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Session
VII
Saturday, 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
(VII-A5) Talking About Men, Women, and
Daily Life: The Social and Cultural Implications of Narratives in Tanzanian
Popular Culture [Sponsored by the Tanzania Studies Association]
Chair: Anne Lewinson, Berry College
Anne Lewinson, Berry College, Youth-Aimed
Literature in Swahili-Shifting Purposes in Post-Independence Popular Fiction
Alex Perullo, Bryant U, Producing Humor,
Selling Caricature: Wit and Representation in Contemporary Tanzanian Cartoons
Andrew Ivaska, Concordia U, Montreal,
Gendering the City, Sexualizing Class: The Production of Sensation in 1960s Dar
es Salaam
Eileen Moyer, U of Amsterdam, Space for
Desire: Media, Language, and Culture on the Streets of Dar es Salaam
(VII-A9) Gender, Health, and Political
Ecology: Women's Resistance to Local and Global Oppression
Chair: Edna Wangui, San Francisco State U
Edna Wangui, San Francisco State U, Men,
Women and Livestock Production: Negotiating for Labor Control Within the
Household
Elinami Swai, Health or Economy: The
Paradox of Pestcides and Peasant Women within Global Economy in Tanzania
Christey Carwile, Southern Illinois U,
Our Weapon is Our Nakedness: Feminine Techniques of Resistance in Southern
Nigeria
Ogbaraeono Fawole, U of Ibadan,
Traditional Roles of Women Farmers in Soil Management Practices in Sagamu Local
Government Area (LGA),
(VII-B2) Architecture and Time:
Reconsidering Orality and Materiality in Africa
Chair: Kristina Van Dyke, The Menil Collection
Kristina Van Dyke, The Menil Collection,
Architectures of Time in Mali
Suzanne Blier, Harvard U, Building
History: The Defining Role of Architecture in the Medieval
Ikem Okoye, U of Delaware, Double Time:
Narratives of Similarity, Difference, and Architectural Influence, ca. 1930
Prita Meier, Harvard, Mosques of
Mombasa: Architectural Spaces as Geographies of Place
(VII-B10) Looking Backward, Moving
Forward: Similarities and Differences in Contemporary African and African
Diaspora Art
Chair: Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth U
Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth U,
The Renascent Figure in African and African Diaspora Art
Susan Kart, Smith College, More than
Flesh: The Body and Identity in the Art of Moustapha Dimé and Renée Stout
Dele Jegede, Indiana State U, Hybridity
and Abnegation in Black Art
Freida High, U of Wisconsin-Madison,
African/Nigerian Diaspora Artists: New Geographies and New Freedom Through
Exile, Not Slavery
(VII-C7) Roundtable: Democracy, Human
Rights, and the Health of the African Body/Politic
Chair: Dave Peterson, National Endowment for
Democracy
Dave Peterson, National Endowment for Democracy
Christopher Wyrod, National Endowment for
Democracy
Mauna Dosso, NED/ Howard U
(VII-E16) Culturing a Nation: Nigerian
Unities and Disunities, Part I
Chair: *Shobana Shankar, Lafayette College
Andrew Apter, UCLA, On Nigerian National
Culture
Mary Dillard, Sarah Lawrence College,
Nigeria's Education as West Africa's Education?
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(VII-E27) Health and the Colonial Agency
Chair: Meshack Owino,
Meshack Owino, The Myth and Reality of
Medical Care among Kenya African Troops during the Second World War
Kennedy Moindi, West Virginia U, Health
and Sanitation Issues in Kisii Township in Western Kenya during the Early
Colonial Period
Kevin Brown, Michigan State U, Military
Conscription, Medical Rejection Rates and Official Concerns about the Poor
State of Health of Tanganyika's African Population During the Second World War
(VII-E33) Land and Boundaries: Politics,
Resources, and Management
Chair: William Miles, Northeastern U
William Miles, Northeastern U, Anatomy of
a Boundary: Local versus External Perceptions in a Nigeria-Niger Borderland
Pamela Jagger, Indiana U, Bureaucratic
Incentives and Decentralizing Forest Management: A Preliminary Test of
Hypotheses
Matthew Bender, The Johns Hopkins U, From
Abundance to Scarcity: Rethinking Water on Kilimanjaro, 1925-1940
Barbara Lewis, Rutgers U, Land Rights,
International Conflict and the Ivoirian Civil War
(VII-F1) Unhealthy States, Unhealthy
Bodies, and Possibilities of Healing
Chair: Lauren Montgomery-Rinehart, Binghamton U
Lauren Montgomery-Rinehart, Binghamton U,
The Time of Containers Is Over: Women Overcoming Civic Impotence in Urban
Mozambique
Wendi Haugh, U of Pennsylvania, A Luta
Continua: Threats to the Health of the Nation in Post-Independence Namibia
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, St. Olaf
College, Reality is Bitter: An Exploration Into the Physical and Psychic
Wounds of Former Exiles (South Africa 1960-Present)
(VII-I2) Emerging Health Issues in
Independent Ghana [Sponsored by the Ghana Studies Council]
Chair: Baffour Takyi, U of Akron
Baffour Takyi, U of Akron, Health of
Africans: Gender Differences in Attitudes about Domestic Violence
Jemima Agyare, The U of Nottingham,
Genetically Modified Agriculture in Ghana: Socio-Economic and Health
Implications
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, U of Ghana -
Legon, and Susan Frazier-Kouassi, U of Michigan Institute for Social
Research No, There's No Room for Depression: Ghanaian Women Coping With Mental
Health Issues
Dzodzi Tsikata, U of Ghana, and *Mariama
Awumbila, U of Ghana Gender, Rural Livelihoods and Health: A Study of Small
Scale Mining Settlements in the Bolgatanga District of Ghana
Co-Discussant: Susan Frazier-Kouassi, U of
Michigan Institute for Social Research
Co-Discussant: Sherrill Sellers, U of
Wisconsin-Madison
(VII-J2) Perspectives on Pentecostal
Healing
Chair: Afe Adogame, U of Bayreuth
Afe Adogame, U of Bayreuth, Health is
Wealth, Poverty is a Curse: Perspectives of Prosperity Discourse in African
Pentecostalism
Sasha Newell, NYU, Urban Witchcraft and
Pentecostal Purification: Illness, Economy, and the Antisocial
Hansjoerg Dilger, Free U of Berlin, AIDS
and the Healing Power of Pentecostalism: Hope and Salvation in the Full Gospel
Bible Fellowship Church in Dar es Salaam
(VII-L1) From Movement to Party: The
Challenges of Establishing Viable Party Systems in Africa [Sponsored by the
African Politics Conference Group]
Chair: Staffan Lindberg,
Staffan Lindberg,
Kevin Fridy, Has the Political Kingdom
Finally Generated a Viable Party System? A Case Study of
Co-Discussant:
Co-Discussant:
(VII-M2) Author Meets Critics: Jane Guyer's
Marginal Gains - Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa, Part I
Chair: Charles Piot, Duke U
Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins U, Marginal
Gains and Market Values: Reflections on African Encounters with Neoliberalism
Akanmu Adebayo, Kennesaw State U,
Currency Devaluation and Rank: The Asante and Yoruba Experiences
James Ferguson, Stanford U, Formalities
of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa
Charles Piot, Duke U, West African
Pentecostalism and Economies of Desire
Co-Discussant: Peter Geschiere, U of Amsterdam
Co-Discussant: Achille Mbembe, U of the
Witwatersrand
(VII-O5) Environmental Governance and
Economic Growth
Chair: Richard Marcus, U of Alabama
Richard Marcus, U of Alabama, Community
Mobilization for Water Resource Governance Reform
Tracy Hart, World Bank, Water Supporting
Growth in Mali: Agriculture, Environment, and Health
John Sagala, Northern Arizona U, The
Green Belt Movement and the Struggle for Environmental Governance, Women
Empowerment, Democratization, and Human Rights in Kenya
(VII-P14) Contesting Demographic
Implications of Slavery Across the Sahara and North Africa: Slavery and
Cultural Changes, Part I [Sponsored by the Saharan Studies Association]
Chair: Ismael Montana, York U
Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State U, Slave Body
and Muslim Jurisprudence in Morocco in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries
Benjamin Brower, Cornell U, Slavery and
Ethnic Cleansing in Colonial Algeria
*Cynthia Becker, U of St. Thomas,
Artistic Roots/Routes of the Gnawa: Evidence of Cross-Cultural Interactions Across
the Sahara
Kim Searcy, The Changing Relationship
Between Master and Slave: The Jihadiyya and Their Role in the Sudanese Mahdiyya
Discussant: Martin Klein, U of Toronto
(VII-P16) Manufacturing Descent: Race
& Genealogy in 20th-Century Africa
Chair: James Brennan, SOAS, U of London
Cedric Barnes, SOAS, U of London, U
dhashay and Ku dhashay: Genealogical and Territorial Discourse in Somali
History, 1920-1950
Bruce Hall, U of Illinois at Urbana -
Champaign, The Perilous Future of the Touareg Race: Muhammad Ali ag
Attaher and Debates over Women's Bodies in Colonial Northern Mali, 1930-1960
James Brennan, SOAS, U of London, Racial
Thought and Father Africa Among Tanganyikan Intellectuals, 1920-1960
Christopher Lee, U of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Racism as a Weapon of the Weak: Strategies of Inclusion and
Exclusion
(VII-P23) Film, Music, and Cartoons:
Providing and Negotiating Images of Society, Past, and Present
Chair: Jonathan Haynes, Long Island U
Jonathan Haynes, Long Island U, Cultural
Epic: A Nigerian Video Film Genre
Victoria Pasley, Clayton College & State
U, Kuxa Kanema: Third Cinema and its Transatlantic Crossings
Ryan Ronnenberg, U of Wisconsin, History
from the Corners: Laughing at Dour Discipline
Richard Shain, Philadelphia U, Music and
Modernity: Record Clubs, Youth Culture, and Latin Music in Dakar, 1950s - 1960s
(VII-P25) Building a Body of Knowledge:
Photographs, Archives, and Archaeological Evidence
Chair: Helene Baumann, Duke U
Helene Baumann, Duke U, Colonial and
Missionary Societies: Preserving and Providing Access to African and
Africa-Related Archives
Patricia Hickling, Hickling Design,
Fraud, Fantasy and the Early Photographs of Francois Edmond Fortier
Tony Waters, California State U - Chico,
Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Kibaoni Mpimbwe Site, Rukwa
Region, Tanzania
Aribidesi Usman, Arizona State U, Urban
Trajectory and Sociopolitical Formation on the Yoruba Frontier: A Report of
Second Archaeological Field Season at IIa-Iyara, Southwestern Nigeria
(VII-YSP5) Land: Scarcity, Tenure, and
Reform
Chair: *Catherine Boone, U of Texas - Austin
Abdurazack Karriem, Cornell U, Ten Years
of Market-Based Land Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2004: A
Critical Reflection
Aaron Hale, U of Florida, Land Scarcity
and Conflict in North Kivu
Jennifer Terrell, New School for Social
Research, Social Rights, Citizenship, and the South African
Constitution: What is the Difference between HIV/AIDS and Land Reform?
Session
VIII
Saturday, 11:15 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.
(VIII-A14) Literary, Media, and Cultural
Reproduction of Gender, Health, and Embodiment
Chair: Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, U of South
Africa
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, U of South
Africa, Memoir, History and Female Circumcision in African Women's
Writing
Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State U,
Gendering the Maasai Body: When Benefit is Harm and Harm is Benefit
Kathryn Rhine, Brown U, AIDS is Real:
Mediatized Suffering and Women's Body Images in Nigeria
(VIII-B5) Art and Agency in African Art
Chair: David Binkley, National Museum of
African Art
Edith Suzanne Gott, Kansas City Art
Institute, Aesthetic Agency, Performative Display, and Marital Politics
in Asante Adosoa Funerary Processions
Silvia Forni, Università degli Studi di
Torino, Cooking Culture: Pottery and Agency in the Grassfields
(North-West Cameroon)
Manuel Jordan Perez, Cantor Arts Center,
Stanford U, Jipelo: Agency and the Effectual in Zambian Divination and
Initiation Arts
*Christine Kreamer, Smithsonian, Objects
as Mediators: Moba Art and Aesthetics in Context
Patricia Darish, National Museum of African
Art, and David Binkley, National Museum of African Art Stop the Sun: Art
and Agency in Kuba Funerary Rituals
Hudita Mustafa, Emory U, Sartorial
Ecumenes: Styles, Circulations and Agents in Senegalese Fashion
Discussant: *Wyatt MacGaffey, Haverford College
(VIII-C18) Resolving Conflict and
Promoting Human Rights
Chair: Robert Mortimer, Haverford College
Robert Mortimer, Haverford College,
Ending Violence in Algeria: Bouteflika's Strategies and Reelection
Josaphat Balegamire, Ketholieke U Leuven,
Understanding the Complexity of the African Great Lakes Region Conflicts and
Violence: A Note of Hope
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca College,
The Legislation of Post-Genocide Futures: Catharsis, Healing and the Decree
Nisi on Memory and Identity
Todd Leedy, U of Florida, Big Trouble in
Little Harare: The Politics of Zimbabwean Transnationalism in Botswana
(VIII-C19) The War on Terror in the
Sahara
Chair: Amal Ghazal, U of
David Gutelius, The Saharan Front on the
War on Terror
Gilbert Taguem Fah, U of Ngaoundere, The
War on Terror and the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline
*Cédric Jourde, U of Ottawa, Constructing
Representations of the Global War on Terror in Mauritania
Discussant: *Elizabeth McDougall, U of Alberta
(VIII-D2) Healthcare and Prevention on
the Continent
Chair: Thomas Kolasa, Washington U
Thomas Kolasa, Washington U, Africa,
Healthcare, and Reducing the Digital Divide
Mieka Ritsema, Yale U, The Politics of
Prevention in Botswana
Mukhtar Mohamed, Yale U, Healthcare
System in a Stateless Country: Somalia
(VIII-E17) Culturing a Nation: Nigerian
Unities and Disunities, Part II
Chair: *Rudolf Gaudio, SUNY - Purchase
*Douglas Anthony, Franklin & Marshall
College, Echoes of Colonialism, Ghosts of 1966: Nigeria Through the
Biafran Lens
Judith Byfield, Dartmouth College,
Imagining the Nation: Nationalism and Gender in Post-WW II Abeokuta
*William Reno, Northwestern U, Nigerian
Public Intellectuals and the Problem of Cultural Unity
*Shobana Shankar, Lafayette College,
Victims without Killers: Finding Common Humanity and Sidestepping Blame after
the Kano Riot, May 2004
(VIII-E26) War, Collective Violence, and Terrorism
as Viruses to the African Body/Politic: Symptoms, Root Causes, Cures
Chair: Alem Hailu, Howard U
Haile Larebo, Morehouse College, Ethnic
Politics, War and Terrorism in Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and
Self-Determination
Olayiwola Abegunrin, Howard U, The Crises
of Religious and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Separating the Symptoms and Causes
of Collective Violence in Nigeria
Elias Wondimu, Africans in America Giving
Back: Publishing as an Instrument for Positive Changes and Conflict Prevention
in Africa
Alem Hailu, Howard U, Acting Before the
Deluge: US Policy and the Challenges of War, Collective Violence, and Terrorism
in the Horn of Africa
Sulayman Nyang, Howard U, The Shared
Symptoms, Roots and Cures for the Problems of War, Violence and Terrorism in
Africa: Common Approaches to Shared Realities
(VIII-E42) Politics of Race and
Reconciliation in South Africa
Chair: William Little,
William Little, A Critical Examination of
Patterns of Social Interactions Among Historical Oppresded Groups in South
Africa
Neil Roos, U of Pretoria, White Veterans,
The Torch Commando and Ambiguities of White Protest in Apartheid South Africa:
A Case for Du Bois and the Double Consciousness of Whiteness
Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State U,
Recovery from Human Rights Abuses: The Disparity between National and
Individual Healing in Post-apartheid South Africa
(VIII-I8) Expertise, Autochtony, and
Control Over Medical Knowledge
Chair: Vanessa Noble, U of Michigan
Julia Heckl, Martin Luther U - Halle/Saale,
Modernizing Traditional Healing in South Africa: Healers Between Dual and
Bureaucratic Logic
Elise Carpenter, U of Pennsylvania,
Expats as Experts: The Role of Western Doctors and Nurses in Botswana's HIV
Drug Therapy Program
Donald Ray, U of Calgary, Global Lessons
in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS To Be Taken from the IDRC-Funded Traditional
Leaders Research Project: the Cases of Ghana, South Africa and Botswana
Discussant: Vanessa Noble, U of Michigan
(VIII-L15) Democratic and Legal Transformation
in Africa: An Exploration of the Linkages
Chair:
Brandon Kendhammer, Uersiy of Wisconsin,
Sharia Law and the Culture of Islam: Defending the Faith and Political
Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria
Peter Von Doepp, U of Vermont, Politics
and Judicial Development in Malawi, Zambia, and Namibia
Thomas Kelley, UNC-Chapel Hill, Oracles
and Cellphones: Conflict Between Legal Globalization and Custom in the West
African Republic of Niger
(VIII-M3) Author Meets Critics:
Jane Guyer's Marginal Gains - Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa,
Part II
Chair: Mitzi Goheen, Amherst College
Cyprian Fisiy, The World Bank, Jane
Guyer's Marginal Gains - Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa: a Critique
Christopher Udry, Economic Growth Center,
Households and the Social Organization of Consumption in Southern Ghana
Bill Maurer, U of California - Irvine,
Virtually Africa: Money, Scale and the Temporal Repertoires of Offshore Finance
Janet Roitman, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (GSPM-EHESS), Problematizing the "Problem" of Value: On
Marginal Gains
Discussant: Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins U
(VIII-N7) Health, Education, and
Development
Chair: Ephrem Yiheyis, International Leadership
Institute
Ephrem Yiheyis, International Leadership
Institute, Health, Education, and Leadership Development in
(VIII-N30) Roundtable: Opening Access to
Scholarly Literature in
Chair:
(VIII-P11) Pre-Colonial/Colonial:
Ruptures and Continuities in Regional African Traditions
Chair: *Osaak Olumwullah,
John Cinnamon, Miami (OH) U, Colonial
Policy, Demographic Dislocation, and Cultural Rupture in Northern Gabon
Elisabeth McMahon, Pennsylvania State U at
Erie, Quranic Education and Culture Brokers: Colonial Intervention and
Islamic Hegemony on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, 1920-1960
Jeremy Rich, U of Maine - Machias, Honest
Needs and Dishonest Men: Marriages, Masculinities, and Missionary
Failures in the Gabon Estuary, 1914-1945
(VIII-P17) Contesting Demographic
Implications of Slavery Across the Sahara and North Africa: Slavery and
Population Demographics, Part II [Sponsored by the Saharan Studies Association]
Chair: *Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA
Timothy Cleaveland, U of Georgia,
Concubinal Reproduction and the Elites Inconspicuous Consumption of their
Slaves
Allan Christelow, Idaho State U, The Role
of Slaves and the Repercussions of Abolition in Algeria
Madia Thomson, Stemming the Flow:
Protectorate Policy on Slavery and Saharan Expansion, 1912-1950
Chouki El Hamel, Arizona State U, Social
and Political Transformation of Blacks in the South of Morocco in the 20th
Century
Discussant: Ralph Austen, U of Chicago
(VIII-P18) Reconsidering Historical and
Art Historical Inquiry in Africa: The Case of the Bamum Kingdom in Cameroon
Chair: Christraud Geary, Musuem of Fine Arts
(Boston)
Michael Rowlands, U College - London,
Curating Bamum Pasts
Konrad Tuchscherer, Bamum Script and
Shümom Language
Barbara Plankensteiner, Museum für Völkerkunde,
Wien, Benin Bronzes from Bamum A Preliminary Reconsideration of the
Brass-Casting Industry in Foumban
Martin Elouga, The Formative Period of
the Bamum Kingdom: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
Christraud Geary, Musuem of Fine Arts
(Boston), Constructing Histories through Photography in Bamum, Cameroon
(VIII-YSP1)
Colonial and Post-Colonial Threats to Reproduction: Women's Responses
Chair: Tabitha Kanogo,
Robin Chapdelaine, Rutgers U, 1929
Women's War: Representations of Fertility Against the Institution of Pawnship
Caroline Butt, Dalhousie U, Reproduction
and Sexual Health in Colonial Kenya : The Controversy of Female Circumcision,
1929
Wandia Njoya, Pennsylvania State U, Les
enfants sans papiers: Women, Immigration and the Politics of (M)Othering in
France in Contemporary Novels on Immigration
Session
IX
Saturday, 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
(IX-A6) Consanguine Exotics: The Paradox
of Atlantic Crossings [Sponsored by the Women's Caucus]
Chair: Titilayo Ufomata, Kentucky State U
Diana NDiaye, Smithsonian, Negotiating
Translatlantic Identities: A Family Narrative
G. Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth U, The
Equation Between: The African Character in Selected African Diaspora Writing
Hallie Stone, Indiana U, Creative
Process/Creative Interchange: Senegalese Dance in an African-American Community
Titilayo Ufomata, Kentucky State U, When
We Arrived: Narratives of Two African Women in the United States
(IX-B15) Art, Fashion, and Identity
Chair: John Thornton, Boston U
John Thornton, Boston U, Black Jesus:
Kongo Christian Art in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Julie Strand, Wesleyan U, Borrowed Traditions:
The Sambla Xylophone in Burkina Faso
Maria Rodriguez-Feo, U of Iowa, Americas
into Africa: Local Consumption of Brazil, Jamaica and Cuba in Luanda,
Angola
(IX-C4) Actors Interpret Their Own
Strategies in Conflicts
Chair: Morton Bøås, Fafo Institute for Applied
International Studies
Morton Bøås, Fafo Institute for Applied
International Studies, Marginalisation, Youth and the Conflict Trade:
Contextualising Diamonds and Coltan
Gary Kynoch, Dalhousie U, Killing on
Khumalo Street: Communal Conflict in Thokoza, 1990-94
Robert Press, U of Southern Mississippi,
Using Social Movement Theory to Analyze Resistance Movements: Kenya, 1987-2002
(IX-C5) Roundtable: French Gazes on
African Politics, 2004-2005 [Sponsored by the ASA/MESA]
Chair: Roland Marchal, Canadian Energy Research
Institute
Roland Marchal, Canadian Energy Research
Institute
Sandrine
Dominique Malaquais, The Africa Centre
Robert Vitalis, U of Pennyslvania
Frederick Cooper, New York U
(IX-C13) Defining Human Rights and the
Moral Basis of Citizenship and Health
Chair: Jacqueline Vieceli, Minnesota State U,
Mankato
Jacqueline Vieceli, Minnesota State U,
Mankato, Mankato Understanding The Moral Basis Of The Right Of
Health: Comparing African Humanist And Western Rationalist Moral Theories
Jennifer Esala, Boston College, The Power
of Definition: Genocide and Nationality
Roos Willems, Cathol Un Leuven Belgium,
Confronting Human Rights Violations: Refugees and the Freedom of Movement
(IX-E7) Roundtable: The Militarization of
Practically Everything [Sponsored by the Association of Concerned Africa
Scholars]
Chair: *
(IX-E13) Rethinking Race in Africa
Chair:
*
Discussant:
(IX-E20) Culturing a Nation: Nigerian
Unities and Disunities, Part III
Chair: *Douglas Anthony, Franklin &
Marshall College
*Carolyn Brown, Rutgers U, African Urban
Manhood and Radical Nationalism: 'Respectable' Clerks and 'Unruly' Cowboys in
Enugu, 1914-1955
Anene Ejikeme, Trinity U, A Hero for
All: Hogan Boxey, Champion of the World
LaRay Denzer, Northwestern U, Women's
Interests and Voices In The Lagos and Ibadan Press, 1920-1960
(IX-E23) Senegal: Contestations In and
Around Colonial Authority
Chair: David Robinson, Michigan State U
Kalala Ngalamulume, Bryn Mawr College,
The Diseased City: Race and the Etiology of Disease in Saint-Louis-du- Senegal,
1850-1920
Tamba M'Bayo, Michigan State U,
Researching Indigenous Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, ca. 1854-1914: The
Changing Face of Archival Research, Sources, Problems and a Research Agenda
David Robinson, Michigan State U, The
Devès Family in the Senegalo-Mauritanian Zone and their Struggles with French
Colonial Authority
Cheikh Babou, U of Pennsylvania,
Urbanizing Mystical Islam: the Struggle for Murid Space in the Cities of
Senegal
Discussant: *Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA
(IX-L10) Roundtable: The Future of
Academic Cooperation and Collaboration with
Chair:
(IX-L18) Roundtable:
Chair:
Daouda Diabate
Arlene Render
Robert Esposti
Richard Westebbe
(IX-M13) Oil and Institutional
Innovations in the Gulf of Guinea
Chair: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Sidney
Sussex College Cambridge
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Sidney Sussex
College Cambridge, Sonangol: Angola's National Oil Company and the
Privatized State in
Ian Gary, Just Add Oil: Building
Accountability from Scratch in Chad
Gerhard Seibert, Instituto de Investigação
Científica Tropical (IICT), São Tomé e Príncipe: Trying to Avoid the Curse
of Oil Wealth
(IX-N8) Knowledge and Skills Flow
Chair: Penina Mungania, U of Arkansas
Penina Mungania, U of Arkansas, Fostering
African Development through E-Learning
Michael Leslie, U of Florida,
Internet-Based Video-Conferencing between African and US Universities
Gretchen Ehle, George Mason U, Skills
Migration and Economic Development: A South Africa Case Study
Mitch Land, Mayborn Graduate Institute of
Journalism, Clandestine Media in the Service of Health Communication
Esi Ansah, Rutgers U - Newark, The
Physician Exodus From Africa: Searching For Answers
(IX-O2) Roundtable: The Future of Africa's
Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
Chair: Thomas Smucker, U of South Florida - St.
Petersburg
Thomas Smucker, U of South Florida - St.
Petersburg
Ben Wisner, Oberlin College
Girma Kebbede, Mt Holyoke College
Jesse Ribot, World Resources Institute
(IX-P13) Slaving and Slavery in the
Western Indian Ocean
Chair: Pier Larson, Johns Hopkins U
Edward Alpers, UCLA, The Other Middle Passage:
The African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean
Richard Allen, New Perspectives on the
Mascarene Slave Trade, 1769-1810
Pier Larson, Johns Hopkins U, The
Malagasy Slave Conspiracy of 1822 and the Crime of History in Mauritius
(IX-P15) The Maji Maji War
1905-1907: New Contexts, New Interpretations
Chair: Jamie Monson, Carleton College
Thaddeus Sunseri, Colorado State U, Maji
Maji: The War of the Hunters
Michelle Moyd, .indispensable in rooting
out the enemy.: Askari and ruga-ruga in the Maji Maji War, 1905-1907
James Giblin, U of Iowa, Rashid bin
Masud, the Maji Maji War and Their Place in Local History
Heike Schmidt, Florida State U, The Maji
Maji War and Its Aftermath: (Re)negotiating Marginality in Southern Tanzania
(IX-YSP2) The Politics of Health and
Knowledge: Responses to Women's Needs in Health and Humanitarian Crises
Chair: Mojubaolu Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Chinwe Madubuike, LSE, Women's
Empowerment againt HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: Which Women? Whose Empowerment?
Faith Ngunjiri, Bowling Green State U,
Sisters Doing it for Themselves: African Women Leaders Negotiating the
Terrain of HIV/AIDS Care and Advocacy
Fredline M'Cormack, U of Florida, Humanitarian
Responses and Women's Needs: Cohesion or Difference? An Examination of Select
Interventions During the 1991-2001 Sierra Leone Civil War
Erica Hill, U of Illinios - Champaign, An
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