CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES RESEARCH REPORT 2019-2020 THE CENTER WOULD LIKE TO THANK Modesta Abugu for coordinating the project and Jenna Agres for design and layout. Cover photos courtesy of Sebastian Elischer, Yekatit Tsehayu, Frederick Madore, and Vincent Girier Dufournier. TABLEtable of contents OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE CENTER ..............................................................................................................................................................................................4 FROM THE DIRECTOR ............................................................................................................................................................................................6 NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP ...........................................................................................................8 CHINA-AFRICA WORKING GROUP ..............................................................................................................................................................9 WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN LIVESTOCK VACCINE VALUE CHAINS ...............................................................................10 CPET GLOBAL HEALTH INSTITUTE ............................................................................................................................................................11 RESEARCH TUTORIALS ABROAD ..............................................................................................................................................................12 ISLAM IN AFRICA IN GLOBAL CONTEXT ..............................................................................................................................................14 CARTER CONFERENCE 2019 ..........................................................................................................................................................................15 FACULTY REPORTS STEVEN BRANDT - Southwest Ethiopia Archaeological Project (SWEAP) ......................................................................................................18 CHARLES BWENGE - Does Translation Separate Indigenous Knowledge from its Related Language? ......................................................19 ERIC COKER - Health Effects of Urban Air Pollutants in East Africa ..................................................................................................................20 ELIZABETH DEVOS - Mentoring for Education in Emergency Care: Rwanda ...............................................................................................21 SEBASTIAN ELISCHER - Political Attitudes and Identities of University Students in Kenya .........................................................................22 NANCY ROSE HUNT - ’Madness,’ Violence, and Vulnerability in Bukavu ......................................................................................................23 PHILLIP JANZEN - Atlantic Intermediaries ...........................................................................................................................................................24 ABDOULAYE KANE - Senegalese Hometown Associations and Development Interventions ......................................................................25 NICHOLAS KERR - Quality of Elections and Voter Turnout in Nigeria ..........................................................................................................26 ROSE LUGANO - Using Computational Methods to Document and Preserve Kidaw’ida ...............................................................................27 FRÉDÉRICK MADORE - Muslim Minorities in Southern Benin and Togo ......................................................................................................28 FIONA MCLAUGHLIN - Trans-Saharan Literacies ...............................................................................................................................................29 CALISTUS NGONGHALA - Mathematical Frameworks for Studying the Ecology of Poverty and Disease ...................................................30 MARIT ØSTEBØ - Village Gone Viral .....................................................................................................................................................................31 TERJE ØSTEBØ - Researching Islam, Ethiopia, and Africa .................................................................................................................................32 RENATA SERRA - Promoting Dialogue between Researchers and Policy-makers ............................................................................................33 ADRIENNE STRONG - Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania .............................................................................................34 OLIVIER WALTHER - Foreign Interventions and Transnational Insurgencies in the Sahara-Sahel ................................................................35 2 CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES Research Report 2019–2020 STUDENT REPORTS MOSUNMOLA ADEOJO - Victorianism in Nigeria ............................................................................................................................................38 ELIJAH ADONGO - Style(s) and Knowledge of Contemporary African Choral Music ..................................................................................39 KAMLA ARISTIDE - Genetic Diversity, Diet and Habitat Quality of the African Manatee ............................................................................40 SHAMBAVI BHUSAN - African Migrant Experiences in India ..........................................................................................................................41 JESSICA CASIMIR - Cumulative Disadvantage and Weathering among Caregivers in South Africa .............................................................42 KAREN COKER - Air Pollution’s Impact on Respiratory Health in Dakar ........................................................................................................43 WILLIAM DYER - Tigrinya Gender Morphology ...................................................................................................................................................44 DIANE EZEH - Experiences of African Students in United States ......................................................................................................................45 MACODOU FALL - Islam, Popular Culture and Ajami Literature in Senegal ......................................................................................................46 JAMIE FULLER - Mobile Women and Social Reproduction in Senegal ..............................................................................................................47 RYAN GOOD - Visualizing Drought in Kenya ........................................................................................................................................................48 MACKENZIE GOODE - Understanding Human-wildlife Conflict and Conservation Attitudes .....................................................................49 VICTORIA GORHAM - State, Society, and Nation-Building in Tanzania and Kenya .......................................................................................50 KYUNG HONG - Surgery for Biliary Atresia in Low-resource Settings? Outcomes in Rwanda .......................................................................51 PAPA HOYECK - Peste des Petits Ruminants and the Livestock Sector in Senegal ............................................................................................52 KIMBERLEY LEDGER - Tick Abundance and Diversity in Kruger National Park .........................................................................................53 LEANDRA MERZ - Human-wildlife Coexistence in Zambia’s Game Management Areas ...............................................................................54 MILT MOISE - Alienation, Boredom, and the Invisible African .............................................................................................................................55 FEZILE MTSETFWA - Climate and Land Use Impacts on Savanna Trees .......................................................................................................56 STEPHANIE MUENCH - Evaluation of Livestock Systems Innovations in Rwanda .......................................................................................57 ZOE MUNGAI-BARRIS - Kenyan Perceptions of Chinese-made Kangas Entering the East African Marketplace ........................................58 CHRISTOPHER MUNTZNER - Nouns in Khoekhoe ........................................................................................................................................59 CRISTOVÃO NWACHUKWU - Post-Nationalist Preoccupations in African Short Stories ..........................................................................60 MATTHEW PFLAUM - Conflict, Food Security and Pastoralism in the Sahel ..................................................................................................61 ROMY RAJAN - The Postcolonial Novel in India and Kenya .............................................................................................................................62 RILEY RAVARY - Exclusion through Boundary (Re)making in a Protected Area .............................................................................................63 SARAH STAUB - Artemisia Trainings in Benin