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Session
I
Thursday, 12:45 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
(I-A1) Romantic Love and Sex, Part I:
Transnational Connections and New Technologies
Chair: Jennifer Cole
Laura Fair, Making Love in the Indian
Ocean: Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences and the
Jennifer Cole, Et Plus Ses
Affinites: Love and the Internet in Madagascar
Shanti Parikh, Washington U, Shifting Discourses
and Practices of Love, Infidelity, and Uganda's Emerging Body Politic
Sanyu Mojola, U of Chicago, Gender
Ideologies and Female Migration to the West: Revisiting Assumptions about
African Male Fidelity
Discussant: *Lynn Thomas, U of Washington
(I-B1) African Art and the Cosmos
Chair: *Christine Kreamer, Smithsonian
Robert Nicholls, U of the Virgin Islands,
Cosmic, Symbolic, and Ritual Roles of West African Tree Shrines
Herbert Cole, U of California - Santa
Barbara, Cosmic Renewal in Igbo Arts: Mbari and Ijele
Ruth Kerkham, Harvard U, The Matriarch of
Snow, Fire and Rain: Communion with Soli Ancestors at the Chakwela Makumbi
Ceremony (Zambia)
Discussant: Allen Roberts, UCLA
(I-B11) Bodily Acts, Embodied Knowledge:
Performance and the Contours and Contexts of Community
Chair: David Donkor, Northwestern U
Salome Mwangola, Northwestern U,
Remembering the Past, Envisioning the Future
David Donkor, Northwestern U, Brightened Bodies:
Performance Aesthetics, National Culture and Body Politics in Ghana's Who is
Who Popular Theatre Contest
Mohammed Mohammed, Northwestern U,
Center-Staging the Female Body: Ethiopian Women in the Restaurant and Fashion
Industries in Washington, DC
David Coplan, U of Witwatersrand,
Embodied Politics in the Performance Culture of Black Youth in South Africa
(I-C8) Post-Genocide Perspectives on
Rwanda, Part I
Chair: David Newbury, Smith College
Jennie Burnet, U of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill, Toward an Anthropology of Post-Conflict and Post-Genocide
Lee Ann Fujii, GWU, The Logic of
Ethnicity During Genocide: A Study of Two Rwandan Villages
Scott Straus, U of Wisconsin-Madison, The
Politics of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Lars Waldorf, The New School,
Reconciliation and Revenge through Rwanda's Gacaca Trials
Co-Discussant: Johan Pottier, London U
Co-Discussant: Villia Jefremovas, Queen's U
(I-C14) Donors and Recipients: Economic
Responsibility, Conditionalities, and Public Policy in Africa
Chair: Nikolas Emmanuel, U of California -
Davis
Nikolas Emmanuel, U of California -
Davis, Overcoming Asymmetry: Recipient Tactics in Response to
Conditionality
Satu Riutta, Georgia State U, What is the
Impact of EU Aid on Tanzanian Civil Society?
(I-E4) Language as a Process in
Historical Context
Chair: James Essegbey, U of Florida
James Essegbey, U of Florida, In the
Quest of Original Speakers of Tutrugbu: Linguistics and Oral Tradition
Yvonne Ochwaya-Oluoch, Africanising
English: A Sample from the Kenyan Situation
José Carlos Maia, Cape Verdean Creole:
Historical and Political Notes
(I-E8) Collaborative Hegemony: Missions,
States, and European Expansion in Africa
Chair: Raphael Njoku, U of Louisville
Raphael Njoku, U of Louisville, Catholicism,
Protestantism, and Imperial Claims in the Kabaka's Buganda
Chima Korieh, Rowan U, Collaboration,
Containment, and Control: Missionary Impulse And the Construction of Colonial
Nigeria
Patrick Mbajekwe, Old Dominion U, The
Ambivalent Triumvirates on the Niger: European Traders, Christian Evangelism
and British Imperial Politics in Southern Nigeria, 1850-1899
Roger Beck, Eastern Illinois U, All
Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Nineteenth Century South Africa
Michael McInneshin, U of Minnesota,
Collaborative Landscape: The Mission, the State, and Their Subjects in the
Making of Northeastern Tanzania's Terrain, 1870-1900
(I-E11) Medical Science, Culture, and the
Production of Knowledge in Colonial Kenya
Chair: Atieno Odhiambo, Rice U
Agnes Odinga, Hamline U, He Is Not A Man
Like Other Men: Discourse on Masculinity and Reproductive Knowledge in Kenyan
Colonial Courts
*Osaak Olumwullah, Colonialism, Medical
Science, and Nairobi's African Others
George Ndege, Saint Louis U, Conscience,
Convenience, and Policy: Mental Health and Social Reform in Colonial Kenya
Discussant: Atieno Odhiambo, Rice U
(I-E12) New Perspectives on Bureaucracy
in Africa: Ethnographic and Theoretic Explorations of Late-Modern
Governance
Chair: Brenda Chalfin, U of Florida
Mike McGovern, International Crisis
Group, The Third Assistant to the Mayor of Guiglo: The Militarization of
Bureaucratic Networks in Côte d'Ivoire
*Cédric Jourde, U of Ottawa, Bureaucrats
on Tour: The Itinerant Negotiation of State Power in Mauritania
Anne Pitcher, Colgate U, and Mary Moran,
Colgate U, Misreading Neo-patrimonialism in Africa
J. Michael Williams, U of San Diego,
Legislating Tradition in South Africa
Brenda Chalfin, U of Florida, The
Sovereignty of Bureaucracy: Customs Officers and the Boundaries of Rule in
Ghana
Discussant: Anne-Maria Makhulu, Princeton U
(I-F2) Global Flows, Local Tensions:
Material and Ideological Negotiations of Disability
Chair: Kathryn Geurts, Hamline U
Denise Nepveux, U of Illinois at Chicago,
Go Where the Power Is: Women's Uses of Family, Religious Groups and Disability
Communities in Urban Ghana
Kathryn Geurts, Hamline U, Life and Labor
in Metropolitan Accra for People with Disabilities
Ken Rutherford, Missouri State U,
Africa's Response to the International Convention for Disability Rights
(I-I3) Embodied Conflicts: Responses to
Violence in Mozambique and Angola [Sponsored by the Lusophone African Studies
Organization]
Chair: *Tracy Luedke, Northeastern Illinois U
Christy Schuetze, Embodied Conflicts: A
Case Study of Healing Intra-Community Violence in Post-War Mozambique
Sonia Silva, Social and Personal Space in
Times of War
Sophia Beal, Brown U, Brutality and
Abandonment: Invented Domestic Violence in the Fiction of Mia Couto
Victor Igreja, Leiden U, The Long-Term
Effects of Violence: The Embodiment of War Memories and Effective Healing
Resources in Mozambique
Discussant: Robert Marlin-Curiel, Rutgers U
(I-K6) Medical Discourse in Literature
Chair: Emmanuel Yewah, Albion College
Emmanuel Yewah, Albion College,
(Re)constructing Medical Knowledge: a Literary Perspective
Augustine Okereke, CUNY - Medgar Evers
College, Circle of Madness and the Health of the Community in African Literature:
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson
Dokubo Goodhead, U of Washington, The
Mental Cost of Colonization: Plumbing the Depths of the Colonizer in Joseph
Conrad's An Outpost of Progress and Heart of Darkness
Julie Nack Ngue, UCLA, Diasporic
Dis-ease, Expression and Failed Confession in Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon
Joseph McLaren, Hofstra U, Textual
Representations:AIDS and Cancer
(I-L6) Public Goods and Socio-Economic
Rights: Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide in South Africa
Chair: Elke Zuern, Sarah Lawrence College
Sean Jacobs, NYU, The Public Sphere and
Rural (Black) South Africa: The Case of the Landless People's Movement
Lungisile Ntsebeza, U of Cape Town, Land
Redistribution in South Africa: the Property Clause Revisited
Elke Zuern, Sarah Lawrence College,
Contentious Institutionalization: A Response to Marginalization within Formal
Democracy
Sakhela Buhlungu, U of the Witwatersrand,
Gaining Influence but Losing Power? COSATU Workers and the Democratic
Transformation of
Discussant:
(I-L17) Colonial and Post-Colonial
Strategies of Disease Control
Chair: Sherri Brown, U of Calgary
Sherri Brown, U of Calgary, Scaling-up AIDS
Competence and Local HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Responses in Ghana:
Lessons and Recommendations for Practice, Policy, and Research
Onaiwu Ogbomo, Eastern Illinois U, Dr.
Ernest Muir and the Development of Leprosy Control Policy in Colonial Nigeria
Discussant: *Kearsley Stewart, Northwestern U
(I-M7) Economic Change: Implications for
Health and Disease
Chair: Charles Steinmetz, West Virginia
Charles Steinmetz, West Virginia, Disease
in Colonial Kenya, 1912-1916
Martin Shanguhyia, West Virginia U,
Health Dimensions in the Compost Pit Campaign
*Mariama Awumbila, U of Ghana, Gender,
Rural Livelihoods and Health in Ghana: A Study of Mangrove Exploitation in the
Lower Volta
Linda Semu, Indiana U, The Matrilineal
Women's Embedded Autonomy: Famine, Illness and Vulnerability Among Small Scale
Farmers in Southern Malawi, 2002/03
Angela Martin, Indiana U, Changing
Household Labor and Resource Allocation in a Zambian Frontier
Augustine Ayuk, U of West Georgia, Debt
Crisis and the Collapse of Africa's Health System
(I-M8) Roundtable: Human Capital
Formation and Utilization in Ghana's Economic Development Process [Sponsored by
the Ghana Studies Council]
Chair: George F. Kojo Arthur, Marshall U
Kwamina Panford, Northeastern U
Al Bavon
George F. Kojo Arthur, Marshall U
Ian Yeboah, Miami U
Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, U of Akron
(I-N2) Education, Identity, and Belonging
Chair:
(I-P4) Indigenous Women and European Men,
Part I
Chair:
Pernille Hamilton, Copenhagen U,
Intercultural intimacy in Danish Guinea
Lawrence Mbogoni, William Patterson U,
Race and Sexual Liaisons in Colonial Tanganyika
Larry Yarak, Texas A&M U, Zijt gij al
gecalisaard? Dutch Officals and Euro-African Women in 19th Century Elmina
Discussant:
(I-P12) Roundtable: Intangible Heritage
in the Mande World [Sponsored by the Mande Studies Association]
Chair:
(I-YSP3)
Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and National
Chair: *
Tiffany Gleason,
Kelly Duke-Bryant, Johns Hopkins U, A
Part of Greater France: Senegalese Students in the Metropole and the Politics
of Belonging, ca. 1870-1903
Brandon Lundy, SUNY at
Session
II
Thursday, 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
(II-A2) Romantic Love and Sex, Part II:
Emotional Attachments, Material Exchanges, and Bodily Risks
Chair: *
Discussant:
(II-B4) Imaging African Art as a
Collective Representation: Art Schools and Social Movements in Africa and the
African Diaspora
Chair: Bennetta Jules-Rosette, U of California
- San Diego
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, U of California - San
Diego, Frontstage and Backstage in Contemporary African Art: From
Négritude to the New Figuratism and Beyond
Debra Klein, Vassar College, The Osogbo
Arts Movement: Strategic Collaborations Among Yoruba Artists, an Austrian
Sculptor, and a German Scholar
Wayne Osborn, U of California - San
Diego, Mirroring Africa: Collaborative Reversal in Ethnographic and
Documentary Film as a Diasporic Project
(II-C10) Internal Conflicts, Border
Disputes, and Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa
Chair: Kidane Mengisteab, Penn State U
Alem Habtu, CUNY - Queens College,
Multiethnic Federalism in Ethiopia and Its Implications for the Horn of Africa
Ali Ali-Dinar, U of Pennsylvania, The
Janjaweed of Darfur: Origin and Motives
Afeworki Paulos, Conflict, Conflict
Resolution and Political Leadership in Eritrea
Kidane Mengisteab, Penn State U, Proxy
Wars in the Horn of Africa
(II-D1) Collecting Knowledge and
Validating Morality Across Africa
Chair: David Samper, U of Oklahoma
David Samper, U of Oklahoma, Devil
Worship as a Moral Discourse about Youth in Kenya
Jesse Bucher, U of Minnesota, Measuring
Death: The Stolen Skull of Sultan Mkwawa
Monika Brodnicka, SUNY Binghamton, Use of
Knowledge in the African Context: Participating in Fulani Tales of
Initiation
Suzanne Essama, The World Bank, and
Reinard Woytek, The World Bank Traditional Medicine: Partnerships for
Innovation and Validation
Discussant: Misty Bastian, Franklin &
Marshall College
(II-E3) Legacies of Islam Noir:
Challenging the Persistence of Colonial Views of Islam in Africa
Chair: Ruediger Seesemann, Northwestern U
Rudolph Ware, Northwestern U, Race and
Religion in the Colonial Crucible: The Early Works of Paul Marty and the Historiography
of Islam Noir
Sean Hanretta, Stanford U, Islam, the
French Colonial Archives, and the Question of Authorship
Ruediger Seesemann, Northwestern U, A
Dialogue of the Deaf: French vs British Perceptions of Islam in Late Colonial
West Africa
Benjamin Soares, African Studies Centre,
The Study of Islam in Africa in the Age of Empire
Discussant: Rebecca Shereikis, Northwestern U
(II-E6) Political Continuity and
Political Change in Kenya, 1940-2004
Chair: Nicholas Cheeseman, Nuffield College,
Oxford U
Nicholas Cheeseman, Nuffield College, Oxford
U, Making and Implementing Government Policy in Kenya: Continuities in
Bureaucratic-Authorization Rule, 1940-1990
Matthew Carotenuto, SUNY Cortland,
Shaping Identity in Independent Kenya: The Official Demise and Rebirth of the
Luo Union (East Africa)
Katherine Rogers, U of Oxford, Contesting
Civic Education: The National Civic Education Program in Kenya
Gabrielle Lynch, Oxford U, Dynastic
Politics: The Entrenchment of Political Leadership in Kenya
Discussant: Stephen Orvis, Hamilton College
(II-E24) Post-Genocide Perspectives on
Rwanda, Part II
Chair: Catharine Newbury, Smith College
Timothy Longman, Vassar College, Civil Society
and State Power in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Danielle de Lame, Royal Museum for Central
Africa, Rwandan Peasantry and Governance: The Land Issue as a Political
Tool
Twagiramungu Noel, ICTJ- International Center
for Transitional Justice, Gacaca Justice: Towards a Tradition-Based
Response to an International Modern Crime? Challenges and Prospects
Co-Discussant:
Co-Discussant:
(II-E30) AIDS: State Power and
International Politics
Chair: Edward Sankowski, U of Oklahoma
Edward Sankowski, U of Oklahoma,
Democracy, AIDS, Healthcare, the USA and South Africa
Zoey Breslar, Management Systems
International, Modeling Democracy to Promote Health: Citizen
Participation in Local Government in Sierra Leone
Raymond Copson, Congressional Research
Service, The Global Fund and PEPFAR in US International HIV/AIDS Policy;
Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
(II-E37) Power, Leadership, and Change
Chair: John Ejobowah, Wilfrid Laurier U
John Ejobowah, Wilfrid Laurier U, Federal
Success and Social Justice: A Hypothesis
Henning Melber, Nordic Africa Institute,
The Politics of Presidential Indispensability in Namibia
Darci Van Duzer, Monterey Institute of
International Studies, Traditional Institutions and Democratic
Consolidation: Chieftaincies and Liberal Governance in Ghana
Roger Southall, Human Sciences Research Council,
Troubled Visionary: Julius Nyerere as a Former President
(II-G2) Impediments to Health and Health
Services in Africa
Chair: Debra Budiani, Michigan State U
Debra Budiani, Michigan State U, Quests
for Refuge, Quests for Therapy: Displacement, Illness, and the Body in Urban
Egypt
Megdelawit Bayou, Addis Ababa U, Gender
Inequality and Health in Ethiopia
Ernest Mohochi, Egerton U, Language and
the Provision of Health Services in Kenya
Renata Serra, U of Florida, Access to
Primary Health Care in Mali: Equity Issues and Under-Utilization of Services
(II-I9) New Histories of Colonial
Medicine
Chair:
Christopher Hayden, Northwestern U, The 'Modern'
as Analytical Category for the History of Colonial Medicine in
Melissa Graboyes, Boston U, Consent or
Coercion? The Changing Ethics of Colonial Medical Research
Discussant: *
(II-K5) Igbo World and Literature
[Sponsored by the Igbo Studies Association]
Chair: Clement Okafor, U of Maryland - Eastern
Shore
Clement Okafor, U of Maryland - Eastern
Shore, Igbo Seasonal Festivals: Markers of Sacred Time
Ernest Emenyonu, U of
Michigan-Flint, Periscoping the Octogenarian Cyprian Ekwensi: the
Man, the Legend, and His Legacy in Nigerian Life and Literature
Ezenwa Ohaeto, Anambra State U, Igbo
Culture and Implications of Pragmatic Circumvention
Christopher Okonkwo, U of Missouri -
Columbia, Talking and Te(x)stifying: Ndibe, Habila, and Adichie's
'Dialogic' Narrativizations of Nigeria's Post-War Nadir
(II-L16) Ethnicity, the Economy, and the
Media in the Development of Democracies
Chair: Bruce Magnusson, Whitman College
Bruce Magnusson, Whitman College,
Counting People and Counting Votes: Population Censuses, Electoral Systems, and
Security in Africa
Charles Ngugi, Emory U, Democractic
Culture, Political Stability and the Mass Media in Africa
Franco Barchiesi, U of Bologna, Inequality,
Wage Labour and Social Citizenship in the Making of South Africa's
Post-Apartheid Democracy
Kwaku Obosu-Mensah, Lorain Community
College, Dog-Chain Boys and Ice-Water Girls of Accra, Ghana
(II-M14) Globalization, Export
Commodities, and Health
Chair:
(II-N11) Roundtable: Institutional
Rebuilding in the
Chair: M.Alpha Bah,
M.Alpha Bah,
(II-P20) Indigenous Women and European
Men, Part II
Chair: Silke Strickrodt, Humboldt Universität
zu Berlin
Silke Strickrodt, Humboldt Universität zu
Berlin, A Wife in Every Port: Afro-European Trade Networks and Sexual
Relations on the Gold Coast in the 1840s and 1850s: The Case of John Marmon
James Searing, U of Illinois at Chicago,
Signares and Sailors in Senegal's Atlantic Port Cities, 1750-1850
Carina Ray, Cornell U, Undesirable
Relations: Native Women, European Officials and Racial Classification in the
Gold Coast, 1907-1909
(II-P27) (Post-) Independence Politics in
South Africa and Guinea
Chair: Nicholas Waddy, Alfred State College
Nicholas Waddy, Alfred State College, The
Fork in the Road? British Reactions to the Election of an Apartheid
Government in South Africa, May 1948
Frank Chiteji, Gettysburg College, Banned
but Not Silenced: The Role of Exiled, Imprisoned and the Underground in the
Struggle Against Apartheid
Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola College in
Maryland, Cold War in Guinea: The Re-assemblement Démocratique Africain
and the Struggle over Communism, 1950-1953
(II-YSP10) Colonial Medicine and Health
in Africa
Chair: *Steven Feierman, U of Pennsylvania
Dede Amanor-Wilks, LSE, Economic Structure,
Institutional Change and Health in a 'Peasant' and a 'Settler' Economy of
Africa
Ron Lamothe, Boston U, Tropical Fitness
and Susceptibility: Tools of Empire, Tools of Resistance
Discussant: *Shula Marks, SOAS, U of London