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Session
III
Friday, 8:30 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
(III-A13) Influences of Constructions of
Masculinity on Sexual and Legal Behavior
Chair: Margrethe Silberschmidt, Institute of
Public Health, U of Copenhagen
Margrethe Silberschmidt, Institute of Public
Health, U of Copenhagen, Constructions of Masculinities and their Influence on
Male Sexual Behaviour in the Context of Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Urban East
Afrca
Scott London, Randolph-Macon College,
Performing Masculinity in the Family Courts: Manhood and Hybridity in
Senegalese Family Dispute Narratives
Discussant: Lisa Lindsay, U of North Carolina
(III-B9) Healing through the Visual and
Textual in African Arts
Co-Chair: *Cynthia Becker, U of St. Thomas
Co-Chair: Andrea Frohne, Cornell U
Shannen Hill, U of Denver,
Miniature, Monument, Marking: Saint Biko the Radiant in South African Healing
Fadhili Mshana, Georgia College & State
U, Zaramo Mganga's Mkomolo: A Functional Staff and Status Symbol
Andrea Frohne, Cornell U, Contemporary
Ethiopian Art, Healing Texts, and Transnational Identity
Lalla Essaydi, Converging Territories of
Gender, Space, and Writing: Lalla Essaydi Discusses Her Art
LeGrace Benson, Arts of Haiti Research
Project, Some Healing Strategies in Haitian Art
(III-B14) African Performances:
Film, Theater, and Dance
Chair: Bernth Lindfors, U of Texas at Austin
Bernth Lindfors, U of Texas at Austin,
Ira Aldridge's Africa
Amadou Fofana, Wisconsin-Madison, Style
and Cinematography in Ousmane Sembene's
Esailama Artry-Diouf, U of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, From the Village to the Stage
Christina McMahon, Northwestern U, Performing
the Body in Crisis: "Race," Place, and the Exigencies of Community in Cape
Verdean AIDS Theatre
Tonya Taylor, U of Pennsylvania,
Performing a Good Death: The Aesthetics of Healing and AIDS in Zimbabwe
(III-C2) Roundtable: Problems of State
Reconstruction
Chair:
Pierre Englebert, Pomona College
Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell U
Richard Joseph, Northwestern U
Marina Ottaway
(III-C9) The
Chair: Lyn Graybill, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Lyn Graybill, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Post-TRC Efforts at Reconciliation in
(III-E1) Mau Mau's Hidden Generation:
Youth, Family, and the State in the Kenya Emergency, 1952-1960
Chair: Paul Ocobock, Princeton U
David Anderson, Oxford U, Juveniles on
Trial: The Prosecutions of Mau Mau's Child Soldiers
Daniel Branch, Oxford U, Go Back to Your
Parents: Loyalism, Generational Discipline and Opposition to Mau Mau
Tabitha Kanogo, Gendered Violence:
Assaulting Kikuyu Womanhood and Motherhood During Mau Mau
Paul Ocobock, Princeton U, Battling
Boredom and Bright Lights: Colonial Reaction to and Interaction with African
Youth during the Kenyan Emergency, 1952-1960
Discussant: Robert Tignor, Princeton U
(III-E18) Politics, Disease, and Public
Health: The Case of the Oromo in Ethiopia
Chair: Guluma Gemeda, U of Michigan - Flint
Guluma Gemeda, U of Michigan - Flint, Coping
with Epidemic Diseases Under Political Domination: The Case of the Oromo
Mohammed Hassein Ali, Georgia State U, Menelik's
Conquest and the Impact of the Great Ethiopian Famine of 1880s-1890s on the
Oromo
Getahun Benti, Southern Illinois U, Migration,
Disease, and the State of Public Health Services in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia),
c.1941-1974
Ezekiel Gebissa, Kettering U, Physical
Health vs Socioeconomic Well-Being: The Dilemma of Growing and Consuming Khat
in Hararge, Eastern Ethiopia
Bichaka Fayissa, Middle Tennessee State
U, Internal and External Sources of Vulnerability Against the HIV/AIDS in
Ethiopia: The Case of the Oromo
(III-E19) Biotechnology and Agricultural
Development in Sub-Saharan
Chair: James Bingen, Michigan State U
Matthew Harsh, U of Edinburgh, The
Governance of Biotechnology in Africa: Place, Networks and Re-Imagining African
Environments
James Bingen, Michigan State U,
Genetically-Engineered Cotton: Politics, Ethics and Economics in West Africa
James Smith, U of Edinburgh, and Barbara
Bompani, U of Edinburgh Churches as Nodes of Development: The Case of Tissue
Culture Bananas in Kenya
Discussant: Thomas Bassett, U of Illinios
(III-E40) Displaced African Bodies in
Sports: Issues and Perspectives on Globalization and Social Transformation
Chair: Rose Chepyator-Thomson, U of Georgia
Rose Chepyator-Thomson, U of Georgia
Globalization and Kenyan Runners: Issues of Participation and Impact of
Economic Capital on Their Home Communities
Michael Lomax, Globalization and Africans
Participation in Professional Sports in the United States
David Bogopa, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
U, The Rhetoric of Sport Transformation in South Africa: The Case of
Major Sporting Codes
(III-G1) Roundtable: Africa's Dual Brain
Drain: Migration & HIV/AIDS
Chair:
(III-I5) Religion and Healing in East and
Southern Africa
Chair: Iris Berger, SUNY-Albany
Sheryl McCurdy, U of Texas-Houston,
Demanding Deities: Violence, Power, and Reproduction in the Spirit Guild
Associations of Post-Colonial Ujiji, Tanzania
Carol Muller, U of Pennsylvania, The
Power to Fly: Women Healed in South Africa's Ibandla lamaNazaretha, 1910-1995
*Tracy Luedke, Northeastern Illinois U,
Prophets and Preachers: Christianized Healing in Central Mozambique
James Pfeiffer, U of Washington,
Pentecostalism, Independent Churches, and the AIDS Treatment Scale-up in
Mozambique
Discussant: Sandra Greene, Cornell U
(III-J4) A la Memoire de Jean Rouch:
Spirits of the Visual African Landscape
Chair: Adeline Masquelier, Tulane U
Abdoulaye Sounaye, Arizona State U,
Epistemology of Religious Studies: Rethinking Categories in Accounts of Bori
and Holey Traditions
Jesse Shipley, Bard College, Rethinking
Documentary/Fiction Films in Africa: The Critical Legacy of Jean Rouch
Adeline Masquelier, Tulane U, À la
Mémoire de Jean Rouch: Spirits of the Visual African Landscape
Alioune Sow, U of Florida, Visions of
France
Boube Namaiwa, Mallam Alhaji: A Muslim
Spirit in the Azna Pantheon
Discussant: Paul Stoller, West Chester U
(III-K2) Language, Music, and Disease
Chair: José Saavedra, El Colegio de México
José Saavedra, El Colegio de México,
Being Conscious While Listening to the Music Aid's Topics in Tanzanian Pop
Music
Janice Spleth, West Virginia U, Sex and
the City: How AIDS Is Changing the Urban Landscape in Literature and Film
Gabriel Ruhumbika, U of Georgia, Janga
Sugu la Wazawa on Witchcraft and Life, Suffering and Death
(III-L4) Africa and the War on Terror,
Part I
Chair: *Andrew State, U of Minnesota
Rehema Kilonzo, U of Minnesota, The
Effects of the War on Terror on Tourist Industry in Tanzania
*Wanjiru Kamau, U of Minnesota, Exporting
the US Patriot Act: Kenya and the War on Terrorism
Reuben Chirambo, U of Minnesota, The War
on Terror in African Popular Culture
Discussant: Ronald Aminzade, U of Minnesota
(III-L11) Roundtable: Governance and
African Human Security: Public and Private Provision of Social Public Goods
[Sponsored by the African Politics Conference Group]
Chair: Raymond Hopkins, Swarthmore College
Regina Birner, International Food Policy Research
Institute
(III-L12) Conflict and Peacekeeping in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Chair:
(III-M5) The Politics of Land:
Flexibility and Change within African Systems of Land Tenure, Part I
Chair: Sarah Mathis, Emory U
Ben Cousins, U of the Western Cape,
Embeddedness vs Titling: African Land Tenure Systems and Policy Failure
Sarah Mathis, Emory U, Land Tenure and
Political Authority: Reevaluating Land in the Context of Economic Insecurity in
Umbumbulu, South Africa
Birgit Englert, U of Vienna, Austria,
Land Tenure Security in a Changing Environment: a Case Study of the Uluguru
Mountains, Tanzania
Kristin Mann, Emory U, The Emergence of
Private Property Rights in Land in Early Colonial Lagos
Bill Derman, Michigan State U,
Zimbabweans Had, Through the Agrarian Reform Programme, Found Joy Because their
Greatest Heritage Land had been Returned to Them: Right to Land and Land Rights
in Southern Africa
Discussant: Pauline Peters, Harvard U
(III-N3) Public and Private, Central and
Local in Education and Development
Chair: James Wunsch, Creighton U
James Wunsch, Creighton U, Local
Government Revenue, Local Services and Decentralization in Africa
Wilfred Owen, Jr, Public-Private
Partnership: Performance Improvement for Rural Education and Governance
Joel Samoff, Stanford U, Going to Scale
by Scaling to Go: Nurturing the Local Roots of Education Innovation in Africa
Fortunatus Bijura, U of Illinois-UC,
Leadership in an Emerging Private U in Africa: The Case of the Catholic U of
Eastern Africa
(III-O1) Roundtable: U Collaboration to
Promote Participatory Environmental Management for Development [Sponsored by
the Institute of Environmental Studies, Cheikh Anta Diop U and
Chair:
(III-P1) Roundtable: Documenting the
Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa: The Production of Knowledge, the
Politics of Archives, and the Aluka Project [Sponsored by the ASA Board of
Directors]
Chair: Allen Isaacman, U of Minnesota
Allen Isaacman, U of Minnesota
Thomas Nygren, Ithaka
Gail Gerhart, Columbia U
Bavusile Maaba, Steve Biko Foundation
(III-P5) Foreign Imports, Local Meanings:
Consumption in the Context of Imperialism
Chair: Dmitri Van den Bersselaar, U of
Liverpool
Dmitri Van den Bersselaar, U of
Liverpool, Keeps You Fit and Healthy: The Marketing and Consumption of
Imported Schnapps Gin in Twentieth-Century West Africa
Jeremy Prestholdt, Northeastern U,
Modernity's Mirror: On Consumerism in Cosmopolitan Zanzibar
Bianca Murillo, U of California - Santa
Barbara, Consuming Modernity: Gender and the Marketplace in Mid-Twentieth
Century Ghana
Discussant: Charles Ambler, U of Texas-El Paso
(III-P6) Science and Society in Africa:
Constructing Knowledge and Changing Lives, Part I
Chair: *Monica van Beusekom, Trinity College
Abena Osseo-Asare, Harvard U, Curing
Konoruku: The Interplay of Mangos, Malaria and the Mosquito in Colonial Gold
Coast, 1860-1940
Jan-Bart Gewald, Afrika Studie Centrum, People
and the Products of Industrial Technology: Towards a Social History of the
Motor Car in Colonial Zambia, 1890 - 1945
Tamara Giles-Vernick, U of Minnesota,
Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Environmental change: Debates Over the Effects of
Irrigation in French Soudan, 1935-1950
*Nancy Jacobs, Brown U, Two Subalterns
and their Ornithologists: Field Science Collaborations in East and Central
Africa, 1930-1970s
(III-P22) African Economies: A Historical
Approach to Resources, Strategies, and the Environment
Chair: Gareth Austin, LSE
Gareth Austin, LSE, Resources and
Strategies South of the Sahara: Long-term Dynamics of African Economic
Development, 1500-2000
Libbie Freed, U of Wisconsin-Madison, The
Rhetoric and Reality of Economic Roads in Colonial French Equatorial Africa and
Cameroon
Nicholas Makana, West Virginia U, The
Struggle for a Healthy Colonial Economy: Policy Shifts and the Strategy for the
Invigoration of African Agriculture in Colonial Western Kenya, 1930-1939
Nadia Rabesahala Horning, Middlebury
College, Why Do Politicians Care About Nature? The Political Economy of
Biodiversity Conservation in
(III-YSP7) States, NGOs, and Health
Provision: HIV/AIDS and Malaria in
Chair: *
Kim George, UCLA, Variation in State
Response to HIV/AIDS: Does it matter?
Kenly Fenio, U of Florida, Formal
Institutions and Informal Economies: African States, US Policy and HIV/AIDS
Christopher Nshimbi, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
U, Governance Structures and the Dynamics of African Regionalization:
Lessons from Health Provision
Catherine Long, Boston U, The Sovereignty
of Disease and Intervention Disorder: The Political Power of USAID HIV/AIDS
Intervention over the Tanzanian State
Session
IV
Friday, 10:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.
(IV-A3) African Women's Verbal and Visual
Artistry as Epistemology
Chair: Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman
College- CUNY
Aissata Sidikou, Princeton U, New Perspectives
on Women's Songs from Africa
Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman
College- CUNY, Basaa Women's Verbal Art: Theorizing Identity,
Gender and Power Relations
Paulette Young, Columbia U, Dress and
Style as Women's Visual Voice in Ghana
Barbara Frank, Stony Brook U, Taboos and
Technologies: Reconstructing Women's Histories in the Kadiolo Region of Mali
Nkiru Nzegwu, Binghamton U, Breaking
Taboos: Art and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Nigeria
(IV-A7) Re-Engaging Sierra Leonean
Womanhood: Historical, Sociological, and Literary Perspectives [Sponsored by
the Women's Caucus]
Chair: Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida Atlantic
U
Tuzyline Allan, Baruch College, A
Literary Maternity: Adelaide and Gladys Casely Hayford
Lynda Day, Brooklyn College, Women Chiefs
in Sierra Leone: An Indigenous Institution in the Post Civil War Era
Joyce Dixon-Fyle, DePauw U, Assessing the
Current State of Literature on Women in Sierra Leone: A Bioliographical Survey
Margaret Kroma, Cornell U, From Survival
to Transformation Strategies: Women, Urban/Peri-Urban Agriculture and
Livelihood Security in Greater Freetown, Sierra Leone
Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida Atlantic
U, Science and Technology To Me is the Bedrock for any Nation's
Development: Perspectives and Contributions of Sierra Leonean Women Scientists
(IV-B7) Envisioning the Body/Politic
Chair: *Karen Milbourne, The Baltimore Museum
of Art
Earnestine Jenkins, U of Memphis,
Picturing Menelik II: 'King of Kings' of Ethiopia During the Era of
Colonization
Rebecca Nagy, North Carolina Central U,
and Achamyeleh Debela, North Carolina Central U Imperial Patronage and the
Birth of Ethiopian Modern Art
Mary Arnoldi, Smithsonian, Fashioning a
National Identity: Youth Arts Festivals in Mali, 1962-1968
Joanna Grabski, Denison U, Narrating the
Nation: Art and Nationalism at the Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres and
Dak'art Biennale
Kinsey Katchka, The Detroit Institute of
Arts, Decentralizing Nationalism: Senegalese Arts & Cultural Policy,
1980-2000
(IV-C1) The Ethiopian Revolution Thirty
Years Later: Transformation of a Body/Politic
Chair: Pietro Toggia, Kutztown U of
Pennsylvania
Teshale Tibebu, Temple U, Marxism and the
Ethiopian Revolution
Pietro Toggia, Kutztown U of
Pennsylvania, Political Justice and the Malaise Body Politic in
Revolutionary Ethiopia
Abebe Zegeye, Good Intentions Gone Sour
Mehretab Assefa, St. Lawrence U, From the
Ethiopian Revolution to the Revolution in Ethiopia
Discussant: Gebru Tareke, Hobart & William
Smith College
(IV-C12) Local, National, and
International Peace-Building and Global Security Efforts
Chair: Hussein Adam, College of the Holy Cross
Hussein Adam, College of the Holy Cross,
Somalia: International versus Local Attempts at Peacebuilding
Bonnie Holcomb, GWU, Indigenous Wisdom as
a Remedy for Affliction in the Body /Politic: the Oromo Case Considered
Daniel Volman, Hampshire College, and Michael
Klare, Hampshire College, Bases, Oil, and the Global War on Terrorism: The
Impact of US National Security Policy on Africa
Stephan Klingebiel, Africa's New Peace
and Security Architecture and the Role of External Actors
(IV-E9) Roundtable:
Chair:
*
(IV-E14) What Ghanaians Mean When They
Vote: National Campaigns, Local Dynamics, and the 2004 Polls
Chair: Paul Nugent, U of Edinburgh
Paul Nugent, U of Edinburgh, Reading the
2004 Election Results: National Swings and the Dynamic in Volta Region
Johanna Svanikier, U of Oxford, Voting
Patterns in Ghana's 2004 Elections: The Legacy of Ghana's Two Dominant
Political Traditions
Lindsay Whitfield, U of Oxford, Why
People Vote the Way They Do: a Case Study from Rural Northern Ghana
(IV-E28) AIDS: Policies and Politics
Chair: Paul Bjerk, U of Wisconsin
Paul Bjerk, U of Wisconsin, Beyond the
Technical Solution: The AIDS Epidemic in Historical Perspective
Christian von Soest, Institute of African
Affairs, Hamburg, Germany, A Class of its Own - The Government as the
Driver of South Africa's HIV/AIDS Policy
Krista Johnson, DePaul U, AIDS Civil
Society in South Africa: A New Policy Community
(IV-E31) Cinema, Television, and Radio:
Cultural Imperialism/Cultural Relations
Chair: James Genova, Ohio State U
James Genova, Ohio State U, Cinema and
the Struggle to (De)Colonize the Mind in French/Francophone West Africa
(1950s-1960s)
Chioma Ugochukwu, U of South Carolina,
Rethinking Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Resistance and Resilience Amid Imported
TV Programming in Nigeria
Maria Roof, Howard U, Africa and Latin
America: Connections through Cinema
Craig Tower, Northwestern U, Un Système
Atypique: FM Radio and the Sociotechnical System of Communication in Koutiala,
Mali
(IV-G4) Dangerous Outsiders: Women,
Minorities, and Youth, and the Health of the Botswana Body/Politic
Chair: Judith Van Allen, Cornell U
Jack Parson, College of Charleston,
Inclusion/Exclusion and the Health of Liberal Democracy in Botswana
Agnes Leslie, U of Florida, Measuring the
Pulse of Botswana's Democracy through Women's Activism: Women's Innovation and
State Accommodation
Lydia Nyati Ramahobo, U of Botswana,
Language and Minority Rights and HIV/AIDS Education in Botswana
Deborah Durham, Sweet Briar College,
Youth and Citizenship in Botswana
Discussant: Jacqueline Solway, Champlain
College/Trent U
(IV-I10) Science Studies Meets Witchcraft
Media and Post-Colonial Medical Debris in Neoliberal Africa
Chair:
Abdoulaye Kane, U of Florida, Community
Health in the Hands of Village Diasporas: The case of the Senegal River Valley
Stacey Langwick, U of Florida, Nursing
Multiple Natures: Pluralism in a Tanzanian Hospital
John McCall, Southern Illinois U,
Witchcraft in Theory, on Video, and in Real Life
Discussant: *Nancy Hunt, U of Michigan
(IV-J1) Missionary Work, Gender, and
Authority in Southern Africa
Chair: Sean Redding, Amherst College
*Deborah Gaitskell, SOAS, U of London,
Tweaking the Missionary Division of Labour: Edward and Winifred Grant in
Segregationist South Africa, 1913-1955
Sean Redding, Amherst College, Mission Education,
Young Men's Social Roles, and Violence in Transkei, South Africa, 1955-61
Catherine Higgs, U of Tennessee,
Catholics and Anti-Apartheid Activisim in South Africa
Discussant: Kathleen Sheldon, UCLA
(IV-K7) Theorizing the Body/Politic in
the Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora [Sponsored by the African
Literature Association]
Chair: Joyce Scott, Wheelock College
Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State U, The Body
Double: Textuality and Sexuality in Heart of Darkness and The Souls of Black
Folk
Debra Boyd, Salem College, Metisses and
Mutants: Revisiting the Politics of Culture and Color in Mweze Ngangura's Pieces
D'identite
Anne Carlson, Utah State U, National
History, Personal Stories: Corporeal Effects of War on the Female Body in Maïssa
Bey's Nouvelles d'Algérie
Josef Gugler, U of Connecticut, The Films
of Flora Gomes: Remember Cabral!
Apollo Amoko, U of
(IV-L5) Africa and the War on Terror, Part
II
Chair: *Wanjiru Kamau, U of Minnesota
Joy Chadya, U of Minnesota, Terrorism in
Historical Context: The Zimbabwean Case, 1960s to 1980
Colman Msoka, U Of Minnesota, From the
Global Village to Nation-States: The Implications of the New War on Terror on
Africa and Africans in the Diaspora
Discussant: Julie Weiskopf, U of Minnesota
(IV-L14) Elections, Party Formation, and
the Transition to Democracy
Chair: Nelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College
Nelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College, and Steven
Twebaze, Movement Secretariat, Uganda, The Limits of Institutionalization of a
Legislature without Parties: The Ugandan Parliament
Scott Taylor, Georgetown U, Twilight for
African Movements? Emerging Patterns of Representation and Vertical
Accountability
Dane Smith, American U, Alternance in
(IV-M11) Roundtable: ARVs and African
Economies: Externalities from Treatment for HIV/AIDS
Chair: Sarah Richards, Boston U
Susan Foster, Boston U School of Public Health
Rich Feeley, Boston U School of Public Health
Arden O'Donnell, Boston U School of Public
Health
Jonathon Simon, Boston U School of Public
Health
Sarah Richards, Boston U
(IV-M6) The Politics of Land: Flexibility
and Change within African Systems of Land Tenure, Part II
Chair: Benjamin Gardner, UC - Berkeley
Data Dea, Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, The Power of land: Shifts in Land Tenure and Social
Conflict in Southern Ethiopia
William Moseley, Macalester College,
Subaltern Agroecological Knowledge and Environmental Justice in the New South
Africa: Farm Worker Insights and Land Reform in the Western Cape Province
Melis Ece, CUNY - The Graduate Center,
Politics of Access to Land at the Northern Periphery of Niokolo-Koba National
Park, Senegal
Benjamin Gardner, UC - Berkeley,
Producing Pastoral Places: Territoriality and the Redefinition of Rights and
Belonging in Maasai-land
Discussant: Derick Fay, UC - Berkeley
(IV-N1) Roundtable: Effective Study
Abroad Programs in
Chair:
(IV-N9) Socially-Embedded Models for
Education
Chair: Abdou Ndoye, U of Connecticut
Abdou Ndoye, U of Connecticut, Social
Capital and Sustainable Non-Formal Educational Activities
Ubong Nda, U of Uyo, School HIV/AIDS
Participatory Drama: Proffering a Performance-Based Model for HIV/AIDS
Education for Post-Primary School Students in Nigeria
Tia-Nicole Leak, U of California - Santa
Cruz, Youth, Sex and Nationalism: Lifeskills and the Creation of South
Africa's Future
Jed Stevenson, Emory U, Expectations of
Education in Southern Ethiopia: Perspectives from Two Pastoralist Societies
Richard Ashford, Whitman College,
Comparing School Level Concerns about Education in Tanzania
(IV-O4) Biological Knowledge and Property
Chair: Carol Thompson, Northern Arizona U
Carol Thompson, Northern Arizona U,
Biopiracy of Biodiversity - Resistance from Southern Africa
Noah Zerbe, Humboldt State U, Contested Privatization:
Intellectual Property, Farmers' Rights and Biodiversity in the African Model
Law
Michael Sheridan, U of Vermont, The
Boundary Plant: Dracaena spp and Internal African Frontiers
Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton U, The Sexual
Reproduction Paradigm and Deforestation Narratives
(IV-P2) Playing with History: Sport and
the Politics of Representation
Chair: *Michael Ralph, U of Chicago
John Nauright, Georgia Southern U, Black
and White African Sporting Bodies in the Postcolonial World
Susann Baller, Humboldt-U (Berlin), The
Lions of Teranga at the 2002 World Cup and the Re-membering of History
Martha Saavedra, UC - Berkeley,
Reflections on Sport and Development in Africa
Kathryn Manzo, U of Newcastle UK, Soccer
Slavery? African Soccer Migration as Child Trafficking
(IV-P7) Science and Society in Africa:
Constructing Knowledge and Changing Lives, Part II
Chair: *Nancy Jacobs, Brown U
Deborah Neill, U of Toronto, Sleeping
Sickness in Africa: Colonialism, Medical Ethics and the Search for a Cure,
1900-1914
Leander Schneider, Concordia U, Into the
Future: Science (Fiction) and Socialism in Post-Independence Tanzania
Andrew Zimmerman, GWU, Social Science and
Peasantization in German Togo: Class Struggle, Ideology, and the Cash Crop
Revolution in West Africa
*Monica van Beusekom, Trinity College,
Colonial Agronomy in French Soudan: Pure vs Applied Science
(IV-P8) Slavery, Statelessness, and Power
Chair: Stephanie Beswick, Ball State U
Stephanie Beswick, Kean U, and Jay
Spaulding, Kean U Slave Traders, Resistance and the Advantages of Statelessness
in Southern Sudan
Jay Spaulding, Kean U, and Stephanie
Beswick, Ball State U, Slave Traders, Resistance and the Advantages of
Statelessness in Southern Sudan
Robert Baum, Iowa State U, Strangers
Among Us: The Hidden Memories of Slavery among the Diola of Southern Senegal
*Elizabeth McDougall, U of Alberta,
Seeking the Role of the State: Slavery in 19th and Early 20th Century
Mauritania
Discussant: Joseph Miller, U of Virginia
(IV-P10) Expanding the View: New
Perspectives on the Role of Mijikenda and other Non-Swahili Peoples on Kenyan
Coastal History (A Panel in Commemoration of Katama Mkangi)
Chair: Rebecca Gearhart, Illinois Wesleyan U
N. Hakansson, U of Kentucky, Prosperity
and Poverty on the East African Coast, ca. 900-1900
Celia Nyamweru, St. Lawrence U,
Questioning the Dominant Narrative: Traditions, Conservation and Development of
the Kaya Forests of Coastal Kenya
Monica Udvardy, U of Kentucky, The
Mijikenda Female Fertility Cult of Kifudu/Chifudu in the Kenyan Coastal
Hinterland and the Swahili Towns
Linda Giles, Complexities of Identity in
the Swahili Coastal Area
Rebecca Gearhart, Illinois Wesleyan U,
Non-Swahili Laborers in Lamu, Kenya: Coastal History from the Kitchen Floor
Jesse Benjamin, St. Cloud State U, Katama
Mkangi's Epistemological and Political Legacy for Researchers of East Africa's
Coastal History: Implications of Subaltern Speech
Discussant: Diane Ciekawy, Ohio U
(IV-YSP8) Literature, the Arts, and
Performance
Chair: *Tejumola Olaniyan, U of Wisconsin -
Madison
Rachel Harvey, U of Florida, Negotiating
Authenticty and Survival: Tourist Art Initiatives in the Townships of Cape
Town, South Africa
Hilary Kowino, Michigan State U, Female/
Male Bodies and the Politics of Space in African Literature
Andrea Arrington, Emory U, Performing
Europe: An African Response to Colonialism
Session
V
Friday, 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
(V-A8) The Dilemma of Insiders Conducting
Research Among West African Women
Chair: Adolphine Aggor-Boateng, Carleton U
Lantana Usman, Northern British U,
Ethical Dilemmas and Voice Representation in Qualitative Feminist Research
Reports in American Universities: Elucidating a Case Study with Nomadic Rural
Women of Northern Nigeria
Adolphine Aggor-Boateng, Carleton U, The
Ethics and Politics of Knowledge Construction and Women's Agenda of Enhancing
Gender Equality
Juli Shinaba, Transnational Feminist
Research and Identity Crisis
(V-A11) Health, Gender, and the Politics
of Embodiment: Literary and Social Representations
Chair: Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami of Ohio U
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami of Ohio U,
Gender and Embodiment in African Women's Autobiography
Fehintola Mosadomi, U of Texas - Austin,
Arranged Marriages in West Africa: Social, Ethical, and Psychological
Dimensions of Health
Jennifer Fish, Warren Wilson College,
Power, Privilege and Body Politics: Mapping Gendered Spaces in South Africa's
Democracy
(V-B6) Yoruba Sacred Textiles in 20th
Century Nigeria [Sponsored by the Arts Council of the ASA]
Chair: Elisha Renne, U of Michigan
Aderonke Adesanya, U of Ibadan, A
Semiotics of Clothing Insignia of Indigenous Cult Groups Among the
Ijebu-Yoruba, Nigeria
Babatunde Agbaje-Williams, U of Ibadan,
Sacred Trees and Cloth in Yorubaland: Their Cultural and Historical
Significance
Will Rea, U of Leeds, Masquerade,
Technologies of Reproduction and the Metaphorical Use of Cloth in Ikole Ekiti
Discussant: Rowland Abiodun, Amherst College
(V-B12) The African Body: Health and
Beauty
Chair: Susan Rasmussen, U of Houston
Susan Rasmussen, U of Houston, The Body
in Gendered Aesthetic and Medical Discourse and Practice among the Tuareg
Liam Buckley, James Madison U, Regulating
Women's Beauty: Skin Bleaching and State Legislation in The Gambia
Mahiri Mwita, Princeton U, Re-thinking
the Global Assault on African Sense of Health and Beauty
Kelly Lewis, Emory U, Bleaching to Be
Beautiful
(V-C6) Prisons and Prisoners:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Chair: Marshall Clough, U of Northern Colorado
Marshall Clough, U of Northern Colorado,
Political Imprisonment and the National Struggle: Kenya and South Africa,
1952-2002
Fran Buntman, GWU, South African Prisons
Beyond Apartheid
Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Howard U,
Robben Island: Sick Prisons Healthy Songs Senzeni Na? Songs Represent the
Health, Knowledge and the Body-Politic of the Freedom Fighters in the African
Liberation Struggle in South Africa, 1960-1994
Discussant:
(V-C17) The Effects of Regime Types,
Electoral Quality, and Freedom of Speech on State Capacity in Africa
Chair: Marshall Thompson, Washington U in St.
Louis
Marshall Thompson, Washington U in St.
Louis, Regime Type and State Capacity
Ali Mohamed, Edinboro U of Pennsylvania,
Political Rights vs the Imperative of Development: How Freedom of the Press
Affects Economic Productivity in Africa
Devra Moehler, Cornell U, Free and Fair
or Fraudulent and Forged: Citizen Perceptions of Electoral Quality in Africa
(V-E2) Sociological Themes in
Chair:
Mary Osirim, Bryn Mawr College, When
World Systems Theory Meets Feminism: Globalization and Quality of Life
Among Zimbabawean Women Entrepreneurs
Tekle Woldemikael, U of Redlands, Africa
Encounters Social Theory
Rae Blumberg, U of Virginia, The Impact
of Economic vs Kinship Power on Gender Equality: A Theory-Guided Analysis of
Cases in Malawi, Guinea-Bissau and Laos
Lorna Lueker-Zukas, National U, Symbolic
Value and Intrinsic Meaning in Zimbabwean National Landscapes
(V-E15) The African Diaspora in France:
Exploring the Notions of Identity, Culture, and Nation
Chair: Charles Tshimanga-Kashama, U of
Nevada-Reno
Trica Keaton, Indiana U, Arrogant
Assimilationism: National Identity Politics and the Case of African origin,
Muslim Girls in the French Outer-cities
Alain Mabanckou, SAPE in Literature: Reading
Bleu-Blanc-Rouge and L'Impasse
Peter Bloom, U of California - Santa
Barbara, New Approaches to 'Beur Cinema' Cinema between France and the
Maghreb
Charles Tshimanga-Kashama, U of
Nevada-Reno, African Popular Music, Hybridity, and Franco-African
Identity Formation
Discussant: Frieda Ekotto, U of Michigan
(V-E29) Wellness: Narratives of
Representation
Chair: Lesa Morrison, Duke U
Lesa Morrison, Duke U, Political and
Communal Postures: The AIDS Epidemic and the Luo Standard Narrative
Fortunata Songora, U of Minnesota,
Tanzanian Reaction to Conflicting International Discources on the Social
Welfare of Children and the Elderly
Bridget Teboh, U of Wisconsin - La
Crosse, Herstory: Biography of a Health Care Practitioner and Woman
Politician
Herman Wasserman, U of Stellenbosch,
Media Power, Post-Apartheid Politics and Cultural Values: the Ethics of
Reporting on HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Kimberly Segall, Seattle Pacific U, The
Politics of Healing: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Community
Drama Practices
(V-E38) Colonial and Post-Colonial States
and Identities
Chair: Stephen Lubkemann, GWU
Stephen Lubkemann, GWU, Seeming Like a
State: Colonial Counting and the Performance of Governmentality in Peripheral
Mozambique (1897-1974)
John Clark, Florida Intl U, The Making of
a Diseased Polity: Congo-Brazzaville under Sassou II
*Andrew State, U of Minnesota, Living in
the Shaodows of Colonialism and Colonial Resistance: Examining Livelihood
Patterns in Kibaale District, Uganda
Thomas Hale, Penn State U, Is
Francophonie a Neo-Colonial Phenomenon for Africa?
(V-E43) Healthy Environments: Histories
and Challenges
Chair: Shadrack Nasongo, U of Tennessee
Shadrack Nasongo, U of Tennessee, Power,
Privilege, and the Politics of Healthcare Provision in Kenya: Implications of
the Ngilu Proposal
Joelle Chabwine, Catholic U of Bukavu,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Scraping of the Throat and Section of the
Uvula as Treatment of Throat Inflammation: Traditional vs Modern Medicine
Rebecca Hanlin, ESRC INNOGEN Centre, U of
Edinburgh, Towards More Integrated and Collaborative Health Programming
through Public-Private Partnerships? The Case of IAVI in
(V-F3) Roundtable: Towards a History of
Sexuality in Africa: Intimacy, Respectability, and Desire
Chair: *Paul Landau, U of Maryland
Elias Bongmba, Rice U
Marc Epprecht, Queen's U
Julie Livingston, Rutgers U
Elaine Salo, U of Cape Town
(V-G3) Models, Strategies, and
Perspectives in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Chair: Joshua Rubongoya, Roanoke College
Joshua Rubongoya, Roanoke College, The
Role of Decentralization in Fighting HIV/AIDS in Uganda
Sam Bullington, U of Minnesota, Opposing
the New Apartheid: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign and the Struggle
for AIDS Treatment Access
Amy West, Sibusiso, and Sheila Davis,
Sibusiso, Counting Pills Instead of Pawns: The Stalemate of Health and Politics
in South Africa’s Chess Match
Virginia DeLancey, Northwestern U,
HIV/AIDS in Cameroon: Prevention Policies for Women and Children
Annie Chikwanha-Dzenga, Institute for Democracy
in South Africa, Health and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings
from the Afrobarometer Surveys
(V-I6) Diseases, Indigenous Systems of
Medicine, and Healthcare Among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria [Sponsored by
the Igbo Studies Association]
Chair: *Gloria Chuku, Millersville U
*Gloria Chuku, Millersville U, Igbo Women
and the Indigenous systems of Medicine and Healthcare
Don Ohadike, Cornell U, From the Pandemic
of Influenza to HIV/AIDS: The Final Integration of Igboland into a Worldwide
Disease Area
John Oriji, California Polytechnic State
U, Itinerant Priests, Medicinemen & Diviners of Igboland:The Nri and
Ngboko Examples
Discussant: Godfrey Uzoigwe, Mississippi State
U
(V-K1) Disease/Trauma and Literature
Chair: Jennifer Westmoreland, UCLA
Jennifer Westmoreland, UCLA, Moments of
Dis-ease: Trauma, Sexuality, and the Maternal in Rosie Carpe by Marie Ndiaye
and Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Laura Murphy, Harvard U, Purging the
Body, Purging History: The Memory of the Slave Trade in Armah's Fragments
Paul Dambowic, Pratt Institute, Mental
Changes of Individuals on the Spot: Postcolonial Women's Trauma in the Work of
Bessie Head, J.M. Coetzee, and Tsitsi Dangarembga
Jennifer Wenzel, U of Michigan,
Aristotle, Freud, and the Sangoma: Pathology and Healing in Brett
Bailey's
Kasongo Kapanga, U of Richmond, The
Madness Metaphor in Ken Bugul's
(V-L7) African Advocacy Organizations and
Contemporary Challenges [Sponsored by the Local Arrangements Committee]
Chair: Sylvia Hill, U of DC
Salih Booker, Activism, Advocacy and USA
HIV/AIDS Policies
Imani Countess, The Challenges of
Creating Grassroots Networks
Bill Fletcher, Constituency Building in
African American Communities and Contemporary Challenges
(V-L8): Reconstituting the State: Lessons
from Democratization and Conflict Management, Part I
Chair: *
*
(V-M1) Rubber, Diamonds, and Oil: The
Social Implications of Resource Exploitation in Angola [Sponsored by the
Lusophone African Studies Organization]
Chair: Steven Kyle, Cornell U
Jelmer Vos, SOAS, The Transition from
Slave to Produce Trade in Kongo, ca. 1875-1900
Todd Cleveland, U of Minnesota, Rock
Solid: African Laborers on the Diamond Mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de
Angola (Diamang), 1917-1937
Jorge Varanda Ferreira, U College of
London, The Dual Construction of Knowledge and Laborers: Colonial
Medicine on the Diamond Mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang),
1917-1975
Steven Kyle, Cornell U, Angolan Economic
Stability, Oil Income, and the Challenges of Reconstruction
Kristin Reed, UC - Berkeley, Embodied
Environments: Narratives on Oil Pollution in Northern Angola
(V-N10) Education for Community and
National Development: Relevant, Reliable, and Research Based
Chair: Stephen Howard, Ohio U
Abdinur Mohamud, Ohio Department of
Education, Education with a Mission: Evangelism, Economic Development and
Foreign Aid; The Case of the Mennonites of Somalia
Abukar Arman, International Academy of
Columbus, Charter Schools for African Diaspora: Alternative Education or
Isolationism?
(V-O6) Political and Territorial
Dimensions of Environmental Management Across Africa
Chair: Stephan Miescher, U of California -
Santa Barbara
Stephan Miescher, U of California - Santa
Barbara, Imagining the Afram Plains: Conservation, Development, and Land
Claims in Twentieth-Century Ghana
Peter Rogers, Bates College, Peace Parks,
National Security, and Regional Politics in Southern Africa: The International
Relations of Transboundary Conservation
Mussie Tesfagiorgis G/Meskel, U of
Hamburg, Correlating Military/Political Conflicts and Ecological Problems
in Northeast Africa: A Case Study of Eritrea, 1961-2005
Discussant: Clapperton Mavhunga, U of Michigan
(V-P19) Inventing Orthodoxy: Africans
Shaping Mission Christianity During the Colonial Era
Chair: *Deborah Gaitskell, SOAS, U of London
Robert Houle, Fairliegh Dickinson U,
Mbiya Kuzwayo Christianity: Revival, Evangelism, and Shaping Personal Faith
Stephen Volz, Kenyon College, Written on
Our Hearts: Early Tswana Evangelists and the Translation of Christianity into
Tswana Terms
Anne-Marie Stoner-Eby, Messiah College, I
Called Him to Stop Him from Doing Anything Uncivilized Which was Forbidden in
Unyago: African Anglican Clergy Christianize Initiation in Southeastern
Tanzania, 1897-1926
Wendy Urban-Mead, Bard College, Forging
Christian Courtship and Marriage: How African Christians Re-cast the Ways of
the People' (Imikhuba Wesintu) in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1915 - 1945
Discussant: Isabel Mukonyora, U of Western
Kentucky
(V-P24) Alternative Approaches to African
Historiography: Between Representations, Epistemology, and the Human Genome
Chair: Cecil Blake, U of Pittsburgh
Cecil Blake, U of Pittsburgh,
Epistemological Histories and the Unhealthy Crisis in Africana Studies as a
Discipline
Pekka Masonen, U of Tampere, Towards a
Balancing History of Africanism: the Other Voices from Europe
Wendy Belcher, UCLA, Recasting European
Representations as African Possessions: The Circulation of Abyssinian
Discourses in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Europe
Matthew Hopper, UCLA, DNA, Ethnicity, and
Diaspora: Implications of the New Genomics for Histories of Africa and the
African Diaspora
(V-P26) A State of Mind and Body:
Negotiating the Heritage of the Slave Trade and Slavery in West Africa
Chair: Elizabeth MacGonagle, U of Kansas
Elizabeth MacGonagle, U of Kansas, From
Dungeons to Dance Parties: Contested Histories of Ghana's Slave Forts
Bonny Ibhawoh, Brock U, Slave
Stigmatization and Agitation for Social Inclusion in West Africa: Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives
Jennifer Lofkrantz, York U, Ransoming in
West and North-West Africa in the Nineteenth Century
Naana Opoku-Agyemang, U of Cape
Coast, In the Folds of Legends: Oral Accounts of the Slave
Experience in Selected Sites in Present-Day Ghana
(V-YSP9) The Dynamics of Postwar and
Peace-Keeping
Chair: *William Reno, Northwestern U
Patrick Johnston, Northwestern U,
International Norms, Commerce, and the Political Economy of Insecurity in
Sierra Leone
Jean-Herve Jezequel, U of Michigan, Blood
Dries Up Fast: Postwar Dynamics in Forest Guinea and Northern Liberia
Erin Kimball, Northwestern U, African
Cooperation and Peacekeeping in the Sudan
Severine Autesserre, NYU, Local Violence,
National Peace? Post-War Settlement in the
Session
VI
Friday, 3:15 P.M. - 5:15 P.M.
(VI-A4) Gender and Globalization in the
Horn of Africa
Chair: Karin Willemse, Erasmus U Rotterdam
Lidwien Kapteijns, Wellesley College,
Common Public Identity and Conceptions of Moral Womanhood in Recent Somali History
(1960-2000)
Sondra Hale, UCLA, Transnational
Ideologies and Eritrean Women Combatants
Anke van der Kwaak, Royal Tropical Institute
(KIT), Suffering, Memory and Globalisation
Karin Willemse, Erasmus U Rotterdam, To
Marry, or Not to Marry: That is the Question: Globalization, Marriage and the
Quest for a Modern Muslim Identity
(VI-A12) Gender and Equity, Health, and
Political Power: National and Continental Manifestations
Chair:
(VI-B8) Roundtable: The Need for a Text
for the Modern and Contemporary
Chair:
*
Julie McGee
(VI-C3) The New Social Organizations of
Post-War Life
Chair: Carol Berger, Oxford U
Carol Berger, Oxford U, The Effects of
War and Violence on the Provision of Health Services in Southern Sudan
Francesca Declich, U of Urbino, Bantu Somali
Refugees Adaptating Strategies in Dar es Salaam's Suburbs
Alex Zukas, Colonialism, Militarism and
Human Rights Abuses in German South-West Africa, 1900-1914
(VI-C16) The Political Context of African
Business
Chair: Susan Diduk, Denison U
Susan Diduk, Denison U, Transnational
Beer Production and Modernist Tropes in the Republic of Cameroon
Jose Munoz, Northwestern U, The
Politicization of Business Activities in Northern Cameroon: Coping with Success
in Times of Crisis
Okechukwu Iheduru, Arizona State U,
Elusive Synergy: Government-Business Relations in South Africa
Laura Cochrane, Washington U-St Louis,
Artisanal Workshops and Financial Pressures: Private Tapestry Workshops in
Senegal
Laird Jones, Lock Haven U of
Pennsylvania, Business History from Marketplace Rumor: Contemporary
Accounts of the Rise and Fall of Allidina Visram's East African Retail Empire,
1893-1914
(VI-E35) Democracy, Power Struggles, and
Civil Society in Africa
Chair: Eve Sandberg
Eve Sandberg, The Evolution of the
Multi-Party Politics Debate in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rachel Gisselquist, MIT, Social Cleavages
and Political Parties in Benin
Carl LeVan, U of California - San Diego,
Dictators, Democrats and Political Coalitions: Government Performance in an
African Country
Mbaye Lo, Kent State U, Questioning Civil
Society in Africa: Senegal, a Case Study
Robert Charlick, Cleveland State U, The Politics
of Mali's Pastoral Code: Citizenship and Well- Being on the Range
(VI-E36) Elections and Conflict
Resolutions
Chair: Brian Digre, Elon U
Brian Digre, Elon U, The Role of Domestic
Election Observers in Ghana's 2004 Elections
Lahra Smith, UCLA, Citizenship and
Democratization in Ethiopia
Thomas Wolf, Pockets or Principles? Teams
and Themes in the 2004 Mayoral Election in
(VI-E39) Race, Ethnicity, and Identities
Chair: Akinwumi Ogundiran, Florida
International U
Brempong Osei-Tutu, Syracuse U, Memorial
Entrepreneurialism, African American Activism and Ghana's Slave Castles
Eric Allina-Pisano, Colgate U, and
Jessica Allina-Pisano, Colgate U Theorizing an African Diasporic Identity in
Post-Socialist Europe
Marzia Grassi, Instituto de Ciências Sociais -
U of Lisbon, Capeverdean Diaspora: A Comparative Study on Female Migrants
Transnational Networks
Alemseged Abbay, Lakeland College,
Tradition, Modernity, and Identity in Colonial Eritrea
(VI-E41) Health, Ethics, and Panic
Chair: Karen Booth, U of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill
Karen Booth, U of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill, Guinea Pigs for Helsinki? AZT, Ethics, & Gender
*
Patrick Furlong, Alma College, and Karen
Ball, Alma College The Nevirapine Crisis, the Revival of Denialism, and the
Continued Politicization of AIDS in South Africa
Charles Geshekter, California State U, Challenging
the "Culture of Fear" in Africa: Rethinking Sexual Scares and
Environmental Crises
Gabrielle Hecht, U of Michigan, Apartheid
Exposures: Health, Secrecy, and Surveillance in South African and
Namibian Uranium Production
Discussant: *Gloria Chuku, Millersville U
(VI-G5) Socio-Economic Context and the
Risk of Disease
Chair: Tola Pearce, U of Missouri-Columbia
Eileen Stillwaggon, Gettysburg College,
The Ecology of Poverty: Demonstrated Risk Factors for the Transmission of
HIV/AIDS
Louise Bourgault, Northern Michigan U,
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in the Mande World
Wenda Bauchspies, Pennsylvania State U,
Gender, Health, and Technology: The Everyday World of Water and Women
Discussant: Tola Pearce, U of Missouri-Columbia
(VI-H1) Managing Reproductive Events
through the Life Course
Chair: Dorte Thorsen, U of Sussex
Dorte Thorsen, U of Sussex, Gender
Difference and the Shaping of Life Courses: Reproductive Strategies as
Exercised in Rural Burkina Faso
Gracia Clark, Indiana U, The Rituals and
Realities of Puberty and Individual Maturity in Asante Life Stories
Camille Toulou Abah, Adolescent
Reproductive Health in the District of Mfou
Rhiannon Stephens, Northwestern U,
Opportunities for Motherhood: Adoption in North Nyanza Societies, ca. 1000 -
ca. 1800 C.E.
Susi Krehbiel, Brown U, Beyond
Infertility: Marriage and Divorce among Swahili Muslims of Kigombe, Tanzania
(VI-I1) The Body/Politic and Biomedical
Frameworks: Infectious Diseases, Vulnerabilities, and Experimental
Interventions
Chair: *Nancy Hunt, U of Michigan
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, McGill U, Between
Suffering and Science: Notes on Therapeutic Citizenship and the Culture of
Antiretroviralism in Francophone West Africa
Lyn Schumaker, Wellcome Unit for the History of
Medicine, U of Manchester, Water and Health in the History of the
Copperbelt Malaria Control Programme in Colonial Zambia
Cynthia Brantley, U of California -
Davis, The Choices and Agendas Behind British Colonial African Nutrition
Projects: Kenya, Malawi, and The Gambia
*Randall Packard, Johns Hopkins U, Roll
Back Malaria Campaign in Africa
Discussant: *Steven Feierman, U of Pennsylvania
(VI-K3) Sex and the Politics of the Body
Chair: Felicity Palmer, Columbia U
Felicity Palmer, Columbia U, Sex in the
Post-Colonial City: Consensual Pleasures and Uncanny Horrors in Yvonne Vera's
Without a Name and Butterfly Burning
Mary Ellen Higgins, Pennsylvania State U,
Separated Bodies: Migration and Barrel Children in Donna Hemans' River Woman
Ann Willey, U of Louisville, Of Sooterkins
and Ochlotochracies: Unnatural Bodies in Nuruddin Farah's Maps
Zetoile Imma, U of Virginia, Bleeding the
Hybrid Scum: The Cross Cultural, Violence, and the Body in the Poetry of
Dambudzo Marechera
(VI-L9) Roundtable: Reconstituting the
State: Lessons of Democratization and Conflict Management Experience, Part II
Chair: *
*
(VI-L13) Refugee and Immigration Policy
in Africa and the Diaspora
Chair:
Assefaw Bariagaber, Seton Hall U, Refugee
Exchange as a National Security Imperative
Elizabeth Campbell, Binghamton U,
Problems of Protection: Urban Refugees in Nairobi
Jose Garcia-Rojas, Universidad de La
Laguna, The Face of Immigration: Legal and Political Problems of
Sub-Saharian Immigration in Spain
(VI-M12) Roundtable: The Political
Economy of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Transnational Policies, Drug Distribution,
and National Contexts [Sponsored by the Association of Concerned Africa
Scholars]
Chair: Michael West
*Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers U
Kristin Peterson, Michigan State U
Metsi Makhetha, United Nations Development
Program
Michael West
(VI-N6) Educational System in Ethiopia:
Problems and Prospects [Sponsored by the Ethiopian Research Council]
Chair: Getachew Metafaria, Morgan State U
Getachew Metafaria, Morgan State U,
Reversing Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: The Contribution of Ethiopians in
the Diaspora
Taye Wolde-Semaiat, Ethiopian Teachers
Association, The Impact of Ethnic Federalism on the Education
System in Ethiopia
Maigenet Shifferraw, U of the District of
Columbia, Adult Literacy Education in Ethiopia
Getachew Felleke, Miyazaki International
College, The Importance of Making Enlightened Choices: Early Missteps in
Ethiopia's Acquisition of a Modern Education System
(VI-N29) Roundtable: How To Get Published
[Sponsored by the ASA Board of Directors]
Chair: Joed Elich, Brill Academic Publishers
Lynne Rienner, Lynne Rienner Publishers
Helena Olsson, Nordic Africa Institute
(VI-O3) Institutional Impositions and
Local Articulations: Mobilizing for Improved Environmental Governance and Human
Security
Chair: Parakh Hoon, American U
Brian Child, Center for African Studies,
Comparing the Performance of Representational and Participatory Rural
Governance in Community Conservation Programmes in South Africa
Parakh Hoon, American U, Beyond
Community? Institutional Embedding and Environmental Sustainability
(VI-P9) Making and Unmaking Ethnicities
in Eastern and Southern Africa
Chair:
Derek Peterson,
Discussant:
(VI-P21) The Politics of Identity
Formation
Chair: Roger Levine, The U of the South
Roger Levine, The U of the South, The
Warrior (and Hunting) Problem in Southern African History
Alice Kang, U of Wisconsin-Madison, The
Afterlives of Dead Presidents: Remembering Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso
Jeffrey Ahlman, U of Illinois-Urbana,
Champaign, Expressing Algeria: The Discourse of Islam in the Making of
Algerian Identities