (1) consider the broad impact of public health policies nurture health programs that prevent the outbreak of (or their absence) on the nature of violence and disease and/or, in the case of epidemics, respond to very implementation of human rights, (2) the relationship diverse people in very different circumstances. But between relative levels of violence and public well-being setting priorities, allocating resources, and responding to on public health poliCies, and (3) the proposition that the health needs of the citizenry are questions that are concern for public health (on official and societal levels) is intimately tied to the issue of power, especially how it is integrally connected to the promotion of human rights and owned, shared, and exercised in distinctive and multiple the resolution of conflict. Papers that include evidence arenas, with a view to ensuring the successful from research are especially welcome. Interdisciplinary implementation of health programs. panel proposals which examine the politics of human rights and violence will be greeted with great enthusiasm. This section invites panelists as well as individual scholars Papers that explore these and other disciplinary topics to examine how, why and with what consequences in African Studies are encouraged. hierarchies of power-formal and informal, both at the ASA News - January and April200S 13 enactments of male and female gender in African societies modes of religious practice, ranging from Islamic reform, to allow us to link productive and reproductive thought and Pentecostalism, to disciples for the prosperity gospel have practice? Panels that address these and relate~ qu~stions proliferated in many African communities, at the same time regarding production, reproduction, and health Imagined that rates of HIV seropositivity, levels of infant mortality, broadly are welcome. Papers that also explore other and the effects of both warfare and everyday violence disciplinary topics in African Studies are encouraged. have greatly expanded in recent years. How have Africans and Africanists imagined the links between emergent religiosity and prevailing challenges to the body I. Social Context of Health, Past and Present politic? What are the connections between these new Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Michigan) forms of religious life and health crises? How might these [email protected] novel interconnections be related to their historical connections in a range of African communities? This section welcomes contributions from historians, anthropologists, and allies keen to rethink the state of the For this section panelists and individuals are invited to fields of health and healing studies within African social submit proposals that explore these and related questions and cultural history, African medical anthropology, African from a variety of perspectives, including interdisciplinary medical history, and African historical anthropology of ones. These matters can also be pursued at both the health, medicine, and the body. Since the 1970s, African micro and macro level. Longitudinal studies of studies has been notable within the history and demographic transformation of nations and regions and anthropology of medicine for avoiding approaches that their implications for partiCipation in religious movements place disease, biomedicine, and health practitioners at the will be considered, as will work that examines changing center of the analysis. This decentering of bodily disease conceptions of the body and healing in the wake of ritual has meant an openness to a range of therapeutic ideas innovation in "local" communities. Investigations of the and practices, including "cults of affliction," religious gendered dimensions of religious practice in the context of movements, faith healing, and everyday forms of experiences of illness and affliction are especially producing household health, without circumventing welcome. Papers that explore these and other contextualization and political economy. With the imperial disciplinary topics in African Studies are encouraged. turn to medical history in the late 1980s and 1990s, however, scholarly attention has turned to power and the production of medical knowledge in colonial and K. Illness and Health in Literature postcolonial Africa and their effects on therapeutic practice, Clement A. Okafor (University of Maryland-Eastern Shore) health work, creolized healing and religious forms, and [email protected] new genders and subjectivities. The renewal of interest in witchcraft and its "modernities" in the 1990s has The dogma of pathogeniC causation of disease, which is meanwhile decentered anew the biomedical, while the centerpiece of modern Western medicine, separates fostering new work on power, violence, reproduction, and this regime not only from traditional African medical memory. This section's panels will consider the state of practice but also from its earlier Western antecedents. productive tension among this range of approaches. It Concepts of modern Western medicine were introduced strongly welcomes new work suggesting various and privileged in colonial Africa through the agency of the resolutions and fresh approaches, as well as position schools and the medical institutions that were established papers, historiographical takes, roundtables, and panel at the time. However, because these institutions were built proposals with more than one discussant. The section largely towards the end of the colonial period, the ideas of organizer welcomes pre-proposal communications about modern Western medicine touched directly the lives of possible themes, discussants, and innovations in the merely a small percentage of Africans. More importantly, standard ASA panel format. Papers that explore these many-even among this small segment of the and other disciplinary topics in African Studies are popUlation-did not entirely accept the ideas of modern also encouraged. Western medical practice. Hence, they continued to believe that certain diseases could be cured in the J. Healing and Religion hospital, while others could be treated only by traditional Brad Weiss (William and Mary College) medicine. Thus there was a contestation of ideas relating [email protected] to effective and appropriate medical practice even during the colonial era. This competition has been heightened by Considerations of the links between healing and religion the virtual collapse of the modern medical institutions have a long history in discussions of Africa. triggered by the recent catastrophic demise of the Anthropologists and historians have long studied the economies of most independent African states. significance of what were once known as "cults of affliction," and many scholars have explored the role of These themes-of contesting medical paradigms, of both Muslim healing systems and miSSionary medicine in accessibility of health care in the face of economic decline, forging new modes of religiosity, and innovative and of enduring beliefs in the efficacy of traditional medical understandings of health across the continent. Today, new approaches-have been portrayed by a number of African ASA News - January and April 2005 15 themes in Africa's development discourse, but their papers and panels that consider such problems, as well as importance has been increasing in recent years. Health those which reflect more "mediatized" recent concerns are underscored and magnified by the HIV/AIDS developments in the intersecting fields of development, pandemic; yet the HIV/AIDS crisis has also highlighted the environment, and health in Africa. Examples might persistent "traditional" health challenges that African include: the changing roles of corporate and community populations face. In the education-development nexus, in actors in African health care access and related addition to long-standing issues of coverage and environmental management; studies which consider future instruction quality, a growing recent concern is about the directions for specialized and interdisciplinary work such widening digital divide that threatens to perpetuate Africa's as that between veterinary doctors and public health disadvantage in the new global economic order. professionals on epidemiological challenges due to emerging zoonotic diseases; the increaSing awareness of The health and educational predicaments of Africa's links between health and rampant violence and development are further amplified by questionable discrimination against school-aged women in African neoliberal policies, widespread political instability, the contexts; and emerging approaches for studying seemingly inexorable decline of the African State and its correlations between civil conflict and infectious disease. retreat from the provision of social services. The modest Finally, we would encourage panels exploring the achievements of the early independent decades are in contributions of internationally prominent activists and increased jeopardy, and some education indicators show researchers on these issues, such as those of Wangari troubling signs of stagnation and even reversal. Maathai. Papers that explore these and other disciplinary topics in African Studies are encouraged. Moreover, in the new structural environment internal disparities in health and education persist and are even growing. Depending on the setting, these disparities are P. Histories shaped by a combination of social class, rural-urban, Michel Doortmont (University of Groningen) gender, ethnic, and religious differences. Rooted in [email protected] colonial and post-colonial history, these disparities may have far-reaching implications for Africa's future. Other sub-themes for this conference will attract investigations of specific aspects of Africa's past; this These papers and panels seek to address these issues section casts a more inclusive net by asking after the and raise some of the following questions. How will Africa health of historical enquiry in and about Africa. Historical deal with these old and new challenges? What political scholarship on Africa has been strongly shaped by diverse frameworks and policy models in education and health and often contrary trends and intentions. How have care should be chosen and pursued? What successful Africa's histories held up to these stresses? Both imperial national and local experiences can be identified and and diasporan approaches, among others, impose promoted? different kinds of unity over African history; local, cultural Papers that explore these and other disciplinary topics nationalist, and post-modern approaches are among those in African Studies are encouraged. stressing the particular, exceptional and divergent. How can these approaches be integrated? Much African history was once framed within an area studies model, but is now O. Environment increasingly intersected by trans-regional thematic Rebecca Hardin (University of Michigan) concerns, such as gender. What remains of the intention [email protected] to treat Africa as an historical space apart? How have African facts and stories resisted or accommodated modes Issues of the environment and health in Africa arouse of inquiry created largely in other places? Have Africans concern in the West, in part due to prominent media been able to tell or write their own histories, faced as they images of the HIV-AIDS crisis, and increasing accounts of are with powerful outside voices competing to define what emergent diseases and viral agents, such as Ebola. Yet is salient in Africa's past? How, for example, do the such current events have complex environmental and histories of slavery in Africa and of enslaved Africans social histories. They can be connected to the political and outside Africa fit together? How have once-dominant elite public health crises of the recent past, as when the late narratives, both internal and external, been challenged or environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa alerted the world to reinforced by subaltern histories? How do historians draw the problems of oil pollution in the Niger Delta. Indeed, on other academic disciplines such as linguistics or recent research has also linked the spread of HIV-AIDS archaeology - and still retain a historical epistemology? with deforestation, environmental degradation, and the How does the conventional modern (progressive, linear) immuno-suppressing effects of organophosphate historiography relate to Islamic and/or oral modes of pesticides. Nonetheless, African women and men live with thinking historically? This section welcomes especially less dramatic everyday environmental health problems papers which seek to assess the overall condition of such as exposure to high levels of lead from auto exhaust, Africa's history, but also welcomes those which examine chronic illness resulting from the contamination of soil and particular aspects of Africa's past. Papers that explore water sources from pesticides, as well as mercury these and other disciplinary topics in African Studies poisoning from small-scale mining. Far less is said about are encouraged. such issues in the international press. We welcome

ASA News - January and April 2005 17 ASA Award Recipients

ASA members may nominate individuals and groups for ASA Awards and serve on the Award Committees. Contact the Executive Director should you be interested to serve on any of the Award Committees. The ASA Board of Directors congratulates all Award recipients. The Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Lecture, established in 1992 with a generous grant from the Honorable Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola, the Lecture is presented by a senior African scholar selected by the ASA Board of Directors. The 2004 Award recipient is: Kofi Anyidoho, distinguished Ghanaian poet, scholar and educator, Department of English, University of Ghana. His Lecture title is Playing GOD with Word: Language and Power of Self-Naming The Book Donation Award makes available $3000 annually to assist groups with shipping costs for book donations to African libraries and schools. The Award Committee generally provides grants in amounts from $200 to $1,000. The 2004 Award recipients are:

William G. Martin for Kgaladi Kekana of the University of the Western Cape Library, Cape Town, South Africa Wilma P.L. Jones for Njala University College Library in Sierra Leone David Saum for Microbiology Department, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Bert Beyen for Department of Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics, University of South Africa, Pretoria Kathryn Grady for J.R.Camm Senior Primary School, Aranos, Namibia Mary and Mark Dunn for Community Library, Butiru, Uganda The Children's Africana Book Awards were established in 1991 by the ASA Outreach Council to encourage the publication and use of accurate, balanced children's materials on Africa. Award plaques are presented for the Best Book for Young Children and the Best Book for Older Readers. Honor books receive special certificates. The 2005 Award recipients are: Best Book for Older Reader: Allan Stratton for Chanda's Secrets Best Book for Young Children: Ifeoma Onyefulu for Here Comes Our Bride! Honor Book for Older Readers: Deborah Ellis for The Heaven Shop Veronique Tadjo for Talking Drums Honor Book for Young Children: Margot Theis Raven & E.B. Lewis (illus) for Circle Unbroken: the Story of a Basket and its People The Conover-Porter Award is presented in even numbered years to the author of the most outstanding achievement in African bibliography and reference works published during the previous two years. The award is administered by the Africana Librarians Council and includes a cash prize of $300. The 2004 Award recipient is: A. J. Christopher, for The atlas of changing South Africa. 2nd ed. (London: New York: Routledge). The Graduate Student Paper Prize was established by the ASA Board of Directors in 2001 for the best graduate student paper presented during the Annual Meeting. The editors of the African Studies Review coordinate an expedited peer review process for the prize-winning paper, which is published in the ASR if the reviewers recommend publication and if any recommended revisions are received in a timely manner. The 2004 Award recipient is: Kristen E. Cheney, University of California, Santa Cruz for Village Life Is Better than Town Life: identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens The Distinguished Africanist Award is presented in recognition of lifetime distinguished contributions to African studies. The Award is presented during the Annual Meeting. The award consists of a plaque and a lifetime membership in the African Studies Association. The 2004 Award recipient is: Francis Deng, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. The Melville J. Herskovits Award is presented annually for the best scholarly work on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the U.S. The award consists of a plaque and $500 and is presented at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting. The 2004 Award recipient is:

Allen F. Roberts and Mary N. Roberts for A Saint in the City: Sufi Art in urban Senegal The International Visitor Award funds the Annual Meeting attendance of 3 to 5 international scholars. Scholars nominated may be of any nationality, though the preponderance of awards is made to Africans. Preference is given to women and junior scholars, and to individuals who have not recently visited North America. The 2004 Award recipients are: Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo for Representations of Women in Ugandan Newspaper, 1950-2002 (jointly authored with Marjorie Mcintosh) Joao Baptista Lukombo Nzatuzola for Power and National Identify in Angola Beatrice Umutesi for Fuir au mourir au Zaire: Zaire: Le vecu d'une refugiee Rwandaise For further information on ASA prizes, including the criteria and the application process, visit the ASA website at www.africanstudies.org and click on the"Awards" link. Languages and Areas: Fiscal Year Companion: A Guide to Information liberally interspersed with examples of 2002 Funding Review Sources (online at searches, and search strategies, * Title VI Programs: Building a U.S. http://www.africanstudiescompanion.c relating to Africa or African studies International Education Infrastructure am) although it can also be used on topics. More information is available * Toward Diversity in International its own. at: Hans Zell Publishing [T/A Hans Service Professions Preceded by an examination of ZeU Publishing Consultants], Glais Google's extraordinary growth and Bheinn Lochcarron Ross-shire, popularity and looking at issues IV548YB Scotland UK; Tel: +44­ Using Google for African Studies such as its page-ranking methods and (0)1520-722951; Fax: Research: A Guide to Effective privacy concerns the guide is +44-(0)1520-722953; Email: Web Searching designed to help the user get the [email protected] or A pilot edition of this guide is now most out of Google's Web searching [email protected]; Web site: freely accessible at techniques, and at the same time http://www.hanszell.co.uk. http://www.hanszell.co.uklgoogle/.ltis provides a critical evaluation of published as an adjunct to the new Google's many Web search features, third edition of The African Studies services, and tools. The guide is

Grants and Fellowships

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"African Forced Labour ­ English. The final texts can not studies and scholarship. SSA works Compared Colonial Experiences" exceed 28.000 characters (spaces to foster closer ties among scholars Annual Meeting, Conference, and and images included). A summary of in the Sudan, North America, Meeting Calendar the papers must also be presented Europe, the Middle East and other till 30th June 2005, and the full places. The Centro de Estudos Africanos da definitive text must be delivered to Universidade do Porto is a R&D unit the Secretariat of the CEAUP in the Registration forms and fees are that develops interdisciplinary Seminar. available at SSA website and by researches on African societies. 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Department of Education a) Thematically: all forms of forced International Education Programs labour of African origin, since the Civil Wars in Sudan: Casualties, Service (IEPS) Website Articles medieval slave trade to the colonial Displacements, and Injustices is policies of the XX century; the theme of the 24th annual The Department of Education's meeting of Sudan Studies International Education Programs b) Geographically: both the colonial Association, August 18-20, 2005. Service (IEPS) website has posted African regions and the American The annual meeting will be hosted 10 information/background articles and Asian societies where African by the Center for Refugee Studies, on Title VI and Fulbright-Hays forced labour was integrated. York University, Toronto, Canada. programs that may be of interest. The articles listed below may be We hope that from this initiative, Since 1955 Sudan has suffered accessed at whose proceedings we intend to through multiple civil wars. 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Recent Doctoral Dissertations

Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State University)

The U.S. and Canadian theses listed were below reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), vol. 64, no. 12 & vol. 65, nos. 1-5 (June-Nov. 2004). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. American and Canadian theses are usually available from Proquest. See DAI (or http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway) for abstracts and other details. This is the 63rd and 64th quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 (ASNCrossroads Press, 1989).

AGRICULTURE Ceesay, Mustapha Masanneh. Florida, 2003. Management of rice production Bwamiki, David Patrick. Role of systems to increase productivity in Ihemere, Uzoma Enyinnaya. plant nutrition on growth the Gambia, West Africa. Ph.D., Somatic embryogenesis and parameters of banana and the Cornell U., 2004. 3114538. transformation of cassava for suppression of populations and enhanced starch production. damage of Radopholus similis Gordon, Stuart G. Genetic Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2003. [Uganda]. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2004. mapping and components of 3119239. 3128198. resistance to Cercospora zeae­ maydis in maize [South Africa]. Saleh, Amgad A. Genetics of Byenkya, Gilbert Steven. Impact PhD., Ohio State U., 2002. stalk-rot fungi in Egypt. PhD., of undesirable plant communities 3119461. Kansas State U., 2004. 3132180. on the carrying capacity and livestock performance in pastoral Gwata, Eastonce Tendayi. Styger, Erika Dorothea. Fire-less systems of south-western Uganda. Inheritance of promiscuous alternatives to slash-and-burn Ph.D., Texas A&M U., 2004. nodulation in soybean and the agriculture (tavy) in the rainforest 31320075. evaluation of potential RAPD region of Madagascar. Ph.D., markers for the trait. PhD., U. of Cornell U., 2004. 3114516. ASA News - January and April 2005 23 distribution of apparently standardized Corbin, Clay E. Morphological and Notman, Hugh. The meaning, ceramics. Ph.D., U. of Washington, ecological evolution in Old and New structure and function of chimpanzee , 2004. 3118872. World flycatchers [Southern Africa]. pant hoots from the Budongo Forest, Ph.D., Ohio U., 2002. 3120512. Uganda. Ph.D., U. of Calgary (Can.), Stumpf, Rebecca Margaret. Female 2003. N087064. reproductive strategies in Deyde, Varough Mohamed. chimpanzees of the Ta', National Park, Molecular and genetic analysis of two Nutt, Karen Joyce. The social group Cote d'lvoire. Ph.D., State U. of New members of the family Bunyaviridae structure, mating system, and York at Stony Brook, 2004. 3131290. [Mauritania]. Ph.D., U. of Nevada, dispersal patterns of Ctenodactylus Reno, 2004. 3134401. gundi: Understanding multi-male Tryon, Christian Alexander. The groups using field research and Acheulian to Middle Stone Age Dunham, Amy Elizabeth. Effects of molecular data [Tunisia]. Ph.D., U. of transition: Tephrostratigraphic context understory insectivores on community California, Berkeley, 2003. 3121632. for archaeological change in the dynamics and ecosystem processes Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. Ph.D., in a tropical forest [Cote d'ivoire]. Opel, Mathew Robert. The U. of Connecticut, 2003. 3118974. Ph.D., State University of New York at morphology and evolution of the Stony Brook, 2003. 3118471. genus Conophytum N.E. Br. [Southern Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, Willems, Roos. Embedding the Edillo, Frances Espedi/la. 2004. 3127588. refugee experience: Forced migration Population biology of Anopheles and social networks in Dar es gambiae Giles larvae in Banambani, Pauers, Michael J. Naturally and Salaam, Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Mali. Ph.D., U. of California Los sexually selected constraints on Florida, 2003. 3127696. Angeles, 2003. 3117683. morphology, behavior, and coloration in the African cichlid genus Young, Paulette Renee. Cloth that Ingram, Amanda Leigh. Eragrostis: Labeotropheus [MalaWI]. Ph.D., U. of speaks: African women's visual voice Phylogeny, polyploid evolution, and a Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2004. and creative expression in Ghana. new family of transposable elements 3125420. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2004. [Ethiopia]. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2004. 3128213. Permar, Sallie R. Mechanisms of BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES measles virus clearance and Jennes, Wim. Correlates of immunologic consequences of Archibald, Jenny Kay. Systematics, protective immunity among HIV­ infection [Zambia]. Ph.D., Johns hybridization, and character evolution exposed seronegative female sex Hopkins U., 2004. 3130759. within the southern African genus, workers in Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire. Zaluzianskya. Ph.D., Ohio State U., Ph.D., U. Instelling Antwerpen (Belg.), Reed, Denne Nakima. Micromammal 2003. 3115724. 2003. 3129443. paleoecology: Past and present relationships between African small Attum, Omar A. The ecology and Karpanty, Sarah Melissa. mammals and their habitats effects of habitat degradation on sand Behavioral and ecological interactions [Tanzania]. Ph.D., State University of dune reptiles [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of of raptors and lemurs in southeastern New York at Stony Brook, 2003. Louisville, 2004. 3134172. lVIadagascar: A multiple predator 3118935. approach. Ph.D., State University of Bollen, An. Fruit-frugivore New York at Stony Brook, 2003. Richer, Renee A. Carbohydrate interactions in a Malagasy littoral 3118463. dynamics and leaf phenology in forest: A community-wide approach of African dry woodland species. Ph.D., seed dispersal. Ph.D., U. Instelling Lee, Chi-Feng. Phylogeny and Harvard U., 2004. 3131964. Antwerpen (Belg.), 2003. 3129440. taxonomy of Psephenidae. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2003. 3119244. Schuetz, Justin Garth. Brood Bryant, Juliet Evelyn. Comparative Mathew, John. Aphytophagy in the parasitism in African finches and its phylogenetic studies of yellow fever Miletinae: Phylogeny, ecology, and consequences for the evolution of virus. Ph.D., U. of Texas Graduate conservation [Southern Africa]. Ph.D., host parenting behavior and nestling Sch. of Biomedical sci. at Galveston, Old Dominion U., 2003. 3126512. morphology [Southern Africa]. Ph.D., 2004. 3124634. Cornell U., 2004. 3128219. Naidoo, Robin. Economics, Campbell, Jennifer Louise. biodiversity conservation, and van der Merwe, Marius. Foraging Malagasy primates: Nutrition and sustainable development [Uganda]. ecology of squirrels: Caching gastrointestinal physiology with an Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 2003. behavior, food preference and emphasis on fiber utilization. Ph.D., N088026. predation risk [South Africa]. Ph.D., North Carolina State U., 2003. U. of Illinois at Chicago, 2004. 3128743. 3126483. ASA News - January and April 2005 25 Prouty, Nancy Grumet. Multitracer, distribution in marginal and high Tankard, Radell. Migration and multisite record of climate change potential regions of Kenya. Ph.D., economic development: The case of from the Indian Ocean [Kenya]. Michigan State U., 2003. 3117812. the Mouride Brotherhood from Ph.D., Stanford U., 2004. 3128460. Senegal to the Washington D.C. Keswell, Justine Claire. Race, Metropolitan Area, 1990-2000. Ph.D., altruism and trust: Experimental Howard U., 2003. 3114647. ECONOMICS evidence from South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. Traore, Moussa KaUfa. International Abdelati, Wafa Fahmi. Productivity 3118310. textile trading regime and textile and productive efficiency of industry development in the manufacturing firms in Egypt,. Ph.D., Makepe, Patricia Masego. Three developing countries. Ph.D., Auburn Princeton U., 2004. 3123410. essays on collective action and U.,2004. 3124302. communal rangeland management in Beaulier, Scott A. Essays on Botswana. Ph.D., Michigan State U., Yehoue, Etienne B. Currency blocs property rights economics: Towards 2003. 3116000. and international risk sharing. Ph.D., an evolutionary theory of property Harvard U., 2004. 3132036. rights and its application [Botswana]. Minja, Ellinami John. The term Ph.D., George Mason U., 2004. structure of interest rates and treasury Zaher, Mohammad. Three essays in 3121110. bill market efficiency in Tanzania. productive efficiency and productivity Ph.D., Oklahoma State U., 2003. in the Middle East and North Africa Boumaza, Cherif. Trade and foreign 3127179. region. Ph.D., Kansas State U., 2004. investment liberalization in Morocco: 3132190. Country-wide and regional effects. Muleta, Asfaw Negassa. The effects Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 2004. of policy changes on spatial grain Zhao, Feng. Maternal education, 3130431. market efficiency in Ethiopia. Ph.D., community factors and fertility in Bourdarbat, Brahim. Essais sur Ie Michigan State U., 2004. 3129521. relation to child health in developing choix du secteur d'emploi et Ie choix countries [Mali]. Ph.D., Johns de I'education [Morocco]. Ph.D., U. Parker, Kudayja. An education Hopkins U., 2004. 3130822. de Montreal (Can.), 2004. NQ90412. production function for microeconomics principles in South Dauphin, Anyck. Rationalite Africa: Estimation and analysis. EDUCATION collective des menages comportant Ph.D., U. of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2004. plusieurs membres: Resultats 3131556. Beke/e, Daniel. Linkages among theoriques et applications au Burkina schooling, literacy, and fertility in Faso. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 2004. Ryan, Kathleen. Cattle ecology and Amhara region of Ethiopia. Ed.D., NQ90731. human survival in unpredictable Harvard U., 2004. 3118165. environments: A case from East Africa Gennaioli, Nicola. Essays in the [Kenya & Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of Bey, Aziza Braithwaite. Culture and economics of institutions. Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2004. 3125892. nurturance: The aesthetic life of grade Harvard U., 2004. 3131846. school students pre-K-12th grades Sanogo, Ramata. The effects of [Egypt & Mali]. Ph.D., Union Institute Gordon, Deanna Erin. Essays on insecure property rights on investment and U., 2004. 3127218. the effects of adult mortality on and economic growth in sub-Saharan­ education and food security [South African countries [mail & Burkina Bhyat, Zaheer Ahmed. Learning Africa]. Ph.D., U. of California, Faso]. Ph.D., U. of Cincinnati, 2003. processes inherent in building national Berkeley, 2003. 3121499. 3120890. consensus: Selected South African perspectives. Ed.D., U. of Toronto Habyarimana, James Paul. Three Settlage, Daniel M. Robustness of (Can.), 2004. NQ91657. essays in development economics non-parametric measurement of [Kenya & Zambia]. Ph.D., Harvard U., efficiency and risk aversion: A Buthelezi, Canaan Jabulani. A 2004. 3131857. simulation analysis with applications critical analYSis on Bantu school to agricultural banking and Ethiopian boards, 1954-1978: Local Ickowitz, Amy Susan. The farming. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2003. administration of Black education in economics of shifting cultivation and 3124220. South Africa. Ph.D., Michigan State deforestation in Cameroon. Ph.D., U. U.,2000. 3116414. of California Riverside, 2004. Simms, Sherrie S. Internet use, 3120585. social capital and development Byaruhanga, Frederick K. Student [Uganda & South Africa]. Ph.D., power, a misnomer? Student activism Karanja, Daniel David. The impact Claremont Graduate U., 2004. in Uganda's higher education: A case of maize technologies on income 3133231. ASA News - January and April 2005 27 Reynolds, Susan N. Teaching FINE ARTS emissions from vegetation fires in Desta: A teacher research case study southern Africa. Ph.D., U. of of a tutoring relationship [Ethiopia]. Badu-Younge, Zelma C. M. Ewe Maryland College Park, 2004. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Chicago, 2004. culture as expressed in Ghana West 3123186. 3126471. Africa. Through Adzogbo dance ceremony: A foundation for the Leybourne, Shona L. Food rights, Schofield, Andrew Mark. Integrating development of interactive multimedia riots, constitutions and corruption in school reform and sChool-community educational materials. Ph.D., McGill Zimbabwe: A geographic development: Four case studies from U. (Can.), 2003. N088419. interpretation of the law and South African schools. April 1994­ development movement. PhD., June 2000. Ph.D., U. of British DeLancey, Mark Dike. Representing Carleton U. (Can.), 2003. N088725. Columbia (Can.), 2003. 1'1086013. rulership: Palace architecture, spatial orientation, ritual movement, and Mohamed Dosi, Mohamed Adam. Smith, Richard Donald. Music secrecy in northern Cameroon. Urban growth through time and education in sub-Saharan Africa: Ph.D., Harvard U., 2004. 3131818. space: A study of the role of planners Nigeria and beyond. A case for African in dealing with urban sprawl in development. Ph.D., Temple U., Etwaroo, Indira. Somali women Zanzibar, Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of 2004. 3128579. moving through tradition in Ethiopia: Kansas, 2003. 3130578. An embodied ethnography of the Swai, Fulgence S. S. Organize or female dancing body negotiating Smucker, Thomas A. In search of die: Exploring the political and sociocultural ex/change. Ph.D., the sustainability miracle: Land organizational activities of the Temple U., 2004. 3128530. reform, agricultural intensification, and Tanzania Teacher Union. Ed.D., U. of changing livelihoods in semi-arid Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. Levin, Jessica Lee. Bieri remains: Tharaka, Kenya. Ph.D., Michigan 3118334. Fang reliquary art and the process of State U., 2003. 3116048. extinction [Gabon]. Ph.D., Harvard Taylor, Philip James. Fruits of U.,2004. 3131900. Wangui, Elizabeth Edna. Links democratic education transformation between gendered division of labor in a South African University in 1998: Martinez Ruiz, Felix Barbaro. Kongo and land use in Oloitokitok Division, Perspectives of administrators, machinery: Graphic writing and other S.E. Kajiado District, Kenya. Ph.D., teachers, and students in the School narratives of the sign [Angola & DR of Michigan State U., 2004. 3129554. of Education: University of Cape Congo]. Ph.D., Yale U., 2004. Town. Ph.D., McGill U. (Can.), 2003. 3125253. Wong, Madeleine. Borders that N088583. separate, blood that binds: The transnational activities of Ghanaian Tembo, Mark Jimu. A physical FOLKLORE women in Toronto. Ph.D., York U. education curriculum plan for Malawi. (Can.), 2003. Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute Fenn, John Bennett. Rap and ragga N086372. and State U., 2002. 3123745. musical cultures, lifestyles, and performances in Malawi. Ph.D., Wabuyele, Lusike C. Understanding Indiana U., 2004. 3133970. HEALTH SCIENCES teachers' and administrators' perceptions and experiences towards Aidam, Bridget A. Impact of computer use in Kenyan classrooms: GEOGRAPHY lactation counseling on exclusive A case study of two schools. Ph.D., breastfeeding in Ghana. Ph.D., U. of Ohio U., 2003. 3133718. Kahsaye, Woldetensae. The cultural Connecticut, 2004. 3134772. ecology of pastoralism in Eritrea: A Yagaza, Severine P. Divergent geographical inquiry. Ph.D., Barden-O'Fallon, Janine L. An perceptions and commitments to Louisiana State U. & A&I Coli., 2002. examination of self-reported fertility formal schooling and education: The 3134550. impairment in a rural district of study of three primary schools in Malawi. Ph.D., U. of North Carolina northeastern Tanzania. Ed.D., State King, Brian Hastings. In the shadow at Chapel Hill, 2004. 3129667. U. of New York at Binghamton, 2004. of Kruger: Community conservation 3126342. and environmental resource access in Baumgartner, Joy Noel. Measuring the former Kangwane Homeland, disability and social integration among Zvandasara, Bonginkosi. South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Colorado at adults with psychotic disorders in Dar Perceptions of board effectiveness in Boulder, 2004. 3123255. es Salaam, Tanzania. PhD., U. of selected institutions of higher North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. education in Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Korontzi, Stefania. Modeling of 3129671. Andrews U., 2004. 3122218. seasonal trace gas and particulate ASA News - January and April 2005 29 Crawley, Josephine Mary. cultural intermediary on the eastern Shankar, Shobana. Children of the Imperialism and culture in North Cape frontier of South Africa. Ph.D., mission in Kana emirate: Conflicts of Africa: The Hellenistic and early Yale U., 2004. 3125245. conversion in colonial northern Roman eras [Tunisia]. Ph.D., U. of Nigeria. Ph.D., U. of California, Los California Berkeley, 2003. 3121448. Lyons, Amelia H. Invisible Angeles, 2003. 3117722. immigrants: Algerian families and the Eaton, Katherine. The ritual French welfare state in the era of Shereikis, Rebecca Anne. functions of processional equipment in decolonization (1947-1974). Ph.D., U. Customized courts: French colonial the Temple of Seti I at Abydos [Egypt]. of California, Irvine, 2004. 3132397. legal institutions in Kayes, French Ph.D., New York U., 2004. 3114189. Soudan [Mali]. Ph.D., Northwestern Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba U.,2003. 3118610. Ferreira, Roquinaldo Amaral. Richard. A political history of higher Transforming Atlantic slaving: Trade, education in East Africa: The rise and Urban-Mead, Wendy Elizabeth. warfare and territorial control in fall of the University of East Africa. Religion, women, and gender in the Angola. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Ph.D., Rice U., 2004. 3122509. Brethren in Christ Church, Angeles, 2003. 3117673. Mohamed, Hamdi. Multiple Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1898-1978. challenges, multiple struggles: A Ph.D., Columbia U., 2004. 3129041. Gambetti, Sandra. The Alexandrian history of Somali women's activism in riots of 38 C.E. and the persecution of Canada. Ph.D., U. of Ottawa (Can.), von Joeden-Forgey, Elisa. the Jews: A historical assessment 2003. NQ90007. Nobody's people: Colonial subjects, [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of California race power and the German state Berkeley, 2003. 3121482. Montgomery, Mary E. The eyes of [Cameroon]. Ph.D., U. of the world were watching: Ghana, Pennsylvania, 2004. 3125911. Gasper, Michael. Civilizing peasants: Great Britain, and the United States, The public sphere, Islamic reform and 1957-1966. Ph.D., U. of Maryland Young, Sandra Sandiford. A the generation of political modernity in College Park, 2004. 3114758. different journey: John Brown Egypt. Ph.D., New York U., 2004. Russwurm [Liberia]. Ph.D., Boston 3127447. N'Sanda, Buleli Tchungu. La College, 2004. 3126409. memoire et I'histoire dans les Ghaly, Dina. The Shari' al-A'zam in constructions politiques regionales et Cairo: Its topography and architecture ethniques au Maniema pendant la JOURNALISM in the Mamluk period [Egypt]. Ph.D., transition: Repub/ique Democratique U. of Toronto (Can.), 2004. NQ91795. du Congo. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), Mwangi, Samuel Chege. Media, 2004. NQ88754. democracy and development: Toward Hostetter, David. Movement matters: a social-democratic communications American antiapartheid activism and Owino, Meshack. 'For your model [Kenya, Uganda & Zambia]. the rise of multicultural politics [South tomorrow, we gave our today': A Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 2003. Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College history of Kenya African soldiers in the 3115128. Park,2004. 3128881. Second World War. Ph.D., Rice U., 2004. 3122519. Ikambana, Peta. Mobutu's LANGUAGE totalitarian political system: An Pion, Alison Leah. Exporting 'race' Afrocentric analysis [DR of Congo]. to the colonies: British emigration Almansour, Abdulrahman Hamad. Ph.D., Temple U., 2004. 3125534. initiatives in the late-nineteenth Adjective incorporation and the century [South Africa]. Ph.D., morphosyntactic interface [Ethiopia]. Jones, Hilary. Citizens and subjects: Northwestern U., 2004. 3132583. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, Metis society, identity and the struggle 2004. 3128012. over colonial politics in Saint Louis, Sa1m, Steven James. 'The Bukom Senegal, 1870-1920. Ph.D., Michigan boys': Subcultures and identity Bahri, Hamid. Patriarchy and the State U., 2003. 3115983. transformation in Accra, Ghana. figure of the father in the franco phone Ph.D., The U. of Texas, 2003. Maghrebian novel from the nineteen Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham. Levantine 3118070. fifties to the end of the twentieth trajectories: The formulation and century. Ph.D., City U. of New York, dissemination of radical ideas in and Searcy, Kim. The formation of the 2004. 3127846. between Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria Sudanese Mahdist state: Ritual, [Egypt]. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2004. ceremony and symbols of authority, Berkland, Mara Kathleen. Feminism 3117992. 1882-1898. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2004. and its social movement in Morocco: 3133979. Pragmatism, persuasion, and change. Levine, Roger Saul. Sable son of Ph.D., U. of Utah, 2004.3124131. Africa: The many worlds of an African ASA News - January and April 2005 31 theology in novels by Mongo Beti and MASS COMMUNICATIONS PHILOSOPHY Rene Philombe [Cameroon]. Ph.D., U.ofTennessee, 2003. 3119294. Abdulla, Rasha A. The uses and Diagne, Marcelin Waly. The gratifications of the Internet among Economic Community of West African Ridout, Alice Rachel. 'To be and not Arab students in Egypt. Ph.D., U. of States: Is there a case for a common to be': The politics of parody in Toni Miami, 2003. 3119897. currency? Ph.D., Fordham U., 2004. Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Doris 3125007. Lessing [Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., U. of Bosch, Tanja Estella. Radio, Toronto (Can.), 20204. NQ91722. community and identity in South Eze, Chie/ozona E. Literature as an Africa: A rhizomatic study of Bush ethical challenge: Alain Locke and the Rodriguez Sierra, Francisco. Del Radio in Cape Town. Ph.D., Ohio U., responsibility of the Negro artist discurso al cronotopo: Estudio del 2003. 3120509. [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2003. espacio y el tiempo en la novela 3124150. marroqui [Morocco]. Dr, U. de Cadiz Boulou Ebanda, de B'beri. (Spain),2003. 3122643. Africanicity in black cinema: A Okereke, Ifeoma Christie. Oil horizontal labyrinth of trans­ production and problems in Nigeria's Schipa, Mary E. Claustration and geographical practices of identity. Niger Delta: Military and civilian vagabondage in the tetralogy of Assia Ph.D., Concordia U. (Can.), 2004. regimes' responses (1979-2001). Djebar [Algeria]. Ph.D., Boston NQ90382. Ph.D., Salve Regina U., 2004. College, 2004. 3126399. 3129414. Kiruswa, Steven Lemomo. Schleppe, Beatriz Eugenia. Evaluating effects of an Empowering new identities in entertainment-education film on self­ PHYSICAL SCIENCES postcolonial literature by Francophone efficacy toward HIV/AIDS prevention women writers [Cameroon & Algeria]. in the Kenyan military. Ph.D., Regent Bernhardsdotter, Eva Christina Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 2003. U., 2004. 3127297. Margaretha Josefsson. Production 3116178. and characterization of two alpha­ Malik, Saadia I. Exploring aghani al­ amylases from extremophiles Sow, Mamadou. Soyinka, Baraka, banat: A postcolonial ethnographic [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of Alabama in Wilson: The Ogunian archetype approach to Sudanese women's Huntsville, 2004. 3120649. [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Temple U., 2004. songs, culture, and performance. 3128581. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2003. 3115768. Crowder, Jason Jeffries. Deposition, consolidation, and van Bladel, Kevin Thomas. Hermes Mefalopulos, Paulo. Theory and strength of a non-plastic tailings paste Arabicus [Egypt]. Ph.D., Yale U., practice of partiCipatory for surface disposal [Tanzania]. 2004. 3125321. communication: The case of the FAO Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 2004. project 'Communication for NQ91669. Verol/a, Steven M. Albert Camus: Development in Southern Africa'. His quest for a paradise lost and the Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 2003. Donaldson, Krista M. Engineering poetics of nostalgia [Algeria]. Ph.D., 3122760. design for sustained development in City U. of New York, 2004. 3115297. less industrialized economies [Kenya]. Mwesige, Peter G. 'Can you hear Ph.D., Stanford U., 2004. 3128644. Youssef, Hala Youssef Halim. The me now?" Radio talk shows and Alexandria archive: An archaeology of political participation in Uganda. EI-Askary, Hesham. Regional Alexandrian cosmopolitanism [Egypt]. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2004. 3134131. monitoring of environmental physics Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, climate related anomalies [Egypt]. 2004. Ph.D., George Mason U., 2004. MUSIC 3123080. Zaborowski, Bethany. Egyptian film in the post-revolutionary period: A Bahauddin, Sarah Ellen. Mpingo Prasad, Krishna Chandra. contextual analysis of and woodwind instrument-making: Socioeconomic module for decision conventionalized utterances. Ph.D., Does it have a future? [Mozambique support for water resource Georgetown U., 2003. 3122210. & Tanzania]. D.M.A., U. of management in South Africa. Ph.D., Washington, 2004. U. of Colorado at Boulder, 2004. Zadi, Samuel. L'ecriture hybride 3123277. dans Ie roman francophone Africain et Moorman, Marissa Jean. 'Feel Antillais: Resemblances et Angolan with this music': A social Yoshpa, Michael. Ethnobotanyand differences. Ph.D., U. of Missouri ­ history of music and nation, Luanda, phytochemistry of the sacred blue lily Columbia, 2003. 3115603. Angola, 1945-1975. Ph.D., U. of of the Nile, Nymphaea caerulea Minnesota, 2004. 3129263. Savigny, Nymphaeaceae [Egypt]. ASA News - January and April 2005 33 2004. 3119381. SOCIAL WORK Godonou, Celestin K. Elaboration d'un instrument de mesure de la Jones, Linda Gale. The boundaries Abdel Hamid Ibrahim, EI-Sayed. La satisfaction au travail au Benin. of sin and communal identity: Muslim contribution des organisations non Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 2003. and Christian preaching and the gouvernementales a I'exercice des NQ86744. transmission of cultural identity in droits des personnes ayant des Medieval Iberia and the Maghreb. deficiences et des incapacites Imboela, Bruce Lubinda. The Ph.D., University of California, Santa physiques en Egypte. Ph.D., U. Laval political economy of the local: An Barbara, 2004. 3120362. (Can.), 2004. NQ90719. inquiry into the dynamics of rural livelihoods vulnerability in developing Komolafe, Sunday Buckmann George, Laura Jean. Compliance countries [Zambia]. Ph.D., U. of Babajide. The transformation of with medication and directly observed Delaware, 2004. 3133803. African ecclesiology: Development therapy in the treatment of TB in Kamazima, Switbert Rwechungura. and change in the Nigerian church. Lesotho. D.S.W., U. of Pennsylvania, Borders, boundaries, peoples, and Ph.D., Fuller Theo. Sem., 2004. 2003. 3129122. states: A comparative analysis of 3128724. post-independence Tanzania-Uganda border regions. Ph.D., U. of Maenzanise, Beauty Rosebery. SOCIOLOGY Minnesota, 2003. 3120498. Transformation of African Christian worship: A case study of liturgical Amarapurkar, Saya/i Sadashiv. Khalfani, Akil Kokayi. Conflicting practices in the Zimbabwe East Childcare experiences of African notions of liberty, equality, and justice: Annual Conference of the United immigrant parents in Minneapolis­ Discovering divergence in the Methodist Church. Ph.D., Drew U., Saint Paul: An inductive thematic affirmative action debate in South 2004. 3123404. analysis of seven families [Ethiopia, Africa and the United States. Ph.D., Nigeria & Congo]. Ph.D., U. of U. of Pennsylvania, 2004. 3125930. Mukawa, Nzuzi. Relationship Minnesota, 2004. 3129197. between the Mennonite Brethren Kihombo, Aggrey R. M. Health Mission Services International and the insurance in Tanzania: Enrollment Mennonite Brethren Churches of the Apentiik, Rowland Anyebadek. An determinants in the Community Health Congo. Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Div. ethnoecological study of Bulsa land Fund (CHF). The case of Kilosa Sch., 2003. 3115814. use, Upper East Region of Ghana: District. Ph.D., Brandeis U., 2004. Implications for sustainable 3133737. Oduro, Thomas Asante. Christ Holy development. Ph.D., U. of Calgary Church International (1947-2002): The (Can.), 2003. NQ87016. Klareen, Jonathan Eugene. challenges of Christian proclamation Migrating to citizenship: Mobility, law, in a Nigerian context. Ph.D., Luther Assefa, Mehretab Abye. Nomadism and nationality in South Africa,. Sem., 2004. 3132910. in the making of the Afrasian Ph.D., Yale U., 2004. 3125230. ecumene: Toward a paradigm of pre­ Ofosu-Donkoh, Kobina. The cultural modernity. Ph.D., State U. of New Lange, Matthew Keith. The British legitimacy of human rights in African York at Binghamton, 2004. 3132664. colonial lineages of despotism and religions and philosophy: The case of development [Mauritius, Botswana & the Akan of Ghana. Ph.D., Temple U., Augusto, Geri M. Knowing Sierra Leone]. Ph.D., Brown U., 2004. 3125546. differently, innovating together? An 2004. 3134301. exploratory case study of trans­ epistemic interaction in a South Sanderovsky, Naomi Sonia. Water Miller, Darlene. The regional claims African bioprospecting program. spilt is a blessing: West African Ed.D., George Washington U., 2004. of workers in post-Apartheid Southern traditional religion [Senegal, Mali & 3126187. Africa: A case study of Shoprite, a Gambia]. Ph.D., California Institute of retail multinational, in Zambia and Integral Studies, 2003. 3127823. Emeka, Amon. New blacks, new Mozambique. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins whites and the new day: U.,2004. 3130742. Wuaku, Albert Kafui. 'Tapping into Intergenerational mobility among Hindu powers': The local factor in black and white immigrants in the Minton, Carol A. The theory of Krishna and Shiva worship in Ghana. post-civil rights era. Ph.D., U. of structural ritualization and the social Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 2004. Washington, 2004. 3131152. construction of gender inequality in NQ91835. the central region of Malawi. Ph.D., Fidzani, Boga. HIV/AIDS preventive Oklahoma State U., 2003. 3127180. behavior in Botswana: Trends and determinants at the turn of the 21 st century. Ph.D., U. of Southern Munyaka, Golden. Integrating California, 2003. 3116698. indigenous knowledge into the community development process: The ASA News - January and ApriJ 2005 35 Sanz, Crickette Marie. Behavioral Rolland Andrianantenaina. Impacts Gu, Yingxin. Atmospheric particles ecology of chimpanzees in a central of habitat disturbance, including retrieval using satellite remote African forest: Pan troglodytes ecotourism activities, on breeding sensing: Applications for sandstorms troglodytes in the Goualougo Triangle, behavior and success of the pitta-like and volcanic clouds [North Africa]. Republic of Congo. Ph.D., ground roller, Atelornis pittoides, an Ph.D., Michigan Technological U., Washington U., 2004.3138278. endangered bird species in the 2004. 3142681. eastern rainforest of Ranomafana Schechter, James Alan. Governing National Park, Madagascar. Ph.D., U. Palenik, Christopher Samuel. 'lost boys': Sudanese refugees in a of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. Isotopic composition and neutronics of UNHCR Camp. Ph.D., U. of Colorado 3136769. the Okelobondo natural reactor at Boulder, 2004. 3136650. [Gabon]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2004. Stein, Catherine Marie. Genetic and 3137914. Spidahl, Rodney James. Fulbe environmental influences on identity in community: An analysis of tuberculosis susceptibility [Uganda]. Pedentchouk, Nikolai. Lacustrine pulaaku discourse in North Ph.D., Case Western Reserve U., paleoenvironments from stable Cameroon. Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical 2004. 3143955. isotopes of hydrogen and carbon in Div. Sch., 2004.3138275. lipids [Central Africa]. Ph.D., Wong, Kam-Fai. Statistical analysis Pennsylvania State U., 2004. Sugita, Eri Woods. Domestic water with current status data [South Africa]. 3140071. use, hygiene behavior, and children's Ph.D., Columbia U., 2004. 3138374. diarrhea in rural Uganda. Ph.D., U. of Russell, James Michael. The Florida, 2004. Holocene paleolimnology and BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION paleoclimatology of Lake Edward, Swanepoel, Natalie Josephine. 'Too Uganda-Congo. Ph.D., U. of much power is not good': War and Brown, Jessica Carlotta. Minnesota, 2004. 3142643. trade in nineteenth-century Leadership in Nigeria: A case study of Sisalaland, northern Ghana. Ph.D., reality, challenge, and opportunity. Watanabe, Yumiko. The late Syracuse U., 2004.3136464. Ph.D., U. of Phoenix, 2004. 3136137. Archean biosphere: Implications from organic and inorganic geochemistry of Tetreault, Chantal Marie. EI-Shenawi, Nagwa. Credit cards shales and paleosols [South Africa]. Communicative performances of and their impact on the development Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2002. social identity in an Algerian-French of the banking sector: The case of 3136103. neighborhood in Paris. Ph.D., U. of Egypt. D.B.A., Maastricht Sch. of Texas at Austin, 2004. 3145811. Management (Neth.), 2004. 3138773. ECONOMICS Wendland, Claire Leone. Making Okoli, John Chituanya. Expert doctors in Malawi: Local exigencies assessments of e-commerce in sub­ Guvheya, Gibson. An empirical meet global identities in an African Saharan Africa: A theoretical model of analysis of smallholder agricultural medical school. Ph.D., U. of infrastructure and culture for doing productivity and economic efficiency Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. business using the Internet. Ph.D., in Zimbabwe: A contribution to the 3136791. Louisiana State U., 2003. 3139311. ongoing land reforms. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2004. 3140860.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES EARTH SCIENCES Marone, Heloisa Cortella. Essays on stock markets [Zambiaj. Ph.D., Arara, Boaz Kaunda. Marine Beyene, Alebachew. Evolution of the Columbia U., 2004. 3135680. reserves and their influence on Afar Depression from orbital optical adjacent fisheries in coastal Kenya. and radar images, Ethiopia. Ph.D., U. Moser, Christine Michelle. Ph.D., Memorial U. of Newfoundland of Texas at Dallas, 2004. 3138684. Explaining high variability in within (Can.), 2003. NQ93076. country outcomes: Three essays Boorman, Sonja Louise. using spatially explicit data from Gillespie, Thomas R. Effects of Investigations into syn-crystallization Madagascar. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2004. human disturbance on primate processes in the lower and critical 3140822. parasite dynamics [UgandaJ. Ph.D., zones of the Bushveld Complex, U. of Florida, 2004. 3144194. Republic of South Africa. Ph.D., Duke Mullen, Jeffrey D. A bio-economic U., 2004. 3136813. model of long-run Striga control with Razafimahaimodison, Jean Claude an application to subsistence farming

ASA News - January and April 2005 37 GEOGRAPHY care indicators and the methods for 3137349. their measurement. Ph.D., U. of Dibi Kangah, Pauline Agoh. Rainfall North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. and agriculture in Central West Africa 3140385. LANGUAGE since 1930 [Mali, Burkina Faso, & Cote d'ivoire]. Ph.D., U. of Bates, Robert D. A dictionary of Oklahoma, 2004. 3143541. HISTORY Middle Egyptian for students of biblical archaeology and Old Shoukry, Nermin Ahmed. Using Abdul-Korah, Gariba Boniface. Testament stUdies. Ph.D., Andrews remote sensing and geographical Migration, ethnicity and uneven­ U., 2004. 3138895. information systems for monitoring development in Ghana: The case of settlement growth expansion in the the Upper West region in the Bel/, Arthur James. Bipartite eastern part of the Nile Delta twentieth century. Ph.D., U. of negation and the fine structure of the Governorates in Egypt (1975-1998). Minnesota, 2004. 3144245. negative phrase. Ph.D., Cornell U., Ph.D., U. of Utah, 2004. 3143969. 2004.3140857. Duke, Debra L. From True Woman to New Woman: Mary Kelly Edwards, Burkindine, Jill Moore. The world HEALTH SCIENCES single woman missionary to Natal, according to East African student South Africa, 1868-1927. Ph.D., writers: A Bakhtinian analysis with Carlson, John C. Structural Princeton Theo. Sem., 2004. teaching implications. Ph.D., U. of complexity and temporality: Ecological 3139329. Missouri - Columbia, 2004. 3137680. variables influencing the colonization of Anopheles gambiae habitat by Johnson, Phillip James. Seasons in Compan-Barnard, Magali. From aquatic predators [Kenya]. Ph.D., hell: Charles S. Johnson and the 1930 colonialism to post-nationality: Tulane U., 2004. 3140611. Liberian labor crisis. Ph.D., Louisiana Resistance and disorder in State U. & Agri. & Mech. Coli., 2004. Francophone literature from Corneli, Amy L. An effective method 3136181. Madagascar. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, for improving participant 2004. 3138136. understanding of informed consent in Mikhail, Maged S.A. Egypt from late United States-funded international antiquity to early Islam: Copts, Nibigira, Beatrice. Venus: Isotopies clinical trials [Malawi]. Ph.D., U. of Melkites, and Muslims shaping a new animales dans les oeuvres poetiques North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. society. Ph.D., U. of California, Los de Charles Baudelaire et de Leopold 3140298. Angeles, 2004. 3142573. Sedar Senghor [Senegal]. Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, 2004. 3137560. Mathanga, Don Pascal. Impact of a Sadoh, Godwin Simeon. The organ large scale insecticide treated nets works of Fela Sowande: A Nigerian Samy, Waheed. Perspectives on (ITNs) program on malaria in organist-composer. D.M.A., Louisiana 9/11: A critical discourse analysis of Malawian children. Ph.D., U. of State U. & Ag. & Mech. Coli., 2004. ideologies, opinions, and attitudes in Michigan, 2004.3137889. 3136201. Arab media [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2004. 3142267. Mensah-Dartey, Virgil Nunya. Shumway, Rebecca. Between the Student campaign against HIVIAIDS castle and the golden stool: in Ghana: A Participatory Action Transformations in Fante society in LITERATURE Research (PAR) initiative. Ph.D., the eighteenth century [Ghana]. Cornell U., 2004. 3140791. Ph.D., Emory U., 2004.3142178. Ali, Souad Tagelsir. 'Ali 'Abd AI­ Raziq's 'ai-Islam wa Usul al-Hukm': A Patnaik, Padmaja. Reciprocal effects Sijpesteijn, Petra Marieke. Shaping modern, liberal development of of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and a Muslim state: Papyri related to a Muslim thought [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of HIV disease in a cohort of adults in mid-eighth-century Egyptian official. Utah, 2004. 3137298. Thyolo District, Malawi. Ph.D., U. of Ph.D., Princeton U., 2004. 3136702. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. Basu, Lopamudra. The postcolonial 3140381. migrant intellectual: The novel as JOURNALISM public intervention [Nigeria & Kenya]. Powell, William Ingram. Sexually Ph.D., City U. of New York, 2004. transmitted infection case Urbanski, Stephen J. Learning to be 3144079. management in Kenya: An evaluation free: The print media of Cotonou, of structural and process quality of Benin. Ph.D., Duquesne U., 2004. Boampong, Joanna. From the ruins

ASA News - January and April 2005 39 business?: The political economy of Tal, lIana. Exploring the meaning of Dual citizenship and the legitimization non-tariff trade policy in developing becoming a woman in a non-Western of ethnicity in Kenya. Ph.D., U. of nations [South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of culture: A narrative analysis of first Pittsburgh, 2004. 3139690. New Mexico, 2004. 3144054. menstruation stories of Ethiopian Jewish women. Ph.D., Fielding Grad. Kwenda, Maxwell Ndigume. Rural­ Hazen, Jennifer M. How conflict Inst., 2004. 3140191. urban differences in infanUchild networks fuel and finish civil wars morbidity and mortality in sub­ [Sierra Leone, Liberia & Cote d'ivoire]. Saharan Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Ph.D., Georgetown U., 2004. RELIGION Zambia & Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., Bowling 3137052. Green State U., 2004. 3135437. Deegbe, Fred. Mentoring: The key to Hudson, Derrick Keith. Religious the growth of Calvary Baptist Church, Larson, Erik Walter. Markets in traditions as civil society actors in Accra, Ghana. D.Min., Asbury Theo. context: The establishment, operation, South Africa, 1910-2002. Ph.D., U. of Sem., 2004. 3138923. and institutional locations of stock Denver, 2004. 3138962. exchanges in Fiji, Ghana, and Gendi, Magdi Sadik. Pharoah as a Iceland. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, Press, Robert Maxwell. Establishing character in the exodus narrative 2004. 3142625. a culture of resistance: The struggle [Egypt]. Ph.D., Luther Sem., 2004. for human rights and democracy in 3139323. Schonfeldt-Aultman, Scott Michael. authoritarian Kenya, 1987-2002. White rhetorics: South African Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2004. 3136991. Heskett, Sedgwick. Encountering expatriate discourse in the United the divine: Experience, mysticism and States. Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, Rabesahala Horning, Nadia. The scholarship. A prelude to the study of 2004.3137602. limits of rules: When rules promote ancient Egyptian religion. Ph.D., forest conservation and when they do Union Inst. & U., 2004. Sia-Maat, Shadidi. The impact of not. Insights from Bara Country, ethnicity on volunteerism in Sub­ Madagascar. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2004. Moodley, Edley Joseph. Shembe, Saharan Africa: A look at 3140877. ancestors, or Christ?: A missiological African-American and Euro-American inquiry into the status and role of returned Peace Corps volunteers. Sewall, Rebecca Peabody. Jesus Christ in the amaNazaretha Ed.D., U. of Southern California, Accommodating injustice: Women and Church, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. 2004. 3140554. conflict settlement processes [South Ph.D., Asbury Theo. Sem., 2004. Africa & Eritrea]. Ph.D., George 3138897. Mason U., 2004. 3136248. THEOLOGY Oh, Irene Young In. Human rights in contemporary Islamic thought: Toward tber, Simeon Tsetim. A study of the PSYCHOLOGY a cross-cultural discourse ethic principle of subsidiarity in Catholic [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 2004. social thought: Implications for social Gashaw-Gant, Gebaynesh Gelila. 3144621. justice and civil society in Nigeria. Culture and mental illness: A review of Ph.D., Duquesne U., 2004. 3145404. a model for providing mental health services to East African SOCIOLOGY refugees/immigrants [Ethiopia, Sudan, URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING Somalia, & Eritrea]. Psy.D., Alliant Abdelazim, Saleh S. Structural IntI. U., San Diego, 2004. 3142272. adjustment and the dismantling of Cisse, Oumar. Les facteurs de Egypt's etatist system. Ph.D., Virginia croissance des activites informel/es Guest, Andrew M. It's all right to be Polytechnic Inst. & State U., 2002. de valorisation des dechets solides a child: Culture and psychosocial 3135592. urbains: Cas de Dakar [Senegal]. competence in two distinct Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2004. marginalized communities [Angola]. Durrant, Marie Bradshaw. NQ92727. Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 2004. 3136513. Communities, place, and conservation on Mount Kilimanjaro [Tanzania]. Khiati, Tarik Seif. Urban forms Sampson, Mark Garrett. Meaning Ph.D., Brigham Young U., 2004. under colonial dominance: Making and motivation of the car watcher in 3135948. Algiers French (1830-1880). Ph.D., Knysna, South Africa. Ph.D., Ohio U. of Washington, 2004. State U., 2004. 3141640. Kivuva, Joshua Musembi. Managing ethnic conflict in Africa:

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At your local bookseller or call 740-593-1154 Scott Quadrangle· Athens, Ohio 45701 of empire: Afrohispanic writings of Coast (West Africa), 1828-1895. Likasiri, Chulin. Can China starve Equatorial Guinea, the Caribbean and Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2004.3137925. sub-Saharan Africa?: A systems Spain, 1980-2000. Ph.D., U. of approach to carrying capacity analysis Southern California, 2004. 3140439. Sanusi, Ramonu Abiodun. using scenario analysis and multi­ Representations of sub-Saharan criteria decision making. Ph.D., Case Boudraa, Nabil Augustin. La African women in colonial and post­ Western Reserve U., 2004. 3138808. poetique du paysage dans I'oeuvre colonial novels in French. Ph.D., U. d'Edouard Glissant, Kateb Yacine et of Oregon, 2004.3136444. Sinha, Parikh it. Emissions from William Faulkner [Algeria]. Ph.D., savanna fires in southern Africa. Louisiana State U. and Agri. & Straker, James. The fate of an Ph.D., U. of Washington, 2004. Mechanical CoiL, 2004. 3135292. African revolutionary curriculum: 3139540. Forest youth and the cultural EI-Ariss, Tarek. Tracing the nation in production of Guinean nationalism. Thiem, Deborah Ann. Isolation and French and Arabic travel narratives Ph.D., Emory U., 2004. 3142180. modification of triterpene quinone from the late eighteenth to mid methides from Salacia nineteenth century. Ph.D., Cornell U., Tarpley, James Hebron. The madagascariensis [Eastern Africa]. 2004. 3140794. Algerian island in the novels of Albert Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth U., Camus: The end of the pied-noir 2004. 3140923. Gi/dow, Jason R. Origin and adventure tale. Ph.D., U. of adaptation of the medieval Theban Pittsburgh, 2004.3144957. Viggato, Jason Charles. narrative from Gildas to Shakespeare Thermohydraulic and nuclear [Egypt). Ph.D., U. of Nebraska ­ Tunai, Charles Kesero. Voices at modeling of natural fission reactors Lincoln, 2004. 3142080. the Junction: A novella and stories [Gabon]. Ph.D., U. of Nevada, Las [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of Hawaii, 2004. Vegas, 2004. 3143394. Gueye, Marame. Wolof wedding 3139787. songs: Women negotiating voice and space through verbal art [Senegal]. Wright, Laura. Writing 'out of all the POLITICAL SCIENCE Ph.D., State U. of New York at camps': J. M. Coetzee's narratives of Binghamton, 2004. 3142787. displacement [South Africa]. Ph.D., Adams, Melinda Jane. Negotiating U. of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. the boundaries of political action: Hron, Madelaine A. The translation 3136794. Transnational linkages, women's of pain in immigrant texts [North organizations, and the state in Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2004. Cameroon. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin ­ 3138174. MASS COMMUNICATIONS Madison, 2004. 3143089.

Kang, Hyeong-min. The politics of Thompson, Katrina Day. Viewing Amin Abou EI-Zahab, Khaled Z. M. violence in colonization and the foreign and the local in Zimbabwe: Fiscal decentralization and poverty: A decolonization: A Fanonian study of Film, television, and Shona viewers. cross-sectional analYSis and a case selected postcolonial drama [Nigeria PhD., U. of Wisconsin Madison, study of Egypt. Ph.D., New York U., & South Africa]. Ph.D., Indiana U. of 2004. 3143095. 2005.3143319. Pennsylvania, 2004. 3142067. Cook, Christopher Robert. Stepping Ndlela, Phi/den. Black South African PHYSICAL SCIENCES back, muddling through or taking writing against apartheid, 1959-1983. decisive steps: The power of Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts Amherst, Dehkissia, Soumaine. international commitments and 2004.3136759. Caracterisation et transformation par American humanitarian intervention in hydroviscoreduction du brut lourd de the post Cold War. Ph.D., U. of Pirbhai, Mariam. The multiple voices DobalTchad: Strategie de pompage California, Santa Barbara, 2004. of indenture history: The South Asian par pipeline. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.). 3136879. diasporic novel in English [Mauritius, 2004. NQ92672. Uganda & South Africa]. Ph.D., U. de Desta, Yemane. DeSigning anti­ Montreal (Can.), 2004. NQ92768. Garhyan, Parag. Mathematical corruption strategies for developing modeling. non-linear investigations countries: A country study of Eritrea. Quartey, Seth. MiSSionary practices: and experimental verification of Ph.D., North Carolina State U., 2004. German-speaking missionaries biochemical processes [Egypt]. 3137108. between the home committee and Ph.D., Auburn U .. 2004.3135993. colonial environment in the Gold Drope, Jeffrey M. Open or closed for

40 ASA News - January and April 2005 in Mali. Ph.D., Virginia Poly. Inst. & 2004. NQ93107. Wisconsin - Madison, 2004. 3143120. State U., 1999. 3142030. Davis, Kristin Elizabeth. Technology Macjessie-Mbewe, Samson L. W. Nankhuni, Flora. Environmental dissemination among small-scale Analysis of a complex policy domain: degradation, resource scarcity and farmers in Meru Central District of Access to secondary education in children's welfare in Malawi: School Kenya: Impact of group participation. Malawi. Ed.D., U. of Massachusetts attendance, school progress, and Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2004. 3145901. Amherst, 2004. 3136755. children's health. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2004. Garran, Christopher Scott. Magan, Yasin I. Famine and 3141012. Encountering faces of the Other: A ideology: The precipitating factors and phenomenological study of American educational implications in the case of Ngomane, Tsakani. Civic high school students journeying Somalia. Ed.D., U. of Massachusetts participation: The emergence of through South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Amherst, 2004. 3136756. political leadership in South Africa. Maryland, College Park, 2004. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 2004. 3139060. Megahed, Nagwa Mohamed Magdy. 3140063. Stratified students, stratified teachers: Gassama-Mbaye, Mbarou. Ideologies of social Ochonu, Moses Ebe. A colony in Nonformal education in Francophone mobility/reproduction, ideologies of crisis: Northern Nigeria, British West Africa: A case study of the professionalism, and teachers' colonialism, and the Great Senegalese experience of community­ perceptions of secondary education Depression. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, based schools. Ed.D., U. of reform in Egypt. Ph.D., U. of 2004. 3137908. Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. Pittsburgh, 2004. 3139703. 3136728. Roy, Devesh. Essays on trade and Oliver, Daniel G. How's your development [Mauritius]. Ph.D., U. of Gobina, Euphrates Efosi Wose. research going to help us?: The Maryland, College Park, 2004. Decision points and dilemmas in girls' practices of community-based 3139103. schooling and occupational research in the post-apartheid aspirations: Female secondary university [South Africa]. Ph.D., Ohio Tan, Chih Ming. New approaches to students in Cameroon. Ph.D., U. of State U., 2004. 3141708. the empirics of economic growth. British Columbia (Can.), 2004. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, NQ93122. Onah, Okechukwu F. The work of 2004. 3143196. ethic of Nigerian students at United Kadyoma, Fritz Friday Robert. States universities as determined by Van Assche, Ari. Three essays on Learning milieu for primary school occupation, work experience, level of the transformation of global IT teachers in Malawi: Perspectives, education, gender, age, length of stay production [Tunisia]. Ph.D., U. of practices and policies. Ed.D., U. of abroad, and location of university. Hawaii, 2004. 3139789. Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. Ph.D., Southern Illinois U. at 3136743. Carbondale, 2004. 3135805.

EDUCATION Khembo, Dafter January. Using performance level descriptors to ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Ashford, Richard Allen. ensure consistency and comparability Coordinating language policy in standard-setting. Ed.D., U. of Lepp, Andrew Paul. Tourism in a implementation in Tanzania. Ph.D., U. Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. rural Ugandan village: Impacts, local of Minnesota, 2004.3137153. 3136746. meaning and implications for development. Ph.D., U. of Florida, Chakwera, Elias Watson Jani. Loko/e, Nicolas Shungu K. Human 2004. 3145938. Content validity of independently capital investments: Child education constructed curriculum-based and economic and cultural incentives examinations [Malawi]. Ed.D., U. of and constraints in Cote d'ivoire. FINE ARTS Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. Ph.D., U. of Texas at Dallas, 2004. 3136715. 3139230. Okeke, Chika Obiajulu. Nigerian art in the independence decade, 1957­ Chiwaya-Kishindo, Emma Luecke, Julie Carlene. Tapestries of 1967. Ph.D., Emory U., 2004. Catherine. Education for All and the teaching practices: A case study of 3142167. educational aspirations of Malawians. Namibian educators in an era of 'post­ Ph.D., U. of British Columbia (Can.), independence' reform. Ph.D., U. of

38 ASA News - January and April 2005 Zimbabwean experience. Ph.D., socioeconomic approach. Ph.D., Seminary, School of Theology, 2004. Oregon State U., 2004. 3115477. Ohio State U., 2003. 3115794. 3126507.

Odhiambo, Calvin. HIV/AIDS in White, Anastasia Melina. The' Smith, Jon Edwards. A comparative Kenya and the Health Belief Model. search for meaning: Toward a analysis of factors affecting Southern Ph.D., Indiana U., 2003. 3123969. generative constructionist approach in Baptist church planting grids in the transforming identity-based conflict East Asia, Middle America, and Ransom, Elizabeth. Setting the [Nigeria & South Africa]. Ph.D., Case Eastern Africa regions. Ph.D., standard: Competing values in the Western Reserve U., 2004. 3119601. Southeastern Baptist Theological South African red meat industry. Seminary, 2004. 3127730. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2003. 3116028. THEATER URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING Stevens, William David. 'Taking the Fouts, Salome Wekisa. Werewere world': Evangelism and assimilation Liking, Sony Labou Tansi, and Mwasumbi. Agnes. Access to among Ghanaian Pentecostals in Tchicaya U Tam'si: Pioneers of 'new privatized solid waste collection Chicago. Ph.D., Northwester U., theater' in francophone Africa [Congo services by the urban poor in Dar es 2003. 3118618. & Cameroon]. Ph.D., Ohio State U., Salaam, Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of 2004. 3124069. Waterloo (Can.), 2004. NQ92019. Swezey, Teresa A. Beyond dyads: The perception and embodiment of HIV/AIDS risk among Muslims within THEOLOGY marital unions in rural Uganda. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2004. 3129547. Choge, Emily Jeptepkeny. An ethic for refugees: The pilgrim motif in Wakoko, Florence. Microfinance and Hebrews and the refugee problem in women's empowerment in Uganda: A Kenya. Ph.D., Fuller Theological

Recent Doctoral Dissertations

Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State University) The U.S. and Canadian theses listed were below reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) , vol. 65, nos. 6-8 (Dec. 2004-Feb. 2005). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. American and Canadian theses are usually available from Proquest. See DAI (or http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway)forabstractsandotherdetails.This is the 65th quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974­ 1987 (ASNCrossroads Press, 1989).

AGRICULTURE shifting among West African Muslims in Harlem. Ph.D., New School U .• de Francisco, Christian. Courting Donkor, Ben Nathan. Evaluation of 2004. 3144476. modernity: Tradition, globalization, government interventions in Ghana's and the performance of masculinity forest product trade: A post­ Blake, Andrew Cecil. The among the papasi of Zanzibar intervention impact assessment and experiences and adjustment problems [Tanzania]. Ph.D., Tulane U., 2004. perceptions of marketing implications. of African students at Delaware State 3140615. Ph.D., Louisiana State U., 2003. University. Ed.D., Wilmington Coli. 3139290. (Delaware), 2004. 3139894. Dugal, Sarah J. What's the story with Vazimba?: Oral history, social Peck, John E. Community Colvin, Christopher James. change, and identity in highland adaptations in achieving sustainable Performing the signs of injury: Critical Madagascar. Ph.D., Tulane U., 2004. livelihoods in Zimbabwe. Ph.D., U. of perspectives on traumatic storytelling 3140657. Wisconsin - Madison, 2004. 3143238. after apartheid [South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 2004. 3137288. Kamat, Vinay Ramnath. Negotiating illness and misfortune in post-socialist ANTHROPOLOGY Davidheiser, Mark. The role of Tanzania: An ethnographic study in culture in conflict mediation: Toubabs Temeke District, Dar es Salaam. Abdullah, Zaino Islam, Africa, and and Gambians cannot be the same. Ph.D., Emory U., 2004. 3142156. the Black encounter: Boundary Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2004. 36 ASA News - January and April 200S Ph.D., U. of the Sciences in Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala. democracy in Kenya. Ph.D., Western Philadelphia, 2004. 3135408. Contending political paradigms in Michigan U., 2004. 3130622. Africa: Democratization vs. Wood, John Randolph. Mitigating authoritarianism in Kenya and proliferation: An assessment of POLITICAL SCIENCE Zambia. Ph.D., Northeastern U., nonproliferation institutions, 2004. 3126274. international law, and preemptive Akonor, Kwame. Ghana and IMF counterproliferation intervention conditionality: The unevenness in O'Bannon, Brett R. Confronting the [Libya]. Ph.D., Fletcher Sch. of Law & compliance, 1983-2000. Ph.D., City development dilemma: Decentralized Diplomacy (Tufts U.), 2004. 3133698. U. of New York, 2004. 3127845. cooperation, governance and local responses to neoliberal reform in rural AI Barghouti, Tamim. The case of Senegal. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2004. PSYCHOLOGY Egypt: A national liberation movement 3133977. and a colonially created government. Ajaelu, Cyriacus C. Utilization of the Ph.D., Boston U., 2004. 3124800. Osman, Abdulahi Ali. Explaining ICD-10 and DSM-IV diagnostic criteria internal wars in Sub-Saharan Africa: in Nigerian mental health system: An Dickovick, James Tyler. The role of governance. PhD., ethno-cultural investigation. Ph.D., Intergovernmental fiscal relations in Wayne State U., 2003. 3116525. Capella U., 2004. 3123505. developing countries: Brazil, South Africa, Peru, and Senegal. PhD., Ozomeyo, Emuaredhowo Rufus. Monteiro, Nicole Maisha. The Princeton U., 2004. 3123421. The political development of Nigeria in conceptualization of mental illness in a comparative analysis: An inquiry Ethiopia: A survey of attitudes, beliefs Frendak-Blume, Allison M. United into why states succeed or fail in and practices. Ph.D., Howard States military chaplains on the nation-building. A case study with University, 2003. 3121814. ground in today's peace operations: selected countries. Ph.D., Howard U., Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia. PhD., 2003. 3121818. Ramsey, Ida Marleen. The role of George Mason U., 2004. 3123117. empathy in facilitating forgiveness: Pagan, Jimmy M. Beneath the The lived experience of six political Gakuru, Patrick Wahome. HIV blanket of progress: The nexus perpetrators in South Africa. Ph.D., testing in the 15-49 age bracket in between global and genocidal Gonzaga U., 2003. 3116073. Kenya: A test of the Health Belief processes [Rwanda]. PhD., Rutgers Model. Ph.D., Arizona State U., 2004. the State U. of New Jersey - Newark, Richards, Kimberly Alexandra Mary 3123554. 2004. 3131 771 . Landry. Zimbabwean counselors' knowledge of and attitudes toward Hailu, Lensa. Staying in the race: Peden, Mindy. A political theory of HIV/AIDS. PhD., Oregon State U., Ethiopian women in politics. Ph.D., U. taxation [South Africa]. Ph.D., Cornell 2004. 3120774. of Pittsburgh, 2003. 3117763. U.,2004. 3114492. Stilger, Robert L. Discovering new Lake, Daniel Roger. Between a rock Quinn, Joanna R. The politics of stories: An organic inquiry into and a hard place: The political acknowledgement: Truth commissions enspirited leadership [Senegal & economy of complying with coercion in Uganda and Haiti. Ph.D., Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., California Institute [South Africa]. PhD., U. of California, McMaster U. (Can.), 2003. NQ86551. of Integral Studies, 2004. 3126432. San Diego, 2004. 3130208. Siyame, Chisanga Nerbert. Lamin, Abdul Rahman S. Peace Keywords: Meanings of freedom and and justice in Sierra Leone: The Lome equality among Africans and writers in RELIGION peace process revisited. Ph.D., the Anglo-American liberal tradition Howard U., 2003. 3114633. [Zambia]. Ph.D., Northwestern U., Houser, Russell Scott. American 2004. 3132608. and English miSSionary perceptions of Muiu, Mueni wa. Late nationalism the Zulus in an era of leveling the and democracy: Contending Venezia, Gerald. Impact of mountains, bridging the oceans, perspectives on South African globalization of public administration civilizing and Christianizing the nationalism, 1976-2002. Ph.D., practices on Hofstede's cultural 'heathen' [South Africa]. Ph.D., Baylor Howard U., 2003. 3114639. indices: A comparison study of the U.,2004. 3124324. United States of America, Belgium, Musila, Andrew David. The and Kenya. D.PA, Nova Ibrahim, Yasir S. The spirit of Islamic reconstitution of East African Southeastern U., 2004. 3134219. law and modern religious reform: cooperation: A strategy for Maqasid al-shari'a in Muhammad development. Ph.D., Howard U., Wambuii, Henry Kiragu. The politics 'Abduh and Rashid Rida's legal 2003. 3121815. of HIV/AIDS and implications for thought [Egypt]. Ph.D., Princeton U., 34 ASA News - January and April 2005 Higgins, Christina M. Swahili­ LITERATURE literature, 1910-1948 [East Africa]. English bilingual conversation: A Ph.D., Brown U., 2004. 3134282. vehicle for the study of language Aitel, Fazia. Barbarology or a new ideology [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of theory of exile and identity. A study of Hoenig, Karen Haire. Re-storying Wisconsin - Madison, 2004. exile, writing, and resistance in two Africa: The case for using 'Au Tchad 3127972. Algerian novels: 'Vaste est la Prison' sous les etoiles' in an African by Assia Djebar and 'Un Passager de educational setting [Chad]. Ed.D., Lanteigne, Betty Fay. Task "Occident' by Nabile Fares. Ph.D., Columbia U. Teachers Coil., 2003. descriptions of non-Western English City U. of New York, 2004. 3127844. language use with cross-cultural Jayat-Reeves, Isabelle. La litterature evaluations and discussions of Balbuena, Monique Rodrigues. pied-noir apres 1962: Une memoire language choice [Kenya, Sudan & Diasporic sephardic identities: A en exil [Algeria]. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, Uganda]. Ph.D., Indiana U. of transnational poetiCS of Jewish 2004. 3118383. Pennsylvania, 2004. 3133930. languages [Algeria]. Ph.D., U. of California Berkeley, 2003. 3121392. Jefferess, David. Changing the Mughazy, Mustafa. Subatomic story: Postcolonial stUdies and semantics and the active participle in Bouabre, Theodore. Magical realism resistance [South Africa]. Ph.D., Egyptian Arabic. Ph.D., U. of Illinois in novels of the black world. Ph.D., McMaster University (Can.), 2003. at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. Indiana U., 2004. 3133871. NQ86527. 3130985. Delgado-Norris, Evelyne. African Leservot, Typhaine. Globalization Sargent, Cara Lia. The Napatan women and de/colonization: and the female body: Media royal inscriptions: Egyptian in Nubia Strategies of resistance and dynamics influences in Marie Redonnet, Maryse [Sudan]. Ph.D., Yale U, 2004. of change in Senegalese women's Conde, and Assia Djebar [Algeria]. 3125301. literature and film. Ph.D., Ph.D., U. of North Carolina at Chapel Northwestern U., 2003. 3118529. Hill, 2004. 3129757. Wilson, Janet E. Transparency and spreading of tense, aspect, and mood Deme, Mariam Konate. The role and Lyons, Jacqueline Lee. The Way in Kuche narrative discourse [Nigeria]. function of the supernatural in the They Say Yes Here [Lesotho]. Ph.D., Ph.D., U. of Texas at Arlington, 2003. African epic. Ph.D., Temple U., 2004. U. of Utah, 2004. 3117584. 3128527. Mamdouh Hussein, Abir. De la Di Carmine, Roberta. Cinematic continuite de certaines pratiques LAW images, literary spaces: The presence artistiques en Cote d'ivoire: Le cas du of Africa in Italian cinema and theatre. Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), Cohen, Tracy. Putting trust on the Italophone literature. Ph.D., U. of 2004. NQ90430. line: implementing telecommunication Oregon, 2004. 3120620. reform in South Africa and the role of McCoy, Heather. Staging the international trade. The first five years. Drouglazet, Nathalie. La langue Algerian War: Theatrical responses to S.J.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 2004. blessee d'Echo, ou, qu'est-ce que la the war that dare not speak its name. NQ91762. litterature d'expression frangaise? Ph.D., Brown U., 2004. 3134321. [Algeria]. Ph.D., Boston College, Fetze Kamdem, Innocent. 2004. 3122120. Moyer, Ian Strachan. At the limits of Adaptabilite des instruments Hellenism: Egyptian priests and the juridiques internationaux relatifs au Edwards, Allen George. Trois Greek world. Ph.D., U. of Chicago, commerce: Pour une 'convention romancieres noires, trois similitudes 2004. 3134005. legislative'. LLD, U. Laval (Can.), dans les representations fictives de la 2003. NQ86741. condition feminine en Afrique et aux Odjo, Aboudou-Lassissi. Historical Antilles [Cameroon]. Ph.D., U. of revisionism and the future of Black Manirakiza, Pacifique. La repression British Columbia ((Can.)), 2003. literary theory. Ph.D., U. of British des crimes internationaux devant les NQ86066. Columbia (Can.), 2004. NQ90242. tribunaux internes [Rwanda]. LLD, U. of Ottawa (Can.), 2003. NQ90005. Ferreira, Isabel A. Memoria e Odozor, Livinus Nwadiuto. imperio: Colonos e familias no Contemporary Nigerian literature and Maragia, Dick Bosire. Gender, romance portugues de revisitacao the idea of a canon. Ph.D., U. of tradition and sustainability: Evaluating africana dos anos 90. Ph.D., Brown Toronto (Can.), 2004. NQ91720. the applicability of indigenous U,,2004. 3134275. knowledge in post-colonial societies. Parkinson, Tracy Scott. Reading The example of Kenya. Ph.D., U, of Harris, Chandra M. Who's got the the colonial Christian mission: Delaware, 2004. 3133817. power? Blacks in Italian cinema and Postcolonial ism and liberation 32 ASA News - January and April200S Bitera, Raphael. Effet d'une testing of HIV and infant feeding: poverty, and adolescent sexual risk­ intervention sur la qualite de la prise Determinants of 'fully informed taking behaviors in Kwazulu-Natal, en charge des infections sexuellement decisions' on infant feeding methods. South Africa. Ph.D., Tulane U., 2003. transmissibles en Afrique de I'ouest. Ph.D., Iowa State U., 2003. 3118240. 3116940. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 2003. NQ86732. Lucas, Claire N. The equity and Salem, Safaa Gaber. The effect of cost-effectiveness of HIV voluntary music on pain during the first stage of Bradshe" Charlotte Ann. Measles counseling and testing in Tanzania. labor in Egypt. Ph.D., Case Western control in Kenya: An evaluation of the Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2004. Reserve U., 2004. 3132841. measles campaign strategy and 3130733. population characteristics. D.N.Sc., Tozan, Yesim. Evaluation of U. of Tennessee Ctr. for the Health Makumbi, Fredrick Edward. The integrated malaria control programs Sciences, 2004. 3124666. impact of parental HIV infection on [Zambia]. Ph.D., Princeton U., 2004. orphanhood, fostering and child 3120475. Coulibaly, Ferima. La relation entre survival in Rakai District, Uganda. la satisfaction des meres et d'autres Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2004. Webste" Jonas DeWitt. Using a composantes de la qualite du suivi­ 3130737. cultural model to assess female promotion de la croissance: Une condom use in Mpumalanga, South etude en Cote d'ivoire. Ph.D., U. de McClamroch, Kristin Jean. Africa. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., Montreal (Can.), 2003. NQ88994. Selecting treatment policies using 2003. 3119078. decision analytic techniques: Doocy, Shannon C. Recurrent Applications to epidemiology Willenberg, Ingrid Anthea. Getting drought in Ethiopia: Microfinance [Madagascar]. Ph.D., U. of North set for reading in the rainbow nation: programs as a means of improving Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. Emergent literacy skills and literacy coping capacity. Ph.D., Johns 3129765. environments of children in South Hopkins U., 2004. 3130667. Africa. Ed.D., Harvard U., 2004. Enah, Comford. An intervention to Mwapasa, Victor. The interactions 3118167. increase intentions and behavioral between Plasmodium falciparum skills to postpone sexual activity in malaria and HIV-1 in pregnant Cameroonian preadolescent female Malawian women. Ph.D., U. of HISTORY students. Ph.D., U. of Cincinnati, Michigan, 2004. 3122008. 2004. 3135109. Armanios, Febe Y. Coptic Christians Nnyepi, Maria S. Linking child in Ottoman Egypt: Religious Fegan, Gregory. Determinants of survival programs with malnutrition worldview and communal beliefs. measles immunization in selected alleviation strategies [Botswana]. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2003. 3124030. sub-Saharan African countries. Ph.D., Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2004. Tulane U., 2003. 3116927. 3129525. Awuo" Teresia Akinyi. The northern frontier in Kenya's external relations: Hanson, Christy L. Utilization of Okereke, Emmanuel O. Therapeutic Diplomacy and conflict. Ph.D., tuberculosis control services in Kenya: effects of multiple nutritional Howard U., 2003. 3114612. Analysis of wealth inequalities. Ph.D., supplements on the hypertensive Johns Hopkins U., 2004. 3130690. indices of cardiovascular distress Blakey, Leah-Rachel McAnally. [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Walden U., 2000. Making the hard choices between Karim, Ali Mehryar. 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The Board of the African Studies Association sends its heartfelt congratulations to Professor Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation for Professor Maathai's prize reads:

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment. Maathai stands at the front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa. She has taken a holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights and women's rights in particular. She thinks globally and acts locally.

Maathai stood up courageously against the former oppressive regime in Kenya. Her unique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to political oppression ­ nationally and internationally. She has served as inspiration for many in the fight for democratic rights and has especially encouraged women to better their situation.

Maathai combines science, social commitment and active politics. More than simply protecting the existing environment, her strategy is to secure and strengthen the very basis for ecologically sustainable development. She founded the Green Belt Movement where, for nearly thirty years, she has mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees. Her methods have been adopted by other countries as well. We are all witness to how deforestation and forest loss have led to desertification in Africa and threatened many other regions of the world - in Europe too. Protecting forests against desertification is a vital factor in the struggle to strengthen the living environment of our common Earth.

Through education, family planning, nutrition and the fight against corruption, the Green Belt Movement has paved the way for development at grass-root level. We believe that Maathai is a strong voice speaking for the best forces in Africa to promote peace and good living conditions on that continent.

Wangari Maathai will be the first woman from Africa to be honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. She will also be the first African from the vast area between South Africa and Egypt to be awarded the prize. She represents an example and a source of inspiration for everyone in Africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace.

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