EMERGING AFRICAS:VERSIONS AND VISIONS

University at BuffaloBuffalo, New YorkMarch 31 – April 1, 2017

42nd Annual Conference

NEW YORK AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION PRESENTS

STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT OF NYASA, ABDUL NANJI

Dear Participants:

Welcome to the 42nd Annual New York African Studies Association Conference, 2017. Last year, 2016, the 41st Annual NYASA conference was held in New York City, hosted by City College (City University of New York) and Columbia University. It was a historic conference in that the last NYASA Conference hosted by Columbia University was the 5th NYASA Conference in 1978, 38 years ago. The 42nd NYASA Conference, hosted by University at Buffalo, is an equally historic conference in that the 4th NYASA Conference was hosted by the University at Buffalo 40 years ago under the theme “Application of African Studies.” The 2017 Conference theme of “Emerging Africas: Versions and Visions” is a topic critical to the 21st Century world. This conference offers all participants an exciting opportunity to exchange challenging ideas, and to dialogue and reflect on the future of African people.

I would like to extend my special thanks to the University at Buffalo Local Organizing Committee for their diligent work in making this conference a success, including Program Coordinator Professor Phillips Stevens; Program Committee Chairs Professor Ndubueze Mbah, and Professor Jason Young; Local Arrangement Chair Cindi Tysick; Professor Fred Klaits, and Professor Jeff Good. I thank everyone for their commitment in organizing this successful conference.

In addition, the NYASA Executive Board acknowledges the extensive breadth of cross-disciplinary and institution-wide support received from the University at Buffalo academic departments, colleges, and programs in support of the 2017 NYASA Conference and K-12 Teachers' Workshop. We thank the following for their financial and logistical support: Office of Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion; Office of Dean of College of Arts and Sciences; Office of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning; the Departments of History, Anthropology, Linguistics, Transnational Studies, and Comparative Literature; The Gender Institute; and the University at Buffalo Libraries.

Special thanks to Dr. Mara Huber, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning, Director of Academies University at Buffalo, and to W. Charles Brandy, Director, Department of Social Studies, Buffalo Schools for coordinating the NYASA 2017 Conference K -12 Teachers’ Workshop.

I congratulate the 2017 awardees of The 2017 NYASA Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ali A. Mazrui Outstanding Publication / Book and Educational Activities Award, The NYASA Community Service Award, The NYASA Distinguished Local Organization Award, The NYASA Distinguished Teacher Award, The NYASA Book Award, and The NYASA Book Award Honorary Mention.

Finally thank you to all presenters, participants, and all who worked to make 2017 Conference a success.

Karibuni, and enjoy the conference and the City of Buffalo.

Mwalimu Abdul Nanji, President

FRIDAY MARCH 31, 2017

NYASA K-12 Teachers’ WorkshopVENUE: THE OSCAR A. SILVERMAN LIBRARY, RM 310,CAPEN HALL, UB NORTH CAMPUS

8:30am – 1:45pmThe University at Buffalo African Studies Initiative, comprised of African and African-American Studies faculty from across the disciplines, proudly presents the New York African Studies Association Teachers’ Workshop on Africana Studies for Buffalo Public School K-12 Teachers. This workshop explores teaching methods and resources available for teaching about Africa and African Peoples. We are pleased to provide live streaming of the workshop via: ZOOM. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/5e919922ce47caf1d-746f627e8486654.

8:30am – 9:00amNYASA K-12 Teachers’ Workshop Registration/Refresh ments

9:00am – 9:15amWelcoming Remarks and IntroductionsAward Pre-Announcements for NYASA K-12 Teacher Award and NYASA Local Organization/Community Service Award

9:20am – 9:50am Opening Plenary Session: Teaching about Africa and the African Diaspora from an African Centered Perspective (Locksley Edmondson, Africana Center, Cornell University)

9:55am – 10:25am Memorable Africa: Connecting High School Students to Africa (Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)

10:30am – 11:10am Slavery in Africa: Human and Spiritual Dimensions(Ndubueze Mbah, History Department, University at Buffalo)

11:15am – 11:55am Student and Teacher Panel: Portrayal of African Youth in the Media (Buffalo Public Schools)

12:00pm – 12:45pmTeaching Resources Available on

Internet and Other Electronic Media(Eric Acree, Director, John Henrik

Clarke Africana Library, African Studies Center, Cornell University)

12:50 – 1:30pm Working Lunch (one presenter per table)

Chair: Mechthild Nagel, SUNY CortlandMechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland, “Two Tales of Restorative Justice: Gacaca (Rwanda) and Truth and Reconciliation (South Africa)”Habib Zanzana, University of Scranton, “Until the Music Stops: Revolutionary Vision, Gender, and Modern African Youth in Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open my Eyes”Rachel Campbell, SUNY Brockport, “Naomi Wicomb’s Playing in the Light and the Dynamics of Post-Apartheid Racial Reconciliation in South Africa”Garhe Osiebe, University of Birmingham, “False Consciousness in Nigerian Popular Music: Interrogating the Two Faces of 2face Idibia, 2baba”

Panel IB: Race and Political Representations in African Films and Hip Hop [Venue: 145F Student Union]Chair: Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesJacob Wright, SUNY Cortland, “Fight the Power! Analysis of Women in Hip Hop Struggle for Representation and Power”Shelby Bergen, SUNY Cortland, “Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry and Spike Lee Films”Kevin Hickey, ACPHS, “Guerilla Griot– Ousmane Sembene’s Filmic Oeuvre as Seen in His First Film, Borom Sarret (The Wagoner) of 1963”

Panel IC: Current Directions in African Linguistics [Venue: 210 Student Union]Chair: Jeff Good, University at BuffaloNadine Grimm, University at Rochester, “Documenting Endangered Languages of Africa”Jeff Good, UB, “Documenting Multilingualism in the Cameroonian Grassfields”Cristin Kalinowski, University at Buffalo, “The Marking of Emphasis in African Languages”Braden Brown, University at Buffalo, “Linguistic Negation in Bantu Languages”Robert Hepburn-Gray, University at Buffalo, “The Special Properties of Noun Classification in Niger-Congo Languages”

FRIDAY MARCH 31, 2017

NYASA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSVENUE: THE STUDENT UNION, UB NORTH CAMPUS

NYASA Executive Board Meeting — Marriott Hotel (Autonomous Schedule)

9:00am – 12:30pmNYASA Conference Registration[Venue: Student Union Theatre Foyer, UB North Campus]

12:30pm – 1:30pmLight Refreshments [Student Union]

1:30pm - 2:00pm [Student Union Theatre]• Welcome remarks by the Local Committee Chairs• Welcome remarks by University at Buffalo Provost Charles F. Zukoski• Introduction of the Keynote Speaker, Claude Welch

2:00pm – 2:55pm [Student Union Theatre]Keynote Address by Professor Claude Welch

3:00pm – 4:00pmPlenary SessionImmigration, Diversity, and America’s Shifting Policies[Venue: Student Union Theatre]Moderator: Deborah Reed-Danahay, Anthropology, University at BuffaloEllen Dussourd, Director of International Student & Scholar Services at UBFidele Nlemvo Menavanza, Center for Elder Law & Justice, BuffaloMyron Glick, Founder, Jericho Road Community Health Center, BuffaloAnna Ireland, Jericho Road Community Health Center, Buffalo

4:00PM - 5:30PMSESSION I

Panel IA: Restorative Justice and Reconciliation in Africa [Venue: 145A Student Union]

Panel ID: I’m Black, And I’m Proud: Resistance and Identity in the Diaspora[Venue: 330 Student Union]Chair: John Karefah Marah, SUNY College at BrockportGabrie’l Atchison, Trinity College, “Awakenings: The Black Experience in the Episcopal Church”Jocenelle Sarah Alcime, SUNY Cortland, “Views of Society on Black Hair”John Karefah Marah, SUNY Brockport, “Even Uncle Tom Rebelled”

5:30pm – 6:30pmLight Refreshments [Silverman Library Classroom 310]

6:00pm - 7:00pmNYASA Business Meeting including NYASA Executive Board Member Elections—open to all members. Please attend. [Venue: Silverman Library Classroom 310]7:00pmEnjoy the City [List and Maps]

Panel IIE: Emerging Africa: The Politics of Identity[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K109]Chair: Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union CollegeDahouda Kanaté,Hobart and William Smith Colleges “Emerging Ivory Coast: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities”Guillaume Yoboue, University at Buffalo, “Religious Fanaticism and Boko Haram - A Study of Xala (Sembène Ousmane) and Allah n’est pas obligé (Ahmadou Kourouma).”Cheikh M. Ndiaye, Union College, “Emerging Africa: The Concept of a ‘nouveau type de citoyen’ in a Global Market Narrative”

Marc Adoux Papé, Saint John Fisher College, "The Curse of French Hegemony: Visions of an emerging Africa free of French hegemony"

Panel IIF: Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality in Africa[Venue: Knox Hall, Room 110]Chair: Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, SUNY CortlandKhalid Omar Kitito, No affiliation, “Dialogism in Swahili Oral Literature: A Case of Marriage Proposal Dialogies of the Adigo of the Kenyan Coast”Connie Anderson, Hartwick College, “Persistence of Polygyny in Southern Africa, 30 Years Later”Michael Fiorica, University at Buffalo, “‘Really a non-issue’? A Compatibilist Approach to Economic Development and LGBTI Inclusion”Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, SUNY Cortland, “The Socio-Political and Economic Conditions of African Men and Women Since the 1980s: A Synopsis”

Coffee Break [Knox Hall, First Floor Foyer]

10:45AM - 12:15PMSESSION III

Panel IIIA: Documentary Film and Participatory Audience Discussion: “The Man on the Move: Standing Rock, North Dakota” [Venue: Knox Hall, Room K110]Discussant: Jermaine Wells, Union College

Panel IIIB: “Global Africa/Black Internationalism” Challenges America’s Retreat from Globalism, Cosmopolitanism & the Persistence of American Exceptionalism in an Increasingly Multipolar World”[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K4]

SATURDAY APRIL 1, 2017NYASA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSVENUE: KNOX HALL, UB NORTH CAMPUS

8:00am - 11:00 amNYASA Conference Registration Continued.

8:30am – 12:30 pmAfricana Visions Exhibitions: Religions/Arts/Cultures[Venue: Knox Hall Ground Floor Foyer]

9:00AM - 10:30AMSESSION II

Panel IIA: Sahara and Identity in Literature, Music and Religion[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K4]Chair: Kevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesMaria G. Traub, Neumann University, “Fils et fille d’Algérie; frère et sœur Amrouche: vies politiques et littéraires”Sophia Azeb, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York, “The Trans-Saharan Nation: The Festivalization of Négritude & Arabité in Dakar, Algiers, and Lagos”Latifa Bounou, Benedictine Univ., “Gnawa Religion, Syncretism, and Saharan Identity”

Panel IIB: Separate and Unequal: “Black” Education in North America [Venue: Knox Hall, Room K14]Chair: Gabrie’l J. Atchison, Trinity CollegeJanice Mwapaga, NYSED, “The Essential Educational Paradigm”Deanna Keenan and Titilayo Okoror, SUNY Binghamton, “How Far Does the Apple Fall? Influences of Family and Home on Mixed Race Identity”Stephanie Hector, SUNY Cortland, “Black Girls’ Education in America: Challenges and Solutions”Seth N. Asumah, SUNY Cortland, “Africana Studies: Rethinking Curriculum Design and Leadership Challenges in Historically White Colleges and Universities”

Panel IIC: New Visions of Pan-Africanism[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K20]Chair: Richard Severin, Union Institute & UniversityJustin Williams, City College of New York, “Pan-Africanism in Ghana: African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization”Kofi Boukman Barima, Jackson State University, “Clearing the Road: Caribbean Radical Streams before Marcus Garvey, 1820-1920”Dalia Muller, University at Buffalo, “African Political Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba”

Panel IID: African Childhood I: Labor Regimes[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K104]Chair: Locksley Edmondson, Africana Center, Cornell UniversityParfait Kouacou, CUNY, “African Childhood: Between Heritage and Modernity. Shackled or Cradled by Traditions?Georgina Yaa Oduro, Harvard School of Public Health, “‘Why Blame the Girls?’: Examination of Contextual Factors Fueling Juvenile Prostitution in a Ghanaian Community”Chioma Joseph-Obi, No Affiliation, “Patriarchy and Girl-Child Labor in Urban Nigeria: Experience of Girls in Domestic Employment in the Port-Harcourt Metropolis”

Chair: Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall UniversityLindah Mhando, Duke University and LSEPSDarryl C. Thomas, Pennsylvania State University

Panel IIIC: Language, Symbols, and the Arts: Dynamics of African Knowledge Production[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K20]Chair: Jerry E. Persaud, SUNY College at New PaltzAndrew Guyette, Union College, “Afrofuturism: a Journey into Black Space”Komla Amegashie, SUNY Albany, “What Do Ewe Dictionaries Contain? The Limits of Lexicographical Studies and the Diachronic Evolution”Edgar Ridley, N.A., “Cognitive Semiotics as an Engine for Global Behavior Change”Jerry E. Persaud, SUNY New Paltz, “The Relevance of African Post-Colonial Literature, and the Digital Divide”

Panel IIID: Black Community Studies: Niagara Falls and Nashville Tennessee[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K14]Chair: Deidre Hill Butler, Union CollegeMichael Boston, SUNY Brockport, “The ‘Impact of Urban Renewal’ on the Black Community of Niagara Falls”Deidre Hill Butler, “Community Engaged Photo Exhibit Retrospective– “Revitalized Community: Bordeaux Neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee Since the 2010 Flood”

Panel IIIE: African Childhood II: Refugees, Migration, and Displacement[Venue: Knox Hall, Room K104]Chair: Seth N. Asumah, SUNY CortlandCornelius Bradt, University at Buffalo, “‘Don’t Uproot the Pumpkin’: The Long-Term Impact of Civil War on Gender and Childhood Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda”Lynne Stillings, CUNY, “Senegalese Voices in Children’s Rights Discourse: Empowerment and Agency in Musical Participation”Assefaw Bariagaber, Seton Hall University, “The Impending Return of Somali Refugees and Migrants: Challenges, Impediments, and Opportunities”

Panel IIIF: Roundtable on Sustainable Development, Urbanization and Environment in Africa[Venue: Knox Hall, Room 109]Chair: Roger Gocking, Emeritus Mercy CollegeEl Hadji Oumar Toure, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, “Territorial Ecosystem Approach to Improve Integrated Management in the Senegal River Delta”Nahum N. Welang, Yachay Tech, “Steel-framed Skyscrapers in Rural Villages: The Misguided Capitalism Influencing Modernization Theory and the necessity for Educational Innovation”Roger Gocking, Mercy College, “Ghana’s Bui Dam: The Costs and the Benefits of Ghana’s Third Major Hydro Electric Facility”Ashraf Ghaly, Union College, “Water Scarcity and Its Potential Role in Population Sense of Insecurity”Kelly Ndubuka, Paul Hastings LLP, “Water Rights, Urbanization, Health, and Population in Africa: The Way Forward”Andrzej Polus and Wojciech Tycholiz, University of Wroclaw, “Natural Gas in Tanzania: The Game Changer for Economic Development?”

1:00pm - 3:00pmAWARD LUNCHEONVENUE: CENTRE FOR TOMORROW, UB NORTH CAMPUS

Awards:1. NYASA K-12 Teacher Award to Kinzer Pearson, English Language Art Teacher East Community School 2. NYASA Distinguished Local Organization/Community Service Award to Karibu News http://thekaribunews.com/about/3. NYASA Book Award to Kwame Akonor for UN Peacekeeping in Africa: A Critical Examination and Recommendations for Improvement.4. NYASA Distinguished Service Award to Claude Welch of The University at Buffalo5. NYASA Ali A. Mazrui Outstanding Publication/Book and Educational Activities Award to N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University6. NYASA Distinguished Scholar Award to Carole Boyce Davies Professor of

English and Africana Studies at the Africana Studies & Research Center at Cornell University

Keynote Address:• Carole Boyce Davies, English and Africana Studies at the Africana Studies & Research Center at Cornell University

Election Results and Conference Closing Remarks NYASA President and Local Arrangement Chairs

NYASA Executive Board Post-Conference Meeting Venue: Marriott Hotel (Autonomous Schedule)

New York African Studies Book Awards 2017 Complete List:NYASA 2017 Book Award to Kwame Akonor, UN Peacekeeping in Africa: A Critical Examination and Recommendations for Improvement. Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.NYASA 2017 Book Award Honorable Mention to Souleyman Bachir Diagne, The Ink of the Scholar: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa. Codesria, 2016.NYASA 2017 Book Award Honorable Mention to Kai Kresse, Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: Selections from the First Swahili Islamic Newspaper. Brill Publishers, 2017.

BIOGRAPHIES

Carole Boyce Davies: 2017 NYASA Distinguished Scholar Award

Carole Boyce Davies—professor of English and Africana Studies at the Africana Studies & Research Center at Cornell University—will receive the 2017 New York African Studies Association Distinguished Scholar Award at the 42nd Annual NYASA Conference at The University at Buffalo, NY. Professor Boyce Davies has held distinguished professorships at a number of institutions, including the Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of numerous books including Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press, 2008). A globally influential scholar, educator, and activist, Carole Boyce Davies has also published the following critical anthologies: Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); and a two-volume collection of critical and creative writing entitled Moving Beyond Boundaries (New York University Press, 1995): International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing (volume 1), and Black Women’s Diasporas (volume 2). She is co-editor with Ali Mazrui and Isidore Okpewho of The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is general editor of the three-volume, The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008), and of Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiography, Essays, Poetry (Banbury: Ayebia, 2011). Her most recent monograph is Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (Illinois, 2013) and a children’s book, Walking (EducaVision, 2016).

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba: 2017 NYASA Ali A. Mazrui Outstanding Publication/Book and Educational Activities Award

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba—Professor of African and Diaspora Education, Comparative and International Education, Social Institutions, African Social History, and Gender in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University—will receive the 2017 New York African Studies Association Ali A. Mazrui Award at the 42nd Annual Conference at The University at Buffalo. Assié-Lumumba is President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES, 2016-2019), served in 2015-2016 as President of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and is co-founder and Associate Director of the Pan-African Studies and Research Center in International Relations and Education for Development (CEPARRED) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She has also been a visiting professor or is a fellow at universities in Japan, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire. Professor Assié-Lumumba’s monographs, edited, and co-edited books include: Les Africaines dans la politique: Femmes Baoulé de Côte d’Ivoire (L’Harmattan, Paris 1996); African Voices in Education (Juta Publishers, Lansdowne, South Africa 2000); Cyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries: Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy and Knowledge Production (Brill, Leiden and Boston 2004); Higher Education in Africa: Crises, Reforms and Transformation (CODESRIA, Dakar 2006) and African Higher Education in Transition: Recurrent Impediments, Emerging Challenges and New Potentialities (CODESRIA, Dakar, Forthcoming). In addition to a PhD, Assié-Lumumba has earned two Masters and two BA degrees. She is fluent in five languages.

Claude E. Welch , Jr.: 2017 NYASA Distinguished Service Award

Claude E. Welch Jr. is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University at Buffalo. In 1967 he was a founder of the SUNY African Studies Faculty Association, the parent organization of NYASA. He graduated from Harvard in 1961, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 1964. He is the recipient of numerous research grants, numerous honors and awards in scholarship, teaching, and humanitarian service; and he is the author or editor of fourteen books on Africa, and military and political organization, and human rights globally, not including revised editions and paperback editions; and hundreds of chapters, articles, reviews, encyclopedia entries, and other publications. Several of his books received awards and special recognitions. Some of his notable works on Africa are Dream of Unity: Pan-Africanism and Political Unification in West Africa, his dissertation, published by Cornell in 1966; Soldier and State in Africa, Northwestern University Press, 1970; Peasants in Africa, Crossroads Press, 1978; Human Rights and Development in Africa, SUNY Press, 1984; No Farewell to Arms? Military Disengagement from Politics in Africa and Latin America, Westview, 1987; Protecting Human Rights in Africa, U. Penn. Press, 1995; paperback edition 2001. This work was named by Choice as one of the outstanding books of 1995 and was also short-listed by the African Studies Association for its highest book award. He is currently working on a book titled Protecting Human Rights Globally: Roles and Strategies of International NGOs.

Kezia Pearson: 2017 NYASA Distinguished Teacher Award

Kezia Pearson has worked for the Buffalo Board of Education for over 17 years. The first part of her career was spent teach-ing Algebra to junior high students. She now teaches English Language Arts. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English and Master of Arts and Humanities in Film and Performance from the University of New York at Buffalo. Kezia is heavily into the arts. She writes poetry, short stories, and screenplays. She’s taught creative writing at James Madison University for The Institute, shoots photography as well as video for existing and up and coming entertainment artist, and designs clothes. She has written and produced a number of African American History plays, authored a book titled “Covered Mirrors” and more recently has added “Because I Am Me and You are You!” to her published work. Although Kezia is an English teacher, she spends a great deal of time finding ways to infuse African American History into her classroom. She uses her art forms to engage her students in a much-needed revision of history.

Karibu News: NYASA Distinguished Local Organization/Community Service Award

Karibu News is a multilingual and multicultural refugee and immigrant focused newspaper. Among their core objectives is to link and integrate their thriving and ever growing communi-ty with the rest of the community in Western New York. Karibu News aims to make WNY natives aware of the obstacles faced by the refugee and immigrant communities, as well as informing these communities about the services available to them. The award will be presented to CEO and Founder Rubens Mukunzi.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRSNdubueze Mbah, History, University at BuffaloJason Young, History, University at BuffaloKevin Hickey, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Phil Stevens, Program Coordinator, AnthropologyCindi Tysick, Local Arrangements Chair, LibrariesMara Huber, High Schools Liaison, DUEFred Klaits, AnthropologyJeff Good, LinguisticsShaun Irlam, Comparative LiteraturesKeith Griffler, Transnational Studies

NYASA EXECUTIVE BOARDAbdul Nanji, President Columbia UniversityCheryl Sterling, President EmeritusThe City College of New York, City University of New York (CUNY)Kevin Hickey, Vice PresidentAlbany College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesSeth N. Asumah, Vice President for Publications SUNY CortlandJerry Persaud, TreasurerSUNY College at New Paltz

MEMBERS-AT-LARGECheikh Ndiaye, Union CollegeS. N. Nyeck, Independent ScholarDeidre Butler, Union CollegeJean Richard Severin, Union Institute & UniversityLocksley Edmondson, Africana Studies & Research Center Cornell University

NYASA NEWSLETTER CO-EDITORSDr. Roger Gocking, “Emeritus” Mercy CollegeDr. Thomas E. Nyquist, Nyquist Foundation

SECRETARIATCorinne Nyquist, SUNY College at New PaltzJerry Persaud, SUNY College at New Paltz

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall UniversitySeth N. Asumah, Vice President, SUNY College at CortlandJohn Marah, Associate Vice President, SUNY College at BrockportAbdul Nanji, Columbia UniversityJerry Persaud, SUNY College at New PaltzCheryl Sterling, The City College of New York (CUNY)

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVESYayra Awo Sumah, Columbia UniversitySamuel Osei-Afriye, SUNY College at Oneonta

SPONSORSDepartment of History, University at Buffalo

Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo

Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo

Department of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo

Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo

The Gender Institute, University at Buffalo

Office of the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning, University at Buffalo

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo Libraries

Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion, University at Buffalo

The New York African Studies Association