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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ASA Board of Directors 2

Notes from the Secretariat 2

1987 ASA Annual Meeting 3

1988 ASA Annual Meeting Call for Papers 4

Bids for Editorship of African Studies Review 4

ASA Elections 5

Obituary: Chief Obafemi Owolowo, 1909-1987 6

Special Announcements 7

Grants & Awards 8

Meetings-Past & Future 9

Employment 11

Publications Received 14

L~ Recent Doctoral Dissertations 19

.' Special Insert: 1987 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program

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ASA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS President: Aidan Southall, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Exec. Comm.) Vice-president: Nzongola-Nta1aja, Howard University (Nom. Comm.) Past-president: Gerald J. Bender, Univ. of Southern California (publ. Comm.)

RETIRING IN 1987 Edna G. Bay, Emory University (Exec. Finance & Devel. Comm.) Abena P.A. Busia, Rutgers University (Nom. Comm.) Mark DeLancey, Univ. of South Carolina (Publ. & Devel. Comm.)

RETIRING IN 1988 Edward A. Alpers, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles (Exec. & Devel. Comm.) M. Jean Hay, Boston University (Publ. & Finance Comm.)

Joseph C. Miller, Univ. of Virginia (Nom., Finance & Devel. Comm.)

RETIRING IN 1989 Mario J. Azevedo, Univ. of No. Carolina, Charlotte (Fin. Comm.) Pauline H. Baker, Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace (Nom. & Exec. Comm.) Allen F. lsaacman, Univ. of Minnesota (Publ. Comm.)

NOTES FROM THE SECRETARIAT

As the last issue of the News was quite substantial, we do not have as much material to place in the summer issue. We have, however, placed an updated preliminary Meeting Program within, please use this latest as your guide, as there are some changes from that which was mailed in the preregistration packets. You should have received it by now, if any of you have not, please call the Secretariat, and we will send it out Also, please keep in mind that should you move (in our line of work, a fairly common occurance), your ASA materials will nQl be forwarded by the Post Office, but will be returned to us, so it is important for you to inform the Secretariat if you relocate.

Preparations are well under way for the Denver Meeting and all indications point to a well organized, stimulating Meeting. We have also announced the dates for the 1988 Meeting in Chicago, so you can plan your schedules well in advance. If you need to make any last minute adjustments to the Program for Denver, please contact George Shepherd, as he has fmal say on panel scheduling. This will be the last preliminary program, the next version will be presented as the conference program in your registration packets in Denver.

Remember to make your travel plans as soon as you can to take advantage of the reduced airfares provided by this year's travel agency. We've been assured they will provide better service than those we have used in the past, especially since we can contact the airlines directly. A final point on the Meeting. please be aware of the constraints imposed by the catering service for the Awards Banquet. It may be difficult for us to accomodate last minute requests for tickets and we will problably nru be able \. to sell tickets at the Conference because of the need to inform catering of the final count several days before the event, so send in your reservations as soon as possible to ensure your attendance at this event

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Finally, let me remind you that the Secretariat will be moving its offices to Emory University in Atlanta, GA. We will continue to conduct ASA business out of UCLA until the Annual Meeting. After that, please address your inquiries and correspondence to:

Executive Secretary African Studies Association Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322

As I have mentioned previously, we will do all we can, both myself and Edna Bay, to make the trasition as "painless" as possible. Please understand the difficulties in such a move and rest assured that we will try and complete the transition as quickly as possible.

We hope that the "new" looks of HIA, Issue and the ASR are appealing. I personally, got a bit tired of the "bargain basement'" appearance of our journals, even though the quality has been excellent, sometimes packaging can liven things up a bit. We hope our efforts meet with your approval.

We look forward to seeing all of you in Denver at the Radisson Hotel November 2()..22.

1987 ANNUAL MEETING

The 1987 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association will convene at the Radisson Hotel, Denver, Colorado, November 20-22, 1987. The theme of this year's Meeting is, "A Review of the Liberation Struggle in Africa: Thirty Year's of 'Freedom'." The Meeting will feature papers and panels on all aspects of African Studies with plenary sessions dedicated to SSRC/ACLS Research Overview Papers and a keynote lecture by historian Basil Davidson. Furthermore, the ASA Presidential Awards Banquet and an ASA 30th Anniversary Dance sponsored by the University of Denver African Students Association and others will round out the social happenings in the mile-high city.

A preliminary program for the proceedings of the Meetings is included in this Newsletter. All participants in the proceedings of the Meeting are expected to register. Pre-registration fees are as follows: Regular and Sustaining Members-$25.00: Student/Retired/Unemployed Members-$12.50; Non-member Professionals-$30.00; Student/Retired/Unemployed Non-Members-$15.00. Pre-registration fees will be accepted through November 6, 1987. Payments of pre-registration fees should be sent by check or money order in U.S. $, payable to "African Studies Association", and should be sent to the address listed below. There will be on-site registration beginning Thursday, November 19. from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and the following days from 7:45 am to 5:45 pm. On-site registration will be significandy higher.

Special hotel rates ($62.00-singles and $72.00-doubles) and travel arrangements (United Airlines and Travel-On) have been made to assist participants in the Annual Meeting. Persons wishing to contact the Radisson Hotel to make advance reservations

http:Non-Members-$15.00http:Professionals-$30.00http:Members-$12.50http:Members-$25.00

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may do so by calling their toll-free number 800-654-1550. United Airlines has also provided a toll-free conference hotline, 800-521-4041 [lD #311RMJ. In each case identify yourself as a participant in the ASA conference. For more infonnation and materials contact the Executive Secretary, African Studies Association, 255 Kinsey Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1506. Telephone: (213) 206-8011/12.

1988 ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR PAPERS

The 1988 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association will be held October 28-31, 1988 at the McConnick Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. The 1988 Meeting will be hosted by the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University in conjunction with the 40th Anniversary of the founding of their program. The theme of the Meeting will be "Continuity and Change in Africa." Papers and panel proposals in all aspects of African Studies are invited.

Abstracts for papers and panel proposals should be submitted no later than April 15,1988, to the 1988 Annual Meeting Program Chairperson, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208. Nominations of foreign scholars to be sponsored by the Association should also be submitted to Professor Hansen by April 15. 1988. For further information on the procedures for nominating foreign scholars or other aspects of the 1988 Annual Meeting contact the Executive Secretary, 255 Kinsey Hall. UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles. CA 90024.

BIDS FOR EDITORSHIP OF AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

At the Spring Meeting of the Board of Directors of the ASA, the Board acted upon the recommendation of the its Publications Committee and decided to open up the editorship of the Association's journals to a bidding and review process. The Board has adopted the principle that the editorship be reviewed, solicited, and awarded on a fiveyear basis, with the understanding that the editorship need not necessarily change. This process has been instituted as a means for the Association to ensure that the best editorial and institutional support for our journals can be provided. Our current editors have consistently provided excellent service and, in fact, are encouraged to submit bids. The fIrSt editorship selected for bidding is that of the African Studies Review.

The Board of Directors is looking for the best overall offer from a proposing editor or institution. Within such a bid should be an indication of the kinds of institutional support available and commitments from the proposed editor and institution. Possible forms of institutional support might include provisions for copy-editing, editorial assistance, secretarial support, support for general correspondence and communications, > computer and other technological assistance in the preparation of camera-ready copy. ..

In addition, a curriculum vita with an indication of previous editorial experience and a statement of the proposers' vision for the future of the African Studies Review

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should be submitted. This might include a description of the mechanism for the solicitation of manuscripts, editorial review of such, as well as plans for the book review and other special sections.

All bids and supporting materials must be received by the Secretariat no later than November I, 1987, for consideration by the full Board at the Fall Meeting of the Association. Should you have any questions concerning the specifics of the publication of the African Studies Review, or any of the Association's journals, please contact the Secretariat for further information. Address all inquiries to: Executive Secretary, African Studies Association, 255 Kinsey Hall, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1506. Telephone: (213) 206-80 11.

ASA ELECTIONS

1988 ASA Elections The Nominations Committee for the 1988 Elections to the Board of Directors of

the African Studies Association would like to solicit from the members of the Association recommendations for prospective candidates to stand for election in 1988 who shall take office at the 1988 Annual Meeting, October 28-31, 1988 and who shall serve on the Board of Directors for three years following. Members are encouraged to contact the Committee members in their area and/or field with suggestions. The Committee is constituted as follows:

Board Members: Nzongola-Ntalaja, (Chair), African Studies Program, Howard University,

Washington, DC 20059 Abena P.A. Busia. Department of English, Murray Hall, C.A.C., Rutgers

Livingston College, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia, Department of HiStory, Randall Hall,

Charlottesville, V A 22903 Pauline H. Baker, 7300 Broxburn Ct., Bethesda, MD 20817

Members-at-Large: Karen Fung, 2065 California St, No. 15, Mountain View, CA 94040 Karen Fields, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African

Studies, 302 Morey Hall, Rochester, NY 14627 Mary Jo Amouldi, Smithsonian Institution, Department of Anthropology, NHB

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OBITUARY

CHIEF OBAFEMI A WOLOWO, 1909·1987 (Submitted by Richard L. Sklar)

In his autobiography, Obafemi Awolowo tells about his tenacious pursuit of a barely adequate fonnal education. He was already thirty-four years old and a jack of many humble trades by the time he could finally afford to study law in London. Three years later, in 1947, the newly qualified lawyer and aspirant politician published a stunning book, Path to Nigerian Freedom. now a classic of African political thought. In it, he upheld the right of every cultural-linguistic group to establish modem political institutions within a unifying federal framework. His approach inspired a powerful political movement in Western Nigeria. He, himself. became an architect of Nigeria's federal constitution and the leading critic of its imperfections.

As Premier of the Western Region from 1954 to 1959, Awolowo acquired an awesome reputation for administrative competence and efficiency. In foreign affairs, he espoused Nigerian alignment with the Western democracies and decried Gamal Abdel Nasser's pretension to leadership in black Africa. No African leader has ever been flattered and praised with more conviction by conservative and liberal members of the Anglo-American Establishment than Awolowo in the latter 1950s. Yet his innerdirected personality was impervious to flattery and rarely if ever deflected from its selfdirected course. He believed in democratic socialism and became its foremost Nigerian proponent as Leader of the Opposition in the Independence Parliament of 1960-62.

Awolowo's intellectual legacy lies mainly with his Afrocentric synthesis of democratic socialism and federalism. Posterity may also remember him as the exemplar of Fabian socialist thought in postcolonial Mrica. His pluralist philosophy was anchored to the political principle of party competition. By way of comparison, both Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda are properly classified as participatory socialists in the democratic-corporatist tradition of G.D.H. Cole. Awolowo upheld the more orthodox party-parliamentary tradition of Sidney Webb and Harold Laski.

We shall never know whether an Awolowist federal government would have reflected his personal image of disciplined efficiency. His fervent belief in strong party leadership, as it is practiced in Britain, was incompatible with the construction of a winning coalition in the multicultural, federal state that is Nigeria. His conception of party leadership had built-in limitations that he refused to rectify for the sake of electoral success. They may have been the limitations of Fabian socialism in a plural and preindustrial society.

Chief Awolowo's voluminous published works include six substantial books. During his visit to California in 1982. the late Professor James Coleman asked him how his writing program had been. and would be. affected by the demands of public office. Without hesitation. he replied that it was easier for him to write while he was in office because everyone seemed to agree that a senior office-holder's time was precious and should be protected by subordinate officials. Out of office, he lamented. there was never enough time for his writing. Only the first volume of his projected trilogy, entitled" Adventures in Power," had been published at the time of his death.

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Scholars Urge Removal or Ideological Barriers John Scanlan, Professor of Law at Indiana University, testifying ... on behalf of the

American Association of University Professors, urged Congress to pass H.R. 1119 amending the McCarran-Walters Act AAUP opposes the law because "it considers the right to receive and share infonnation and ideas to be essential to the pursuit of truth."

This law interferes with the free exchange of ideas by barring entry into the United .. States of scholars, authors, creative artists and others, invited to address academic

conferences and university audiences, on the basis of their beliefs or political affiliations.

• The law also has been invoked to initiate deportation proceedings against academics resident in the U.S. whose writings are considered to be in some way unacceptable by government authorities .... In addition, the McCarran-Walters Act has deterred individuals from applying to enter the U.S., because they do not want to reveal to our immigration officials their beliefs of affIliations or be excluded because of them.

Under H.R. 1119, proposed by Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), individuals could be excluded or deported for engaging in terrorist activities but not for what they believe or for their membership in organizations.

The full text of Prof. Scanlan's testimony is available from Alfred D. Sumberg or Jonathan Knight, AAUP. 1012 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. Tel. (202) 737-5900. The AAUP was founded in 1915 to defend the principles of academic freedom and has over 50,000 faculty members throughout the United States.

Nigerian Periodicals Index (NPI) The Committee of University Librarians of Nigerian Universities, announces the

publications of a new author-subject index which attempts to list major scholarly journals covering a wide spectrum of subject disciplines in the natural and applied sciences, social sciences and humanities. Volume I, Number I, June 1986 is available. The second issue of the NPI is in preparation and will be out shortly. For more infonnation write to CULNU. University Library. Bayero University, P.M.B. 30011, Kano, Nigeria.

Call ror Papers: Journal or Rerugee Studies Commencing March 1988 this quarterly journal. published by Oxford University

Press, is intended to meet the rapidly growing demands for academic exploration of the complex problems of forced migration. The Journal will provide a major focus for interdisciplinary research on refugee issues. It will encourage contributions to the theoretical developments and innovative approaches to methodology and practice.

Papers are now invited of 4-8,000 words length. Examples of topics anticipated are: Relief Agency Roles; Survival Strategies; Host and Refugee Interaction; Administration; Refugees and Development; Clientelism; Gender; Loss and Bereavement, etc. For further details contact Dr. Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Programme, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, Oxford, England OXI 3LA.

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Journal Editor Wanted For personal and professional reasons Bernth Lindfors is considering stepping

down as editor of Research in African Literatures and handing over the reins of the journal to a new editor who could begin work in September 1988. Lindfors would edit the remaining issues for 1988 and 1989 (Vols. 19 and 20), but the new editor would be expected to assume full responsibility for screening fresh manuscript submissions and assigning book reviews during the transitional 1988-89 academic year. RAL would continue to be published by the University of Texas Press, but the editorial office could be located anywhere in North America or possibly even overseas.

Any individual or group wishing to bid for the editorship of RAL should submit a formal proposal detailing (1) the professional qualifications of the proposed editor(s), (2) the policies and procedures that would guide future editorial actions, and (3) the kind .. and amount of institutional support the editor(s) could rely on. Proposals should be submitted by April 1. 1988 to Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78713.

GRANTS & AWARDS

Conover-Porter Award The Archives-Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association seeks

nominations for the fifth biennial Helen F. Conover-Dorothy B. Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibliography or reference work. Any Africa-related reference work, bibliography or bibliographic essay published separately or as part of a larger work during 1985, 1986. or 1987 can be nominated for the 1988 award. which includes a prize of $300.00. Nominations must be received before the end of December 31, 1987.

Miss Conover was senior bibliographer in the African Section of the Library of Congress. serving thirty-two years before her retirement in 1963. Mrs. Porter was librarian of the Moorland-Spingam Research Center. Howard University, retiring after forty-five years of service in 1973. Recent recipients of the Award include Julian Witherell (1980), Roger Hilbert and Christine Oehtmann (1982). Carol Bundy. Virginia Coulon and Hans Zell (1984). The 1986 Conover-Porter Award was presented to Tore L. Eriksen for his work, The Political Economy of Namibia: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography, published by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in cooperation with both the United Nations Institute for Namibia and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

To recommend a title or for further information, please contact: Phyllis Bischof, Chair, ASA Subcommittee on Bibliography, 208 Main Library, University of California, Berkeley, Ca 94720.

National Endowment for the Humanities The Interpretative Research Program of the Division of Research Programs. the

National Endowment for the Humanities. wishes to announce the annual application deadline of October 1. 1987, for projects beginning on or after July 1, 1988; and of

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October 1, 1988, for projects beginning after July 1, 1989. Funding is available for up to three years of collaborative research in any field or fields of the humanities. Draft applications may be sent to the program for staff comments any time up to August 15.

The Projects category supports collaborative research primarily in history, literature, philosophy, musicology, art history, archaeology and the social sciences that employ interpretative rather than quantitative methods. A second category of support, Humanities, Science and Technology, supports collaborative research that draws on the theories and methods of the humanities to study current or historical issues in science and technology.

For more information about the Projects category, please write or call Dorothy Wartenberg or David Wise at (202) 786~021O; for Humanities, Science and Technology, write or call Daniel Jones or Elizabeth Arndt at the same number. The address of the program is: Interpretative Research Program, Room 318 IR, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, OC 20506.

Rockerfeller Foundation Two Rockerfeller Foundation Humanist~in-Residence Fellowships will be awarded

in 1988-1989 to post-doctoral scholars to work on book-length manuscript that focuses on the relationship between cultural context and women's experience, either domestically or internationally, and that contributes to the development of feminist theory. Fellows will recieve a stipend of $30,000 and will be required to be in residence and participate in other Women's Studies/SIROW activists. Applications are due January 15, 1988. Selections will be made by mid-March. For information and application materials, write to Women's StudieslSouthwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Telephone: (602) 6217338.

MEETINGS-PAST & FUTURE

Non-Alignment and World Peace, August 7-9, 1987 To mark the 40th anniversary of India's independence and the 26th anniversary of

Non-Aligned Movement, an International Seminar on "Non-Alignment and world Peace" will be organised under the auspices of the Indian Institute for Non-Aligned Studies, in cooperation with other national and international organisations, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi from August 7-9,1987.

Academicians, scholars, writers, public figures, diplomats and representatives from allover the world will be invited to participate. The seminar will have four commissions and proposed themes for the papers and deliberations at the Seminar are as follows: Non-Alignment; Peace, Security and Disarmament; Cooperation and Development; and Indian Ocean. For more information on the proceedings of the Seminar write to: Indian Institute for Non-Aligned Studies, A-2/59 , Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi-ll0029, India.

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Memoires, histoires, identites, 9-12 October 1987 The Universire Laval, (Quebec), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale

(paris) and Universire Paris VII are jointly sponsoring a colloquium entitled "Memoires, histoires, identites: experiences des socieres francophones" (Memory, History and Social Identity: Comparative Analysis of French Speaking African Societies Experience), October 9-12, 1987. For more information contact the History Department, Universite Laval, Quebec, GIK 7P4, Canada. Tel. (418) 656-7279.

ASA Archives-Libraries Committee, November 19·23, 1987 The Archives-Libraries Committee of the ASA, Fall Meeting, Denver, Colorado,

November 19-23, 1987, will be held as part of the annual meeting of the African Studies Association. In addition to the business meeting of the Archives-Libraries Committee, there will be a meeting of the Cooperative Africana Microforms Project (CAMP). For further information contact: Gregory Finnegan, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. Tel. (603) 646-2868.

ASA Women's Caucus, November 21, 1987 The 1987 Breakfast Meeting of the ASA Women's Caucus will be held on

Saturday, November 21, 1987, 7:30-8:45 AM in the Majestic Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel, Denver, Colorado. The featured speaker at this year's meeting will be Prof. Christine Obbo, Wheaton College. Cost of the full breakfast is $10.00. Seating is available on a frrst-come, frrst-served basis.

To reserve a space at this year's breakfast, send $10.00, check or money order, payable to the ASA Women's Caucus, to: Jean Davison, 120 Woodland Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960.

Liberian Studies Association, March 18·20, 1988 The Liberian Studies Association will host its 20th Anniversary Conference on

March 18-20, 1988 at the University of Akron, Akron, OH. Individuals wishing to chair panels or present papers should contact Neal Holmes, Afro-American Studies Program, 120G Spicer Hall, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, or call (216) 3757143.

ISA/Southwest, March 23·26, 1988, Call for Papers The 1988 annual meeting of the International Studies Association/Southwest will

be held in conjunction with the Southwestern Social Science Association Convention at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Houston, Texas, March 23-26, 1988.

Anyone wishing to present papers, organize panels, or establish roundtables on subjects or issues related to international relations should submit proposals to the program chair. ISA/Southwest would like to encourage participation by area studies specialists and comparativists, as well as, those strictly interested in international affairs. The deadline for submitting papers, panel and roundtable proposals, and discussant and chair requests is November 2, 1987. To submit proposals or obtain • additional information, please contact Professot Michael A. Kelley, Program Chair, ISA/Southwest, Department of Political Science, P.O. Box 1755U, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR 72032.

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Call for Papers-Research on Contemporary Ethiopia, April 8-9, 1988 Scholars doing research on contemporary Ethiopia are invited to propose topics

which they would be interested in reporting on at an international conference on the Political Economy of Ethiopia to be held at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC on (tentative dates) April 8-9, 1988. The conference is one of SAIS' annual African Country Day programs, and will lead to the publication of an edited volume on the Political Economy of Ethiopia. The conference will focus exclusively on current political, social, and economic topics. Those interested in participating should send a topic and one-page abstract, as soon as possible but no later than January 1, 1988, to Prof. Marina Ottaway, African Studies Program, SAIS, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1983.

Africa-Pacific Comparative Conference, 23-26 August 1988 The African Research Institute and the Research Centre for South West Pacific

Studies, La Trobe University, are organizing a major international comparative conference on Africa and the Pacific, to be held at La Trobe University in August, 1988. The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific (AFSAAP).

The conference will be organized around a core of clearly defined panels with invited speakers examining such issues as: methodologies for the reconstruction of of pre-contact histories of Africa and the Pacific; the colonial experience in Africa and the Pacific; the processes of dec0 Ionization in Africa and the Pacific, including the role of Australia and New Zealand in decolonization; the significance of the French presenCe in Africa and the Pacific; economic development; the exploitation of human ruid natural resources in Africa and the Pacific; uses and abuses of aid in Africa and the Pacific; postindependence political stability in Africa and the Pacific; demographic changes in Africa and the Pacific; comparabilities and transfer of Australian, and more generally Western, technologies in Africa and the Pacific; comparative anthropology of Africa and the Pacific.

In addition, the African Research Institute, in cooperation with the Christensen Fund and the Museum of Victoria, is planning to mount an exhibition of contemporary and indigenous Yoruba culture, to complement the University Museum's existing Melanesian display. The Yoruba exhibition will be curated by Ulli Beier and will open at La Trobe during the conference, before going on lOur in Australia.

Inquiries regarding the conference should be directed to: Dr. David Dorward, Director, African Research Institute. La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.

EMPLOYMENT

Positions Available ROLLINS COLLEGE (FLORIDA)

Rollins College seeks an Africanist for a tenure track position at the assistant or associate professor level. beginning September, 1988. Candidates should have a disciplinary specialization in either Cultural Geography or Cultural Anthropology. The person selected will become a member of the Anthropology or Environmental Studies

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Department, depending upon his or her disciplinary background. Applicants with addtional expertise in Afro-American Studies are especially welcome.

Applicants should have a Ph.D., teaching experience, scholarly accomplishment or potential and a commitment to undergraduate education. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Send letter of application, vita, and names and address of three references to Dr. Robert Miller, Rollins College, Box 2725, Winter Park, Florida 32789. Applications are requested by October 1, 1988.

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY Villanova University announces a tenure-track opening in African History at the

level of assistant professor, appointment beginning August 25, 1988. Salary is in the upper 20s. Strong scholarly potential and superior teaching emphasized. Specialization in sub-Saharan Africa with ancillary field in European history required. Ph.D. necessary before date of appointment. Graduate training in both African and European history essential as candidate will teach Western Civilization seminars and classes as well as specialty undergraduate and graduate courses in African history. A knowledge of the history and influence of Islam upon Africa south of the Sahara will be an advantage given Villanova's Institute for Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies. Send graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, and c.v. to Prof. Fred Carrier, Chair, African Search Committee, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085. Sample of published work welcomed. Deadline for receipt of application materials is November 2, 1987. Selected candidates may be interviewed at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 20-23, Denver, Colorado, or at Villanova in December, or at the American Historical Association Convention, December 28-30, 1987. Villanova is an Equal Opportunity, Affmnative Action Employer.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES The Department of English of the University of California, Los Angeles, is

advertising a position (rank open) in African literature in English and African folklore and mythlogy. Applicants should send a letter and current c.v. to Prof. Daniel Calder, Chair, Department of English, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Deadline for receipt of application materials is December 15, 1987.

UCLA is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

AIR UNIVERSITY, MAXWELL AFB (ALABAMA) The Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education of the Air University

at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, announces a vacancy in the Political-Military Affairs Division for a Research Associate in the field of sub-Saharan African studies. This position is offered on the initial two-year appointment at the GS1701-13 level, Schedule B, Excepted Civil Service, and is renewable indefinitely in increments up to three years at the employer's discretion. The salary is $38,727.

Duties include lecturing at the USAF senior service schools, writing and research on sub-Saharan African politics and security issues, teaching courses on sub-Saharan African area problems, student thesis direction, and editing the Center's CADRE Papers publication. A Ph.D. is desirable. Requirements include: a Bachelor's degree in disciplines that bear on African regional studies; 3 years experience writing, researching

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or teaching in the area of African history, political affairs or security problems; reading proficiency in French or other relevant African languages; United States citizenship and a Secret security clearance. Applicants must also forward a completed form SF 171, which may be obtained from the local Federal Job Information Center, to 3800 ABW/DPCAE, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-5000, along with a representative sample of his/her written work. A letter of intent and a curriculum vitae should also be addressed to Dr. L. B. ,Ware, Chief, Political-Military Affairs Division, CADRE/RIP, Building 1400, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-5532; telephone (205) 293-6121. The position will remain open until filled. Air University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA The Department of History at the University of Minnesota seeks a historian of

sub-Saharan Africa. Regional, chronological, and topical specialization within the general area of African history is open, but preference will be to candidates with a research specialty in social history, the diaspora. labor history, or in central, southern, or eastern Africa. Candidates should be prepared to carry on an active research program and to teach introductory and advanced courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The position is a regular, tenure-track appointment in the Department of History, but it is expected that the appointee will play an active role in the University's Department of African and Afro-American Studies. The appointment will be at the Assistant or Associate level. Completion of the Ph.D. by September I, 1988, is required. Teaching experience and publications are desired. Salary will be competitive and dependent on qualification. The appointment will begin with the 1988-89 academic year (September 16, 1988).

Interested applicants should send a curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Allen Isaacman, Search Committee Chair, Department of History, University of Minnesota, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, by November 15, 1987. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer and educator, and specifically invites and encourages applications from women and minorities.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Western African History, tenure-track posltlon at assistant professor level,

beginning academic year 1988-89. Ph.D. by August 1988 and research specialization in West or West Central African history required, and Precolonial preferred. TeaCwh' ' experience desirable. Salary competitive. Send letter of application, C.V., and thr reference letters or dossier to Professor Jan Vansina, Department of History, 32 Humanities Bldg., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 North Park Street, Madi WI 53706 by November 10, 1987. AA/EOE. I

1987 ASA ANNUAL MEETING Persons or institutions wishing to publicize employment opportunities :,'the

1987 Annual Meeting Program or wishing to interview prospective candidate~ the Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, should contact the Program Chair, Ge

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

New Books French Diplomacy in Africa by P.C. Dubey. 1986. Takes a synoptic view of French

policy and colonial relationship with Africa after decolonization in the postwar period which enabled France to consolidate its influence and presence in African colonies not only for economic purposes but also to expand France's diplomatic and political ideas elsewhere. $38.00. Concept Publishing Company, H-13, Bali Nagar, Post Box No. 6274, New Delhi-llOOl5, India.

Black Labor Unions in South Africa by Anthony G. Freeman and Diane B. Bendahmane. 1987. 72 pp. $4.50. U.S. Government Printing Office, Dept. SSMC, Washington, DC 20402.

The Manenguba Languages (Bantu A.15, Mbo Cluster) of Cameroon by Robert Hedinger. 1987. Compares the different languages and dialects with a view to reconstructing aspects of the phonology, the noun class concord system and vocabulary of the common proto-languages, and to make a classification of the languages and dialects which expresses the relationships between them and their development from the proto-language. 306 pp; 11 maps. ISBN 0-7286-0135-4. £15.00. School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet Street, London WClE 7HP, England.

Food Systems in Central and Southern Africa, Johan Pottier, editor. 1986. Papers by specialists in different disciplines provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying contemporary systems of food production, distribution and consumption. 295 pp. ISBN 0-7286-0126-5. £8.00. School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet Street, London WCIE 7HP, England.

Set Under Authority by K.D.D. Henderson. 1987. Records the daily life of a British District officer in the Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (18981955). 224 pp. £5.95 (paperback); £8.95 (hardback). Castle Cary Press Ltd., High Street, Castle Cary, Somerset BA7 7AN, England.

Working Under South African Occupation: Labour in Namibia by IDAF Research, Information & Publications Dept. 1987. 49 pp. ISBN 0-904759-73-3. $3.00. IDAF US Committee, P.O. Box 17, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Brutal Force: The Apartheid War Machine by Gavin Cawthra. 1986. Documents the militarisation of South Africa and its effect on the people of that country, and it assesses the strength of the apartheid military and nuclear force. 320 pp. ISBN 0904759-71-7, paper, $13.00; ISBN 0-904759-72-5, cloth, $25.00. IDAF US Committee, P.O. Box 17, Cambridge, MA 02138.

My Spirit Is Not Banned, Frances Baard as told to Barbie Schreiner. 1986. In her own words, Frances Baard tells of her early years, through her growing participation in trade unions, the ANC, the Federation of South African Women and other organizations, to the present. Published by Zimbabwe Publishing House. 92 pp. ISBN 0-949225-32-0. $5.70. Available from IDAF US Committee, P.O. Box 17, '::ambridge, MA 02138.

The Var Against Children: South· Africa's Youngest Victims. Published by the Lwyer's Committee for Human Rights. 1986. 151 pp. ISBN 0-934143-00-5. A'ailable from IDAF US Committee, P.O. Box 17, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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Namibia in Struggle: A Pictorial History. Published by International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. 1987. Available in both portable exhibition and picture book fonnats. Booklet, $7.00; exhibition, $22.00. IDAF US Committee, P.O. Box 17, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Afrique et Capitau.x: Geography of Capital and Investments in Tropical Africa under French Influence by Jean Suret Canale. 1987. Two vols. A study of public and private capital operating in this geographic region. L'Arbre verdoyant Editeur, 15, rue Douy Delcupe, 93100 Montreuil sous bois, France.

The State and the Working People in Tanzania. edited by Issa G. Shivji. 1986. , Demonstrates the rise of an authoritarian state as an organization of the compradore ruling class under imperialist hegemony and the simultaneous suppression and cooptation of independent organizations of the working people. Paper, $11.00; hard cover, $22.00. CODESRIA, B.P. 3304, Dakar, Senegal.

Women and the Family. Women in Nigeria Editorial Committee, ed. 1986. A selection of papers presented at the 1983 conference "Women and the Family", sponsored by Women in Nigeria. $10.00. CODESRIA, B.P. 3304, Dakar, Senegal.

Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transition. Ibbo Mandaza, ed. 1986. Focuses on the relationship between the imperialist and white settler colonial legacy on the one hand, and the pattern of political and socio-economic development in the postindependence era on the other. Paper, $10.00; hard cover, $32.00. CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal.

Population et Developpement en Afrique. Hedi Jemai, ed. 1986. 395 pp. CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal.

Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa by William Beinart and Colin Bundy. 1987. An exercise in historical retrieval, focussed on a series of forgotten episodes which were hidden 'away in the locations' from the commentators at the time and have been neglected in subsequent historical writing. ISBN 0-85255-013-8, paper, £9.95; ISBN 0-85255-012-X, cloth, £25.00. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Coping with Rapid Urban Growth in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography in English and French on Policy and Management of Urban Affairs in the 1980s. Richard Stren with Claire Letemendia. 1986. 230 pp. ISBN 0-88819-065-4. $15.00. Center for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, 3751 Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A lXI, Canada.

African Economic History by Ralph Austen. 1987. An analysis which demonstrates that the differential rates of change in the African and the European-centered world economy have simultaneously made Africa less significant to the world economy and more dependent upon it for sustaining its own development patterns. 304 pp. ISBN 0-435-08017-2. Paper, $22.50. Heinemann Educational Books, 70 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801.

Sierra Leone Studies at Birmingham. 1985. Edited by Adam Jones and Peter K. Mitchell. 1987. Proceedings of the Fourth Birmingham Sierra Leone Studies Symposium, 13-15 July 1985, Fircroft College, Birmingham. ISBN 0-7044-09038. $12.00. Center for West African Studies, Univ. of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham B15 2IT, England.

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Reports, Monographs and Bibliographies Rural and District Administrative Reform in ZimbalJwe Rukudzo Murapa. Travaux et

Documents No. 11, 1986. Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire. Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Domaine Universitaire, B.P. 101,33405 Talence Cedex, France.

La Politique Africaine de la France, Jean-Claude Gautron. Travaux et Documents No. 12, 1986. Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Domaine Universitaire, B.P. 101, 33405 Talence Cedex, France.

Afrique du Sud: La Fin des Certitudes, Dominique Darbon. Travaux et Documents No. 13. 1987. Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Domaine Universitaire, B.P. 101,33405 Talence Cedex, France.

Revolution et Creativite Lexicale. Kasoro Tumbwe. Travaux et Documents No. 14, 1987. Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Domaine Universitaire, B.P. 101,33405 Talence Cedex, France.

The Creation ofa Political Order in Uganda, Jean-Francois Medard. Working Paper No. 1, October 1986. Centre de Recherches, d'Echanges et de Documentation Universitaire, Maendeleo House, P.O. Box 58480, Nairobi, Kenya.

Le Probleme de la Dette en Afrique Subsaharienne (et Ie Cas de la Cote d'Ivoire): Bibliographie Commenlee. INADES Documentation, 08 B.P. 8, Abidjan 08, Cote d'Ivoire.

Library Acquisitions List. No. 81. National Museum of African Art Library, June 1987. Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC 20560.

South Africa 1986: A Permanent State of Emergency. 1986 Annual Report, Southern Africa Project. Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1400 'Eye' Street, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005.

SIGEPRA MODEL: Simulation of the Generalization of Primary Education in Africa. Boubacar Camara. January 1985. UNESCO, Regional Office for Education in Africa, BREDA.

Adverse Consequences for the Enjoyment of Human Rights of Political, Military, Economic and Other Forms of Assistance Given to the Racist and Colonialist Regime of South Africa. Ahmad M. Khali.fa. 1987. United Nations.

Zimbabwean Political Materials Published in Exile 1959-1980: A Bibliography. No.3 in the National Archives Bibliographical Series. ISBN 0-908-302-03-7. National Archives, Private Bag 7729, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Films Mongane Wally Serote: South African Poet. 1987. 20 minutes, VHS or U-matic.

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1987 ASA ANNUAL MEETING

RADISSON HOTEL DENVER, COLORADO

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

PROGRAM CHAIR, GEORGE W. SHEPHERD, JR.

HOST INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

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AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

1987 Annual Meeting, Preliminary Program

Radisson Hotel, Denver, November 19 - November 23

BUSINESS MEETINGS

WEDNESDAY, November 18

ASA, Publications Committee (8-10PM: Conference Room)

THURSDAY, November 19

ASA, Executive Board (9AM - 5PM: Vail)

ASA. Archives and Library Committee: Bibliography Subcommittee r (3-5PM: Conference Room)

ASA, Archives and Library Committee: Cataloguing Subcommittee

(7-9PM: Conference Room)

FRIDAY, November 20

ASA. Outreach Committee: Business Meeting (9-12AM and 2-5PM: Conference Room)

ASA, Archives and Library Committee: Executive Committee (8-9AM: Conference Room);

Business Meeting (9:3012:30 AM: Conference Room)

~ Boston University. African Studies Center, Outreach Program:. Business Meeting (9-12AM and 2-5PM: Conference)

Western Association of Africanists: Business Meeting (12-1PM: t Cedar) I

North American Association of Cameroon Studies: Business MeetingI (5-6PM: Conference Room) Committee for Publication of African Historical Sources

(COPAHISO): Business Meeting (5:15 - 7PM: Birch)

Women's Caucus: Business Meeting (5:30-7PM: Columbine)

ASA. Nominations Committee (7:30 - 8:30PM: Silver)

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SATURDAY. November 21

Women's Caucus: Breakfast (7:30-8:45AM: Majestic Ballroom)

ASA, Committee on Current Issues and ISSUE Journal: Business Meeting (8-9AM: Silver)

Association of African Studies Programs (9-10AM: Conference Room)

ASA, Arch. and Lib. Committee: CAMP: Executive Committee (8-9AM: Conference Room)

Business Meeting (9:3012:30AM: Conference Room)

North American Chapter of the International Congress of Somali Studies: Business Meeting (11:30-12:30AM: Aspen)

ACASA: Board Meeting (12-1PM: Columbine)

ACASA: Business Meeting (5:30-7PM: Columbine) ,

Center for Research on Zaire (CEREZ): Business Meeting (3 - 5PM:

Conference Room)

ASA: Business Meeting (5:30 - 6:30PM: Silver)

SUNDAY, November 22

AFRICA TODAY: Board Meeting (8-9AM: Birch)

ASA, Executive Board (5:30 - 7:30PM: Vail)

MONDAY, November 23

ASA. Executive Board (9 -12AM: Vail)

RECEPTIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Reception, Museum of Natural History. Denver. (The Museum hosts the Ramses II Exhibition during November. The reception will give participants at the Conference a chance to attend this magnificent show. Tickets for the Exhibition will have to be purchased at the time of the reception. Thursday. November 19. 6 - 8PM.)

African Students Organization, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver will sponsor an African Disco to be held at the Radisson Hotel. (Refreshments will be available. Friday, November 20. 9 - ?: Grand Ballroom)

ASA Awards Banquet (Sat., November 21, 7-9:30PM: Grand Ballroom)

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SPECIAL PANELS

"Reflections on Thirty Years of Liberation Movements," Keynote address by Basil Davidson, (Friday, November 20, 11:30 - 12:30AM: Grand Ballroom)

"The Liberation Struggle in Africa: Past, Present and Futures," (Friday, 3:15 - 5:15PM: Grand Ballroom)

"Social Science Approaches to African Art" (Friday, November 20, 5:30 - 7:00PM: Grand Ballroom)

"Southern Africa and Presidential Politics 1988, " (Saturday, November 21, 11:15 - 12:45AM: Grand Ballroom)

"African Studies in Asia" (Saturday, November 21, 1-3PM: Grand Ballroom)

"African Historical Studies, Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past,' and Radical Scholarship," (Sunday, November 22, 11:15 - 12:45AM: Ballroom)

SPONSORED PANELS

AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

"The Socio-Political Vision of Wole Soyinka" (Friday, November 20, 9-11AM)

"Political Context and Ideology in African Literature" (Friday, November 20, 1-3PM)

"Form and Shape in African Literature" (Friday, November 20, 3:15 - 5:15PM)

"Problems in Interpreting Oral Southern African Sources for Historical Research," (Saturday, November 21, 9-11AM)

"New Trends in African Women's Fiction," (Saturday, November 21, 1-3PM)

"Wole Soyinka and the Nobel Price," (Saturday , November 21, 3:155:15PM)

"Liberation and South African Literature," (Sunday, November 22, 9-11AM)

"The Paradox of Women's Liberation in African Literature," (Sunday, November 22, 1-3PM)

"The African Trickster: Transformations Across Time, Space and Media," (Sunday, November 2, 3:15-5:15PM)

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AMERICAN PROFESSORS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

"Africa and Israel, 1948-1988," (Sunday, November 22, 1-3PM)

ARTS COUNCIL OF THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ACASA)

"Art and Ideology in Africa," (Friday, November 20, 9-11AM)

"Recent Research on African and African-American Art and

Artists - Panel I," (Friday, November 20, 1-3PM)

"Power, Gender and Art - Panel I," (Friday, November 20, 1-3PM)

(Co-sponsored by Women's Caucus)

"Power, Gender and Art - Panel II," (Friday, November 20, 3:155:15PM) (Co-sponsored by Women's Caucus)

"Exploring the Lands of Do," (Saturday, November 21, 9-11AM)

"Shrine Configuration in the Study of African Art,"

(Saturday, November 21, 9-11AM)

"African Textile Design - Panel I," (Saturday, November 21, 1-3PM)

"African Textile Design - Panel II," (Saturday, November 21, 3: 155:15PM)

"Recent Research on African and African-American Arts and Artists Panel II," (Sunday, November 22, 9-11AM)

"Contemporary African Art and Artists," (Sunday, November 22,

9-11AM)

"African Ceramic Art: History and Identity in Clay - Panel I,:

(Sunday, November 22, 1-3PM) • "African Ceramic Art: History and Identity in Clay - Panel II," (Sunday, November 22, 3:15-5:15PM)

ASA COMMITTEE ON CURRENT ISSUES

"The Crisis in Resources for African Studies in the USA," (Friday, November 20, 9-11AM)

"The Struggle for Democratic Government in Africa," (Friday, November 20, 1-3PM)

"Public Health in Africa: Policy Issues and Implications," (Saturday, November 21, 1-3PM)

"Regional Perspectives on Southern African Political Change," (Sunday, November 22, 1-3PM)

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ASSOCIATION OF CONCERNED AFRICAN SCHOLARS (ACAS)

"Research on the Contemporary Conjuncture in South Africa" (Friday. 1-3PM)

"The Liberation Struggle in Western Sahara: Issues and Actors Panel I" (Saturday, November 21. 9-11AM)

"The Liberation Struggle in Western Sahara: Issues and Actors Panel II" (Saturday, November 21, 1-3PM)

"Churches in the Southern African Liberation Struggle" (Saturday, 3-5PM)

"ReSisting South African Destabilization." (Sunday, November 22, 9-11AM)

CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON ZAIRE (CEREZ)

"The International Environment of Zaire's Economic Crisis." (Sunday. November 22. 1 - 3PM)

MANDE STUDIES ASSOCIATION (MANSA)

"Mande Cultural Institutions: Society, Politics and Religion," (Saturday, November 21, 1-3PM)

"Social Organization Among the Southern Mande," (Sunday, November 22, 9-11AM)

"Mansaya: Political Authority in the Mande World," (Sunday, November 22, 1-3PM)

"Environment and Ecology in the Mande Culture Zone." (Sunday 22, 3:15-5:15PM)

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (ACLS/SSRC Joint Committee on African Studies)

"Roundtable on Documentation and Resources in the African Humanities - Panel I," (Friday, November 20, 1-3PM)

"Roundtable on Documentation and Resources in the African Humanities - Panel II," (Friday, November 20, 3:15-5:15)

"Social Science Approaches to African Art," (Friday, November 20. '. 5:30 - 7:30PM)

"African Historical Studies. Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past,' and Radical Scholarship," (Sunday, November 22, 11:15 - 12:45AM)

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WOMEN'S CAUCUS

"Political and Economic Crisis in Africa and Popular Responses," (Friday, November 20, 9-11AM)

"Legal Rights in Land and Property: Women's Rights, Men's Rights - Panel I," (Friday, November 20, 9-11AM)

"Rebellious Women/Women's Resistance: Biographical Approaches," (Friday, November 20, l1-lAM)

"Power, Gender and Art in Africa and the Diaspora: Panel I , " (Friday, November 20, l-3PM)

"Power, Gender and Art in Africa and the Diaspora: Panel II," (Friday, November 20. 3:l5-5:l5PM)

\\"Women in Pre-Colonial Women's History: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Sources," (Friday, November 20. 3:l5-5:l5PM)

"Legal Righ ts in Land and Property: Women's Rights, Men's Rights - Panel II," (Saturday, November 21. 9-11AM)

"Women in the Nationalist Movements of Africa: 1945-1966." (Saturday, November 21, l-3PM)

"Emerging Directons in African Family Dynamics," (Saturday. Novmeber 21, l-3PM)

"The Sexual Division of Labor in Africa," (Saturday. November 21. 3:l5-5:l5PM)

"Roundtable: Power, Production and Reproduction: Comparative Perspectives on Women in the Workforce," (Sunday, November 22. 9-11AM)

"Women in Struggle in Southern Africa," (Sunday. Novmeber 22. 911AM) (CO-sponsored by Association of Concerned African Scholars - ACAS)

"Roundtable: African Women in Development," (Sunday November 22. l-3PM)

"Historical Records and Documents on Women," (Sunday, November 22, 3:l5-5:l5PM)

"The Economic Role of Women in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa," (Sunday, November 22, 3:15-5:l5PM)

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PANELS

FRIDAY MONRNING SESSIONS (9-11AM)

Economic and Political Crisis in Africa and Popular Responses (Columbine)

Chair: Catharine Newbury (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilli_-------------_

Papers: ...D.......

Comparative Analyses of National Level Politics (Assembly I)

Chair: Papers:

Discussant:

Robert E. Washington (Bryn Mawr) Robert E. Washington, "A Comparative Theoretical Per

spective on African Government Corruption" Assumpta Acam-Oturu (), "The Nation State Formation:

a Critique of Nation State Building in Africa" Vernon D. Johnson (Western Washington University),

"An Inquiry into the Causes of Revolution in Africa"

Robert Patton, Jr. (University of Virginia), "The Transition to Liberal Democratic Rule in Africa"

The Socio-Political Vision of Wol~ Soyinka (Spruce)

Chair: Jonathan Peters (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County) Papers: Goodwin Uwah (College of Charleston), "The Socio-Political

Vision in 'Play of the Giant'" Jonathan Peters (UMBC) , "The Socio Political Vision in Opera

Wonyisi" Lemuel Johnson (Univ. of Michigan) "Give us Big Car Tomorrow:

On the Road with the Underclass in Soyinka" Discussant: Chidi Ikonne (University of Calabar)

1-e~ Rights in Land and Property: Women's Rights, Men's !tights: Panel!

(Capitol)

Chair: Jean Davison (Stanford) Papers: Jean Davison, "The Political Economy of Gender Relations to

Land" Kristin Mann (Emory), "Women, Landed Property and the State in

Nineteenth Century Lagos" Betty Potash (New School for Social Research), "Women's Land

Rights in a Patrilineal System: The Luo of Kenya" - Obbo

ForeiID'l Policies of SADCC States (Silver)

Chair: Papers:

Catherine V. Scott (Agnes Scott College) Michael Niemann, (GSIS, Univ. of Denver), "The

Conditions for Economic Liberation in Southern Africa"

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Catherine V. Scott, "Problems of and Prospects for Delinkage Foreign Policy in Africa: Lessons from Angola and Mozambique"

Nsolo J. Mijere (Univ. of Zambia), "The Southern African Development Coordination Conference: Unity of Dependent States"

Bill Martin (Univ. of Illinois), "A Zero-Sum Game? The Historical Trajectory of Regionality and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa"

Discussant: Eve Sandberg (Yale)

The Crisis in Resources for African Studies in the USA (Beverly)

Chair: David Wylie (Michigan State) Papers: Mark W.Delancey and Kenneth Menkhaus (Univ.

of South Carolina), "The Teaching of African Politics in American and Canadian Universities and Colleges: Results of a National Survey"

Waldemar Matias (Univ. of Alabama). itA Survey of Offerings in Lusophone African Studies in American Colleges and Universities"

Discussant:

Issues in Economic Development (Aspen)

Chair: Abebayehu Tegene (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Abebayehu Tegene. "The Monetarist Explanation of

Inflation: The Experience of Some African Countries"

Fantu Cheru (The American University), "Structural Adjustment. the IMF and Tanzania"

Clement K. Ampadu (Cuttington University College), "The Problems and the Importance of Small Scale Businesses in Liberia"

Michael Schafer (Rutgers), "Understanding the Political Requirements of Economic Restructuring: Zambia and Korea

Mohamed Diakite (Bradley), "Eurafrican Partnership: a Reconceptualization of the Wealth of Nations"

Discussant:

Relocation of Capital Cities in Africa (Birch)

Chair: Simeon Mesaki (Univ. of Minnesota) Papers: Simeon Mesaki, "Pitfalls of Building a New Capital

City in Tanzania: Dodoma 1973-1987" August Nimtz (Univ. of Minnesota) and Simeon

Mesaki. "The Politics of Capital City Relocation: Abuja (Nigeria) and Dodoma (Tanzania) Compared"

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Military Conflict in Africa (Assembly III)

Chair: Baffour Agyeman-Duah (Bennett College) Papers: Baffour Agyeman-Duah, "Military Regimes and Inter

State Conflicts in West Africa" Andrew M. Kirby and Michael D. Ward (Univ. of

Colorado, Boulder), "A Spatial Analysis of Conflict in Africa"

Abdoulaye S.M. Saine (GSIS, University of Denver), "The Predictability of Internal/External Military Interventions in Africa: A Comparative Theoretical Analysis"

Kenoye K. Eke (Bethune-Cookman College), "Conflict and Cooperation in Intra-African Relations: The Case of Libya and Nigeria"

Discussant: Vincent Khapoya (Oakland University)

The African Development Crisis: Looking for the ~ Out

(Assembly II)

Chair: Lual A.Deng (African Development Bank)

Papers: Kanny Diallo (African Development Bank), "Toward a Manageable

Level of Foreign Debt in Africa" Lual A. Deng, "Which Way Africa?" El Fatah Shaa El Din (African Development Bank), "The Impact

of Currency Devaluations on the African Industrial Sector"

Dau Mou (Univ. of Jos), "The IMF Austerity Measures in Africa: Stabilizing or Destabilizing Factors?"

Discussant: B.C. Muzorewa (African Development Bank)

!! Multidisciplinary Reactions to Ali Mazrui's "The Africans": The Past and the Present

(CenturYY-- -

Chair: Isaac Mowoe (Ohio State) Papers Robert Baum (Ohio State), "The Image of Traditional

Religions in Mazrui's 'The Africans'" Richard Bjornson (Ohio State), "Relevance, Range, and

Compatibility of the Literary Selections Suggested as Readings for 'The Africans'"

Ivan R. Dihoff (Ohio State), "Linguistic Evidence of the Islamic Heritage in Hausa and Swahili"

Josephat B. Kubayanda (Ohio State), "'The Africans': Its Epistemological Implications"

Discussant: tba

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Refugees in Africa: the Dynamics of Displacement and Repatriation (Gold)

Chair: Michael J. Schultheis (Jesuit Refugee Service) Papers: Barbara Harrell-Bond (Oxford), "Repatriation

Policy and the Push-Pull Factor" John Kabeera (Makerere), "Education of Refugees and Their

Expectations in Africa: A Case Study of Uganda" Michael J. Schultheis, "Refugees in Africa: The Dynamics

of a Global Justice Issue" Carol Thompson (Univ. of Southern Calif.). "The Politics

i of Destabilization and Refugee Generation in SouthernY I Africa"

Discussant:

Labor Mobilization and Worker Resistance at Colonial Mining Centers

(Colorado)

Chair: Enid Shildkrout (American Museum of Natural History) Papers: Raymond Dumett (Purdue), "Problems of Labor

Recruitment and Control at the Gold Mines of Obuasi, Ghana"

William Worger (Stanford) • "The Struggle over Black Migrancy at the Diamond Mines of Kimberly (South Africa)"

David Northrup (Boston College), "From Forced Labor to Labor Force at the Gold Mines of Kilo-Moto (Northeastern Zaire)"

Discussants: J.Gus Liebenow (Indiana University)

Richard Roberts (Stanford)

Marking the Freetown Bicentennial: Visions and Revisions of Sierra Leone History

(Cedar)

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SPECIAL ADDRESS

Chair: Speaker:

Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth)

LaRay Denzer (Univ. of Ibadan)

Allen Howard (Rutgers)

David Skinner (Univ. of Santa Clara)

Frances White (Hampshire College)

Akintola J.G. Wyse (Fourah Bay College)

(11:30 - 12:30AM; Ballroom)

George Shepherd Basil Davidson, "Reflections on Thirty Years of

Liberation Struggle"

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS (1-3PM)

The Cit:i in Africa (Beverly)

Chair: Josef Gugler (Univ. of Connecticut! Universitaet Bayreuth)

Papers: Josef Gugler, "Women Stay on the Farm no More: Changing Patterns of Rural-Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Jonathan Nwomonoh (California State University, Los Angeles), "Urban Development in West Africa"

Fatima Alikhan (Osmania University), "Urban Issues and Problems in East Africa"

Rexford A. Ahene (Lafayette College), "Urban Land Tenure and the Land Market: Paradigms of a New Era"

Discussant:

Technolo~ in Af~ Development (Aspen)

Chair: Papers:

Discussant:

Aaron L. Segal () Brenda Pratt (Long Beach State University),

"Future Projections for Africa's Technological Advancement in a Rapidly Developing World Economy"

Aaron L. Segal, "Science and Technology in Africa: The Search for Institutions"

Donald Chanda (Univ. of Zambia), "Technology Transfer Policy in Zambia as Applied to the Parastatal Sector"

Rural Developments (Spruce)

Chair: Susan Reynolds (Stanford) Papers: Jacqueline Vieceli (Indiana Univ.), "The Limits of the

'Economy of Affection' as an Explanation of Rural Underdevelopment: the Case of Swaziland"

E. A. Laogun (Univ. of Ife), "The Role of Village-level Extension Workers Re-examined"

Susan Reynolds, "Income Generation Leading to Self-Sufficiency, Improved Conditions and Social Change: A Case for Women in Development"

David B. Belasco (GSI8, Univ. of Denver), "Adoption of Rural Community Water Systems: an Area Study in Three Villages in Murheafarzat Kafr al-Shaykh Egypt"

Masao Yoshida (Institute of Developing Economies), "Traditional Irrigation Systems in East Africa and Their Adaptibility for Present Day Development"

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Francophone Regimes: Critical Analyses

(Century)

Chair: Robert J, Mundt (Univ. of North Carolina) Papers: Robert J. Mundt, "Internal Criticism of the Ivoirian

Political Regime" Tierno S. Bah (Univ. of Texas), "Language Policy and

National Unity: the Guinean Experience" Roger Charlton (Glasgow College of Technology) and

Roy May (Coventry Polytechnic), "Assessing the , Implications of the Mali-Burkina Faso War" J Cynthia Froehlich (Univ. of WiS.), "Myth and Reality

of the Emancipation of Women in Guinea" Discussant: Thomas O'Toole (St. Cloud State)

External Political Influences in Africa (Biltmore)

Chair: F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam (Univ. of S. Florida) Papers: F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam, "u. S. Strategies of Con

tainment of Communism in Africa from Truman to Reagan: an Assessment"

Okbazghi Yohannes (University of Denver), "The United Nations and the Defunct Ethio-Eritrean Federation: A Retrospective Legal and Political Analysis"

Kunirum Osia (Maryland Dept. of Education), "Continuity and Change in Afro-Arab Relations"

Shawky Zeidan (UC, Berkeley), "Libyan Foreign Policy under Qadhaafi: The Primacy of Ideology"

Discussant: Ibrahim Gambari (SAlS, Johns Hopkins!Ahmadu Bello Univ. )

Political Context and Ideology In African Literature (Assembly I)

Chair:) Papers:,

Discussant: ~1 i

Janice SpIeth (West Virginia University) Tommie L. Jackson (St. Cloud State), "The Other

in Works by Ayi Kwei Armah and Jean-Paul Sartre"

Janice SpIeth, "The Political Context of Senghor's Elegies Majeures"

Joseph McLaren (Mercy College), "Thematic Continuity and Relevance in the Writings of Ngugi wa Thiong'o"

George Joseph (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), "The Unravelling of Epic: From Sundiata to L'Enfant Noir"

Tayo Olafioye (San Diego State)

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Roundtable: The State of Documentation and the Use and PreservatiOU-or-Reiources for African~manitieS Reiearch - Panel I

(Colorado)

Chair: Christraud Geary (Nat. Museum of African Art) Participants: Claude Ardouin (Mali), "Salvage Ethnography in

Mali" Francis Deng (Woodrow Wilson Center), "Meaning of

Preservation and Documentation in the African Context"

Ekpo Eyo (Univ. of Maryland), "Concerns of the Archaeologist"

Abe Obayemi (Director Gen. of Nigerian Antiquities Service), "Museum Situation in Nigeria"

Phil Ravenhill (Nat. Museum of African Art), "Training of African Middle Level Museum Professionals"

Doran Ross (UCLA Museum of Cultural History), "Aspects of Documentation and Data Management in American Museums"

The Struggle for Democratic Government in Africa (Grand Ballroom)

Chair: Bereket Selassie (Institute for Policy Studies) Papers: Crawford Young (Univ. of Wisconsin), "Democracy and

the Imperative of Development" Irving Leonard Markovitz (Queens College), "Democracy

and the Bureaucratic Imperative" Nzongola-Ntalaja (Howard), "Democracy and Socialism in

Africa" Discussant:

Research on the Contemporary Conjuncture in South Africa (Columbine)

Chair: James Mittleman (Queens College, CUNY) Papers: Pallo Jordan (ANC, Lusaka), "The Politics of the

Contemporary Conjuncture" Harold Wolpe (Essex Univ.), "The Struggle for

Education" Laurence Harris ( ), "The Economics of the

Contemporary Conjuncture" Norman Levy ( ). "Racism and the Distribution

of Skills" Discussant: John Saul (York Univ.)

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Roundtable: Teaching Third World Studies: Philosophy. Application, and Recent Research

(Gold)

Chair: James Matthews (US Transportation Command) Participants: Melvin Page (East Tennessee State Univ.)

Jack Bermingham (Pacific Lutheran) Edwin Clausen (Pacific Lutheran) Bryant Shaw (U.S. Air Force Academy) David Killingray (U. of London)

Discussant: Willard Kneip (Arizona State)

Food and Population Growth in Africa

(Birch)

Chair: Chukuemeka Aniagolu (Ohio State) Papers: Chukwuemeka Aniagolu

Lisa Augrey

Zak Nyongesa

Dagem Dejene

Social, Historical and Political Change in Colonial ~ (Capitol)

Chair: Carolyn Brown (City College of New York) Papers: Ben Naanen (Dalhousie). "The Rise and Fall of a

Mercantile Petit Bourgeoisie in Nigeria, 1830-1930"

Sidney Lemelle (Pomona College), "KUta Bantu: Indigenous Industry and Social Change in Colonial Tanganyika"

Allen Green (Univ. of Pennsylvania), "Urban Development and Social Problems: A Case Study of Moshi Town"

Ahmad Sikainga (North Carolina A &T), "Ethnicityand Cultural Idenity in Colonial Africa: the Case of Western Bahr al-Ghazal Under the British Administration, 1920-1946"

Carolyn Brown (Cith College of New York), "Labor vs. Capital in a Colonial State Industry: The Enugu Government Colliery in the Great Depression, 1929-35"

Mau Mau

(Assembly III)

Chair: John Lonsdale (Trinity College. Cambridge) Papers: Bruce Bt:fi-man (Queen I s University, Canada). "Explaining

Mau Mau: Methods and Models" John Lonsdale. "Community and Class: Kikuyu Political

Thought and the Ideologies of Mau Mau"." David Throup (Univ. of Virginia), "Counter-Insurgency and Agrarian Reform"

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Roundtable: Partnership in Curriculum Development: Pre-Collegiate and University Fulbright Group Project Program

(Cedar)

Co-Chairs: Akbarali Thobani (Metropolitan State College) Pam Newman (Adams County School District)

Participants: Craig Wilke (Arvada High School) Beverly Ausfahl (Pitts Middle School) Shaun Armour (Northglenn High School)

Recent Research on African and African-American Art and Artists - Panel I

(Denve;r-

Chair: Philip M. Peek (Drew) Papers: Freid H. Tesfagiorgis (Univ. of Wisconsin), "Bog

hossian: Icons, Images, and Ideology" Reinhild K. Janzen (Kauffman Museum), "The Use of

Writing in the Work of Contemporary South African Artists"

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje (UCLA), "A Comparison of African and African-American Fiddle Music"

Carlyn Saltman, (Saltman Productions), "The Blooms of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in African Iron Making"

James Wolff (Univ. of Colorado, Denver), "Americanizing Africa: Osa and Martin Johnson's Contributions"

Discussant: Lisa Aronson (Skidmore)

~ Multidisciplinary Reaction to Ali Mazrui's 'The Africans' The Present and the Future

(Silver) - - --

Chair: Richard Bjornson (Ohio State) Papers: Zachary Kano (Ohio State). "The Role of the Military in

National Development" Isaac Mowoe (Ohio State). "Western Forms and African

Realities" Okey Onyejekwe (Ohio State), "Mazrui's Analysis of Political

Instability in Africa" Robert Baum (Ohio State). "Traditional Values in Contemporary

Africa"

Power, Gender, and Art: Male and Female Imagery in Africa and the Diaspora =Panel !

(Terrace)

Chair: M. S. Omari (California State) Papers: Diedre Badejo (Univ. of Rhode Island).

"Concepts of Gender and Power in Oral Literature of the Yoruba Goddess Oshun"

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Warren D'Azevedo (Univ. of Nevada, Reno). "Gola Womanhood and the Limits of Masculine Omnipotence"

Marilyn Houlberg (Art Institute of Chicago). "From Cash Madames to Macho Tricksters: Aspects of Gender in Yoruba Art and Religion in Africa and the New World"

Delores Yonker (California State Univ. Northridge). "Three Faces of Erzulie: Women in Haitian Voodoo"

Discussants: Robin Poynor (Univ. of Florida) Sylvia Williams (National Museum of African Art)

-, FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS (3:15 - 5:15PM)

The Liberation Struggle in Africa: Past, Present and Futures (Grand Ballroom)

Chair: Vincent Harding (Iliff School of Theology) Papers: George Houser ( ), tba

John Saul (York Univ.), "The African National Congress of South Africa Within the Broader Resistance Movement: Past. Present and Future"

St. Clair Drake ( ). tba

Power, Gender, and Art: Male and Female Imagery in Africa and the Diaspora - Panel II

(Terrace)

Chair: M.S. Omari (California State) Papers: Anita Glaze (Univ. of Illinois), "Senufo Woman

Power: Myth and Reality" Monni Adams (Harvard, Peabody Museum), "Power, Gender,

and Art Among the We (Guere) of Canton Boo" D. Francine Farr (Brooklyn Museum), "Sande Power:

A Re-Examination of Mende Power, Gender and Art" Sidney Kasfir (Dartmouth), "Ideologies of Power

in Lopop (Samburu) Body Art" Discussants: Sylvia Boone (Yale)

Henry Drewal (Cleveland State)

~ Privatization and the Development Process in Africar' (Biltmore) Chair: Bernard I. Logan (Old Dominion) I Papers: Bernard 1. Logan, "Privatization and the Development

Process: A New Name for an Old Failure" Kidane Mengisteab (Old Dominion), "Privatization and

Poverty Alleviation in Africa: The Cases of Sudan and ~ Somalia" 17

David Fashole-Luke (Dalhousie University), "Privatization and Market Forces: What are the Options for Africa?"

Berhanu Mengistu (Old Dominion) and Yacob Haile-Mari~i (Norfolk State). "Privatization: The New Orthodoxy for

' Improving the Performance of State-Owned Enterpri , Cyril Dadeleieh (Colby College)

tIi

Roundtable: the State of Documentation and the Use and Preservation of Resources-for AfriCan Humanities Research Humanities - Panel II

(Colorado)

Chair: Christraud Geary (Nat. Museum of African Art) Participants: David Coplan (SUNY, Old Westbury) , "Audio

Materials, Neglected Sources for Research Like 78 rpm Records"

David Henige (Univ. of Wisconsin), "Access to Materials in the Private Domain"

Adam Jones (Univ. of Frankfurt), "Historical Archives in Africa, Europe (in particular, East Germany)"

Judith Luskey (Nat. Museum of African Art), "Neglected Sources for Research: Photographs"

Janet Stanley (Smithsonian Libraries), "Library Network. Book Famine"

Paul Nkwi (MESRES). "Scholars Responsibiity towards Their Host Country"

Trends in Indian Ocean Research (Capitol) --- --

Chair: Larry W. Bowman (U. of Connecticut) Papers: Donald Sparks (The Citadel), "The Seychelles, Mauritius,

Maldives. and Comoros: Problems and Prospects for Small Island Economies"

Larry W. Bowman. "Economic Development in Mauritius Since Independence"

Richard Allen (), "The Indian Population of Mauritius: Questions and Problems in Contemporary

Research" Discussant:

Women in Pre-Colonial African History: A Roundtable Discussion on ... ~hOds and Sources (Gold)

Chair: Lidwien Kapteijns (Wellesley College) and Iris Berger (SUNY)

Papers: Lidwien Kapteijns Iris Berger Amina Mahamoud Warsame (Somali National Univ.) Marcia Wright (Columbia)

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U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Frontline States: Comparative Cases (Columbine)

Chair: James J. Zaffiro (Central College) Papers: Whitney W. Schneidman ( ), "American Foreign Policy

and the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa" 1. William Zartman (Johns Hopkins). "U. S. Policy and

Negotiations in South Africa" Mohamed EI-Khawas (Univ. of the District of Columbia),

"The U.S. and Angola: Politics of Intervention" Larry Swatuk, David Black and Joshua Mugyenyi

(Dalhousie), "Contradictions in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Semi-Periphery: SADCC and South Africa"

Cyrus Reed (Simpson College), "The U.S. and Zimbabwe: End of an Era?"

Discussant:

Form and Shape in African Literature (Century)

Chair: Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State) Papers: Kenneth Harrow (Michigan State). "Birago Drop and the

First Stage of African Literature" Sandra Barkan (Univ. of Iowa), "African Autobiographies:

The Forms They Take" Anne Moreau (Northwestern), "Various Approaches Towards

a People's Literature" Ali Jimale Ahmed (UCLA), "Somali Orature and its Written

Prose Fiction" Richard Lepine (Northwestern), "Is There an

Hispanophone African Literature?" Discussant: Louis Tremaine (Univ. of Richmond)

Problems of Policy Implementation in African States (Spruce)

Chair: Otwin Marenin (U. of Alaska-Fairbanks) Papers: Otwin Marenin, "Problems of Implementing Deployment

Policy in the National Youth Service Corps of Nigeria"

James R. Scarritt (U. of Colorado), "A Comparison of the Degree of Change in Policy Formulation and Policy Implementation in Zambia, 1973-1985"

John F. Else (Iowa), "The Experience of NonGovernmental (NOOs) in Small-scale Enterprise Development in Zimbabwe"

Bonnie J.Ram (Federation of American Scientists), "Industrial Development and Energy Conservation in Zimbabwe"

Discussant:

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Perspectives on Cameroonian Independence (Cedar)

Chair: Victor T. Le Vine (Washington Univ.) Papers: Eugenia Shanklin (Trenton State College),

"Anlu Remembered" J. Achilles Mbembe (Univ. of Wisconsin), !fA

Ghost Returns" December Green (Univ. of South Carolina),

"Colonial Cooperation in Health Policy: British and French Efforts in the Cameroons"

African Education: Colonial, Missionary and Islamic (Beverly)

Chair: Alan H. Winquist (Taylor University) Papers: Richard W. Hull (NYU), "American Philanthropy and

Educational Underdevelopment in Southern Africa, 1902-1955"

Charles Weber (Wheaton College), "Mission Education in Colonial Transition: West Cameroon Under German and British Rule"

David E. Gardinier (Marquette), "A Reformist Muslim Challenge to French Educational Policy in Chad, 1945-1956"

Discussant: Alan H. Winquist

Human Rights in Africa (Assembly I)

Chair: Corinne Nyquist (SUNY) Papers: Corinne Nyquist, "African Human Rights

Documentation Issues" Claude E. Welch, Jr. (SUNY, Buffalo), "Political

and Research Issues for Human Rights in Africa" Laurie Wiseberg (Human Rights Internet), "Human Rights

Organizations in Africa" Thomas E. Nyquist (SUNY Research Foundation).

"South Africa: a Human Rights Documentation Problem"

Discussant:

South African Sanctions-Breaking in Southern Africa (Assembly III)

Chair: Alan R. Booth (Ohio University) Papers: Jack Parson (College of Charleston), "Botswana"

James Cobbe (Florida State), "Lesotho" Alan Booth, "Swaziland" Sheridan Johns (Duke), "South Africa's Buffer

States in Southern Africa" Discussant: John Daniel (Zed Press)

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Perspectives in Development (Aspen)

Chair: Cornelius Pratt and Jarol B. Manheim (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.)

Papers: Cornelius Pratt and Jarol B. Manheim, "Communication Research and Development Policy: Agenda Dynamics in an African Setting"

Daniel Teferra (Ferris State), "Induced and Autonomous Development Models"

Renosi Mokate and Berhame Mengistu (Lincoln Univ.), "The Spatial Context of Development: A Synthesis and a Perspective"

Discussant: Sulayman Nyang (Howard)

SPECIAL ACLS/SSRC REVIEW PANEL I (5:30 - 7PM: Grand Ballroom)

Chair: Paper: Paula Ben-Amos (Indiana University), "Social

Science Approaches to African Art"

SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS (9-11AM)

Management of Parastatals in Eastern Africa (Spruce)

Chair: Goran Hyden (Univ. of Florida) Papers: David K. Leonard (UC,Berkeley), "The Secrets

of African Managerial Success" Barbara Grosh (UC, Berkeley), "Economic

Performance of Kenyan Parastatals: Lessons from the First Two Decades of Independence"

Rwekaza Mukandala (UC, Berkeley), "The Nurture of Power and the Torture of Parastatals in Tanzania and Botswana"

Discussant: John Nellis (World Bank)

Exploring the Lands of Do (Denver)

Chair: Patrick R. McNaughton (Indiana Univ.) Papers: Charles S. Bird (Indiana Univ.), "Reflections of the

Etymologies of Do" Kathryn L. Green (Univ. of Fla.), "Do Among the

Mandekan-speakers of Kong. Ivory Coast" Christopher D. Roy (Univ. of Iowa), "Do in Wood

and Leaves Among the Bobo and the Bwa"

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Discussant:

Monica Bladanun Visona ( ). "Manifestations of Do in the Southern Ivory Coast"

Philip L. Ravenhill (Nat. Museum of African Art), "The Do Masquerade of the Wan"

Martha Kendall (Indiana Univ.)

Shrine Configurations in the Study of African Art (Terrace)

Chair: Christine Mullen Kreamer (Washington, D.C.) Papers: Christine Mullen Kreamer, "Spheres of Protection:

Shrines of the Moba, Northern Togo" Pamela A.R. Blakely (Brigham Young), "Shrines and

Semi-Secret Societies in the Hemba World (Zaire)" Dennis M. Warren (Iowa State), "The Agbeni Shrine:

A Century of Continuity" Robert T. Soppelsa (Washburn Univ.). "An Ashante

Shrine Figure" Discussant: Thomas D. Blakely (Brigham Young)

Problems in Interpreti~ Oral Southern African Sources for Historical Research

(Bi1tm~--

Chair: Papers:

Discussants:

Leonard Leslie Bessant (Ripon College) Julie Croston (Boston Univ.), "Crocodile, Snatch

Away the Boer Child's Hat: Setswana Praise-Poems as a Historical Source

Leonard Leslie Bessant, "History of Peasants and History by Peasants in Zimbabwe"

Hope D. Woodward (Univ. of Texas), "The Image of Contract Laborer in Lusophone African Poetry"

Jeanne Penvenne (Boston Univ.) Elvis Muringai (University of Zimbabwe!Univ. of

Minnesota)

The Powers of Religion (Beverly)

Chair: Papers:

Discussant:

Adell Patton (UCLA) Susan J. Rasmussen (Indiana Univ.), "The Use and

Abuse of 'Natural' Symbols: Jewelry, Men and Gender Typifications in Tuareg Ritual and Cosmology"

F. K. Ekechi (Kent State), "Westen Medicine and Christian Conversion in Africa: Examples From Nigeria, 1857-1945"

Paul Goldsmith (Univ. of Florida), "Shi'a versus Bid'a: Internal Dimensions of Islamic Patronage in East Africa"

Janet Ewald (Duke)

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National Interest in the Regional Conflicts in Africa (Gold)

Chair: Luis Benjamin Serapiao (Howard) Papers: Ahmed El-Bashir (Univ. of the District of

Columbia), "Sudanese Foreign Policy in the Regional Conflict of the Horn of Africa"

Thomas P. Ofcan sky (Maxwell AFB), "Causes of Low Intensity Conflicts in Southern Africa"

Joseph Massaquoi (Howard), "Constratins in the Chadian Foreign Policy Formation"

Discussant: Luis Benjamin Serapiao

Topics in Ghanaian History (Century)

Chair: David H. Groff (Linfield College) Papers: David H. Groff, "The 'Revolt' of Assikasso of 1898:

An Episode in the Colonial Restructuration of an African Regional Economy"

Larry W. Yarak (Texas A. &M.), "Asante Bureaucracy Reconsidered: the Career of Debosohene Kwadwo Akyampon (ca. 1765 to 1832)"

Roger Gocking (Mercy College). "Creole Society in Ghana: Useful Concept or Historical Distortion?"

Patricia Durousseau (UCLA). "Zaberma Leadership in the Voltaic Region"

Discussant: Ray Kea (Carleton College)

Legal Rights in Land and Property: Women's Rights, Men's Rights: Panel II (Assembly III)

Chair: Jean Davison (Stanford) Papers: Athalia Molokomme (Univ. of Botswana)

Deborah Brautigam (Columbia), "Land Rights and Chinese Project Aid in West Africa: Conflict and Confsion"

- Bernal - Jean Davison

Nonalignment and Security in Southern Af~ica

(Columbine)

Chair: Solomon M. Nkiwane (Colorado College/Univ. of Zimbabwe)

Papers: Horace Campbell (Univ. of Dar es Salaam), "Liberation

and Transformation in Southern Africa"

Jeffrey Herbst (Yale/Univ. of Zimbabwe). "The Present

Unrest and Prospects for Revolution in South Africa"

Mtshana Ncube (United Nations Institute for

Namibia, Lusaka). n?"

Discussant: Fadzai Gwaradzimba (John Hopkins)

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The Local Origins of Nationalism (Capitol)

Chair: R.O. Collins (Balliol College, Oxford) Papers: Anthony Kirk-Greene (St. Anthony's, Oxford)

"Nationalism in the Sudan: The View From the DC's Veranda?"

Dennis Hickey (Michigan State), "The 'Western Galla Confederation' of 1936: An Early Expression of Modern Oromo Nationalism?"

Brian S. Hoyle (Univ. of Southampton), "The Synthetic Eye: Geographical Research and Political Change in East Africa, 1905-1946"

Discussant: Ahmad al-Alawad Sikaniga (North Carolina A &T)

Agricultural Trading Policies: Case Studie~ (Assembly I)

Chair Christohper H. Goldman (Randolph-Macon Women's College)

Papers: Christopher H. Goldman, "Reducing Dependence on South Africa: The Case of Lesotho's Produce Marketing Corporation"

Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno (U.S. Department of Agriculture), "Nigerian Policies Affecting Agricultural Trade"

George R. Gardner (U.S. Department of Agriculture), "World Market Implications of Egypt's Cotton Export-Import Policy Changes"

Lawrence Donnelly and Richard Mschomba (Univ. of Delaware), "The Smuggling of Coffee: the Case of Kenya and Tanzania"

Discussant:

Media Professionalism in Africa and Asia (Aspen)

Chair: Louise Bourgault (Northern Michigan Univ.) Papers: Louise Bourgault, "Media Professionalism in the African

Context: Some Psycho-Cultural Considerations" John Lent (Third World Consultants), "Professionalism and

Ethics in Asian Print Media" James F. Scotton (Marquette), "Professional Training for

the African Media - Alternative Models" Discussant: Kwame Boafo (Michigan State Univ./Univ. of Ghana)

Aspect£ of Crime and Punishment in Pre-Colonial Ghana (Cedar)

Chair: Joseph K. Adjaye (Univ. of Wisconsin) Papers: Joseph K. Adj aye , "Crime and Punishment in Nineteenth

Century Akan Society"

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Liberia and the United States (Biltmore)

Chair: D. Elwood Dunn (Univ. of the South) Papers: D. Elwood Dunn, "Context for Re-assessing the

Relationship" C.E. Zamba Liberty (Marquette Univ.

"Re-interpreting the History of Liberian - U.S. Relations"

Patrick L.N. Seyon (Harvard), "Liberia and the U.S. in the Post-War Era"

Kona Khasu (Boston Univ.) "Cultural Encounters in Liberian - U.S. Relations"

Discussants: Amos Sawyer (Indiana Univ.) J. Gus Liebenow (Indiana Univ.)

Roundtable: State and §ciety in Africa: Modes and !!ej;~ds of t\nalysis :. ~ew LS~_l!es

(Assembly I)

Chair: Timothy M. Shaw (Dalhousie Univ.) Participants: I\athy -staudt- (Texas) '--~'L______~-~~

--Naomi Chazan (Hebrew), "Informal Economy and Poli tical Prru;:.ess!'-. ..~---.

Michael Glantz (NCAR), "Environment" S.K.B. Asante