Center for AFRAFRICAICANN STUDIESSTUDIES RESEARCH REPORT 2014–2015 THE CENTER WOULD LIKE TO THANK Jessica Horwood for coordinating this project, the students and faculty who contributed reports and photographs, and Luca Brunozzi for the design and layout of this report. Cover photos by Erik Timmons and Abdoulaye Kane. TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Center..........................................................................................................................................................................................4 From the DireCtor.......................................................................................................................................................................................5 CAS At FiFty: the FirSt 25 yeArS................................................................................................................................................6 FACulty reportS SHARON AbRAmOWITz – Culture and Humanitarian Response to the W. African Ebola Epidemic...................................................9 CHARLES bWENgE – Linguistic Identity in a Globalizing Urbanscape: Three Swahili Cities...................................................................10 bRIAN CHILD – Economics and Governance of Wildlife and Conservation in southern Africa.................................................................11 ELIzAbETH DeVOS – Improving Emergency Medical Services in Africa.....................................................................................................12 gORAN HyDEN – Local Policy, Millennium Development Goals, and African Politics...............................................................................13 SUSAN JACObSON – Tourism and Community-based Wildlife Conservation in Kenya...........................................................................14 AbDOULAyE KANE – The Articulation of Translocal and Transnational Tijani Religious Circuits..........................................................15 CORENE mATyAS – Rainfall and Patterns of Income for Farmers in Mozambique.....................................................................................16 bOb mcCLEERy – Wildlife Research in Swaziland and South Africa…..........................................................................................................17 SARAH mcKUNE – Nutrition and Gender among Pastoralists in the Context of Climate Change............................................................18 bARbARA mcDADE gORDON – African Diaspora “Out of Africa” and Africa Diasporans “Into Africa” ....................................19 ESTHER ObONyO – A Learning Through Service Approach for Architecture and Engineering..............................................................20 TERJE OSTEbO – Islam and Politics in the Horn of Africa and Beyond........................................................................................................21 JULIET PULLIAm – Strengthening US-Africa Connections and Capacity in Infectious Disease Dynamics...............................................22 DANIEL REbOUSSIN – Libraries Curate Elephant Data for Online Open Access......................................................................................23 fRANK SEIDEL – Documentation of Baga Mandori: An Endangered Language of Guinea......................................................................24 JILL SONKE – The Arts and Public Health in Uganda........................................................................................................................................25 LUISE WHITE – Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization...........................................................................................................26 StuDent reportS OUmAR bA – Outsourcing Justice: Africa and the Politics of the International Criminal Court...................................................................28 LINA bENAbDALLAH – (Re)Branding a ‘China Alternative’ in Africa’s Development Scene...................................................................29 mAmADOU bODIAN – The Reform of Institutions in Senegal and Mali.....................................................................................................30 bENJAmIN bURgEN – Transnational Hometowns: Migration & Development in the Senegal River Valley...........................................31 POULOmy CHAKRAbORTy – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Peri-urban Kenya............................................................32 ALEx CHIDAKEL – Economic Performance of Protected Areas in Contrasting Institutional Landscapes...............................................33 AmANDA EDgELL – Exploring Mechanisms for Entry and Roles of Women in African Parliaments.....................................................34 ANTOINETA EgUREN – Attitudes Toward Wildlife and Parks in Makuleke Villages, South Africa..........................................................35 DAN EIzENgA – Regime Stability, Political Liberalization, and Social Mobilization in the Sahel.................................................................36 mICHAEL gENNARO – The History of Boxing in Nigeria.............................................................................................................................37 VICTORIA gORHAm – State-led National Identity Formation in Tanzania.................................................................................................38 ANN LEE gRImSTAD – Zanzibar: The Nine-Hour Revolution.......................................................................................................................39 yANg JIAO – China’s Agricultural Investment in Nigeria....................................................................................................................................40 NICHOLAS KNOWLTON – Ghana’s Democratic Trajectory in Comparative Perspective..........................................................................41 LILy mAyNARD – Seeking Stakeholder Collaboration: Community-Based Conservancies in Kenya...........................................................42 ASmERET mEHARI – Can Archaeology by Africans Genuinely be for Africans...........................................................................................43 THERESE RyLEy – Wastescapes in Urban and Peri-urban Senegal.................................................................................................................44 ERIK TImmONS – Hip Hop Life and Livelihood in Nairobi...............................................................................................................................45 IbRAHIm yAHAyA – Islamic Insurgency in the Sahel........................................................................................................................................46 2 CENTER fOR AfRICAN STUDIES Research Report 2014–2015 CollAborAtive projeCt reportS Archaeological & Paleoenvironmental Research in the Ndali Crater Lakes Region...............................................................................................48 Alternative Small Business Financing Options to Micro-Finance Loans in Kenya..............................................................................................49 Community Archaeology Workshop..............................................................................................................................................................................50 Sahel Research Group.......................................................................................................................................................................................................51 Kongo Across the Waters................................................................................................................................................................................................52 Linguistic Ecology of Dakar’s Markets.........................................................................................................................................................................53 Development, Security & Climate Change in the Sahel..............................................................................................................................................54 Social Enterprise Approach in Low Cost Housing......................................................................................................................................................55 Sub-Saharan Africa Business Environment Report.....................................................................................................................................................56 UF-UDSM Linkage: 25 years of Cooperative Exchange............................................................................................................................................57 Taking Africa to the Classroom......................................................................................................................................................................................58 Alumni upDAteS TImOTHy AJANI .......................................................................................................................................................................................................60 CARLEE fORbES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................61