ANSAFebruary 15: Board/Jury members' evaluationand ranking of West African colleagues' papersto be returned to Kassim Kone.

MANSA MeetingThe twenty-second annual meeting of the MandeStudies Association will be held in New YorkCity at the Sheraton New York Hotel andTowers, Friday, October 19th 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

7th International Conference on MandeStudies, Lisbon, Portugal, June 24-28, 2008

SCHEDULE OF DEADLINES

November 1,2007: Panel chairs to issue generallist-serv notices of their panels, requestingsubmission of titles and abstracts.

December 31,2007: Submission of papers toKassim Kone by West African colleaguesresiding in West Africa who wish to compete forfunding to attend the conference. (This meansDr. Kone must receive the papers by this date.)

January 1,2008: Membership renewals toLaura Arntson.

February 1,2008: Submission of paperproposals to pane! chair/organizers.

February 1: Deadline for submission to DavidConrad of unattached (i.e. not already part of apanel) paper titles & abstracts

February 1: Conference registration andsubmission of fees to Laura Arntson.

March 1: West African colleagues notified offunding competition results by Kassim Kone.

March 15: Submission to David Conrad of allcompleted panels for the conference program.

Eminent Malians Depart for lahara

LANSINE DIABATEBy Jan JansenKela's kumatigi Lansine Diabate died on June 28in Bamako, weakened by recent surgery. Ala kahine a la. During his life, Lansine (born 1926)was the host of many researchers, and manymore know him from making recordings withhim. He was appointed as Kela's kumatigi in1989. His funeral (3rd, 7th and 40th dayceremonies joined) was held in Kela onThursday, July 5.

Personally, I have had the opportunity tomake dozens of recordings with him, and hiswords are the basis of my academic career. I ammost honored that I have had the chance to workwith such an extraordinary person.Lansine's son Damori can be contacted atnumber (+) 2235189520

David C. Conrad, President, State University of New York-OswegoKassim Kone, Vice-President, State University of New York-Cortland

Laura Arntson, Secretary-Treasurer, USAIDAdvisory Board

Seydou Camara, Institut des Sciences Humaines, BamakoP.F. de Moraes Farias, Birmingham University, U.K.Allen Howard, Rutgers University

Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State UniversityDolores Koenig, American UniversityValentine Vydrine, St. Petersburg, Russia

Eminent Malians to Lahara (continued)

By Nienke Muurling and Boubakar Diabare:Yesterday evening Seydou Diabate from Kela(son of the late Laji Yamudu, and nephew ofLansine Diabate) called us to let us know that thefuneral for Lansine (3rd, 7th and 40th dayceremony joined) turned out to be a big eventMany people came to Kela to commemorateLansine Diabate, amongst others an officialdelegation from ffiK, Mali's former PrimeMinister. Seydou was especially touched by theattention from different researchers, all MANSAcolleagues. But I think Lansine was worth it Oneof my last memories of Lansine is that we were ina 4x4 tcrgetltet'tllrth'e"bUll'fPy roattfromi{'t;!la to' ,- •Siby where he did a wonderful performance,notwithstanding his fatigue. for a delegation fromthe Prince Clans Fimd fOl' CultureDe\"dopmealc1 Of I

Bv R ToUT'!!.L 'Essor 24 juillet 2007 (excerpt)Disparition du Pr Mamadou Lamine Traore:

L'Hommage de la Nation.

L'emOUOIl etait grande hier apres-rnidl'surI'esplanade du Centre international de conferenceou ont eu lieu des funerailles nationalesorganisees a la memoire du ministre deI' Education nationale Mamadou Lamine Traore,decede samedi dernier. Le president de laRepublique Amadou Toumani Toure a preside lacerernonie en presence du Premier ministreOusmane Issoufi Marga, de nombreux membresdu gouvernement, des representants du corpsdiplomatique, des organisations internationales.des responsables des organisations retigieuses.Tout a commence par une emouvante marcbe

funebre de soldats portant Ie corps. La sequence aarrache des larrnes a de nombreuses personnesdans I' assistance. Ensuite Ie Pr Mamadou LamineTraore sera fait commandeur de I' ordre nationaldu Mali par Ie chef de I'Etat Amadou ToumaniToure, Son camarade de parti, Ie Pr MamadouKassa Traore lui a rendu un hommage appuye aunom des militants du Miria, la formationpotitique qu'iJ dirigeait. II a salue en MamadouLamine Traore un "militant indomptable, unpatriote convaincu, un homme entier" qui aresiste aux derives de notre "societe en proie a lacrise de foi en rien".

Le Premier ministre Ousmane Issoufi Marga, quia pronoilce"ToraiSonftineoi'e:' li'incrrqiltq\l" a'V'ec"'"Ia disparition du Pr Mamadou Lamine Traore, Ie

. le moode de I'education et la c1assepoIiiliqlle pmIcul de tare, un

'etdelacmement a ensuited'me arrache a

_ •.--......., est ne Ie 2 janvierBi11l111tooU' iI fit ses etudes primaires et

~x.daires a ecoIe Mamadou Konate (ex ecoleBamako) et au lycee Terrasson de

FoI~1:S (acteel tycee Askia Mohamed).MoIlBi.ooIU Lamine Traore a ensuite decroche une

philosophie antique avant d'acheverpan:ours universitaire a l'universite de la

Sorbonne Paris IV ou il obtint on doctorat dephilosophie sur Ia thematique : "Vers one penseeorigmelle africaine" .Sa carriere professionnellel'a conduit aux lycees de Markala et Sankore,ainsi qu'a I Ecole normale superieure et alaFaculte des lettres, arts et sciences humaines(Flash) de l'uuiversite de Bamako. MamadouLamine Traore etait aussi un militant syndical quia assure'de hautes responsabilltes au SfI:l'EC era la 'FEN. Le syndicaliste avait egalement unecasquette d'homme politique. "Le combatpolitique I'a souvent emmene en prison", asouligne Ousmane Issoufi Marga avant derappeler que l'homme fut l'une des figuresemblernatiques du combat pour la democratic,ayant conduit a I' avenernent du 26 mars 1991.'Cest a ce titre que Mamadou Lamine Traore aeu a ieger au Comite de transition pour Ie salutdu peule (CTSP)", a precise Ie chef dugouvemement,

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Pour Ousmane Issoufi Marga, I'illustre disparufut "un grand philosophe, mais un philosophe deI'action" qui a exerce des fonctions dans leshautes spheres de l'Etat. Ministre d'Etat chargede I'Administration territoriale et de la Securite,puis charge de I'Administration et de laDecentralisation dans Ie premier gouvernementde la 3e Republique, il a fait son entree a nouveauau gouvemement en 2002 avec cette fois-ci "Ialourde charge de l'Education nationale".Mamadou Lamine Traore, a ajoute Ie Premierministre, etait un "intrepide combattant de laliberte, un pourfendeur de I'arbitraire sous toutesses formes", qui "n'a jamais recule devant unedifficulte, fut-ce au prix de son impopularite". Enrendant au defunt l hommage de la -nationreconnaissante pour ce qu'il a fait et ce qu'il aete", le Premier ministre a formule le vceu queson exemple puisse inspirer la jeunesse afin quetriomphent les idees pour lesquelles il s'est battudurant toute sa vie.

Workshop Organized by Ralph Austin andBen Soares: Paris, September 17-18,2007

Reconsidering the Oeuvre ofAmadou Hampate Eo'

Panelists and papers:Yacouba Konate, Universite d'Abidjan-Cocody

Amadou Hampate Ba et Felix HouphouetBoigny : elements d'une ami tie.

Bintou Sanankoua, Institut des SciencesHumaines, Bamako

Amadou Hampate Ba. Un temoignage.Abiola Irele, Harvard University

Narrative Structure of Wan grin and the TwoVolumes of Memoirs

Lilyan Kesteloot, IFANUn roman oral inedit de Amadou Hampate Ba

louis Brenner, SOA~. University of London I -;

Amadou Hampate Bfi: theological reflectionsJean-Louis Triaud, CEMAF-CNRS (Aix-en- .Provence BIvry B Paris)

D'un Maitre a l'autre : l'histoire d'un transfert.Amadou Hampate Ba entre Tierno Bokar etTheodore Monod (1938 1954)

Ebrima Sail, CODESRIA"Jesus Vu Par Un Musulman": Hampate Baand the Relationship Between Islam andChristianity

Bernard Salvaing, Universite de Nantes, CRHIAet Tal Tamari, Universite Libre de Bruxelles;

CNRS Cemaf, ParisDe Amadou Hampate Ba a Fily DaboSissoko: Islam, religions traditionnelles etoecumenisme

Ralph Austen, University of ChicagoThe Medium of "Tradition": AmadouHampate Ba's Confrontations with Languages,Literacy and Colonialism

Anna Pondopoulo, Universite Paris 7Identity and Construction of the Personnage"Wan grin "

Update on MANSA Members' Activities

LA lJRA A.&.lIITSON is carrently wtlrking in' .'.• "Nigeria with USAIDlNigeria, as the StrategicInformation Advisor with PEPFAR (ThePresident's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).She will be based in Abuja for 2 years as the USGovernment (USAID - CDC - Department ofDefense) Strategic Information Team Lead,where she oversees PEPFAR program monitoringand reporting, capacity building amongimplementing partners and the Government ofNigeria Ministry of Health HlV/AIDS Program(NASCP) and National Agency for the Control ofAIDS (NACA), survey and surveillance activitiesrelated to the epidemic, and data use for strategicplanning and decision-making.LOUISE BEDICHEK retired on September 28,after 28 years as a Foreign Service Officer, ofwhich eight-and-a-half were in Guinea-Conakry,Since leaving Guinea in 2005, she has served asRegional Desk Officer for the West Africa Officeof Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, at theDepartment of State. She still maintains anapartment in Conakry and will be going back forthree weeks in October. .~ •••• ' •• - .•. • ••••.• f:

ALICE BELLAGAMBA is now AssociateProfessor of Political Anthropology and AfricanStudies in the Department of Human Sciences forEducation 'Riccardo Massa' University of Milan-Bicocca.LOUISE BOURGAULT's documentary FromMali to Michigan: A Musical Bridge hasreceived two awards: (1) The First Place Awardfor the Arts and Culture program division of theMichigan Association of Broadcasters, a serviceorganization of Public Television Stations in theState of Michigan. (2) First Place in the

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Documentary category of GoodAwards, which recognize mediapositive values and uplifts thegiven by the Judiciary Heads ofUnited Methodist, Episcopal CallholicEvangelical Lutheran Cb of MiodB:~I'sUpper Peninsula The documen •broadcast on -lV.lV 132006, and March 25. 2007. It 'was also featuredat the United Conference in Marquette. . inSept 2006, and at the Fulbright AlumniConference as part of a panel entitled "Engagingin Global Dialogues, in Marrakech, Morocco inNov. 2006. It will be available for screeningthrough the Video Marketplace at the upcoming50th Anniversilifineetiilg for' the AfrlbUr studies'Association in New York.MARIE YVO E CURTIS bas a RockefellerHumanities Fellowship at tbe Ceo for FoItlifeaod Cultural Iasti

tiamttIIL The sessionadapted f proposed specialg An pology and Human

Organization. is Director of the multi-institutional Africa 'orting Group on Peace andConflict W\ 1 -_africawor 'inggroup_org), and hiswork examines human social responses to crisis,change, and conflict and other topics such asreconciliation and peacebuilding, He hasconducted field research on mediation in Eritrea,the Navajo and Hopi territories, Senegal, and TheGambiaCHARITY ELLIS is working on a featuredocumentary about Griots, which he says is stilla couple of years from completion.MARIA GROSZ- GATE was in ali forresearch during the summer. after which hedirected a summer program in Dakar.STEN HAGBERG was in We tern Burkina Fasodoing fieldwork on Tiefo ethnicity in July 2006and March 2007, and is there again in eptemberand October.

.niFPH HELL WEG has a Fulbrightua~l'w~~hA~~ the

ersity of Kankan to teach a • ear long:illlllIIrotJOlogicalfield methods practcicum••.••.~."',g on gathering info on local ideas

HIV/AIDS among both and Frenchspeakers.

CK. HOCKIN has been appointed Director ofthe Arts and Culture in Mali Program offeredthrough Antioch Education Abroad, administeredunder the auspices of Antioch University. Thispart-time position involves teaching two 4-creditcourses based broadly on arts and culture in Mali,overseeing the teaching of intensive languagecourses in French and Bamana, arranginghomestay ap'ptenticeSfiips,ahti guitling'stbdertts" 7-\

in their independent field study projects. This is afall semester program based in Bamako, with 3'eeks of travel within Mali incorporated into the

cmriaiJlum. For more info: http://www.antioch-.....,~;~..,'AEAlmaliJ:n.L.~I" 80 ARD is completing a bookIIIIIIBlI!5aiJ'pteotidedContested Places; Disputed

s: T'roders and Authorities in Northern~.1 80-1930 and currently chairs the

~dBafe program in the Department of History at

BAZ LECOCQ is now Professor of African.- at Ghent University, Belgium.

GREG has received the David PinkneyPrize f the best book in French historypublished in 2006 from the Society for FrenchHistorical Studies, for his Native Sons: WestAfrican Veterans and France in the 20'h Century,Duke University Press.MARIE MIRAN has accepted a position at theCentre d'etudes africaines at the EHESS in Paris.MOHAMED SAIDOU N'DAOU won aFulbright Hays grant to' take Chicago StateUniversity faculty and students on educationalvisits to Guinea, with the first one alreadycompleted.EMILY OSBORN has moved from Notre Dameto the History Department at the University ofChicago.ClAUDIA ROTH is in Burkina Faso doingresearch in Bobo Dioulasso.

G E SKA TTUM reports that on June 28, 2007her student Coumba Toure at the doctoral schoolI FRA of the University of Bamako, defendedher doctoral thesis titled "Problernes didactiqueset linguistiques de I' enseignement de la

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philosophie au Mali. Une etude decomprehension de textes par les lyceens ayantcomme langues premieres le bamanankan et Iefulfulde."DAVID SKINNER is spending the year asVisiting Fellow at the Centre of African Studies,University of Edinburgh, working on hismanuscript Islam, Local and Global: da'wah inGhana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.JULIE STRAND spent the spring semesterteaching for Semester at Sea, a study-abroadprogram on a ship that sails around the worldwith 700 students and 25 faculty. Then she spentthe summer in Ghana teaching anethnomusicology course to American students foran overseas program through Lewis & GIarkCollege. Julie is now in Boston teaching AfricanAmerican Music as a visiting lecturer at TuftsUniversity. Later this semester or early nextsemester she will defend her dissertationtentatively titled "Constructing Tradition andIdentity: The SambI a Xylophone in BurkinaFaso."WALTER VAN BEEK has accepted a chair inAnthropology of Religion at Tilburg Universitycommencing on September 28.VALENTIN VYDRINE and ELENAPEREKHV ALSKA YA are in Cote d'Ivoire forthe "Festival de la lexicographie villageoise"which will take place in the village of Yaloba inthe Tura country. This is an outcome of theirproject with Thomas Bearth, and of his projectsconcerning the topic of "language as a tool ofdevelopment". Valentin's student DMITRYIDIA TOV has produced a first draft of the Turadictionary, and for about three years, there hasbeen a network of Tura people who arecompleting this dictionary, looking for plant andanimal names. etc. Another practical outcome ofthe Cote d·Ivoin; project is the first periodical inthe Dan language, Pamebhame. It is published intwo versions, Dan-East (Gweetaa) and Dan-West(B1o); 18 issues have been published so far.

Books, Articles, CDs, DVDs, Dissertations

BOOKSCornelia Giesing, Valentin Vydrine (eds.). 2007.Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinee-Bissau) : Lamemo ire des Mandinka et Sooninkee du Kaabu.

Leiden & Boston: Brill. African Sources forAfrican History 9, pp. xxiv + 398. ISBN 9789004147249Ce tome presente le Ta:rikh Mandinka, unmanuscrit redige en Arabe et en Mandinka,originaire du village de Bijini en Guinee-Bissau.Inedit jusqu'a present, le manuscritconsiste enune compilation structuree et tres originale sur IeKaabu, reunissant divers recits et chroniquesfocalisant les debuts mythiques et la chute de cet« empire» paren au milieu du 1geme siecle. Deuxversions du manuscrit et plusieurs interpretations(lectures) du Ta:rikh sont reproduites transcrites,traduites et analysees en tenant compte dequestions philologiques, historiques etanthropologiques. ~'analyse regarde Ia . •communaute clericale de Bijini et tant que lieu detransmission de savoirs dans un contexte local etregional. Le point focal du livre est I'importancede la diaspora clericale des Mandinka et Jaakanka(Jakhanke) dans Ie processus de la constructionde I'histoire de I' « empire» sooninkee du Kaabuen Senegambie. Le tome contient un glossaire desnoms et des termes mentionnes par les sources,des illustrations, des tableaux, des cartes et desphotographies.

This volume presents a hitherto unpublishedmanuscript written in Arabic and Mandinka fromthe muslim village of Bijini in Guinea-Bissau, theTa:rikh Mandinka, a unique and structuredcompilation unfolding the pagan "empire" ofKaabu from it's mythical beginnings to it'sdownfall in the nineteenth-century. Two existingmanuscript versions and several oralinterpretations of the Ta:rikh are reproduced,transcribed, translated, compared and analyzedconsidering philological, historical and social-anthropological issues (chaps. 1-3). The fourthchapter deals with the..c1erical community of. .. . .\ . '.:' . ~ t'· I ~ '. -

BIJIDIas a place of knowledge-transfer in it'slocal setting and within regional networks. Thefocus of the book is on the importance of theMandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in themaking of the history of the Sooninkee "empire"of Kaabu in Senegambia. The volume contains aglossary of names and terms mentioned in thesources and is illustrated with maps, photographsand drawings.

JOURNALMande Studies 7Divination in the Mande World

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Guest Editors: Jan Jansen and Annette SchmidtTABLE OF CONTENTS

Jan Jansen and Annette SchmidtIntroduction: Divination research as a field ofMaude studies

Jean-Paul ColleynLa geomancie dans Ie contexte bamana: Signes etobjets forts

KnutGrawThe Logic of Shells: Knowledge and Lifeworld-Poiesis in Senegambian Cowrie Divination

Dorothea E. SchulzAmbiguous interventions: On theProfessionalization of Divination Practices inUrban Mali

Walter E.A. van BeekFootprints of the Future: Dogon Fox Divination

Trevor HJ. MarchandFortifying Futures on Blessed Foundations:Masons. Secrets and Guarantees in Djenne

Geert ommersteeg'Seul Dieu connait l'a eair': Quelques JlO(eS

ethnographiques sur Ia dh inatioo en milieumusulman Djenne -

Amber GemmeteThe Paradox of uccess: Female MaJabouts inDakar

Anja VeirmanLes sadobee, interrnediaires eutre I'homme et Lemonde spirituel

JanJansenFormalized Education in Sand Divination: Areport from the Mande ountains

otes on Contributors

ARTICLESLaura Arntson, 2007. (Editor and contributor).Chapters on Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea,Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Malt Niger;Senegal, and Sierra Leone. GreenwoodEncyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide,Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, Cf: GreenwoodPress.

Barbara Frank. 2007. "Marks of Identity: Pottersof the Folona (Mali) and Their Mothers" AfricanArts. Special Issue: Ceramic Arts in Africa (co-edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock andBarbara E. Frank) 40 (l): 30-41.

Barbara E. Frank. 2007. "African Artistry in

Clay: omen Potters of the Folona, Mali."Ceramics Monthly(btqL ._cerami.csmonthly.or:glexpandedcontentf2OO6-08lAfricanArtistn·.asp)

Janet Goldner. 2007. "The Women ofKalabongou (Mali)" (photo essay). African Arts.w (1): 4-79.

Sten Hagberg. 2006. "'Bobo buveurs, Yarsecolporteurs': Parente a plaisanterie dans Ie debarpublic burkinabe." Cahiers d'Etudes africaines184, XLVI (4), 861-881.

Sten Hagberg. 2006. '''It was Satan that Took thePeople': The MakingofFithfic'}\uthority in ", .•t··.,Burkina Faso." Development and Change 37(4),779-797.

Sten Hagberg. 2006. "Money, ritual and thepolitics of belonging in land transaction sin

estern Burkina Faso." In Land. and the Politicsof Belonging in West Africa (eds) R Kuba & c.Lentz, Leiden & Boston: Brill.

ten Hagberg, 2006. "The Politics of JokingRelationships in Burkina Paso." Zeitschrift flirEthnologie 131(2), 197-214.

ten Hagberg. 2006. "The Transformation ofRitual Boundaries in Resource-Use Practices inBurkina Faso." Africa Today, 52 (4),109-129.

Sten Hagberg. 2007. "'Each Bird is Sitting in itsOwn Tree': The Authority and Violence of aHunters' Association in Western Burkina Faso."In Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa (eds)Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard & Espen Sjaastad.Oxford: JamesCurreyjEast Lansing: Michigan.State University Press.

David Henige. 2007. "This is the Place:' Puttingthe Past on the Map." Journal of HistoricalGeography 33 (2): 237-253.

Nicholas Hopkins. 2007. "Spriit Mediumship inUpper Egypt." Anthropos 102:403-419.

Jose da Silva Horta. 2007. "Ensino eCristianizacao informais: do contextoluso-africano a primeira "escola" jesuita na

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Senegambia (Biguba, Buba -- Guine-Bissau,1605-1606)" [Informal Education andChristianization: from the Luso-African contextto the first Jesuit 'school' in Senegambia(Biguba,Buba - Guinea-Bissau, 1605-1606)],Rumos e escrita da Historia: estudos emhomenagem a A. A. Marques de Almeida, coord.Maria de Fatima Reis, Lisboa,Colibri, pp. 407-418.

Jose da Silva Horta and Peter Mark. 2007. "Duascomunidades sefarditas na costa do Senegal noinicio do seculo XVII: Porto de Ale e Joala"[Porto de Ale and Joal: two Sephardiccommunities on the Senegal coast in early 17thcentury], Luis Filipe Barreto et at (eds.).lnquisicdo Portuguesa. Tempo, Razdo eCircunstdncia. Lisboa-S. Paulo: Prefacio, pp.277-304.

Allen Howard. 2006. "Nineteenth-CenturyCoastal Slave Trading and the BritishAbolition Campaign in Sierra Leone." Slaveryand Abolition 27: 1.

Allen Howard. 2005. "Nodes, Networks,Landscapes, and Regions: Reading the SocialHistory of Tropical Africa 1700s-1920" in AllenHoward (ed.). The Spatial Factor in AfricanHistory. The Relationship of the Social, Material,and Perceptual. Leiden: Brill AcademicPublishers, pp. 21-140.

Allen Howard. 2005. "Re-Marking on the Past:Spatial Structures and Dynamics in the Sierra .Leone-Guinea Plain, 1860s-1920s" in AllenHoward (ed.). The Spatial Factor in AfricanHistory. The Relationship of the Social, Material,and Perceptual. Leiden: Brill AcademicPublishers, pp. 291-348.

Allen Howard. 2003. "Contesting CommercialSpace in Freetown, 1860-1930: Traders,Merchants, and Officials." Canadian Journal ofAfrican Studies/Revue Canadienne des EtudesAfricaines (special issue: "Cities in Africa/Levilles en Afrique" edited with introduction byAllen Howard).

Marloes Janson, '''We are all the same becausewe all worship God.' The Controversial Case of a

Female Saint in The Gambia" Africa 76 (4) 2006:502-525.

John Johnson. 2007. "The Vanishing Hitchhikerin Africa." Research in African Literatures 38(3): 24-33

Michelle Johnson. 2007. "Making Mandinga orMaking Muslims? Debating FemaleCircumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal" in Transcultural Bodies:Female Genital Cutting in Global Context, ed.Ylva Hemlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan, pp.202-223. New Brunswick: Rutgers UniversityPress.

. ' .t-Dolores Koenig. 2007. "Notions of Participationin Development Projects: InvoluntaryResettlement at Manantali." In Cultures etpratiques participative: Une perspectivecomparative. Catherine Neveu, ed. Paris:Harmattan (Series Logiques Politiques). Pp. 213-231.

Kassim Kone (with Ilyas Ba-Yunus). 2006. TheMuslim Experience in America. GreenwoodPress, Greenwood, CT.

Kassim Kone, 2004. "Muslim Americans: ADemographic Report" with Ilyas Ba-Yunus, inZahid H. Bukhari (ed). Project MAPS: Muslims'Place in the American Public Square: Hopes,Fears and Aspirations. The Alta Mira Press.

Greg Mann and Baz Lecocq. 2007. "BetweenEmpire, umma, and Muslim Third World: TheFrench Union and African Pilgrims to Mecca,1946-1958." Comparative Studies of South Asia,Africa, and the Middle East 27 (2): 367-83.

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Greg Mann. 2007. "Colonialism Now:Contemporary Anti-colonialism and the facturecoloniale," Politique Africaine 105: 181-200.

Tamba Mbayo. 2007. "Bou EI Mogdad Seck,1826-1880: Interpretation and Mediation ofColonialism in Senegal" in Femi J. Kolapo andKwabena O. Akurang-Parry (eds.). AfricanAgency and European Colonialism: Latitudes ofNegotiations and Containment. Lanham, MD:University Press of America, 25-44.

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Tatiana Nikitina, 2007. "Time reference ofaspectual forms in Wan (Southeastern Mande)"in Doris L. Payne and Jaime Perra (eds.). SelectedProceedings of the 37th Annual Conference onAfrican Linguistics, 125-33. Somerville, MA:Cascadilla Proceedings Project

Valentin Vydrine. 2007. "South Mandereconstruction: Initial consonants." Aspects ofhistorical comparative linguistics - 2. Orientaliaet classica Xl: Works of the Institute of OrientalCultural and Classical Studies. Moscow: RussianUniversity of Human Studies, pp. 409-498.

Bruce Whitehouse, "Republic of Congo(Brazzaville)" Gri!enwoo'd,£ncyllopeifia dfChildren's Issues Worldwide, Sub-SaharanAfrica. Westport, Cf: Greenwood Press.

FILMFrom Mali to MIChigan: A Musical Bridge.2006. Produced y Louise andThomson.. A m:in documentary tellingstory of the -' .t of .an pop diva ian~Diabate to .gan s Upper Peninsula inShot on location in Mali and in Marquette.Michigan. It highlights the rich cultnral andperformative heritage of amy Daibate's nativeMali and features the star's lively collaborationswuh musical artists from Michigan and withstudents and faculty at orthern MichiganUniversity.

CDsGraeme Counsel (Producer). 2007. Authenticite.The Syliphone years. Guinea's OrchestresNationaux and Federaux 1965-1980.Stems. STCD 3025-26. 2 x compact discs. .. .Graeme Counsel (Producer). 2007. Bembeya JazzNational. The Syliphone years. Hits and rarerecordings. Stems STCD 3029-30.2 x compactdiscs.

Lucy Duran (Producer). 2007. Bassekou Kouyate& Ngoni ba: Segu Blue. Recorded by YvesWernert at Studio Bogolan in Mali. mixed byJerry Boys at Livingston Studios in London,executive producer Jay Rutledge. Release date10/9/07. Out I Here Records LH 007.www.outhere.de

Elisabeth den Otter (Producer). 2005. Fasiya (theHeritage), Kirango. Samake Records 01.

DVDsElisabeth den Otter. 2006. CircumcisionCeremonies and Masquerade of theBozolsomono, Kirango. Samake Records 02.

Elisabeth den Otter. 2006. Children'sMasquerades of the Bamana, Kirango. SamakeRecords 03.

Elisabeth den Otter. 2007. Traditional Bozo BoatBuilders. Samake Records 04.

DISSERTATIONSTamba Mbayo. 2007. "African Interpreters,

ediation, and the Production of Knowledge inC01oniaI Senegal: The Lower and MiddleSenegal alley. 1850 to 1920.~Ph.D.Department of History. Michigan State

rersity.

Broce 'hitebouse. 2007. "Exile Knows NoDignity: African Transnational Migrants and the

boring of Identity," Ph.D. Department ofAnthropology, Brown University. (West African[mostly Malian] migration to Brazzaville,Congo.)

RENEWED MEMBERS

Mary Jo Arnoldi (sponsor)Catherine B. Ash (sponsor)Ralph Austen (sponsor)Larry BeckerLouise Bourgault (sponsor)Sarah Brett-Smith (sponsor)David Conrad (sponsor)Ferdinand de JongPaolo de Moraes FariasLucy DuranRyan DurkoppAnnelle Favre-OseiHenrike FlorusboschDavid GambleTim GeysbeekFritz GoerlingAlma GottliebSten Hagberg

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David Henige (sponsor)Ylva HernlundBarbara Hoffman (sponsor)Jose da Silva HortaCandace KellerMartin Klein (sponsor)Roderic KnightTheodore KonkourisRoderick McIntosh (sponsor)Gregory Mann (sponsor)Pekka MasonenMarie MiranKay MoseleyTatiana NikitinaEmily Osborn (sponsor)Molly RothVictoria RovinePatrick RoyerCharles Riley (sponsor)Aby SangareMaria da Conceicao das Neves Sao SilvaCullen StrawnStephen R. ThompsonJoe WilliamsStephen Wooten

Email: heidLmanneh@helsinki.fiResearch interests:New researcher interested in doing a master'sthesis related to Mandinka speakers

Aissatou Mbodj-PouyeATER (attachee temporaire de recherche) - Ecoledes Hautes Etudes en Sciences SocialesCentre d'etudes africaines96, bd Raspail75006 Paris - FranceResearch: Postdoctoral in anthropology on Malimbodj@free.fr

Aby SangareInstitut de Llinguistique Appliquee . •08 B.P. 887, Abidjan 08 Cote d'Ivo'ireDirector of Institutde Linguistique Appliquee deI'Universite d' AbidjanResearch: Specialist in Jula languagebiba@aviso.ci; atougbi@yahoo.fr

New addresses:Laura Arntson (temporary) c/o PHI-GHFP529 14th St., NW, Suite 650Washington, DC 20045

New Members & Member updates:

New membersEmily BurrillAssistant ProfessorDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Kentucky1715 Patterson Office TowerLexington, KY 40506-0027

Allice BellagambaDepartment of Human Sciences for EducationUniversity of Milan-BicoccaPiazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 120126 Milano

Sinkoun DiakiteDirecteur du Musee prefecture de KissidougouB.P 21 Kissidougou.Guinee-Conakry

Ian B. EdwardsDepartment of AnthropologyUniversity of Oregon1820 W. 14th Ave.Eugene, OR 97402

Baday DianeCentre de Recherche de Civilisations Africaines(CRCA-Burkina)01 BP258Bobo-Dioulasso 01Burkina Fasobadaydiane@yahooJr

Heidi Manll'ehHiomokuja 1 A 2400380 HELSINKIFINLAND

Nick Hockin256 Washington St. Apt. 405Middletown CT 06457

Emily OsbornDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Chicago1126 E. 59th St. #99Chicago, IL 60637eosborn 1@uchicago.edu

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Submitting Articles to Mande Studies

The journal of the Mande Studies Association,Mande Studies, welcomes articles on all aspectsof the Mande world and the peoples and culturesthat compose it Submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance. The journal willaccept and publish manuscripts in English orFrench. (For additional information on Maru1eStudies see the web page:www.txstate.edulanthropology/mansa

Manuscript submissions should be typewrittenor computer-printed in double-spacing, andshould be accompanied, if possible, with anelectronic version of the text on a diskette(lBM/MS-D08; Mac texts should be sent by e-mail). Authors must furnish any maps orillustrations in hard copy suitable forreproduction, and are responsible for obtainingany necessary permission.

Colleagues from Africa without access tocomputers should send a typewritten manuscript,keeping a copy for their own use.

Submissions may be made electronically toAriane Deluz (Ariane.Deluz@ehessJr) or toStephen Belcher (spb3@psu.edu).

La revue Etudes Mande invite nos collegues itpresenter des contributions portant sur tous lesaspects du monde mande et des peuples et descultures qui le composent. Les articles proposesseront evalues anonymement avant d'etre retenus.La revue accepte et publie des articles en anglaisou en francais.

Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisis ouimprimes sur ordinateur en doubleinterligne, et devraient s'accompagner sipossible de la version electronique du texte surdisquette (format IBMlMS-Dos). Les textescomposes sur Macintosh doivent nous parvenircommes fichiers attaches it un email. Les auteurssont pries de fournir leurs cartes et illustrationssur papier, d'une qualite permettant lareproduction. n est de la responsabilite desauteurs d'obtenir toute permission necessairepour la reproduction.

Nos collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas acces itun ordinateur sont pries d'envoyer un manuscritdactylographic, et de conserver un deuxierneexemplaire pour leur propre usage.

Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voieeJectronique it Ariane Deluz(Ariane.Deluz@ehess.fr) ou it Stephen Belcher(spb3@pslLedu). Dans Ie cas des articles envoyespar email, Ie texte ne doit pas etre envoye dans lemessage mais comme fichier attache au mail.

Joining MANSA and Renewing MembershipRegular and institutional membership $25,sponsoring membership $40, students $10(regular and sponsoring membership includessubscription to the journal Mande Studies). Makecheck out to MANSA and (if you are joining)send your institutional affiliation and a briefdescription of your research interests to:Dr. Laura Arntson106 Walnut St, NWWashington, DC 20012 USAmansa_treas@yahoo.com

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