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FROM THE SECRETARIAT... ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 1991 Bulletin - ASA CHANGES DATES OF 1991 OFFICERS ANNUAL MEETING President: Martin A. Klein (University of Toronto) We received word on December 20 that the hotel select­ Vice~President: Edmond J. Keller (UCLA) ed for the 1991 Annual Meeting in St. Louis was being Past President: Ann Seidman (Oark University) closed by its owners as of January 1, 1991. After some fran~ Treasurer: Joseph Miller (University of Virginia) c. tic scrambling, we located two other possible sites for our Executive Secretary: Edna G. Bay (Emory Univ.) conference, both of which were able to accommodate us only on a single weekend-November 23-26,1991. DIRECTORS We are pleased to announce that we have contracted RETIRING IN 1991 with the Adam's Mark Hotel, a lovely facility with excel­ Martha A. Gephart (Social Science Research Coun~ lent meeting space, for our 34th Annual Meeting. The ciD Adam's Mark is located in the heart of downtown St. Louis Catharine Newbury (University of North Carolina across from the city's most famous landmark, the arch, be~ at Chapel Hill) yond which flows the Mississippi River. Sulayman S. Nyang (Howard University) Unfortunately, there are two problems with the Novem­ ber meeting dates. By planning well in advance and work­ RETIRING IN 1992 ing with all ASA meeting participants, we hope to mini~ Carol M. Eastman (University of Washington) mize possible difficulties. Christraud M. Geary (Boston University) First, the dates of the 1991 ASA Annual Meeting over­ Sandra Greene (Kalamazoo College) lap, though they do not coincide with, the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, scheduled to RETIRING IN 1993 convene from 20~24 November in Chicago. We are in touch Joel D. Barkan (University of Iowa) with the AAA and hope to work with their program com­ Beverly Grier (Oark University) mittee to schedule ASA panels to accommodate anthropol­ Goran Hyden (University of Florida) ogists wishing to attend both conferences. Second, the 1991 ASA meeting will be held just before the Thanksgiving holiday, beginning on Saturday morn­ ing, November 23 and ending at midday on Tuesday, No­ ASA News, Vol. XXIV, No. I, JanlMar 1991. vember 26. Some US-based ASA members will welcome Editor: Edna G. Bay these dates, arguing that students rarely attend class any­ way on the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Published quarterly by the African Studies Association. However, because air traffic gets very heavy at that time of year, it will be important that participants reserve and pur­ Contributions to ASA News should be sent to ASA News, chase their air tickets well in advance. We have been as­ Credit Union Building, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia sured by several airlines that inexpensive fares are availa­ 30322. Deadlines for contributions are December 1, March 1, ble even at peak holiday travel times, provided tickets are June 1, and September 1. purchased early. We expect to be able to circulate the pre­ liminary program by midsummer this year, and we urge Domestic claims for non-receipt of issues must be made members to purchase their air tickets as soon as they re­ within six months of the month of publication - overseas ceive the preliminary program. claims must be made within one year. Meanwhile, we have published on pages 33-36 the Notice to Members: The United States Postal System does forms for the proposal of panels and papers. Please remem­ not forward periodicals. We must receive written notifica­ ber that you must be a 1991 ASA member when you sub­ tion from you at least five weeks in advance of any change of mit your proposal for consideration for the program. Keep address. Failure to notify us of your correct mailing address in mind too that participants normally will be accepted to will result in suspension of mailings until we receive such make only one presentation: as a paper presenter, a round­ notification. We can make address changes only when cur­ table participant, or a discussant. However, individuals rent dues are paid. Reinstatement of membership mailings may chair one panel and in addition make one presenta­ after suspension may be made by payment of a $5.00 rein­ tion. statement fee. l I We Welcome New ASA Members I (who joined or rejoined us between September 1 and December 1, 1990) I , Hailu Abatena Anthony Cohyte Walter W. Hill R. P. Marlin Diane K. Prouty I ~ Daniel Abebe Paul Collier Leslie I. Hill Herman Martin Robert S. Prouty I Catherine Acholom Stacie Colwell Aouicha Hilliard Flo Martin Allyson Purpura William Acworth Cathleen Compton Richard K. Holway Anthony W. Marx Damien M. Pwono Aduayom Adimado Christopher A. Conte Christian D. Horton Doe Mayer Philip Raikes Mahamed Daahir Afrah Hazel Cramer Bertie Howard Babacar Mboup Marcia Reeves Tavy D. Aherne Lee Cronk Emily Hughes David McBride John Reid Olabisi Idowu Aina Theodore S. Dagne Tami Hultman Patricia McFadden Lisa Richey Emmanuel Akyeampong Henrietta Dax M. Esme Hunte Beverly A. McGraw Dianne E. Rocheleau Richard Akinjide Leyla Ann Day Nur A. Hussen M.A. McMaster Peter A. Rogers Abdurahman Alamoudi Shann Dennard Chukwuma Ijoma Eileen McNamara Carla Roncoli Francesco J. Alberti Eli Dentor Joseph E. Inikori Lisa McNee Vicki Rovine Ali B. Ali-Dinar Jacques Depelchin Adrienne Israel Annette K. Miller Hanan H. Sabea YaresAmare Sheryl Detray H.Jacobson Tom Miller L. Salisbury Alexander Amuah Stephen Detray Miriam Jato Maryse Mills Cynthia Sampson Kristine Anderson Peter L. Doan Carolyn M. Jefferson S. N.Moeno Rickie Sanders Darius A. Annis Siri Dulaney Shamil Jeppie Dominic A. Mohamed Mei-Mei Sanford Kofi Anyidoho Michael J. C. Echeruo Cary Alan Johnson Sara Milburn Moore Marina Santoru Koffi Anyinefa L. A. Ega Charles Johnson Joseph Moreno Patricia Scheid G.F. Kojo Arthur Frank Eguaroje Chicha Mapoma Johnson Jeffrey Morrissey Sharon Scholl Yaw Agyei Asamoah Romanus Egudu Maudelyn Johnson William F. L. Moses Gerhard Schutte Alem Asres Frederick Ehrenreich Claudette E. Jones Rose Moss James F. Searing Yao E. AZiabu Anene Ejikeme P. Scott Jones Faith Mowoe Rosalind Shaw Ginette Ba Yassin EI-Ayouty Kingston T. Kajese Maryam Muhammad Peter Shiras Saad M. Baba Nathalie Eleady-Cole Mwangi Karangu Stanford G. Mukasa Lawrence Shirley Bashir E. Bakkar Philip Elliott Maikudi Karaye Jessie Gaston Mulira Julianne Short Ian Ball G. I. C. Eluwa Y. G. Kassage Musa Ahmed Musa Peter E. Siegle F. Odun Balogun KrisH Fair Paul Kengmo Kenda Mutongi EmySiganga Robert Barad Toyin FaIola Linda Kerr Wanjiku Mwangiru Mary Simons Carolyn Behrman Vicki Lynn Ferguson C. Tsehloane Keto Gregory Myers Mark Sloan Wendy Belcher Kathryn Firmin Haider A. Kham Luyinduladio N'Zinga Irena Smetankova Stephen Belcher Roland A. Foulkes Joseph K. Kimani Derrick Nault Charles U. Smith Kathleen Bickford Alan Fowler Helen Skopic Kocher Andrew Nazzaro Philip Steffen Judy Bieber Namora Gaborone Pascal Kokora Conchita Ndege Kearsley Stewart Patricia Billings Ali Khalif Galayoh Jerry Kolo Joseph Nevadomsky Harry R. Strack Dennis Bisgaard David I. Gandolfo Helene Kowan-Cox Kalala Ngalamulume Theresa Sutton June Pearson Bland ZhengGao J. Reed Kramer Cheikh Ibrahima Niang Sossina Tafari Ettagale Blauer Clara Garcia Linda Helm Krapf Victoria N. Nicodemus Irma Tardia Andrew K. Bomah John Ng'ang'a Gathegi Emmanuel H. Kreike Louis J. Noisin Charles Touhey Kevin Brennan Rebecca Gershenson J. B. Kubayanda Robert H. Nooter Carol Turpen Stephen Bright Clark Gibson Opia Mensah Kumah Jennifer Notkin Frances Ugwuegbu Barbara B. Brown Nigel Gibson Fred Kwoba R. Nwafo Nwanko A. Smart Uhakheme Courtney Brown Lori Ann Girvan Terrence Lamb Merrill Oates Patrick Ukata Jeffrey Brown Myrtle G. Glascoe Pier M. Larson Bridget O'Donoughue Cheshire Varga Karen McCarthy Brown Chris Goldman Gweneth Lashley OluOgube Joan Vincent Stephen F. Burgess Denise Gordon Jason Laure Isidore Okpewho Darrah Waitley John Burrows Sarah Gotbaum Babatunde lawaI Jacqueline B. Olagbaju Susan A. Warga Kristine Burrows Cyril E. Griffith Mary S. Lederer Folabi K. Olagbaju Francis Wegulo Rodney M. Burton Joanna Hadjicostandi Kahsay Legesse RachaelOlauke P.B. Welbeck Catherine Byrne Andrew D. Haines Andre Le Cann Benson C. Onyeji Tina West Robert Cancel Robert E. Hamilton Mvumbi Lelo Patricia Achieng Opondo Richard Wilding Brent Cantrell Gail A. Hansberry Robert Lesh Alice Owano Delores S. Williams Kate Casano Thomas J. Harrison Lisa Lindsay Olasope O. Oyelaran Selena Axelrod Winsnes A. Casely-Hayford Camilla Harshbarger Margot Lovett Manuela Palmeirim Servanne Woodward Maidel Cason Gillian Hart Mark Lurie Robert Papstein Stephen R. Wooten Eric Charry Fatuma Hashi Kinjthia Macharia Joe Parker Dee A. Worman Marcus Cheatham Russell A. Helms Marsha Mack Adriano Parreira Barbara Darelle Wyche John Chernoff Joy M. Hendrickson Carlos Madrid Ineke Phaf Efrem Yemane-Brehan Mari Clark Ali A. Hersi Namane Magau Elizabeth Plantz Tamam A. Youssouf Marshall Gough Kevin A. Hill Henry Waema Maingi Miroslava Prazak Laura Adamski Zeeman LETTERS Dear Dr. Bay: Sklar also points out that informa­ New Paltz had several years ago do­ This letter is in response to that of tion gathered by these agencies could nated to that college's library. We of­ Professor Sklar that appeared in your also be available to academicians and fered these to Professor Vela and we Oct/Dec issue of 1990. yet in several instances, such informa­ shipped them as eleven pound pack­ I feel that for whatever reasons, tion has turned out to be misleading ages which we sent by parcel post. participation of intelligence agencies and distorted. The primary function Recently we received a letter from in academia is not only unethical but of this information in several instanc­ her thanking NYASA for its efforts in also suspect. Yes, we do know that es has been for propaganda purposes. arranging this shipment, and Profes­ given the technology available to in­ Therefore, members of the ASA sor Garlick for his generosity. Most telligence agencies, the academic field should be aware of "sugar coated bul­ statisfying of all, however, she indi­ cannot keep any "secrets" from them. lets" coming from such agencies and cated to us that her department was However, in a free and democratic en­ therefore should refrain as much as currently improving its program in vironment, it is not the intention of possible from collaborating with them African studies. They were adding any academic community to withhold in any capacity. new courses, and attracting new stu­ any of its material from the public. Stephen B. lsabirye dents. Already a number of students The intention of all academic commu­ Northern Arizona University had done MA theses on Africa and nities, given the chance, is to publish the books that we had sent had been their findings and views in their re­ useful to them. spective fields. The intelligence agen­ NYASA intends to continue send­ cies also know this. Dear Edna: ing materials (like back issues of peri­ While interaction between scholars The New York African Studies As­ odicals that various libraries in our and intelligence officials does not turn sociation (NYASA) has responded to area have discarded) to the University the former into the latter, the inten­ the letter from Professor Elena Vela of of Lujan, as well as to other recipients tion of intelligence agencies is to influ­ the Universidad Nacional de Lujan in in Africa. Those who might have ma­ ence the decision-making process of Argentina, published in the ASA News terial of this nature we would like to any organization, like an academic as­ (XXII, 3, Jul/Sep 1989), requesting suggest that they also think of enter­ sociation. Money for some academic books that would help them to build ing into such arrangements. research provided by intelligence up their library on African materials. Roger Gocking agencies, however well intentioned, is At that time NYASA had in its President, NYASA to try to influence the agenda of the possession some 66 works on Africa Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY individual and/or his/her academic that had been left over from a larger organization. collection that Peter Garlick of SUNY In Memoriam: Victor A. Olorunsola

Victor A. Olorunsola, a member of in 1983, was State Versus Ethnic undergraduates in research projects. the ASA Board from 1978-1981, died Claims: An African Policy Dilemma. Al­ He introduced the "Dean's research in Boulder, Colorado on September though he devoted significant energy initiative" program for younger fa­ 29,1990, after a long battle with can­ and left a substantial professional leg­ culty. Funds from this source sup­ cer. He was 50. At the time of his acy through his research and writing, ported research efforts by nearly half death he was Dean of the College of he also contributed to the furtherance of the assistant professors in the Col­ Arts and Sciences at the University of of African studies in the United States lege under the deanship of Olorunso­ Louisville, a post he had held since through his university teaching, his lao 1987. Before going to Louisville, he administrative positions, and his During his time as Dean he also had been for many years a member of work for professional organizations. provided personal support to the the faculty and Chair of the Political He is remembered at the Universi­ Pan African Studies faculty, and in­ Science Department at Iowa State ty of Louisville particularly for his creased College support to the PAS University. support of students and younger fa­ Department, which had suffered A native of Nigeria and specialist culty. During his tenure as Dean he from years of fiscal neglect. in Nigerian politics, he wrote four strengthened the College Honors Pro­ Dean Olorunsola is survived by books, and contributed a large num­ gram; restructured and improved the his wife, Carol, and three children. ber of articles and papers on this sub­ student advising; and instituted grant Susan Broadhead ject. His most recent book, published programs for faculty who included University of Louisville ASA RECEIVES CHALLENGE GRANT FROMTHENEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities has .... Give a gift this year and make a pledge to give during awarded the African Studies Association a Challenge each year of our three-year campaign. We urge you to con­ Grant of $125,000 to assist the Association in building its sider one of our two special pledge levels: endowment. The ASA's Challenge Grant was one of only 36 awarded nationwide in 1990. Friends of the ASA persons who pledge $100 per year Challenge Grant regulations require recipients to raise for three years three dollars to match every dollar of federal funding. Thus the ASA must raise a total of $375,000 in matching funds Benefactors of the ASA - persons who pledge $1000 over by 1994. the three-year campaign (payable in installments of Our endowment was established in March 1990. Thanks $335). Benefactors will receive complimentary registra­ to surplus income from the 1989 year and personal gifts tion for the 1991-93 Annual Meetings. from ASA members, it has grown to just over $40,000 in less than a year. Now we must work to meet the first .... Pledge your special income to ASA: book royalties, threshhold of matching funds, $50,000, which must be speaker's honoraria, consulting fees or other income relat­ raised by the end of July 1991. ed to your work as an Africanist. Income from the ASA Endowment will be used for three areas of program activity: 1) to sponsor outreach pro­ .... Work with a group of your colleagues to endow a jects, particularly to precollegiate education and the public, Named Travel Fellowship. You can honor a mentor or 2) to promote international contacts among scholars in Af­ create a memorial for an individual through donations. rican studies, and 3) to support African studies publica­ Gifts totalling $50,000 will endow a travel fellowship ena­ tions. bling a scholar from abroad to be brought to the US to at­ Please join our campaign to build the ASA Endowment. tend ASA meetings or otherwise spend a period of time in Your tax-deductible gift will match funds from the NEH. the US for scholarly purposes. Recipients of your fellow­ Your support during these next three years will establish ship can be limited to persons in a field designated by you. the Association on a firmer financial basis and allow us to expand programs and activities in African studies. .... Encourage groups that are associated with the ASA and of which you are a member to make a gift to the ASA En­ How to Strike a Match for the ASA dowment. The ASA acts as an umbrella for numerous groups of scholars, providing space for meetings and other The major portion of our matching money will need to support services at the time of the Annual Meeting. By sup­ come from you, our members. You are our alumni and our porting the Endowment, your Africanist group can community. You are what gives the Association its life and strengthen our ability to serve your interests. energy. Here are some ideas about ways to give and ways to .... Offer to help our Development Committee in soliciting help us build our gifts. gifts from others. We need assistance in the areas of mem­ ber, organizational and personal gifts. ,.. Give a gift with your membership renewal. Donors of $100 or more will receive the 1991 ASA calendar (while Give a lot or a little, give what you can afford, but please they last) as a token of our appreciation. Let us hear from give. you.

We Thank Recent Contributors to the ASA Endowment

Jean Allman Susan Diduk Nancy and Robert Nooter William Bendig GoranHyden Patricia Romero Judy Butterman J. Gus Liebenow Vicki Rovine I I t PROVISIONAL MINUTES BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING on that question when he reports to the Board. Wednesday, October 31.9 am. The first ASA membership directory is at the printer and Douglas Room, Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore. will be mailed free of charge to all current members in ear­ ly December. Copies will be made available to non­ members at $15 each. We plan to issue a new member di­ Present: Directors Ann Seidman (Chair), Sandra Barnes, Iris rectory biennially, alternating it with updates of our direc­ Berger, Carol Eastman, Christraud Geary, Sandra Greene, Mar­ tory of African studies in the US. tin Klein, Catharine Newbury, Kwabena Nketia, Simon Otten­ berg. Edna Bay (Exec. Sec.), Joseph Miller (Treasurer), Mark Two new publications are now available through the DeLancey (AASP representative). Guests: Joel Barkan, Beverly ASA. The Arts of Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, com­ Grier, Edmond Keller. piled by Janet M. Stanley of the Smithsonian Institution li­ braries, was published by us in July. Dr. Stanley expects to prepare biennial updates and we hope to continue to pub­ 1. Approval of May 1990 Board minutes lish it. We are also distributing Into the Heart of Africa by Minutes were approved as published in ASA News (Jull Jeanne Cannizzo, a catalog published by the Royal Ontario Sep 1990). Museum. Annual Meeting 2. Report of the Executive Secretary Several of you were concerned with organizational Bay presented the following written report: problems associated with the annual meeting this year. A Membership good deal has been accomplished over the summer The best news this fall is membership. As of October 20, months and we anticipate a smooth program. However, the Association was comprised of 1953 individual and 582 our experience has impressed upon us the need to stan­ institutional members. Comparable figures for this date dardize procedures and policies associated with the Annu­ two years ago were 1505 and 583. In short, our individual al Meeting. I ask the Board's support to ensure 1) that the memberships have climbed 30% in a two-year period established procedures for the organization of the meeting while our institutional memberships have remained be followed by all persons involved and 2) that organiza­ steady. Current individual membership is the highest in tional procedures be established where they do not cur­ the history of the Association and we anticipate that it will rently exist. rise above the 2000 mark in 1991. Certain policies of the Board were not enforced by the Among our 1953 individual members are ten new life­ program chair this year. You will notice that a number of time members. The response to the offer of lifetime mem­ persons were scheduled to make two or more presenta­ bership has been strong, and indeed greater than we had tions on the program. Also, panel chairs and presenters anticipated for the first year. Lifetime memberships result were accepted on the program in violation of Board policy in savings for individuals who expect to be members of that they become members of the Association or pre­ the Association throughout their careers and provide ben­ register as non-members at the time that they propose to efits to the ASA by allowing us to create a lifetime dues participate. We have plans that will permit us to enforce fund whose earnings will support member services. Board policies on multiple appearances and membership Finances in future and I ask the backing of the Board as we put The ASA accountants have completed an audit of the those into effect. 1989-90 fiscal year. Because the Association changed its Additional areas of program planning, such as the fiscal year beginning in 1989, this auditor's report repre­ length of individual panel sessions, have not been subject sents the first full year of operation with the secretariat ful­ to Board policy and have varied from year to year. Al­ ly set up in Atlanta. The report indicates that we are oper­ though slight changes in patterns may be necessary de­ ating well and showing a modest surplus. pending upon hotel facilities and other local factors, it is The ASA Endowment, created in March of this year, important that individuals who propose panels or attempt had a balance as of the end of the fiscal year of $34,781. to schedule business meetings have some fair sense of the That sum included budgetary surpluses since 1988 plus a time to be allotted them. I ask the Board to mandate the total of $4,039 in contributions made by ASA members development of a model sched ule by me in conjunction with their 1990 renewals. I would urge the Board to take with the 1991 program chair and co-chair. Assuming that the lead in encouraging our members to make contribu­ the model works well in St. Louis, we will be able to use it tions in 1991, particularly if we are awarded a Challenge as a standard format for future meetings. Grant by the NEH. The Board at its meeting of November 1989 created the Publications position of "Liaison with the Board" for the 1990 and 1991 Member publications are on schedule. The next edition Annual Meetings. It is essential that the responsibilities of of Issue will be a double one and will appear in February that position be clearly defined by the Board and commu­ or March 1991. nicated to all of us who will be helping to organize the Carol Thompson, editor of the African Studies Review, next annual meeting. has submitted her resignation effective 1 August 1991. A Finally, you will recall that I reported last year (see ASA search committee has been appointed by Simon Otten­ News, Jan/Mar 1990, p.8) that the administration of the In­ berg, chair of the Publications Committee, to find a re­ ternational Visitors Program was placing an unreasonable placement. He will undoubtedly have further comments burden on the office of the executive secretary. We are at t

the end of a funding cycle this year, and I regret that I tive officers of member societies, will take place next week­ I I must repeat that I feel unable personally to accept respon­ end in Philadelphia. I am pleased to report that Elliott P. ! sibility for keeping that program active in the immediate Skinner has agreed to be the ASA delegate to the ACLS. I future. He will represent the Association at the annual meeting of I Relationship to Affiliated Organizations ACLS next spring. I The Board last spring asked me to make recommenda­ Continuance at Emory tions for ordering the relationship of the ASA to organiza­ The Board last spring asked that we move ahead with an tions affiliated with it, particularly in the context of the an­ offer for continuance at Emory and that I rethink the posi­ nual meeting. I have surveyed several of our sister tion of executive secretary in the next five years in light of I associations and on the basis of my findings would sug­ my own interests. gest that the ASA adopt the following policy: We have received confirmation from Emory administra­ tors that the University would welcome a second five-year 1. Committees of the Association contract with a level of funding comparable to that of the We currently recognize five committees of the ASA. initial five years. We hope to be able in fact to increase the These groups are made up of ASA members (at least theo­ level of support of the University in future. However, the retically), they use our name, and they are tied to us finan­ moment for requesting additional support has appeared to cially, even though they may collect funds from their us inopportune in the past few months. We anticipate be­ members apart from ASA dues. All report directly to the ginning this winter to work with the administration to dis­ Board and keep in close touch with the executive secre­ cuss possible enlargement of support for the ASA. tary. Any organization seeking to become a committee of As all of you are aware, I have since the beginning of the Association would need to negotiate that relationship 1988 devoted far more than half time to this organization. directly with the Board. Typically executive directors of our sister organizations are employed by their organizations at a 3/4 or full-time 2. ASA Affiliates commitment. Moreover, in comparison to other societies A number of scholarly groups organize panels and par­ of our size, the ASA secretariat is responsible for relatively ticipate regularly in annual meetings. I recommend that a far more activities. formal relationship be established with such scholarly or­ Given the current burden of work for the secretariat and ganizations. Each would apply to the Board for recogni­ the person of the executive secretary, I would make the fol­ tion as an affiliate of the ASA by indicating the nature of lowing recommendations, which would make continuance the organization and its mission. Affiliates would be re­ attractive to me personally and would, I trust, make the quired to be scholarly organizations and to have at least 50 position of interest to others who might wish to succeed percent of their members as members of the ASA. They me. would be permitted two sponsored panels each year at the 1. The title of executive secretary should be changed to ex­ annual meeting, meaning effectively two panels that ecutive director. The size of our organization and the level would not be vetted by the panels committee, and they of responsibility required of the administrative officer re­ would be assigned a room free of charge for a business quires a change in title. Trends in other academic organiza­ meeting. tions show a movement away from the executive secretary Affiliates would be required to comply with ASA dead­ title. lines for submission of panels. Individuals on their panels 2. Rather than expand the time that the administrative offi­ would also be required to comply with ASA requirements cer devotes to the Association, I would recommend that a for individual participation. Affiliate groups interested in second Africanist professional be hired to perform respon­ organizing more than two panels per year would be asked sibilities on a half-time basis with the ASA, thus allowing to appoint a liaison to work directly with the panels chair. the executive secretary/executive director to continue to be a scholar and administrator. 3. ASA Institutional Members Depending upon the associate director's background Institutional members that request it would be granted and interests, such an individual could take responsibility space for a business meeting in conjunction with the annu­ for work with committees of the Board and of the Associa­ al meeting. tion, could take over the International Visitors Program, ASA and Other Organizations and could assume some of the organizational responsibili­ I attended the fall meeting of NCASA, the National ties associated with the annual meeting. Were I to remain Council of Area Studies Associations, at Asilomar state in the position of executive secretary/executive director, park, California, in early September. Our agenda consist­ these changes would enable me to spend additional time ed solely of discussion of the joint report being prepared developing the Association's publications program and on the state of faculty in area studies in the US. Research publications marketing activities. towards that report continues. I would like to thank ASA Because few individuals can afford half-time employ­ members over the age of 55 who returned responses to a ment, and because I do not believe that the Association is survey on retirement patterns and to express my apprecia­ capable at this point of supporting a full-time appoint­ tion to the National Resource Centers which provided in­ ment, I volunteer to seek funding to support a half-salary formation for our statistical base. I expect to publish a ver­ for a period of three to five years during which the asso­ sion of the ASA portion of the report in the Jan/Mar 1991 ciate director would work on African studies outreach ac­ issue of ASA News. tivities. In particular, I propose the creation of a National The fall meeting of ACLS (American Council of Learned Information Center on Africa (NlCA) as a joint project Societies), which consists of sessions with the administra- with Emory University. NICA would use the base of our own membership and campus resources at Emory to de­ sented in the name of the Association. Sub-groups of the velop referral and reference services, to carry out special ASA could be encouraged to give prizes. Members dis­ projects in education and to pursue other useful projects of cussed the question of cash awards with prizes. Seidman service to the public. summarized the discussion, noting that prizes should be Seidman expressed the Board's appreciation for Bay's given only in areas where they can make a unique contri­ work, and noted three areas needing the attention of the bution and that creation of new prizes should be made Board: 1) a model schedule for ASA annual meetings, 2) a with care. Board liaison for the 1991 annual meeting and 3) changes Newbury moved that the ASA establish a text prize for in the executive secretary's title and responsibilities. the best critical edition or translation published in English The Board authorized Bay to work with the S1. Louis and that the Board appoint a committee to consider the Program Committee to develop a model schedule. Nyang modalities of such an award. Texts considered could be in was appointed liaison with the 1991 program chair; it was history, literature or other aspects of African culture. agreed that the liaison position should remain ad hoc. Translations could be from any language into English. Ot­ Barnes moved that the job title "Executive Secretary" be tenberg seconded the motion which carried. Newbury and changed to "Executive Director." The motion was seconded Eastman were authorized to appoint and work with such by Greene and passed. Bay pointed out that the change an Awards Committee. will require a change in the Bylaws. The question will be placed on the 1991 elections ballot for a referendum vote. 6. Distinguished Africanist Award Berger moved that a subcommittee of the Board be ap­ The Board discussed a suggestion from Jan Vansina that pointed to explore the question of an associate director, winners of the Distinguished Africanist Award be invited that it contact the Finance, Development and Outreach to give plenary talks on the state of the diSCipline in which Committees about the question, and that it make a prelimi­ they work. After discussion, Seidman noted that the Board nary report to the Board on Sunday, November 4. Barnes wished that Distinguished Africanists be invited to make seconded the motion which passed. Seidman assigned Ber­ major presentations if they wished, that the possibility of ger, Miller, Greene and Keller to the committee. publication of such presentations should be considered, that Vansina should be invited to speak at the 1991 meet­ 3. Report of the Elections Committee ing, and that the Awards Committee should consider how Bay thanked the members of the Elections Committee: such presentations should be organized and institutional­ Don Donham (Emory University) and Catherine Scott ized. (Agnes Scott College). Edmond J. Keller (UCLA) was elect­ ed Vice President. Board members elected were Joel Bar­ 7. National Panels Chair kan (University of Iowa), Beverly Grier (Clark University) Barnes presented a written recommendation drafted by and Goran Hyden (University of Florida). Martha Gephart recommending that a selection committee be appointed each year to name a National Panels Chair. 4. Nominating Committee That committee would consist of members of the Annual The Board discussed concerns that the 1990 slate of can­ Meetings Committee of the Board, the executive secretary didates had not been balanced among the disciplines repre­ and two non-board members. The chair would be the chair sented in the Association. Klein, current chair of the Nomi­ of the Annual Meetings Committee (e.g. the ASA vice pres­ nating Committee, noted that the committee for the 1991 ident). Such a committee would need to work three years slate was sensitive to the problem. Board members agreed in advance so that chairs might negotiate for institutional that strict criteria mandating balance should not be set but support and have time to form a committee. The Board that nominating committees should be urged to consider agreed to adopt the procedure. Seidman asked Keller to balances in disciplinary, ethnic, regional and gender back­ contact the person recommended for 1993 and to report to grounds of candidates. the Board on November 4. Barnes moved that Klein draft a policy statement on nominations to be announced in the ASA Business Meeting 8. Academic Boycott of South Africa and published in ASA News to encourage greater participa­ Berger presented a draft resolution prepared by the ad tion by members in the nominating process. Eastman sec­ hoc committee on the academic boycott of South Africa. onded the motion which passed. Ottenberg asked that the She noted that the draft was meant to express solidarity description of the means for nominating outside the nomi­ with anti-apartheid colleagues in South Africa and that the nating committee be published. resolution's provisions were designed to incorporate the spirit of opposition but to avoid narrow behavioral restric­ 5. Report of the Committee on Prizes tions in a situation of rapid change. Board members dis­ Newbury reported that she and Eastman had surveyed cussed prOvisions of the resolution, including questions other organizations for information on prizes and noted a about the membership of the Union of Democratic Univer­ wide variety of experiences. They recommended that the sity Staff Associations. Berger agreed to incorporate Board ASA take care to prevent the proliferation of prizes pre­ changes into the draft resolution, copies of which would be made available for discussion at the Business Meeting (see with Jean Hay (Boston University) as an advisory member. p. 17 for a copy of the draft resolution). Seidman agreed to write letters to Thompson in appreci­ ation for her work as editor and to the University of South­ 9. Human Rights in Africa ern California for its past support. Bay was asked to dis­ Newbury raised general concerns over human rights vi­ cuss publication mechanics with Howell. olations in the context of the lack of US press coverage of the student massacre in Lubumbashi in May 1990. Board 12. Task Force I members noted outlets for human rights concern~the Seidman reported that the Task Force, which consists of work of Africa Watch and the possibility of sessions at the Nzongola-Ntalaja (Howard University), Allen Isaacman annual meeting under the sponsorship of the Current Is­ (University of Minnesota) Hyden, Grier, and Seidman, had sues Committee. Klein queried if ASA should be concerned created seven subcommittees which had in turn organized I only for human rights violations in academic settings. workshops for the Baltimore meeting. In the next phase of Newbury moved that the Board authorize the president the project, proposals for on-going research with African I to call public attention to human rights violations in Africa colleagues were to be prepared and research results dis­ in consultation with the Executive Committee and that hel seminated. she report any such action to the membership through She added that approximately $50,000 in funding was I publication in ASA News. Ottenberg seconded the motion received from the MacArthur Foundation for the first 1 which passed unanimously. The Board agreed that the phase of the project. As a result, fifteen additional people president should act in cases when events are not publi­ were coming to participate in the annual meeting and to cized or are publicized in inappropriate ways in the US take part in a follow-up workshop co-sponsored by the press. Task Force and the African Development Foundation. The follow-up workshop was funded with a $20,000 grant from 10.CAFLIS AOF. The Task Force was in touch with the Archives­ Ottenberg moved that the ASA become an associate Libraries and Outreach Committees for cooperation in dis­ member of CAFLIS. Barnes seconded the motion which semination of research results. passed. Seidman asked that the Board make a decision on Phase II. The framework for the next phase would have centers 11. Report of the Publications Committee where future project activities would be carried out. There Ottenberg presented the following oral report: would be increased collaborative research, networking and AfriCl2n Studies Review editor Carol Thompson has re­ dissemination. Phase I represented a compilation of exist­ signed effective at the end of her three-year term because ing resources, a review of the state of the art. Phase II of a lack of commitment to institutional support by the would turn to basic research and its funding. She asked the University of Southern California. Ottenberg has appoint­ Board to make decisions in two areas: 1) to determine the ed a search committee chaired by Newbury and including nature of the Task Force's relationship to ASA and 2) to ap­ Greene and David Henige (University of Wisconsin) to seek a successor and to report to the Board at its spring prove the structure and format for funding of the next meeting. phase, so that funding proposals might be sent out. The September 1990 issue of ASR has appeared, the pub­ A long discussion ensued that covered a number of in­ lication of SSRC papers will be completed by December terrelated issues: raising of funds for Task Force activities, 1991 and ASR has received a substantial number of manu­ administration of Task Force funds, responSibility of the I scripts over the past two years resulting in a high level of Board for oversight of funds raised, suitability of ASA to rejections. Thompson has recommended to the Publica­ sponsor research projects, and past actions of the Executive tions Committee that ASR receive a higher page budget or Committee. consider publishing four issues per volume. Seidman indicated that the Task Force coordinating Yvette Scheven (University of Illinois at Urbana­ Champaign) recommended that the ASA publish an index committee would raise funds under the ASA name while of ASR, volumes 1-33, now near completion by John Bruce the seven subgroups would raise funds independently in Howell (University of Iowa). The Publications Committee the names of other institutions but that they would help to recommends that it be published and sold by the Associa­ support the Task Force. Several persons expressed concern tion. about the accountability of the Board for activities carried History in AfriC12 is doing well. The next edition of Issue, a out in the name of the Association though not supervised double issue edited by David Wiley (Michigan State Uni­ by the Board. versity) will appear in late winter. Ottenberg asked if ASA should be involved in the spon­ The AAAS/ ACts project does not distribute materials sorship of research, however worthy the subject. Barnes to South Africa. The Board may wish to consider indepen­ dent distribution of periodicals there. noted that the collation and dissemination of research was An editorial and advisory board for other ASA publica­ part of the ASA mission but wondered if ASA could or tions has been created and will meet at Baltimore. Its should function as a research institution. Berger asked if members include Nancy Schmidt (Indiana University), the Board would permit other members to raise research Randall Packard

1 pressed that it might appear that Board members were us­ meeting should take place without all members being in­ ing their positions to promote personal interests. Newbury formed. The Board agreed. argued that it was not the role of ASA to provide grants for research and expressed concern that recruitment to the pro­ 13. Other ject to date had included few representatives of franco­ Ottenberg expressed his appreciation for the experience phone Africa. of working with a thoughtful and creative Board and Seidman and Miller noted that the ASA would create a wished the Board Godspeed. Seidman thanked Ottenberg framework to encourage research, though it would not for his service to the Association and expressed the Board's therefore become a research institution. Greene noted the appreciation for the work of retiring members Barnes, Ber­ difficulty of disentangling ASA from Task Force research ger and Nketia. projects, even if funding were not sought in the name of the Association. Klein noted that ASA was not equipped to deal with large grants and asked if requests for Phase II could be sub­ BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING mitted in the name of Clark University. Seidman respond­ Sunday, November 4. 8 am. ed that this was a national project and hence should be as­ Douglas Room, Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore. sociated with ASA. Greene noted that the size and scope of the project represented an important departure from what Present: Directors Martin Klein (Chair). Joel Barkan. Carol the ASA had previously done. Eastman. Christraud Geary, Sandra Greene, Beverly Grier. Go­ Administration of future funds was discussed in the con­ ran Hyden. Ed Keller, Catharine Newbury. Sulayman Nyang. text of administrative problems with the MacArthur grant. Ann Seidman. Edna Bay (Exec. Sec.), Joseph Miller (Treasurer). Guests: Mary Jo Arnoldi. Sandra Barnes. Susan Broadhead. Lee Previous ASA grants had been administered financially Cassanelli. John Distefano, Robert Hamilton, Willie Lamouse­ from the secretariat though the work was carried out else­ Smith. Victor Le Vine. Peter Malanchuk, James McCann. John where. Seidman explained that Clark University had antici­ Metzler. James McLeod and Claire Robertson. pated receiving full financial authority over the MacArthur grant and wished to be reimbursed for expenses incurred 1. Board Committee Assignments in seeking funding. Barnes noted that the MacArthur grant President Klein assigned new Board members to com­ proposal did not mention Clark University and hence the mittees as follows: Barkan to Finance and Nominating; Gri­ transfer of financial authority to Clark had become a prob­ er to Publications and Annual Meeting; Hyden to Execu­ lem. tive and Development. Bay noted legal and administrative problems: that the non-profit and non-foundation statuses of the Association 2. Spring Board Meeting needed to be protected and that strict accounting proce­ The Board agreed to meet May 17-19 in Toronto. dures were required for grant funds, particularly those originating with the US government. 3. Nominating Committee Ottenberg moved that the ASA not continue its relation­ Klein reported that the following slate had been named ship with the Task Force beyond what the Association is for the 1991 elections: committed to at present but rather that it encourage the For Vice President: Task Force to move ahead strongly and vigorously to con­ Bennetta Jules-Rosette of the Department of Sociology, tinue the project outside ASA auspices. He noted that the University of California, San Diego Association had given the Task Force a good start and that David Robinson of the Department of History, Michigan it was now capable of operating on its own. Greene second­ State University ed the motion. The motion passed with a vote of seven to For Board of Directors: two. Veve Clark of the Department of Literature, University of Calfornia-Berkeley Berger then moved that the Board encourage requests Donald Crummey of the Center for African Studies, Uni­ from the Task Force for a different kind of continuing rela­ versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tionship with the Association. Greene seconded the motion Gwendolyn Mikell of the Department of Sociology, which passed unanimously. Georgetown University Barnes moved that ASA continue the financial adminis­ Lester P. Monts of the Department of Music, University of tration of the MacArthur grant. Newbury seconded the California, Santa Barbara motion which passed. Ernest J. Valenzuela of the Department of History and So­ Seidman moved that the overhead from the current Ma­ cial Sciences, Diablo Valley College cArthur grant be allocated to Clark University. Newbury Gretchen Walsh of the Africana Library, Boston University seconded the motion which passed. Seidman protested that the Executive Committee had 4. Finance Committee met in a conference call in May without her knowledge, Nyang reported that the Committee was pleased to re­ even though she was chair. She said that no committee port a surplus of $21,000 in the operating funds of the ASA for the 1989-90 fiscal year. The committee had considered ACASA continues to distribute books to African librar­ rising costs, including a 20% increase in US postal rates be­ ies. It urges members to include the printing of extra cata­ ginning in 1991 and recommended an increase in individu­ logs for distribution overseas. al dues for the 1992 year as follows: As a corporate body, ACASA is concerned about its rela­ tionship to ASA. Members were disappointed about the Income less than $15,00 $20 organization's treatment at the Baltimore annual meeting. Income from $15,000-30,000 $40 The following concerns were expressed in its board meet­ Income from $30,000-45,000 $50 ing: Income from $45,000-60,000 $60 ACASA-sponsored panels were not distributed evenly Income greater than $60,000 $70 over the program in 1990 and its sponsored panels were Persons resident in Africa and teaching in African not recognized in the program. institutions $15 There was a lack of disciplinary diversity in the 1990 slate The Board agreed to the new dues structure. of candidates for the Board. The book exhibits at Baltimore included the display of ma­ terials that may have been illegally exported from Africa. 5. Reports of ASA Committees Klein expressed regrets for the problems that have Archives-Libraries: emerged. Peter Malanchuk (University of Florida) reported as fol­ Arrangements were discussed to insure that the cultural lows: Congress has appropriated $100,000 for a feasibility patrimony of Africa be respected in the planning of future study for a West African field office. This success is due in exhibits areas. part to the letter campaign mounted in the past year to promote the office. Additional work may be needed. Moni­ Outreach: toring of further progress will be part of the agenda of the John Metzler (Michigan State University) and Robert Archives-Libraries spring meeting which will be hosted by Hamilton (University of Florida) reported: the Library of Congress from April 17-20. The Outreach Committee requests that ASA reprint the The Archives-Libraries Committee sponsored an excel­ outreach brochure that indicates sources of Africana mate­ lent panel on UNESCO at Baltimore. It has appointed a li­ rial for pre-collegiate education and public programs. aison with the Outreach Committee of ASA. The Committee requests seed money for a workshop Miki Goral (UCLA) reported that efforts have been handbook on African studies. Each National Resource made to take South Africa Now off the air in Los Angeles Center would contribute resources to the book which and Boston on grounds that it is ANC propaganda. She could be sold by ASA. asks that ASA take a stand on the issue. The Committee wishes to do work on academics' rela­ Joe Lauer (Michigan State University) has analyzed tions with the media, possibly in the form of a panel or numbers of theses on Africa produced by North American workshop on dealing with the media. Over time, they rec­ universities. New members for CAMP (Cooperative Afri­ ommend the creation of a list of Africanists available to cana Microfonn Project) may be recruited from among comment to the media. universities with high production of African theses. Patricia Kuntz (University of Wisconsin) has developed The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ a useful electronic bulletin board which the committee rec­ brary Materials (SALALM) has called attention to the pos­ ommends be undertaken on a national level by ASA. sible loss of Section (-J)7 of Title VI of the 1986 Higher Edu­ The Outreach Committee has agreed to design and lead cation Act. Section 607 would permit grants to universities a workshop for teachers in conjunction with the 1991 ASA and libraries to acquire periodicals published outside the meeting in St. Louis. US. Though never yet funded, Section 607 potentially The committee recommends that the ASA establish a could be of crucial assistance to African collections in US book award for children's literature in the African area and libraries. The Archives-Libraries Committee urges ASA a Public Sevice A ward for a faculty member who does members to write Congress on this issue. work beyond the higher education classroom. Seidman moved that South Africa Now presents impor­ Barkan cautioned that ASA wished to avoid multiple ap­ tant information and that the Board regrets efforts to dis­ proaches to funders. It was agreed that the Outreach Com­ continue it. The Board strongly encourages that the pro­ mittee would prepare a budget for the workshop hand­ gram be adopted by other TV stations in the US. Newbury book and that ASA would work on funding sources for the seconded the motion which passed. project. The Board discussed possible ways to draw media atten­ ACASA (Arts Council of the African Studies Associa­ tion to the annual meeting and noted that they are in the tion): process of considering policies for awards. Mary Jo Arnoldi (Smithsonian Institution) reported: ACASA currently has 208 US members and another 200 Women's Caucus: in Africa. Claire Robertson (Ohio State University) reported: Marla Berns, the incoming ACASA president, is direct­ The Women's Caucus was disappointed that their spon­ ing a project to create slide teaching sets for African uni­ sorship of panels was not listed in the program. They seek versities. Sets will be sold to support the sending of com­ to organize special panels on women and to see papers on plimentary sets to Africa. women added to other panels. Both men and women are for the 1994 meeting. The Board agreed to make a final de­ attending Women's Caucus panels and there are now cision on 1994 at its spring meeting. numbers of men working on gender issues. New caucus convenors are Karen Tranberg Hansen Baltimore meeting: (Northwestern University) and Christine Sylvester (North­ ern Arizona State University). Kristin Mann (Emory Uni­ Willie Lamouse-Smith (University of Maryland Balti­ versity) is the new treasurer. more County) presented a portion of a written report. He The caucus will continue to sponsor a breakfast. It hopes asked that the full report be added to the minutes when it to subsidize the paying for breakfast for African students is submitted. next year. Lamouse-Smith prefaced further remarks with an auto­ A conference is being planned in conjunction with the biographical statement so that new Board members would St. Louis ASA meeting which will include some 20 African know his background. He described problems in working women academics who will explore the status of women's with the secretariat and the executive secretary, indicating studies in Africa. Money is being sought to support the that he felt that the executive secretary had not shown him meeting. proper respect. He charged that the executive secretary had Board members expressed pleasure at the idea of a small colluded with the Omni Hotel staff to change the room as­ women's conference, though Miller cautioned that fund­ signment for a Friday evening musical performance in or­ raising for Women's Caucus projects should be coordinat­ der to accommodate a reception. The room change resulted ed through the secretariat. in the cancellation of the musical event. Lamouse-Smith asked that the Board reimburse the Baltimore Program 6. Report o£ the Development Committee Committee the $2200 it had paid for the musical group. Sandra Barnes provided the following oral report: Bay responded that neither she nor any member of her The central effort of the Development Committee during the next three years will be the building of the ASA En­ staff had assigned or reassigned any rooms. In an attempt dowment. Funds already stand at nearly $35,000, thanks to ascertain who had made the room change, there was dis­ to budgetary surpluses and the gifts of ASA members. Per­ cussion of a meeting held on Tuesday with secretariat staff, sonal giving from March to the end of June was $4,039. A hotel staff and program committee members. solicitation of member gifts will be included with renewal Klein expressed regret for the room mix-up, noting that notices this year. Calendars are also being sold as a fund­ this was an expense that was not originally requested of raising project. the Board and that it had not been caused by the foul-up in The Development Committee recommends that the ex­ rooms. Keller moved that the Board investigate the room ecutive secretary be authorized to engage a professional change in executive session and respond to the Baltimore development consultant to advise and assist in fund­ raising efforts on a commission basis. The Committee asks program committee in writing. Greene added a friendly that no other fund-raising be done in the name of the Asso­ amendment that the committee also investigate the ques­ ciation during the period of the endowment campaign. It tion of lack of respect by the executive secretary. Seidman further recommends that the Board develop guidelines for and Nyang seconded the motion which passed. Lamouse­ ASA fund-raising and that all fund-raising be centralized Smith was asked to communicate his proposal for a resolu­ and cleared through the secretariat. Policy decisions need tion of the room mix-up in writing to the Board. Keller and to be made on the use of funds raised and the locus of ac­ Nyang were asked to participate in the Executive Commit­ countability and oversight of funds. tee deliberations on the question. The Board agreed to the recommendations of the com­ Board members congratulated Lamouse-Smith on the ex­ mittee. Keller recommended that the Development Com­ cellence of the program and expresed their regret for the mittee provide a guidelines policy document that the problems that he had faced. Hyden moved a vote of thanks Board could consider. Eastman noted that the committee to Lamouse-Smith and his committee which was seconded needed input on inappropriate sources for funds. by Seidman and passed unanimously. Recommendations were made for possible leaders of the Development Committee. Sl Louis Meeting: Victor Le Vine and James Mcleod (Washington Univer­ 7. Annual Meetings sity) reported that they had met with their program com­ Future Meetings: mittee during the Baltimore meeting and that the commit­ Jim McCann invited the Association to meet in Boston in tee would take a proactive role in forming panels. 1993. He raised questions about the new organizing pat­ Le Vine proposed that the president's speech at the ASA tern for ASA, including how a theme would be chosen. Bay banquet be limited to 30 minutes so that dancing and enter­ reported that the 1992 Seattle organizers and panels com­ tainment could be included in that event. He expressed mittee had worked out a theme jointly. Keller noted that a concern that the flow of materials between the secretariat tentative choice for panels chair for 1993 had been made. and St. Louis be improved. Le Vine discussed possible for­ The Board accepted the Boston invitation. matsfor a presentation by the Distinguished Africanist and Susan Broadhead (University of Louisville) and Klein noted his interest in having Howard Wolpe attend. presented offers from Louisville and Toronto respectively McLeod noted cultural events that were in the planning ,~ stages, including a teacher's workshop to be held in con­ Miller noted that the contract with Emory ends in 1992. junction with the St. Louis art museum. He requested that He pointed out that Board policy required bids each five ASA contribute a total of $5000 in seed money to the pro­ years both for host institutions and for editors of ASA pub­ gram organization. lications. Klein noted the difficulties of moving the secre­ The Board expressed its wish that Vansina be asked to tariat, including financial costs and time required to train a give a major address as Distinguished Africanist and that new staff. Hyden moved that in conformity with the five­ \ the business meeting be scheduled for a longer period of year review requirement, the Board retain the option to re­ time. It will consider the question of additional funding in ceive bids to host the Association each five years and that i ~ the spring. there be an obligatory open tendering at fifteen-year inter­ vals. Seidman seconded the motion which passed. f Seattle Meeting: Klein, Keller and Miller were authorized to renegotiate a Lee Cassanelli (University of Pennsylvania) reported new contract with Emory. that the 1992 National Panels Committee was being fonned. Manthia Diawara (University of Pennsylvania), 10. International Visitors I Sidney Kasfir (Emory University) and Della McMillan had Newbury expressed concern that there would be no In­ t agreed to serve to date. The committee will work through a ternational Visitors program in 1991. Bay repeated her central committee of five to six persons surrounded by a statement (see Executive Secretary report, p. 6-7) that she second tier of persons representing various interest groups was unable to continue the program in the immediate fu­ of the ASA. He suggested that the Panels Committee may ture. Hyden agreed to write a proposal for additional I require groups sponsoring panels to adhere in part to the funding. No decision was made on administration. program theme. Innovative funding for international visi­ tors will be necessary. To date, Cassanelli has received in­ 11. Other Business I[ stitutional support from the University of Pennsylvania for A three-person committee will be named to redraft the a portion but not all of his needs. South Africa resolution discussed in the Business Meeting. The president will write a solidarity statement for a 8. Task Force CODESRlA-sponsored conference on academic freedom. I Seidman asked that the Task Force be named a commit­ The Board considered a request from Folu Ogundimu I tee of the ASA. (Indiana University) that it take action on human rights vi­ Hyden queried if the Task Force would raise money in olations in Nigeria. The matter was referred to the presi­ the name of ASA. Miller noted that as a committee it dent and Executive Committee. I would need to clear all fund-raising plans and contacts Klein expressed the enthusiastic satisfaction of the Board with the Development Committee. Eastman noted that oth­ with the work of Edna Bay, Norma Miller and the rest of f er committees of ASA would be assisting in raising funds the Atlanta office staff and thanked them for their hard for the endowment not for special projects and suggested work. i affiliate status as more appropriate for the Task Force. I Greene noted the need to clarify distinctions between af­ filiates and committees. Geary presented a resolution that BUSINESS MEETING t the president appoint a study committee consisting of the Saturday, November 3,1990.6 pm. past president of the Association, two members of the Liberty Ballroom, Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore. I! Board, three representatives of groups affiliated with or r meeting coordinately with the Association and the execu­ 1. Installation of the New President tive secretary, ex officio, to draft policy statements fonnal­ President Ann Seidman called the meeting to order, izing relationships between the ASA and the categories of then turned the speaker's position over to incoming presi­ related groups that it may wish to define to be presented to dent Martin A. Klein. Klein thanked Seidman for her work the Board for consideration at its October 1991 meeting. on behalf of the Association and thanked the retiring past I The study committee would be empowered to seek legal president, Simon Ottenberg, and retiring board members, and other professional counsel as it deemed appropriate. Sandra Barnes, Iris Berger and Kwabena Nketia, for their Nyang seconded the resolution which passed. service to the ASA. Klein also thanked Edna Bay, Norma Nyang noted that the Task Force could not exist separ­ Miller and the staff of the ASA secretariat for their work ately from ASA, that the Association would need to main­ over the past year. tain legal responsibility if it were a committee. Newbury Klein recognized and thanked the organizations that asked that issues of fund-raising by committees and sub­ had funded portions of the Baltimore ASA meeting: the contracting of funds be submitted to the study committee. University of Maryland Baltimore County and the Univer­ The Board agreed that the Task Force become an ASA Sity of Maryland College Park. He thanked Willie La­ committee. mouse-Smith and his committee for their work in organiz­ ing the Annual Meeting. 9. Relationship with Emory University Klein expressed the gratitude of the ASA for assistance with the International Visitors Program. The Ford Founda­ Finally, we are in the process of changing the organiza­ tion provided funding that enabled fifteen participants tional structure by which the annual meeting program is from abroad to attend. In addition, the United States Infor­ arranged. Our goals are dual: 1) to relieve the organiza­ mation Agency provided support in three forms: 1) supple­ tional burden on local committees who had previously been responsible both for developing the program and for mental funding to Fulbright scholars resident in the US to arranging cultural events and 2) to permit a group of care­ enable them to participate in the ASA meeting, 2) funding fully selected scholars from around the US to take a proac­ through the International Visitors Program and Voluntary tive stance in creating a series of panels of the highest Visitors Programs of USIA which brought five visitors quality. That transition is in process and will be complete from Africa who had been nominated by their local US In­ by the time we meet in Seattle in 1992. Meanwhile, we formation Service posts, and 3) support from the Office of urge members to observe carefully the regulations for the International Visitors of USIA which scheduled the partici­ proposal of papers and panels which, for the sake of fair­ pation of two groups of African visitors in the Baltimore ness in the construction of ASA programs, will be strictly meeting: eleven persons traveling in a "Museums in the enforced. US" program and fourteen individuals participating in a program called 'Thirty Years of US-Africa Relations." Klein 3. Report of the Treasurer thanked a number of individuals involved in the USIA Joseph Miller described the functions of the treasurer as work: Winnie Emoungu, Chief for Africa of the Academic providing financial and technical support for the Associa­ Exchanges Division of the Bureau of Educational and Cul­ tion. Financial oversight is maintained through regular tural Affairs; cultural affairs officers in Lusaka, Nairobi, La­ contacts and an annual visit to the secretariat. Miller noted gos and Harare; Kate Delaney of the Office of International the professionalization of operations in the secretariat and Visitors; and Ellen Kornegay and Linda Rhoad of the the solid relationship that the ASA has developed with Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Emory UniverSity. The first five-year contract with Emory will expire at the end of 1992 and steps need to taken to 2. Report of the Executive Secretary seek a renewal. The accounting system has been devel­ oped into a comprehensive and accurate system for pro­ Edna Bay read the following report: viding useful financial data to the Board. He compliment­ I am pleased to report that the ASA is a vigorous and growing organization. Individual memberships have ed the executive secretary on her work and indicated that climbed 30 percent in the two-year period since October the organization is healthy and stable. 1988 while our institutional memberships have remained steady. At 1953 persons, current individual membership is 4. Report of the Elections Committee the highest in the history of the Association and we antici­ Bay thanked the members of the Elections Committee pate that it will rise above the 2000 mark in 1991. for 1990, Don Donham of Emory University and Catherine ASA members in 1990 will be sent a total of 11 discrete Scott of Agnes Scott College. publications, including for the first time in recent memory The following persons were elected: a listing of all individual members. That directory of 1990 Vice President: Edmond J. Keller of the Department of Po­ members will be mailed in early December as the first of litical Science, UCLA what is expected to be a biennial membership listing. Board: Joel D. Barkan of the Department of Political Sci­ Financially, the report of our auditors suggests that we ence, The University of Iowa are a healthy, though by no means a wealthy organiza­ Beverly Grier of the Department of Government, Clark tion. The auditors have determined that we enjoyed a sur­ University plus of $21,000 of income over expenses for the fiscal year Goran Hyden of the Department of Political Science, Uni­ ended June 30, 1990. We continue to work to build an op­ versity of Florida. erating reserve while we simultaneously launch our first drive to build an endowment for the long-term well-being of the Association. The ASA endowment was created in 5. Report of the Nominating Committee March of this year. Thanks to the donation of our 1988-89 Klein reported that the following persons had been se­ surplus and to gifts from ASA individual members, by the lected to stand for election in 1991: end of the fiscal year, only four months after the endow­ For Vice President: ment's creation, it stood at nearly $35,000. We hope to re­ Bennetta Jules-Rosette of the Department of Anthropolo­ ceive a major Challenge grant from the NEH which will gy, UC-San Diego spur the growth of this important fund. David Robinson of the Department of History, Michigan The Association created a lifetime membership option State University for the first time in 1990. The response to the offer of life­ For Board: time membership has been strong, and indeed greater than Veve Clark of the Department of Literature, UC-Berkeley we had anticipated for the first year. Lifetime member­ Donald Crummey of the Department of History, Universi­ ships result in savings for individuals who expect to be ty of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign members of the Association throughout their careers and Gwendolyn Mikell of the Department of Sociology, provide benefits to the ASA by allowing us to create a life­ Georgetown University time dues fund whose earnings will support member ser­ Lester P. Monts of the Department of Musicology, UC­ vices. Santa Barbara Ernest Valenzuela of the Department of History, Diablo velopment process in Africa, especially with regard to lit­ I Valley College eracy, publishing, and libraries. The Committee appre­ Gretchen Walsh of the Africana Library, Boston Universi­ ciates the support of the Association in bringing J.0. Dipe­ l ty. olu, University Librarian of Obafemi Awolowo Klein thanked the members of the Nominating Commit­ University, He, Nigeria to Baltimore to participate on this tee for their work and recognized in particular the non­ panel and in our other working sessions. I board members: Phyllis Bischof, Jane Guyer and Renosi On 1 November we sponsored an open working meet­ Mokate. ing of the Book Famine Task Force. Gretchen Walsh, Chair of the Task Force, has compiled a draft Handbook to serve as a guide for those who seek to alleviate severe 6. Report of ASA Committees problems of book shortages in Africa. The handbook pro­ Archives-Libraries Committee vides guidelines for book donation projects and creates a I (Presented by Phyllis B. Bischof, University of California at directory of book donation and book development agen­ Berkeley) cies and projects. In addition, the Task Force has devel­ The Archives-Libraries Committee conducted its 1989-90 oped a bibliography on the subject of book aid to Africa. business without the benefit of a spring meeting since we Among the most effective efforts in book aid is the Ameri­ I elected to meet only once this past year, (but to commence can Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) our fall meeting one day early) as a cost-saving measure. journals program; we applaud the efforts of the AAAS in I The lack of a spring meeting was most noticeable in its ef­ sending 200 journal subscriptions on a regular basis to 100 fect upon the Subcommittee whose charge was to select African libraries. the Conover-Porter Award. That work and other projects Among our most active members in the past year have of the Committee were cond ucted chiefly by telephone, let­ been those working to further aims expressed by the Com­ ter, and FAX. A number of our East Coast members did mittee's Guidelines for Interaction with South Africa. These I hold an informal session at Falmouth, MA at the offices of Guidelines have engendered national and international dis­ African Imprint Library Service. In 1991 a spring meeting cussion and have been adopted by such organizations as i has been scheduled in Washington, DC; the Library of the Association of College and Research Libraries and by Congress will host it. At our Business Meeting we voted nine bodies within the American Library Association, in­ overwhelmingly to return to the pattern of two regular cluding its Black Caucus, its International Relations Round ! meetings per year. Table, and its Social Responsibilities Round Table. Letters t In February Gretchen Walsh of Boston University and commenting on the Guidelines have been published in sev­ Edna G. Bay testified at the Legislative Branch Subcommit­ eral issues of ALN, Africana Libraries Newsletter, notably tee of the House Appropriations Committee in support of Nos. 63 and 64, July and October 1990. the establishment of a West African Regional Office for the The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) in I Library of Congress. Written testimony for the Congres­ cooperation with the Center for Research Libraries, Chica­ sional Record was submitted by Phyllis Bischof and by go, continues to acquire Africana in microform. Current­ Edna G. Bay. Africanists around the country were mobi­ ly, titles under consideration include a collection of disser­ lized, and hundreds of letters were written in support of tations focused on oral materials collected in Senegal as this office. We wish to thank Edna Bay, the Board, and the well as a continuation of priority for the acquisition of Af­ membership for your staunch support and your many ef­ rican newspapers of the 1980s. Information concerning forts on behalf of this issue. We realized partial success in the availability of CAMP's holdings will be enhanced by a that the 1990-91 federal budget provided $100,000 for a recent NEH grant to convert retrospectively holdings of feasibility study of the Office. Although we should have the Center for Research Libraries. Once converted these preferred vastly to have accomplished our aim, namely the records will appear on two national bibliographic u~ilitiesl funding of an Office straightaway, nonetheless an impor­ the OCLC and RLlN databases. The use of CAMP's hold­ tant beginning has been made. Certainly the congressional ings will be facilitated by these improved records. Notices committee chairs to whom we all wrote were made ex­ of CAMP's acquisitions appear in the organization's min­ ceedingly well aware of the need for a West African Office. utes which regularly appear in ALN, Africana Libraries We shall need to continue our efforts to secure permanent Newsletter. funding for this office in the next budget cycle. The circulation of ALN, Africana Libraries Newsletter, the The 1990 year has seen an expansion of the program of Committee's quarterly publication, now totals more than the Library of Congress' East African Accessions Office in 500 issues, with approximately 300 issues distributed do­ Nairobi. Interested US Libraries (some 16) signed up to re­ mestically and 200 sent by air to African libraries. The ceive regularly selected Kenyan newspapers, serials and Committee wishes to thank Nancy J. Schmidt, African government publications. The cost of these materials is the Studies Area Specialist at Indiana University, for her high­ cost of local acquisition plus a SO percent administrative ly effective work during two three-year terms as editor of fee. Because of this program we have seen a marked im­ this publication invaluable to the work of all Africana li­ provement of Kenyan materials received in American re­ brarians and the scholars we serve. We also thank the Af­ search libraries. The Archives-Libraries Committee thanks rican Studies Program and the Libraries at Indiana Univer­ the Library of Congress for facilitating our acquisition of sity for their financial support of the Newsletter. The these immensely valuable materials. Newsletter serves as a major means of notification to librar­ On 2 November 1990 the Committee sponsored a panel: ians concerning citations to new publications, both mono­ UNESCO and an Information Society in Africa. Our aim graphs and serials, public and private, from and about Af­ was to highlight the contributions of UNESCO to the de- rica. It also publishes the minutes, agendas, and documents of the Committee and of CAMP. rican university and museum libraries. The books were Bibliographies for African Studies 1970-1986 by Yvette graciously donated to the program by the following insitu­ Scheven, Africana Bibliographer at the University of Illi­ tions: American Museum of Natural History (New York), nois at Urbana-Champaign, was awarded the sixth Cono­ African Arts Journal and the Fowler Museum of Cultural ver-Porter Award (See p. 20). The Committee thanks John History, UCLA (Los Angeles), National Museum of Afri­ B. Howell of the University of Iowa for chairing the Selec­ can Art, Smithsonian (Washington), SSRC Africa Pro­ tion Committee for the Conover-Porter A ward. gram/Smithsonian Institution (New York and Washing­ To increase visibility and suppport among the nation's ton), and the UniverSity of Iowa, School of Art and Art libraries for area collections, specifically Africana collec­ History and the Stanley Foundation (Iowa City). The pro­ tions, we have forwarded two resolutions to the White gram was administered by Janet Stanley, National Mu­ House Conference on Library and Information Services. seum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution, We have also written to the US Department of Education Washington, DC. It is our hope to continue to expand this requesting implementation of a Foreign Periodicals Section program in the coming year. (Section 607) ofTitle VI of the 1986 Higher Education Act. ACASA in conjunction with the Center for Integrative Since 1984 members of the Committee have published Studies at Michigan State University embarked on a pilot "Africana Reference Works: An Annotated Lis!..." in the project to develop slide sets for use in teaching African Art African Book Publishing Record. The 1989 list is in the ABPR in Museums and Universities both in the United States 16:2- 1990, pp. 87-96. Work on the 1990 list is underway. and in Africa. The pilot project will develop an initial Plans are afoot to print an annual unannotated version of slide set of between 100 and 150 images. These images are the list in ASA News. Joseph Lauer of Michigan State Uni­ being donated to the project by individual ACASA schol­ versity continues to update his recent bibliography of ars. The sets will include full descriptions of each slide American & Canadian Doctoral Dissertations with "Recent along with bibliographies and suggested readings for use Doctoral Dissertations" in ASA News. by teachers and museum professionals. The future goal of At the Committee's Business Meeting, Peter Malanchuk, this project is to develop a data bank of visual images and University of Aorida, Gainesville, was elected the new comprehensive teaching materials which will be as fully Chair. Our Deputy Chair, Chair-Elect is Onuma Ezera of res presentative as possible of the Arts of Africa and the Michigan State University. Diaspora. The Archives-Libraries Committee appreciates the steady encouragement and support we receive from the Outreach Committee ASA Board and members, and most particularly from (Presented by Robert E. Hamilton, University of Florida) Edna G. Bay, Executive Secretary. We look forward to The outreach coordinators and directors located continued cooperation and hard work with you all on our throughout the United States met twice during the African many projects of mutual concern. Studies Association conference in Baltimore. During the first meeting-chaired by John Metzler of Michigan State Arts Council of the African Studies Association University and held on Wednesday, October 31-each rep­ (Presented by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution) resentative reported on specific activities associated with The Arts Council of the African Studies Association is de-­ her or his program or center. We were informed that all dicated to the study of the arts of Africa and the Diaspora. Title VI centers must provide outreach services to school The Association currently has over 300 members interna­ systems and other organizations which request material or tionally and is a multi-disciplinary organization including assistance relating to Africa. art historians, social anthropolOgists, ethnomusicologists, Brenda Randolf has been appointed executive director archeologists, and museologists. ACASA members con­ of Africa Access, a service organization which will provide tine to be active in the annual ASA meetings and the asso­ materials on Africa for K-12 schools. Africa Access is lo­ ciation sponsored 14 panels at the Baltimore meetings. cated in Silver Springs, Maryland (301-587-5688). Other li­ Marla Berns, an art historian and Director of the Goldstein brarians attended the outreach meeting and requested that Gallery at the University of Minnesota was elected the outreach coordinators and directors remember to add 10­ new ACASA President during the Board and Business cal libraries to their mailing lists. Meetings held at the ASA in Baltimore. The University of Aorida and Michigan State University This past year ACASA produced a quarterly newsletter have launched new efforts to assist Historically Black Col­ which included information about and summaries of pro­ leges and Universities to promote the study of Africa. fessional meetings, symposia, exhibitions, and publica­ Summer institutes, faculty exchanges, library linkages, reo­ tions, along with professional news and announcements search affiliation programs, and conferences are being dis­ on the arts of interest to our membership. One hundred cussed and planned in order to develop mutually satisfac­ complimentary copies of each issue of this newsletter were tory ways of strengthening both research and teaching at sent to African scholars and university and museum librar­ the centers and at the HBCs. ies and archives on the continent. The UCLA African outreach program has begun work­ The Arts Council has also successfully embarked on two ing within the inner-city neighborhoods of Los Angeles. major program initiatives: the ACASA Art Book Distribu­ A UCLA van is used to transport graduate students to the tion Program and a pilot project to develop African Art inner city for work with schools and other organizations Teaching Slide Sets for teachers and museums. In 1990 the interested in Africa. ACASA Art Book Distribution Program dispatched a set of Boston University has proposed to teach Swahili in Bos­ eight books, exhibition catalogues, and journals to 100 Af­ ton Schools. The University of Illinois at Urbana­ Champaign has established an African art museum. An I t

electronic bulletin board has been established at the Uni­ munity. verity of Wisconsin at Madison (608-262-9689). The num­ 5. To encourage scholars to state their opposition to apart­ ber is accessible 24 hours per day and material can be both heid in any publications ensuing from their visit to South down-loaded and up-loaded. Africa. Eren Giray (University of Illinois) was elected chair of 6. To support visits from South African scholars who pub­ the outreach directors group; Robert Hamilton (University licly and actively oppose apartheid and who favor a non­ of Florida) was elected associate chair; and Barbara Brown racial democracy in their country. (Boston University) was elected secretary. John Metzler 7. To review and update these resolutions as appropriate was thanked and commended for his work as chair of the and to submit changes to the memberShip. group during the past three years. After a short discussion about whether the resolution The second meeting of the group was held on Friday, should be submitted for a mail vote of the membership or l November 2. This meeting was devoted to brief updates a referendum, or whether it should be returned to the from centers not represented at the October 31 meeting, and a long discussion with representatives from St. Louis Board with the recommendations of the assembled mem­ I regarding ways to assist them in planning an outreach bers, several amendments were proposed. component for the 1991 ASA meeting. Beverly Hawk (Colby College) proposed an amendment to section 6: "To insist that the academic, professional, and I Women's Caucus other specialists selected under this policy proportionately (Written report not received by press time) represent the racial diversity of South Africa and the US, in recognition of the historial and contemporary exclusion of black South Africans and African Americans in higher edu­ I 7. Report of the Task Force on Sustainable Development (See report on p. 18) cation and professional organizations." Nzongola-Ntalaja (Howard University) proposed an 8. Resolution on the Academic Boycott of South Africa amendment to section 2: "To discourage the establishment Iris Berger introduced for discussion the following draft of ongoing institutional links between the US and South Af­ I resolution prepared by a committee of the Board: rican universities or other academic institutions (joint re­ As the primary organization of African scholars in the search, etc), unless explicitly supported by mass democratic United States, the African Studies Association wishes to organizations. " I express its agreement with the "selective support" policy Thoahlane Thoahlane (Columbia University) proposed on academic exchanges with South Africa that has been an amendment to be added to section 1: "and assist in jun­ adopted by UDUSA, the Union of Democratic University ior staff development programs especially in black univer­ Staff Associations, and to publicize this policy statement sities so that these institutions can benefit from localization among American scholars. in the long run." I Launched in July 1988, UDUSA was formed partly in or­ ! der to promote the elimination of discrimination on the Discussion returned to the precedural problem of how ( basis of race, gender, class and creed in South African uni­ the resolution might be handled. David Wiley (Michigan versities and society. This policy, reaffirmed in July 1990, State University) moved that the resolution be referred was developed in consultation with various anti-apartheid back to the Board to be redrafted in light of the sense of the organizations. Business Meeting. The motion was seconded and was While recognizing that the academic boycott has helped passed overwhelmingly (approximately 55 to 4). in part to isolate the apartheid regime and its supporters, Members then voted individually on each amendment UDUSA now believes that selective support for progres­ I in order to provide a sense of the meeting for the Board. sive organizations will help to further the objectives of dis­ mantling apartheid and upholding the values of academic All three were passed. Several persons remarked that the freedom and autonomy. resolution lacked strength and failed to address specific is­ In the context of the rapidly changing situation in South sues. Africa, and in concert with the spirit of the UDUSA guide­ Al Kagan (University of Connecticut) proposed that sec­ lines, the ASA resolves: tion 3 be amended to indicate that scholars should visit 1. To encourage and promote academic exchanges to ad­ South Africa only with advance approval of a UDUSA vance scholarship in teaching and research provided that branch. Others added approval of the ANC, UOF or mass these exchanges support the principles of non-racialism democratic movement. The motion was passed. and opposition to apartheid. Time pressures halted further discussion. The chair rec­ 2. To discourage exchanges that have the effect of legiti­ mating and strengthening the apartheid regime. ommended that ideas be sent to Klein or to the secretariat 3. To encourage any ASA members who wish to do re­ for the consideration of the Board as it redrafts the resolu­ search in South Africa to make contact with a local UDU­ tion. He noted that the Board would publicize its discus­ SA branch in advance of their visit. sion and recommended an open forum on the question at 4. To encourage scholars who visit South Africa to make next year's annual meeting. public their opposition to apartheid while there, to refuse 9. Resolution on UNESCO to participate in any activities from which black South Af­ Kagan moved the following resolution: ricans are excluded, and to actively promote a non-racial In light of the importance of UNESCO for the advance­ democratic South Africa upon return to their home com- ment of education, science and culture in Africa and in the United States; and Cooperative Africana Microform The need for US participation in all aspects of the United Project (CAMP) Nations system; and That many other professional organizations have stated their support for US membership in UNESCO; Summary of minutes of Business Meeting, 2 November We, the members of the African Studies Association, re­ 1990, Baltimore. solve that the United States Government should rejoin (Full minutes distributed to member libraries and pub­ UNESCO with all possible speed as a full dues-paying lished in Africana Libraries Newsletter) member. This resolution should be sent to the President, all mem­ Voted to pay for the filming of Hilda Kuper's field note­ bers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate books, but not her miscellaneous papers. Foreign Relations Committee, the Secretary of State, the Director-General of UNESCO, and the United Nations As­ Agreed that CRL should acquire microfilm copies of all sociation of the United States. editions of Drum. The resolution passed unanimously. Voted to purchase a microfiche copy of Part II of the Records of the South African Institute of Race Relations. 10. Other Business Approved continued spending for newspapers on mi­ Claire Robertson (Ohio State University) noted that the crofilm. membership would have appreciated being consulted on Agreed to continue acquiring a copy of Northwestern's the make-up of the ASA Task Force, and particularly on preservation microfilm. the question of women's issues. Seidman responded that John Bruce Howell (Iowa), Mary Alice Kraehe (Virgin­ efforts were made to work with the Women's Caucus. ia), and Phyllis Martin (Indiana) were elected to the Exec­ There being immense time pressure from the schedule utive Committee for 1990-92. Continuing members are for the banquet, the chair adjourned the meeting, noting Moore Crossey (Yale), Hunt Davis (Horida) and Karen that in fu ture a longer period will need be set aside for the Fung. Howell was elected as chair for 1990/91. Business Meeting.

THE ASA TASK FORCE ON ATTAINING SELF-SUSTAINABLE DE­ VELOPMENT IN AFRICA: PHASE II by Ann Seidman

The ASA Task Force wishes to express sincere gratitude to the groups and the ASA Task force. Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation for the grant In Phase II, the Joint ASA and Africa Task Forces will which made possible the completion of this first phase of its work; work together to help in creating a new vision of sustainable and to the African Development Foundation for its role in fi­development in Africa by: 1) implementing participatory, nancing and organizing the Washington workshop at which the problem-solving research; 2) coordinating comparative re­ African participants and the Task Force coordinators formulated search with other regional associations; 3) disseminating proposals for the second phase. the findings to the African and US publics and policy mak­ ers. In its first phase of work, the ASA Task Force on Attain­ The Washington workshop participants propose a ing Sustainable Development in Africa brought researchers three-year iterative participatory research process to imple­ from Africa and ASA members together in a series of ment research projects in several fields. For each proposed workshops at the 1990 ASA Annual Meeting in Baltimore. research project, researchers from several African universi­ They reviewed existing research findings to create an intel­ ties and research institutions will meet together with repre­ lectual framework for on-going collaborative research de­ sentatives of relevant population segments in a regional signed to facilitate attainment of democratic self­ planning workshop to formulate a detailed research de­ sustainable development. Following the Baltimore meet­ sign. The researchers and population representatives will ing, the African researchers met with the ASA Task Force then return to their own countries to work with university coordinators in a four-day workshop in Washington, DC. students and addi tional representatives of relevant popula­ There, they identified priority areas, initial hypotheses, and tion groups to plan the country-specific details. On this ba­ key African researchers for the proposed research. They sis, they will involve relevant population segments in ex­ also elected a five-person steering committee for an Africa amining the nature of the problem and testing alternative Task Force on Attaining Self-Sustainable Development in candidate explanatory hypotheses against evidence to de­ Africa to coordinate the proposed research in Africa, in­ termine which seems most useful for identifying the specif­ cluding its relationships to existing African research ic institutional changes required to overcome the obstacles to sustainable development. In final evaluation workshops propositions for testing in the context of all the other task in each country and in the region, the researchers and pop­ groups' research projects. They will then evaluate the im­ ulation representatives will assess the implications of their plications of all the groups' findings as to causes of the findings, revising and deepening their initial explanatory states' negative role as a foundation for more effective hypotheses as the foundation for strategies more likely to measures aimed at transforming the institutions of the contribute to sustainable development. They will also in­ state to ensure it plays a more positive role in the attain­ stitutionalize on-going mechanisms for evaluating the con­ ment of sustainable development. sequences of whatever strategies the policy makers eventu­ 5. Gender relations: To ensure adequate consideration of ally adopt. the particular disadvantages experienced by women in all Since research requires scarce human and financial re­ fields, the task group on gender relations proposed that its sources, the Washington workshop participants agreed to members, too, will formulate a research design to analyze evaluate rather than duplicate existing data-gathering exer­ the factors marginalizing women, and then conduct their cises, and focus their research on institutional issues in the research in cooperation with the other task groups. In the following areas: end, the gender relations task group will reexamine, revise 1. Economy and regional integration: Given the close inter­ and deepen their initial hypotheses in light of the evidence relationship between factors hindering economic develop­ to propose measures more likely to enable African women ment and the arbitrary division of Africa into nations to participate fully in all aspects of future efforts to attain shaped by over a century of colonial rule, the task groups self-sustainable development. dealing with economy and regional integration decided to The ASA Task Force will facilitate involvement of the conduct joint research on middle-level explanatory propo­ 1800 ASA members in the US in the proposed research by sitions designed to explain Africa's crisis. Logically, if vali­ 1) identifying researchers in the US who will help to gather dated by evidence, these will lead to specific proposals to background information relating to the countries identified achieve increaSingly productive employment opportunities for the specific proposals and whom the Africa Task Force and an improved quality of life for the peoples of Africa. may wish to invite to take part in the design and imple­ To test their explanatory hypotheses, the two task groups mentation of the proposed research projects; 2) arranging chose specific countries and identified researchers in two with the African Task Force for two-way exchanges of ma­ regions in which to initiate participatory research: South­ terials and personnel: to bring African researchers, teach­ ern and Eastern Africa, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, ers, and publications to the US to contribute to a greater US Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Kenya; and West Af­ awareness of the problems the African peoples and govern­ rica, including Senegal, Benin, Nigeria, Ghana and Zaire. ments confront; and in response to invitations from African 2. Education: Growing numbers of schoolleavers, expe­ institutions, to send US researchers, teachers and publica­ cially women; the inability of schoolleavers and even grad­ tions to Africa to cooperate in the on-going research and re­ uates to find adequate employment; and the "brain drain" search capacity-building processes; 3) helping to raise as thousands of educated Africans leave their countries to funds for the overall research project; and 4) disseminating work abroad - all these attest to a failure to develop ade­ the findings of the research in the academy, to the people quately designed educational programs. To test the explana­ and to policy-makers in the United States with a view to contributing to more informed US policies in support of tory hypotheses as the basis for a new educational strategy, the sustainable development in Africa. Washington workshop proposed a case study in the SADCC At the Baltimore Annual Meeting, the ASA Board re­ region involving Botswana, Kenya, Zambia and Namibia. designated the ASA Task Force as a committee of the ASA, 3. Health and environment: Unanticipated factors result­ rather than a task force of the board. The following five in­ ed in few Washington workshop participants in these are­ dividuals constitute the ASA Task Force's advisory com­ as, so they joined to propose a single project: examination mittee: Beverly Grier, Allen Isaacman, Goran Hyden, of the way mushrooming urban environments, characteris­ Nzongola-Ntalaja, and Ann Seidman (Chair). ASA Task tic of most independent African countries, undermine the Force task group coordinators include: State and legal or­ environment and health of the urban poor in Southern and der, Baraket Selassie; Environment, Richard Ford and Ca­ Eastern Africa, including Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Kenya; lestous Juma; Education, John Metzler; Health, Ben Wisner and in West Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and and Germano M. Mwabu; Gender relations, Brooke Zaire. The workshop participants also agreed that the two Schoepf and Alice Nkhoma; Economic development, John responsible task groups should formulate additional pro­ Ohiorhenuan and Ann Seidman; Regional integration, Guy posals designed to explore more fully the broader global is­ Martin. sues. ASA members interested in participating in any aspect 4. The state and legal order: Given the state's leading role of the ASA Task Force's on-going research and dissemina­ in all aspects of development, the Washington workshop tion of the findings are urged to contact it c/o The Interna­ participants proposed to investigate it in the context of all tional Development Program, Clark University, 950 Main the proposed research projects. The task group on the state Street, Worcester, MA 01610 (508-793-7634), and the legal order will identify middle level explanatory Book Famine Task Force by Gretchen Walsh The Book Famine Task Force of the African Studies As­ vancement of Science (AAAS) sends journals subscriptions sociation's Archives-Libraries Committee met 1 November to libraries in Africa which have requested those specific ti­ in Baltimore. Several African librarians and representatives tles. The United States Information Agency funds projects of donor organizations reported. The problems were like IBB, Books for the World, the Sudan-American Foun­ summed up eloquently by Mrs. A. O. Ike, University Li­ dation and the International Book Project, all of which brarian, Tafewa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria, Sesan have viable projects. In addition, USIS centers in Africa can Dipeolu, retired University Librarian, Obafemi Awolowo sometimes help with shipping to specific libraries. The University, He, Nigeria, and Mmakotoane Mphahlele of World Bank has done studies of the crisis in education, and South Africa, currently an intern at the Library of Con­ supplies funding, for instance a recent loan to Nigerian gress: lack of foreign exchange, even when there was mon­ universities. ey, as with Nigeria's oil boom; devaluation of currency; Two commercial ventures of note are the African Books lack of coordinated planning to encourage publishing and Collective, which promotes African publishing by increas­ ease importation of books for libraries. Many universities ing trade overseas, and the African Imprint Library Servic­ serve a constituency far beyond their student bodies. There es' proposed "barter" for journal subscriptions for Nigerian are shortages of trained staff as well as of books. libraries. Now in the planning stage, this project would of­ Successful programs have been implemented. The In­ fer journal subscriptions through Faxon to selected Nigeri­ ternational Book Bank (lBB), working with the Canadian an libraries. AILS would accept payment in Naira, paying Organisation for Development through Education Faxon in dollars, and using the Naira to purchase Nigerian (CODE), has established a warehouse in Baltimore which publications for sale in the US and elsewhere. processes donated books, checking for quality and produc­ The Task Force is working on a handbook/directory for ing lists for choice by recipient libraries. The National As­ small-scale donation projects and ways of facilitating sociation of College Stores (NACS) Book Donation Task matching requesters with potential donors. For more infor­ Force mobilizes member stores to donate unsold stock of mation, contact Gretchen Walsh, Head, African Studies Li­ recent books to programs such as IBB. The Journals Distri­ brary, Boston University, 771 Commonwealth Avenue, bution Program of the American Association for the Ad- Boston, MA 02215 (617-353-3726).

Conover-Porter Award

Bibliographies for African Studies gress and Howard University respec­ braries of the University of Illinois at 1970-1986 by Yvette Scheven has been tively from the 1930s to the present. Urbana-Champaign. It contains 3,277 named the winner of the sixth Cono­ The award is made every two years. citations, nearly all annotated, ar­ ver-Porter Award. The African Stud­ In addition, three other guides to ranged by broad subject such as An­ ies Association established this pre­ Africana were noted for honorable thropology, Diaspora, History, Litera­ stigious award in 1980 to honor mention. They are the Index of African ture, Religion, with a separate section outstanding achievement in Africana Social Science Periodical Articles =Index on each of the 47 Subsaharan African bibliography and reference guides. des articles de periodiques africains de sci­ countries. Abstracts include details The Association awarded the $300 ences sociales, by the Council for the on the arrangement of the bibliogra­ prize at its annual meeting in Balti­ Development of Economic and Social phy, whether it is annotated, indexed, more on November 1, 1990 with Dr. Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal; and its scope. There is a unique fea­ Dorothy Porter Wesley, for whom the Sources d'infonnation sur l'Afrique noire ture, "Continuing Sources," which Award is named, presenting the francophone et Madagascar: institutions, lists new bibliographies appearing prize. repertoires, bibliographies by Laurence regularly in periodicals or in series. The Conover-Porter Award is a Porges; and South Africa: an Annotated This bibliography is a comprehensive project of the Association's Archives­ Bibliography with Analytical Introduc­ approach to journal articles, disserta­ Libraries Committee, and is named tions by Newell Maynard Stultz. tions, and books and it is a first source for two pioneers in the field of Afri­ Bibliographies for African Studies to consult when the research topic is can studies bibliography: Helen F. on Africa and its peoples. Conover and Dorothy B. Porter, who 1970-1986 is the culmination of more compiled numerous bibliographies on than 15 years work by Yvette Sche­ African topics at the Library of Con­ ven, Africana bibliographer at the Ii- Melville J. Herskovi~s Award 1990 by John Middleton The Herskovits Award committee thor that it is not an "ethnography" at elsewhere in Africa: but this is a par­ appointed to consider books pub­ all in the conventional sense); and it is ticularly effective one that will lished in 1989 consisted of Virginia not narrowly confined to the thinking change our views of "hunters and DeLancey, Professor of Economics at of a single discipline. It will annoy gatherers" and indeeed make us per­ I the American University in Cairo and some people for the author's willing­ ceive all "traditional" African societies f the University of South Carolina; Bog­ ness to question widely accepted as­ a little differently and more clearly. umil Jewsiewicki, Professor of History sumptions on which a great deal of There are only four runners-up, all t at Universite Laval, Quebec; and John past work has been based, but that books of very high quality and very Middleton, Professor of Anthropolo­ has been a main aim of the writer; and different from one another. In alpha­ gy and Religious Studies at Yale Uni­ like any book, it has weak passages as betical order they are first Janice Bod­ versity as chair. well as powerful ones. It is not a dy, Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Over 50 books were submitted to bland book that will please everybody Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Su­ us by publishers on behalf of authors. but we consider it to be a work of dan (University of Wisconsin Press). They cover every discipline involved scholarship and concern, paving new The book is a remarkable ethnogra­ in African studies, are aimed at sever­ ways for anthropology to be a wide­ phy, of the highest order. A detailed al categories of readership, and are of ranging diSCipline concerned with account of the roles of women in a immensely varying quality. To separ­ time and change. Sudanese Muslim community, it con­ ate them into good and less good has Wilmsen has studied a group of tains original and sensitive descrip­ not been too difficult, but to select a San (once called "Bushmen"), one of tions and analyses of the moral uni­ winner and runners-up has been at the classic subjects of the conventional verse of women, infibulation, spirit times a nightmare. Although we are ethnography of people held to be out­ possession, and symbolism of the fe­ of different disciplines, we all read all side history and to represent the male body. It is rich in ethnographic the books (the winner and runners-up "primitive" of a timeless past, still lin­ data, scholarly comparison, and sub­ more than once), and we counted our gering on in today's world to be pa­ tle interpretation, an outstanding con­ voices as equal whatever the disci­ tronized by European writers. Wilm­ tribution to the study of women in pline of any particular author. We sen has looked behind the Africa. faced the old problem of comparing assumptions. These have included Michael Jackson, Paths toward a apples and oranges. It would have views that the San are people with an Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Eth­ been easier to divide the award unchanging foraging mode of produc­ nographic Inquiry (Indiana University among several authors, but it was de­ tion and a simple mode of exchange, Press), is a highly unusual and very cided to have only a single winner virtually without political structure, personal view of ethnographic experi­ this year and also to limit the num­ and lacking forms of internal differen­ ence and interpretation of that experi­ bers of runners-up so as to show their tiation and complexity of authority: a ence among the Kuranko of Sierra Le­ truly high quality. As in past years, classic textbook example of "hunters one. It follows on the author's work the sole criterion has been the scholar­ and gatherers." Wilmsen analyzes the that has been published previously in ly merit of a particular book, in the San as forming a society with complex several excellent books. The book is sense of its author'S contribution not forms of internal difference and au­ arranged as a series of at first sight al­ only to our empirical knowledge in a thority, and with ever-changing most disconnected essays, on the dis­ given field, but also as a methodologi­ modes of production to take advan­ eased, witches, the lives of Kuranko cal and epistemological contribution tage of factors of an often brutal ex­ men, and other diverse topics. But to African studies. ploitation and expropriation by oth­ underlying them is the consistent The winning book is Edwin Wilm­ ers; they have switched at various theme of ethnographic knowledge sen, Lnnd Filled with Flies: A Poltical periods between foraging, pastoral­ and "truth," a knowledge and truth Economy of the Kalahari (University of ism, and trade. The transfer of wealth gained by living in Kuranko SOciety. Chicago Press). We selected this book from them to outside exploiters has It is an outstanding work on the prob­ to be the winner because we consider been continuous, a cause of their pov­ lems of ethnographic research and it original, excellent, and important in erty and one reason for the label writing. There has been a spate of bringing new ideas and new ways of "primitive." Yet they maintain their this recently, but rather too much has perceiving some basic concepts, espe­ own cultural identity, not in isolation been written by people who have not cially in anthropology and history. It but as one of a set of identities that themselves done ethnography worth is based on long and good field and compose a single wide field of ex­ the name; here is an exception. archival research; it tackles questions change and relationships that covers Simon Ottenberg's Boyhood Rituals of comparative and theoretical impor­ the whole Kalahari region. There in an African Society: An Interpretation tance; it breaks new ground as eth­ have been other re-ana]yses of classic (University of Washington Press) is a nography (despite the plea by the au­ ethnographically simplified societies rich and sensitive account of initia­ to produce a certain kind of adult. As postmodernist claim to understand tion, as one in a series of rites of social a "reflective interpretation of a past what makes other people and their and psychological maturation, among time" (the 1950s - 60s), it is a land­ cultures "other." Instead of establish­ the Afikpo Igbo of Nigeria, on whom mark in the study of rites of transfor­ ing the authoritative account of Wala the author has written other excellent mation. history, the author emphasizes local ethnographic accounts. It brings to­ Ivor Wilks' Wa and the Wala (Cam­ traditions of persistent chaos and con­ gether both detailed and sensitive eth­ bridge University Press) is an histori­ flict that arise from the deeper struc­ nographic study and psychoanalytical cal account of Islam and politics tures of the society, that are peculiar theory to provide a subtle analysis of among the Wala of northern Ghana, to it and must be observed in local Igbo symbolism, of strategies of secre­ an ethnically diverse state that arose contexts over a long time perspective. cy as means of communication, and in the 17th century and that has been For the Wala, "to know the past is to the complex patterns of relations be­ held together by Islam. The book suc­ be secure in the future," and it is this tween secrecy, gender, and sexuality ceeds in articulating a traditional his­ knowledge of the past (neither "true" as Afikpo society deals with both the toriographical approach aimed at es­ nor "false"), that lies at the core of this needs of childhood and society's need tablishing a "real" history with a book. Distinguished Africanist Award The following citation was prepared and spite of the changing conditions in science at the University of Wisconsin read by Martin A. Klein at the presenta­ Zaire. More recently, this has been re­ during his years there-including tion of the Distinguished Africanist placed by The Rise and Decline of the some of the better political scientists Award in Baltimore, November 3,1990. Zairian State, written with Thomas working on Africa-Nzongola, New­ Turner, as the definitive study of Mo­ bury, Turner, Schatzberg, Keller and When I received the nomination of butu's Zaire. His Politics of Cultural Oculi. Crawford Young for the Distin­ Pluralism, a study of Third World eth­ For Valentin Mudimbe, who nomi­ guished Africanist A ward, my first re­ nicity, received both our Herskovits nated him, he is "an example of intel­ action was that he was too young. He Prize and the American Political Sci­ lectual rigor, administrative efficiency is thinning on the top, but he still has ence Association's Ralph Bunche and a living paradigm of human and a bit too much hair for a Distin­ prize. In 1982, he came out with Ideolo­ scientific commitment." Michael guished Africanist Award. And he is, gy and Development in Africa. Schatzberg describes him as a we all hope, not at the end of his dis­ His career has been marked by ser­ thoughtful, patient, insightful, and tinguished career. vice to Africa, to the profession and to thought-provoking teacher. He per­ In a certain sense, Crawford his university. He served as a visiting mitted his students the latitude to Young's life history is our life history. professor in Uganda in 1965, at Dakar grow and explore different aspects of It is African studies in North America in 1987-88 and was Dean of the Facul­ the subject matter, and was always at its best, as commitment to scholar­ ty of Social Sciences at Lubumbashi open to new ideas and approaches ship and to the region we study. from 1973-75. He was not at any of the even if these differed from his own. Young was one of three scholars who three a passing visitor, but rather a Fred Hayward speaks of him as "a su­ received grants from the Ford Foun­ partner in institutional development. perb and helpful colleague, a person dation's Foreign Area Fellowship pro­ He built up libraries, helped train interested in other people, generous gram in 1959 and 1960 to do work in staff, and found fellowships for Afri­ with his time, and dedicated to his the Belgian Congo just as that seem­ can scholars. He made a series of scores of former students and col­ ingly impregnable colonial regime study missions to Africa on behalf of leagues..... Nzongola-Ntalaja speaks of started to disintegrate. Ford was so the Department of State and has him as "a committed scholar who nervous about chaos in the Congo served on numerous scholarly com­ combines the highest standards of in­ that they would not let Young's fami­ mittees. He has served this association tellectual integrity with modesty and ly accompany him. In the years that as its president and as a board mem­ a tireless willingness to help others." followed, Crawford Young and his ber, and his university as dean, de­ For his work as a scholar, as a students described the structure of partment chair and as chair of the Af­ mentor and as an administrator, the what seemed like chaos and in the rican Studies Program-in addition to African Studies Association is pleased process, confronted some very basic countless committees. to give Crawford Young the Distin­ questions about state and society. Perhaps the most eloquent testimo­ guished Africanist Award. But I must The result was a stream of out­ ny to Crawford Young's work as a warn you, Crawford, we know you standing scholarly works. Crawford teacher and scholar comes from col­ still have some very productive years Young's Politics in the Congo was for leagues and former students. He has ahead of you, but you only get the many years the most important trained or helped train about 15 per­ award once. source on that country, durable in cent of the PhDs produced in political AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS June 30, 1990 and 1989 1 J, t i I HOllAND SHIPES VANN,P,C.. CERTifiED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 1117 PERIMETfR CENTER WEST, SUITE NORTH 300, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30338,5417 (404,393-2900, TElECOPIER NO 404' 390' 0251

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Board of Directors African Studies Association, Inc.

Independent Auditors' Report We have audited the accompanying statement of assets, liabilities and fund balance of African Studies Association, Inc. as of June 30, 1990 and the related statements of activity and changes in fund balance and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Association's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and sig­ nificant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the I overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our I audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. ,\ In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above, present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position f of African Studies Association, Inc. as of June 3D, 1990 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then t ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. i The financial statements for the year ended June 30, 1989 were compiled by us and our report thereon, dated October 11, 1989, stated that we did not audit or review those financial I statements and, accordingly, expressed no opinion or other form of assurance on them. I& ! , AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC.

STATEMENTS OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE

ASSETS

June 30, 1990 (Audited) June 30, operating Endowment Life Income Total 1989 Fund Fund Fund All Funds (compiled) CURRENT ASSETS: Cash and equivalents $157,028 $34,781 $6,508 $198,317 $130,064 Accounts receivable 18,816 18,816 6,733 Inventories (Note 1) 22,534 22,534 2~,1:il2 128,378 34,781 6,508 239,667 158,926

EQUIPMENT (Note 1): Furniture and equipment 32,933 32,933 32,448 Computer equipment 8,016 8,016 8,016 40,949 40,949 40,464 Less: Accumulated depreciation 32.465 32,465 28,992 8,484 8,484 11, 4 7~ $206.862 $34.781 $6,508 $248,151 $170.398

LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE

CURRENT LIABILITIES: Crossroads royalties $ 5,276 $ 5,276 $ 1,101 Membership dues received in advance 63,488 63,488 47,987 Deferred revenue - grants (Notes 1 and 3) 82,682 82,682 72,836 Deferred revenue - annual meeting fees 14,579 14,579 Due to Emory University (Note 2) 28,057 28,057 15.483 194,082 194,082 137,407

FUND BALANCE: Unrestricted 12,780 12,780 32,991 Restricted $34,781 $6.508 41,289 12.780 34,781 6.508 54,069 32,291

$206,862 $34,781 $6,508 $248.151 $170,398

See accompanying notes to financial statements. AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC. STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITY AND CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE

Six Months Xea~ Ended ~une 32, 1990 Ended (Audited) June 30, operating Endowment Life Income Total 1989 Fund Fund Fund All Funds (Compiled) Support and revenue: Membership dues $110,962 $6,400 $117,362 $54,917 Sale of publications 45,068 45,068 14,267 Member publications 2,690 2,690 Annual meeting 105,858 105,858 13,233 Rental of mailing list 5,220 5,220 3,478 Interest income 6,825 $ 792 108 7,725 4,703 Grants (Notes 2 and 3) 86,368 4,039 90,407 3,753 Miscellaneous income 933 93~ 363,9~4 4,8H 6,508 375,263 94.3~1 Expenses: Cost of publications sold 27,222 27,222 28,457 Member publications 34,092 34,092 Annual meeting 86,282 86,282 4,571 Board meetings and awards 10,487 10,487 6,950 Mailing list 1,573 1,573 5,626 Committees 3,734 3,734 7,070 Horn of Africa conference 81,600 81,600 2,164 General and administrative 102,195 109,195 42,727 354,185 3~41185 97,565 Excess (deficit) of support and revenue over expenses 9,739 4,831 6,508 21,078 (3,214)

Fund balance at beginning of period 32,991 32,991 36,205

Fund transfers (29,950) 29.950

Fund balance at end of period ~L8Q $34.7IU $6,508 $ 54,069 $32,991

See accompanying notes to financial statements. AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC. STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

Six Months Year Ended June 30. 1990 Ended (Audited) June 30, Operating Endowment Life Income Total 1989 Cash flows from operating activities:­ Fund Fund Fund All Funds (Compiled) Excess (deficit) of support and revenue over expenses $ 9.739 $ 4,831 $6,508 $ 21. 078 $ (3,214) Adjustments to reconcile excess (deficit) of support and revenue over expenses to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation 3,473 3,473 1,663 Changes in assets and liabilities: (Increase) decrease in inventories (405) (405) 2,865 Increase in accounts receivable (12,083) (12,083) (700) Increase in Crossroads royalties 4,175 4,175 1,101 Increase in membership dues received in advance 15,501 15,501 8,842 Increase in deferred revenue 24,425 24,425 72,836 Increase (decrease) in due to Emory University 12.574 12,574 (4,042) 47,660 47,660 82,565

Net cash provided by operating activities 57,399 4,831 6.508 68,738 79,351 Cash flows from investing activities: Acquisition of equipment (485) (485) (881) Fund transfer (29.950) 29,950 Net cash used in investing activities (30,435) 29,950 ( 485) (881) Net increase in cash 26,964 34,781 6,508 68,253 78,470 Cash at beginning of period 130,064 130,064 51,594 Cash at end of period $157,028 $34,781 $6,508 $198,317 $130,064

See accompanying notes to financial statements. AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, INC. NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS JUNE 30, 1990 and 1989

NOTE 1: Summary of Si&nificant Accounting Policies Description of Organization The African Studies Association, Inc. (the Association) was organized in 1957 as a non-profit membership corporation to bring together persons with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa, to provide useful services to the Africanist community, and to publish and distribute appropriate scholarly and informational materials. Membership is open to insti­ tutions and individuals. Fund Accounting To ensure observance of limitations and restrictions placed on the use of resources available to the Association, the ac­ counts of the Association are maintained in accordance with the principles of fund accounting. This is the procedure by which resources for various purposes are classified for accounting and reporting purposes into funds established accord­ ing to their nature and purposes. Accordingly, all financial transactions have been recorded and reported by fund group. The assets, liabilities and fund balances of the Association are reported in three self-balancing fund groups as follows: -Operating funds, which include unrestricted and restricted resources, represent the portion of expendable funds that is available for support of Association operations. -Endowment funds represent Board of Director designated funds which require that the principal be invested and the in­ come only be used for Association operations. - Life income funds represent funds received from the sale of lifetime memberships. The income earned will be used to offset future operating expenses of the Association. Method of Depreciation Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Income Taxes The Association qualifies as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Accord­ ingly, no provision for Federal or state income taxes has been recorded on the accompanying financial statements. Inventories Inventories of books and publications are stated at the lower of cost or market, with cost determined using the first-in, first-out method. Deferred Revenue - Grants Deferred revenue - grants represents funds which are restricted for specific purposes by the grantor. Unexpended grant funds are recognized as revenue as expenditures are incurred for the purpose specified by the grantor. Grants which are not restricted by the grantor are recognized as revenue upon receipt.

NOTE 2: Agreement with Emory University The Association and Emory University (Emory) entered into an agreement which provided for the Secretariat of the As­ sociation to be located on the campus of Emory for a period of five years from January 1, 1988 to December 31,1992. Emo­ ry donated $8,000 to defray salary expenditures which is included in the accompanying statement of activity as grant funds received for the year ended June 30,1990. Additionally, Emory pays certain operating expenses of the Association, such as payroll, postage, telephone, etc. and , bills the Association monthly. At June 30,1990 and 1989, the Association owed Emory $28,057 and $15,483, respectively, for such expenses.

NOTE 3: Grant Funds As explained in Note 2, Emory University contributed $8,000 to the Association in 1990. The funds were used for oper­ ating and certain capital expenses of the Association. In 1989 and 1990, the Association received grants from the Ford Foundation and other sources totaling $50,658. The grants were used to fund foreign participation in the Association's 1989 and 1990 annual meetings. Expenditures relating to the above grants totaled $28,658 as of June 20, 1990. In 1989 and 1990, the Association received grants from the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and other sources totaling $91,686. The grants were used to fund foreign participation in the Hom of Africa conference. The Associa­ tion incurred expenditures relating to the above grant in the amount of $78,368 and $2,164 as of June 30,1990 and 1989, re­ spectively. In 1990, the Association received an additional grant from the MacArthur Foundation in the amount of $49,528. The grant is to be used to fund a research project on the problems of development in Africa. The Association has not incurred any expenditures relating to the above grant as of June 30,1990. THE IIFOREIGN PERIODICALS" SECTION: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STRENGTHENING US LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ON AFRICA

Deborah Jakubs, president of SALALM, Seminar on the Ac­ Education Act is reauthorized in 1992. Congress usually quisition of Latin American Library Materials, has alerted the drops programs not funded during the previous authoriza­ ASA to a funding opportunity for the international education tion period. community. For further information on this issue, readers may Given the critical importance of foreign area library col­ contact Jakubs at the International and Area Studies Depart­ lections to foreign area and international studies efforts and the extraordinary difficulty of maintaining current ac­ ment, 117 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC quisition levels in the face of declining dollar values and 27706, phone 919-684-3675, FAX 919-684-2855. rising publication prices, the activation of the foreign peri­ odicals program of Section 607 should become an immedi­ The "Foreign Periodicals" section, or Section 607 of Ti­ ate priority of the international education community and tle VI of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1986 repre­ of research libraries with foreign area collections. sents a significant opportunity for US foreign area studies Current House and Senate markups for Fiscal Year 1991 programs in general and for the foreign area collections of appropriation add $5.42 and $6.4 million, respectively, of US academic libraries in particular. Unfortunately, unless new funding to Title VI. The Department of Education action is taken in the near future, this important opportuni­ will have the authority to allocate some of these new funds ty may be lost. to a Foreign Periodicals grants program for FY 91. Such an Section (fJ7 authorizes the appropriation of federal allocation will help insure that Section 607 is retained in funding to make grants to universities, libraries, or consor­ next year's HEA reauthorization. tia of such institutions to acquire periodicals published ED officials will begin the process of allocating funding outside the US, to enter and maintain machine readable among the sections of Title VI as soon as the FY 1991 ap­ bibliographic information on such periodicals, to preserve propriation bill passes the Congress and the bill is signed. them, and to make them accessible to researchers. An currently funded programs will be funded at least at Section (fJ7 was added to Title VI in 1986, and has never current levels. Allocation of a small portion of the new received funding. Congressional appropriations for Title funding to the Foreign Periodicals program would benefit VI in subsequent years did not prohibit funding for Section the entire international education effort, while only mod­ 607, but did not earmark it either. The international educa­ estly affecting increases for current programs. tion community, apparently oblivious to Section (fJ7, did ASA members who wish to encourage funding of Sec­ not try to persuade officials of the Department of Educa­ tion 607 should write to John Alexander, Director, Center tion to allocate funding to this program (one official said for International Education, US Department of Education, recently, "We didn't know anyone cared"). As a result, ROB#3, 7th and D Streets, SW, Washington, DC 20202. Section (fJ7 is in danger of being dropped when the Higher

Special Issue on Women in Africa in SIGNS: Journal ofWomen in Culture and Society Summer 1991 By special arrangement with the University of Chi­ Elizabeth A. Eldredge, Women in Production: The Economic cago Press, ASA members may purchase copies of the Role ofWomen in 19th-Century Lesotho SIGNS special issue on "Family, State, and Economy in Patricia Stamp, Burying Dlieno: The Politics ofGender and Africa" at $6.50, or 10% off the regular single copy Ethnicity in Kenya price. The contents will include: Carol Summers, Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Produc­ tion ofReproduction in Uganda, 1907-1925 Judith Carney and Michael Watt, Disciplining Women? Rice, Nakanyike Musisi, Viewsfrom the Enclosure: Women. Po­ Mechanization and the Evolution ofMandinka Gender Rela­ lygyny and Buganda State Formation tions in Senegambia Kristin Mann, Women, Landed Property. and the Accumula­ This offer is for prepaid advance orders only. To tion ofWealth in Early Colonial Lagos order, send your check payable to the ASA for $6.50 to Elizabeth Schmidt, Patriarchy. Capitalism. and the Colonial the ASA Secretariat (Credit Union Building, Emory State: An Alliance to Control African Women in Southern University, Atlanta, GA 30322) no later than April 15. Rhodesia. 1890-1939 The journal will be mailed to you in June. ------

FUTURE MEETINGS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS ''Identity, Rationality and the Post­ self problematic, The tentative schedule of speakers colonial Subject: African Perspec­ 3) how forms of conduct and identity includes Jacob Olupona, Obafemi tives on Contemporary Social Theo­ are subjective phenomena, irreduci­ Awolowo University and Muhlen­ ry" is a one-day seminar to be held ble to mere "means/end" calcula­ berg College, Roland Abiodun, Am­ February 29, 1991 at the Columbia tions of efficiency and seldom, if herst College, Benjamin Ray, Univer­ University School of International Af­ ever, simpy the product of "objec­ sity of Virginia and Sulayman Nyang, fairs. tive" circumstances. Howard University. This will be an interdisciplinary Panels and contributions will be workshop involving specialists of his­ classified under four interdiSCiplinary tory, women's studies, anthropology, rubrics whose themes will cross-cut political science, linguistics, develop­ each other: The New York African Studies As­ ment studies, literature, and geogra­ 1) Time and the structures of social sociation will hold its 15th annual phy. Papers will be circulated in ad­ life conference at the Elizabeth Seton vance and will address theoretical 2) Identities: conceptualizing multi­ School of Iona College in Yonkers, NY issues or examine specific case stud­ plicity from 12-13 April 1991. The theme ies. 3) Pluri-rationality and the construc­ will be: "Pan Africanism: 1991 and The seminar originates from two tions of material life Beyond." sets of preoccupations: 4) Is there a postcolonial subject? Exhibits already scheduled include 1) The crisis in the authority of West­ For more information, contact three African meals, book and art ex­ ern intellectual thought and culture Achille Mbembe, Department of His­ hibits, a band and vocalists with Cur­ and the dissolution of the orthodox tory, Columbia University, New York, tis Boyd as featured drummer, the Se­ consensus in social theory has given NY 10027 (212-932-0471, 212-854­ ton Dancers with African dance, and rise to a "Babel" of theoretical voices 7975). a variety of panels and plenary ses­ that currently clamor for attention. sions. However, none of these voices Those interested in organizing has seriously departed from the panels or in presenting papers should past claim to privileged access to ''Tradition and Transformation: contact Michael Mbabwuike, 2835 universal validity, in spite of their The Influence of Christianity, Islam Webb Avenue, Bronx, NY 10468 (212­ grounding in culturally specific con­ and West African Traditional Relig­ 884-2396). Topics other than on the ceptions of the individual, rationali­ ion on One Another," Muhlenberg conference theme will be accepted. ty, or the subject. College, Allentown, PA, March 13-14, Several panels will be devoted to 2) Some of the most striking recent in­ 1991. This conference will consider teaching about Africa. Panels orga­ novations in Western thought, such the experience of one West African nized by teachers are welcome as are as the discourse on "postmoderni­ people, the Yoruba, as a way to ex­ ideas for papers or other presenta­ ty," have been fraught with nihilis­ plore the mutual interaction of Chris­ tions. . tic implications. tianity, Islam and traditional religion To be on our mailing list for confer­ Thus the question: under what on one another. The following ques­ ence materials, write NYASA Secre­ terms and to what extent can the tions will be addressed: tariat, 3010MB, SUNY, New Paltz, "post-colonial subject" continue to In what ways and to what degree NY 12561 or telephone 914-257-2889. hold a "conversation" with the West. has the indigenous culture trans­ The objective of the seminar is: formed Christianity and Islam? 1) to examine the conditions under What has been lost (and what has which the "Others" can be recontex­ been gained) in the process of trans­ The Project for the Advanced Study tualized within their structural com­ formation? of Art and Life in Africa is pleased to plexity, Have Christianity and Islam had a announce the First Annual Graduate 2) how different types of problem­ similar or different sort of influence? Student Symposium in African Art. It solving and deliberation can be in­ The purpose of the conference is to is open to graduate students in all are­ terpreted more in terms of their help participants understand more as of African studies. Topics must de­ own working logics than on the ba­ deeply the dynamics of cultural scribe how objects reflect ideas about sis of an evolutionary metaphor or change and to appreciate more dis­ the wilderness. This topic comple­ ideal logic, whose connection with tinctly one of the peoples of West Af­ ments the current show "Art from the the world of human activity is in it­ rica. Wilderness" now on display at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. "First Meeting on Afro-American ciety The symposium will be held April Cultures," Buenos Aires, 1991, orga­ 2) the historicity of ecological system 13-14, 1991. Students interested in par­ nized by the Instituto de Investiga­ in the historical development of the ticipating should submit a two-page cion y Difusion de las Culturas Ne­ Sahel or the Savannah abstract for a 30 minute presentation gras, August 2-7, 1991. The meeting 3) eco-zones and economic activity in­ to: The P ASALA Graduate Student has as its main goals: cluding a) animal husbandry and Symposium Committee, School of Art To further knowledge about the wild life, b) agricultural systems, and Art History, W -150 Art Building, history and contemporary situation of and c) mineral and water resources The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA the population of African origin in the 4) ecology and economic development 52242. A cover letter with candidate's Americas. 5) ecology, demography and settle­ address, telephone number, affiliated To facilitate the exchange of scien­ ment patterns institution, and title of presentation tific knowledge regarding the differ­ 6) ecology and political developments should accompany the abstract; no ent cultural and religious traditions of 7) ecology and socio-economic change names should be included on the ab­ African origin and their present situa­ 8) health implications of the changing stract itself. All proposals must be re­ tion. ecological environment including ceived by February 4. Travel scholar­ Requirements for Participation: animal and human diseases and ships up to $100 will be awarded to Papers: send a 2oo-word abstract and pharmacological implications scholars on the basis of need. a brief C.V. 9) ecology and governemnt policies, For further information, please con­ Video-films: send a brief summary of including attempts at re- tact Julie Risser or Dana Rush at 319­ the script and a C.V. of the author. afforestation, etc. 335-1777. Works of art and ritual objects: send Abstracts should reach the secre­ slides, information about their size tary of the organizing committee as and a brief C.V. soon as possible. The venue and exact The deadline for submitting the ab­ date of the workshop will be made "African Identities" will be the stract and all required information is known soon. Write The Secretary, Or­ theme of the annual spring conference 31 January 1991. Mail all materials to ganising Committee for Ecology and of the Stanford-UC Berkeley Joint lIe Ase Osun Doye, 34 SE 2nd Ave., Society in the History of the African Center for African Studies to be held Suite 207, Miami, FL 33131, telephone Sahel and Savannah, Department of 20 April 1991 at the Stanford Universi­ 305-530-8283, FAX 305-530-9089. History, Ahmadu Bello University, ty History Corner. Zaria, Nigeria. Africa is a profoundly multi-ethnic and multi-cultural continent. Under­ standing African identities, how they The Department of History, Ahma­ are represented and how they are du Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, in challenged, is therefore central to un­ conjunction with the Departement The first international conference derstanding Africa's politics, its cul­ d'histoire, Universite de Niamey, Ni­ on "Women in Africa and the Afri­ ture, its economic and social organiza­ ger, and the Department of History, can Diaspora: Bridges Across Acti­ tion, its past and its future. Identities University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, is vism and the Academy" is to be held can and have been built around race, organizing an international workshop in Nigeria, June 1992. language, religion, ethnicity, occupa­ on "Ecology and Society in the Histo­ In their bid to grapple with global tion, class, gender, kinship, member­ ry of the African Sahel and Savan­ problems, governments and organiza­ ship in a local community or a newly nah." The workshop is planned for tions world-wide have envisaged so­ independent state, or even residence September 1991. Such a workshop lutions, mapped out strategies and set on the continent itself. Identity, in has, of necessity, to be multi­ in motion programs. Unfortunately, turn, shapes political, social, cultural disciplinary. Consequently, partici­ these attempts do not seem to be halt­ and economic action. Identities are pants are expected to represent a ing the deterioration of global condi­ prime means of building communities broad spectrum of interests and could tions-economic, ecological, political, and generating conflict. carry their research and contributions military, etc. We believe that a wom­ For further information, contact the as far back into the past as necessary. an-centered approach to solving glo­ Center for African Studies, 200 Encina The organizing committee requests bal problems is urgently needed. Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, intending participants to send in their The conference will address issues CA 94305-6055. abstracts, based on anyone of the fol­ affecting women everywhere but spe­ lowing sub-themes: cifically women in Africa and the Af­ 1) conceptual and methodological is­ rican diaspora. Activists and scholars sues in the study of ecology and so­ inside and outside Africa will have Panel or Roundtable Proposal 34th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association St. Louis, Missouri • November 23-26, 1991

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Compiled by An interpretation of diet and nutritional stress [Sudan]. Ph.D., V. of Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State University) Colorado at Boulder, 1989. 217pp. DA51A:1282. 9024823.

Curran-Everett, Linda Susan. Age, sex, and seasonal differences in the The theses listed below were reported in Dissertation Ab­ work capacity of nomadic Ngisonyoka Turkana pastoralists. [Kenya]. stracts International (DAl), vol. 51, nos. 3 and 4, parts A and Ph.D., State V. of New York at Binghamton, 1990. 180pp. B. Each citation ends with a page reference to the abstract DA51A:0914.9020089. and order number (if any) for copies. Most U. S. disserta­ tions are available from University Microfilms Internation­ Crinker, Roy Richard. Ambivalent exchanges: The Lese farmers of cen­ al (300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346). Ca­ tral Africa and their relations with the Efe Pygmies [Zaire]. Ph.D., nadian theses are available from the National Library of Harvard V., 1989. 290pp. DA51A:0910. 9013287. Canada (395 Wellington St., Ottawa KIA ON4). British (UK) theses available from the British Library have order Karaye, Maikudi. Hausa peasants and capitalism: A case study of ru­ numbers with a tlBtI (for tlBRDtI) prefix. Details on ordering ral and agricultural development in Kano State of Nigeria. Ph.D., V. of through UMI are in DAl. Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. 253pp. DA51A:1287. 9024769. This is the ninth quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, King, Barbara Janet. Social information transfer and foraging in yel­ 1974-1987 (Atlanta: Crossroads Press, 1989). This series lists low baboon (Papio cynocephalus) infants [Kenya]. Ph.D., V. of all U.S., Canadian and British dissertations about Africa Oklahoma, 1989. 193pp. DA51A:0914. 9021392. that are abstracted in DAl. Researchers interested in a par­ ticular author or keyword should consult the indexes of Kipuri, Naomi N. Ole. Maasai women in transition: Class and gender DAl or Comprehensive Dissertation Index. in the transformation of a pastoral society [E. Africa]. Ph.D., Temple V., 1989. 363pp. DA51A:091O. 9022918. Agriculture Anamosa, Paul Robert. Water and nutrient movement related to soil Otabil, Stephen. Ordering signs of the times-towards a semiotics of productivity in an aggregated gravelly oxisol from Cameroon. Ph.D., V. contemporary African culture. Ph.D., V. of Maryland College Park, of Florida, 1989. 169pp. DA51B:1046. 9021827. 1989. 419pp. DA51A:1288. 9021561.

Asafo-Adjei, Baffour. Evaluation of exotic soybeans for favorable agro­ Pritchett, James Anthony. Continuity and change in an African socie­ nomic alleles absent in adapted 10cal1ines [Nigeria]. Ph.D., V. of Min­ ty: The Kanongesha Lunda of Mwinilunga, Zambia. Ph.D., Harvard nesota, 1990. 84pp. DA51B:1047. 9020241. V., 1990. 411pp. DA51A:0911. 9021822.

Hassan, Bukar. Applications of remote sensing to arid grasslands: Ex­ Architecture perimental and Nigerian case studies. Ph.D., V. of Wales (V.K.), 1989. Mahgoub, Yasser Osman Moharam. The Nubian experience: A study 286pp. DA51B:1071. BX89224. of the social and cultural meanings of architecture [Egypt]. Arch. D., V. of Michigan, 1990. 287pp. DA51A:1025. 902394. Kigomo, Bernard N. Studies on the regeneration and growth charac­ teristics of Brachylaena huillensis in semi-deciduous forests of Kenya. Biological Sciences Ph.D., V. of Oxford (VK), 1989. 251pp. DA51B:1069. B-89431. Caudian, Cudrun. Taxonomic and ecological studies on Red Sea co­ rals. Ph.D., V. of York (VK), 1988. 382pp. DA51B:1073. BX89195. Anthropology Auld, Sylvin. Veneto-saracenic metalwork: Objects and history Jensen, Cynthia Lund. Clonal reproduction in a stoloniferous grass, [Egypt]. Ph.D., V. of Edinburgh (VK), 1989. 529pp. DA51A:0904. Digitaria macroblephara, in Tsavo National Park (West) Kenya: Ef­ 8-89250. fects of burning and grazing. Ph.D., Cornell V., 1990. 262pp. DA51 B:1612. 9027101. Buck, Paul E. Structure and content of Old Kingdom archeological de­ posits in the western Nile Delta, Egypt: A geoarcheological example Malenky, Richard Karl. Ecological factors affecting food choice and so­ from Kom el-Hisn. Ph.D., V. of Washington, 1990. 366pp. cialorganization in Pan paniscus [Zaire]. Ph.D., State V. of New DA51A:1282.9025988. York at Stony Brook, 1990. 302pp. DA51B:1613. 9024448.

Cummings, Linda Scott. Coprolites from medieval Christian Nubia: Meldrum, Don Jeffrey. Terrestrial adaptions in the feet of African cer­ copithecines. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Stony Brook, 1989. cy: Contestual reading of sociopolitical reality in the "Third World". 318pp. DA51B:1072. 9021082. Ph.D., Boston U., 1990. 767pp. DA51A:1343. 9026070.

Business Administration Nyaribo, Fanny Boyani. Integrating dual-purpose goats on small Binedell, Nicholas Arthur. Corporate characteristics and sociopolitical farms in western Kenya: A linear programming analysis. Ph.D., Wash­ responsiveness: An empirical analysis in South Africa. Ph.D., U. Of ington State U., 1989. 282pp. DA51A:1326. 9025418. Washington, 1989. 138pp. DA51A:0915. 9020900. Education Gahein, Mohammed Mohammed. Marketing strategies of small com­ Babigumira, Daniel M. The impact of oppressive military-political panies with particular reference to the textile industry in Egypt as an Is­ governments on school effectiveness in Uganda, 1971-1986. Ed.D., U. lamic developing country. Ph.D., U. of Strathclyde (U.K.), 1986. of San Diego, 1990. 279pp. DA51A:0688. 9023066. 735pp. DA51A:0932. B-98484. EI Bakary, Waguida A. F. An adult education program planning mod­ Earth Sciences el for the national universities of Egypt. Ed.D., West Virginia U., Bestland, Erick Anthony. Miocene volcaniclastic deposits and paleo­ 1990. 293pp. DA51A:0711. 9020357. sols of Rusinga Island, Kenya. Ph.D., U. of Oregon, 1990. 130pp. DA51B:1701.902548O. Kathuri, Nephat Justus. A study of the new agricultural education curriculum in the secondary schools of Kenya. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Reid, Leslie Margaret. Channel incision by surface runoff in grassland Urbana-Champaign, 1990. 239pp. DA51A:0714. 902174. catchments [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of Washington, 1989. 213pp. DA51B:1166.9020961. Makande, Tendekai Don. A study to determine the need for mathe­ matics inseroice training for untrained teachers in K-7 rural schools in Scholz, Christopher Alfred. Seismic stratigraphic studies of East Afri­ Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Oregon State U., 1989. l09pp. can 1akesMalawi, Tanganyika and Victoria. Ph.D., Duke U., 1989. DA51A:1203.9023724. 245pp. DA51B:1169. 9022866. Masenda, Solomon T. Psychohistorical perspectives on Chinua Economics Achebe's HThings Fall Apart" and "Arrow of God" [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Armah, Bartholomew Kingsley. Foreign trade strategies, employ­ U. of Oklahoma, 1989. 134pp. DA51A:0812. 9021395. ment and income distribution: The case of Ghana, 1960-1986. Ph.D., U. of Notre Dame, 1990. 196pp. DA51A:1313. 9024604. Mollel, Naftali Medoti. A comparative analysis of job design charac­ teristics, organizational stucture, and personal characteristics affecting Barry, Mamadou. The international shipping and marketing of bauxite job satisfaction of extension agents in two extension organizations in and alumina: Implications and policy options for Guinea. Ph.D., Colo­ Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990. 177pp. rado Sch. of Mines, 1990. DA51A:0945. DA51A:1207.9026271.

Dlamini, Thembayena Annastasia. Export instability and economic Mollel-Blakely, Delois Naewoaang. Education for Self-Reliance: Ed­ growth: The case of Swaziland. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Alba­ ucation and national development in Tanzania. Ed.D., Columbia U. ny, 1990. 286pp. DA51A:1315. 9023358. Teachers Coil., 1990. 278pp. DA51A:0687. 9021297.

EI Nagheeb, Abdelmoneim Hashim. Extensification ofagriculture Nwachukwu, Okechkwu Sabinus. The role of the Nigerian secondary and deforestation in Sudan: An economic analysis under uncertainty. school principal as perceived by the principals, vice-principals and teach­ Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. 247pp. DA51A:1323. ers. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1990. 151 pp. DA51A:0704. 9020262. 9025713. Ogbonna, Paul. Early intervention services for children with disabili­ Kerr, John Malcolm. Economic and institutional determinants of agri­ ties in Nigeria. Ed.D., Boston U., 1990. 170pp. DA51A:ll10. cultural mechanization in Egypt. Ph.D., Stanford U., 1990. 228pp. 9026073. DA51A:0942.9024334. Oladele, Ssolomon Ajayi. The relationship between religiosity, the rea­ Meltzer, Martin Isaac. Livestock biotechnOlogy: The economic and eco­ sons for adult participation and nonparticipation in Christian educa­ logical impact of alternatives for controlling ticks and tick-borne diseases tional activities in ECWA in Kwara State of Nigeria. Ed.D., Biola U., in Africa [Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., Cornell U., 1990. 612pp. Talbot Sch. of Theology, 1989. 190pp. DA51A:0809. 9013596. DA51A:1326.9027024. Rashed, Mohamed Khyrat Mahmoud. The effect of the total physical Mohamed, Abdel-Rahman Ibrahim. Ideology, identity and legitima­ response method versus the audio-lingual method on the rate of attain­ ment in listenin comprehension of Egyptian beginners of English as a Van Vleck, Michael Richard. British educational policy in Egypt rela­ Foreign Language. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Buffalo, 1990. tive to British imperialism in Egypt, 1882-1922. Ph.D., U. of Wiscon­ 294pp. DA51A:0732. 9022191. sin-Madison, 1990. 568pp. DA51A:1358. 9025736.

Ross, Keith Andrew. A cross-cultural study of people's understanding Zuhur, Sherifa Danielle. Self-image of Egyptian women in opposition­ of the fundioning of fuels and the process of burning [Gambia]. Ph.D., ist Islam. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1990. 420pp. U. of Bristol (U.K.), 1989. 526pp. DA51A:1188. BX89531. DA51A:0972. 9025005.

Zvacek, Susan Marie. Distance education in the teacher education pro­ Infonnation Science gram of Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Iowa State U., 1989. 483pp. DA51A:1108. Tiamiyu, Mutawakilu Adisa. Fadors underlying the use of informa­ 9014974. tion sources in government institution in Nigeria. Ph.D., U. of West­ ern Ontario (Can.), 1990. DA51A:1032. Fine Arts Higashi, Elizabeth Lee. Conical glass vessels from Karanis: Fundion Journalism and meaning in a Pagan/Christian context in rural Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Araby, Osman Mohammed. The press and foreign policy: A compara­ Michigan, 1990. 594pp. DA51A:1028. 9023564. tive study of the role of the elite press in U.S. foreign plicies in the Mid­ dle East, the sale of A WACS arms package to Saudi Arabia, the deploy­ Geography ment of u.s. Marines to Lebanon, and the U.s. air raid on Libya. Ph.D., Hart, Deborah Mary. Master plans: The South African government's U. of Minnesota, 1990. 195pp. DA51A:1032. 9024262. razing of Sophiatown, Cato Manor and District Six. Ph.D., Syracuse u., 1990. 322pp. DA51A:1346. 9024387. Barkaoui, Miloud. "The New York Times" and the Algerian Revolu­ tion, 1956-1962: An analysis of major newspaper's reporting of events. Malombe, Joyce Mwende. The impact of site and service projects on Ph.D., U. of Keele (U.K.), 1988. 359pp. DA51A:1033. BX89599. urban housing markets: The case of Dandora, Nairobi [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of Western Ontario (Can.), 1990. DA51A:1347. Mattocks, David M. Beyond institution building: A comparative anal­ ysis of institution building assistance and the development of designated Health Sciences agricultural institutions of higher education in Africa, Asia and Latin Marshall, Margaret Ann. A preliminary investigation of the cultrual America. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. 775pp. and service factors contributing to maternal mortality in the Greater Ac­ DA51A:1085.9024069. cra Region, Ghana as perceived by private sedor midwives: Implications for education policy. Ed.D., George Washington U., 1989. 231pp. Language DA51 B:1342. 9022211. Najjar, Hazem Yousef. Arabic as a research language: The case of the agricultural sciences [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1990. 243pp. History DA51A:1214.9023607. Jiwa, Shainool. A study of the reign of the fifth Fatimid Imam/Caliph al- Aziz billah [Egyptl. Ph.D., U. of Edinburgh (U.K.), 1989. 302pp. Schmitz, Philip Charles. Epigraphic contributions to a history of Car­ DA51A:0972. B-89255. thage in the fifth century B.C.E. [Tunisia]. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1990. 338pp. DA51A:1211. 9023633. Marmon, Shaun Elizabeth. The Eunuchs of the Prophet: Space, time and gender in Islamic society [Egypt]. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1990. Smith, Robin Harold. Labour, management and political change: A 267pp. DA51A:1359. 9026412. study of employment codes in the context of South African industrial re­ lations. Ph.D., U. of York (U.K.), 1989. 446pp. DA51A:0834. Neumann, Mikel. Factors underlying accelerated growth trends as re­ BX89199. flected in the history of the Malagasy Baptist Church. D. Miss., Fuller Theological Sem., Sch. of World Mission, 1990. 410pp. Tumbo-Masabo, Zubeida Zuberi. The development of neologisms in DA51A:1352. 9025582. Kiswahilli: A diachronic and synchronic approach with special reference to mathematical terms [E. Africa]. Ed.D" Columbia U. Teachers Randa, Ernest William. The Tulunid Dynasty in Egypt: Loyalty and ColI., 1990. 148pp. DA51A:0839. 9021304. state formation during the dissolution of the 'Abbasid caliphate. Ph.D., U. of Utah, 1990. 470pp. DA51A:0963. 9022353. Law Kimane, Itumelong. Forums and methods of dispute settlement in Le­ Swan, Robert Joseph. Thomas McCants Stewart and the failure of the sotho: A fresh look at the depidions of the judicial system. Ph.D., U. of mission of the Talented Tenth in black America, 1880-1923 [Liberia]. Edinburgh (U.K.), 1989. 560pp. DA51A:0983. 8-89259. Ph.D., New York U., 1990. 346pp. DA51A:1351. 9025148. Lahouasnia, Abdelaziz. The delimitation of internal waters along the A comparison between the spirituality of the Igbo people and St. Francis Mediterranean coast of the Mahgreb with particular reference to historic of Assisi [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Fordham V., 1990. 238pp. DA51A:1258. bays. Ph.D., V. of Bristol (V.K.), 1989. 530pp. DA51A:1367. 9025011. BX89703. Combrinck, Johannes Jacobus. Christian origins and growth in South Uterature Africa: A Dutch Reformed and charismatic church case study. D. MiSS., Abadir, Akef Rarnzy. Najib Mahfuz: Allegory and symbolism as a Fuller Theological $em., Sch. of World Mission, 1990. 430pp. means of social, political and cultural criticism, 1936-1985 [EgyptJ. DA51A:1260.9025579. Ph.D., New York V., 1989. 238pp. DA51A:1248. 9016235. Ngwumohaike, Anthony Chima. Adjustment problems confronting Sarinjeive, Devi. Fugard's situations: An existentialist study of select­ Catholic priests from other countries working in the Archdiocese of San ed plays by Athol Fugard 1958-1972 [South Africa]. Ph.D., Colombia Francisco [Nigeria]. Ed.D., V. of San Francisco, 1989. 157pp. V., 1987. 331pp. DA51A:0848. 9020602. DA51A:1268.9026372.

Sociology Philosophy Senefo, Kofi Darkwa. The determinants of family size preferences and lroegbu, Pantaleon O. Communalism: A theory of justice for contem­ traditional child-spacing practices in West Africa. Ph.D., V. of Michi­ porary African political communities [Nigeria]. Ph.D., V. Catholique gan, 1990. 296pp. DA51A:1398. 9023517. de Louvanin (Belgium), 1989. 430pp. DA51A:1255. 9024799. Doane, Ashley Wood. Ethnicity and nationality: Towards a class­ based theoretical framework [South Africa]. Ph.D., V. of New Hamp­ Physical Sciences shire, 1989. 564pp. DA51A:1013. 9022639. Bashir, Dogara. Thatched mat windbreaks influences on the Harmat­ tan: Wind and millet production in the Sahel [NigeriaJ. Ph.D., V. of Fast, John George. Theory and practice in the ethics of corporate social Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. 356pp. DA51B:1377. 9020428. responsibility [South Africa]. Ph.D., Boston V., 1990. 231pp. DA51 A:1405. 9023750.

Political Science GOOsell, Gillian. The social networks of South African entrepreneurs. Aliyu, Muazu Babangida. Foreign policy in Nigeria's Second Repub­ Ph.D., Boston V., 1990. 171pp. DA51A:1401. 9026065. lic, 1979-1983: The interaction of domestic and international factors. Ph.D., V. of Pittsburgh, 1989. 283pp. DA51A:0993. 9021464. Hunt, Charles Watson. Africa and the AIDS pandemic: Migrant labor and sexually-transmitted disease. Ph.D., V. of Oregon, 1989. 250pp. Cownie, David Scott. Whither traditional evaluation research: Build­ DA51A:1009.9020202. ing theory-driven policy research through an evaluation of the Arabic Lands Development Program in Botswana. Ph.D., V. of Houston, Jalata, Asafa. The question of Oromia: Euro-Ethiopian colonialism, glo­ 1990. 480pp. DA51A:1380. 9024578. bal hegemonism and nationalism, 18705-19805. Ph.D., State V. of New York at Binghamton, 1990. 410pp. DA51A:1009. 9022075. Fawole, William Alade. National role conceptions and foreign policy: Nigeria's African diplomacy under military rule, 1970-1979. Ph.D., Kalula, Evance. Labour legislation and policy in a post-colonial state: George Washington V., 1990. 375pp. DA51A:0987. 9020295. Attempts to incorporate trade unions in Zambia, 1971-86. Ph.D., V. of Warwick (V.K.), 1988. 320pp. DA51A:1406. 8-89560. Lazer, John. Conformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa, 1948-1961. Ph.D., V. of Oxford (V.K.), 1987. 395pp. McGrath, John Joseph. Comparative analysis of the national liberation DA51A:0989. B-89514. movements in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Algeria with specific reference to the development and interrelationship of political ideology Naim, Syed Rashid. The radical tradition in Islam and the Islamist and military strategy. Ph.D., Fordham V., 1990. 503pp. tendency in contemporary Egypt. Ph.D., V. of Illinois at Vrbana­ DA51A:1011.9020018. Champaign, 1990. 513pp. DA51A:0990. 9021732. Vhiara, Adeze Nwashili. The effect of women 's education, economic Wolff, Robert Anthony. Food policies and political stability: A com­ roles, and values on fertility in Nigeria. Ph.D., V. of Nebraska­ parative study of Ghana and Ivory Coast. Ph.D., V. of Kansas, 1989. Lincoln, 1989. 166pp. DA51A:I021. 9013631. 411pp. DA51A:1375. 9024224.

Religion Speech Communication Anyaka, Godfrey. A re-examinination of African traditional religion: Bello-Ogunu, John Okegbe. Analysis of the argumentative validity of the legal rulings on the 1979 Nigerian presidential elections. Ph.D., Theater Ohio U., 1990. 214pp. DA51A;1044. 9024115. Ruganda, John. Alienation and leadership figures in the plays of Fran­ cis Imbuga [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of New Brunswick (Can.), 1990. DA51A:0685.

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