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A QUARTERlY NEWSLETTER VOLUME 11111 FOR AFRICAN STUDIES URIL/JUIE 1990 ASSOCIATION MEMBERS NO.2
ASA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1990
OFFICERS President: Ann Seidman (Clark University) Vice-President: Martin A. Klein (University of To
ronto) Past President: Simon Ottenberg (University of
Washington)
RETIRING IN 1990 Sandra Barnes (University of Pennsylvania) Iris Berger (State University of New York at Alba
ny) Kwabena Nketia (University of Pittsburgh)
RETIRING IN 1991 Martha A. Gephart (Social Science Research Coun
cil) Catharine Newbury (University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill) Sulayman S. Nyang (Howard University)
RETIRING IN 1992 Carol M. Eastman (University of Washington) Christraud M. Geary (Boston University) Sandra Greene (Kalamazoo College)
FROM THE SECRETARIAT ...
Renewals of individual memberships are well under way. By March 1, more than 800 of you had sent us your 1990 dues, along with information on your background that we will publish in the ASA Directory of Members. If you have not yet renewed, please use the form printed in this issue and send us your check today.
A number of ASA members objected to our personal questions about age, gender and nationality, despite our caveat that we sought statistical information only. One Canadian indicated that our questions were illegal, while several others simply did not respond. A number of women and men were reluctant to divulge their age, and we were bemused by several who placed a question mark after "age" (surely you haven't forgotten!). A few others, presumably quantitative social scientists, seemed intent on confounding the survey takers we don't believe that there really are women out there named John or Robert! We were looking for names that belong on a passport in response to the nationality question; Celtic and Cajun were among the more interesting that we found.
We are seeking collective personal data on ASA members for a good reason. The National Council of Area Studies Associations, which includes the ASA plus the Middle Eastern, Asian, Latin American and Soviet/East European associations, is preparing a report on the state of area studies faculty. As we move into the 90s and a period of expected faculty turnover, we are concerned with the area studies professoriate. Are we facing large shortages of trained area studies faculty, or are there adequate younger faculty and graduate students to replace those who will retire in the 90s? Are area studies faculty being lost by attrition and not replaced? What is the profile of area studies faculty and is the nature of faculty in our fields changingby age, by gender, by nationality? Are patterns the same in each discipline?
We ask personal information of you as the beginning of our attempt to gather useful data for this report. NCASA will be meeting in April to discuss further the direction of the report. Meanwhile, we would welcome responses from you about the state of African studies faculty on your own campuses.
Along with the membership renewals, the massive wave of Annual Meeting proposals is sweeping over us, promising a vibrant and exciting Baltimore ASA from November 1-4. Program Chair Willie Lamouse-Smith can now be reached by phone (301-455-2924/2928/2158) or FAX (301-455-1076).
We Welcome New ASA Members (who joined us between January 1 and March 1)
Kingsley I. Ajoku Kwadwo Anokwa Ellis B. Beteck Paula T. Brooks Eugene C. Burt Christopher D. Campbell Shirley L. Capron Firinne Ni Chreachain Daniel Compagnon Barbara M. Cooper John A. Distefano Omar Ibrahim Farouk Carolyn Jacobs Ackson M. Kanduza
George Klay Kieh Amanda Jane King A. Klotz L.J. Kruger Barbara LaBrusciano David Laitin Ricardo Rene Laremont Christine Loflin Vijitha Manadevan MekkiMtewa Olusola E. Oroyo Kwamina Panford Jerome E. Pasela Charles Piot
And New Lifetime Members Ismail H. Abdalla Joseph C. Miller Lidwien Kapteijns Jay Spaulding
MansahPrah Paul W. Robinson Kwasi Sarfo Timothy M. Shaw Mumia Shimaka-Mbasu Michael Short Alyce J. Smith Clarke K. Speed Lucien Taylor Cheryl Valdivia Julia R. Van Dyken Helen L. Vukasin Roger G. Ward T. K. Welliver
Donovan Williams
And Thank Contributors to the ASA Endowment Jean Allman Joel and Sandra Barkan Sandra T. Barnes Margaret L. Bates Robert H. Bates EdnaG. Bay Todd Benson Henry Bienen Caroline Bledsoe Sylvia Ardyn Boone Richard A. Bradshaw Judy Butterman Thomas Callaghy Herbert M. Cole Elizabeth Colson Kristy D. Cook Justine M. Cordwell Eugene Debenko Marion E. Doro Gifford B. Doxsee Henry Drewal Ellen F. Elsas Harvey M. Feinberg Mark Fredudenberger Alan Frishman Christraud M. Geary Charles Geshekter Paula Girshick
Wendy Glassmire Harvey Glickman Roger Gocking Donald and April Gordon James D. Graham Albert L. Gray Jane Guyer Shirley M. Handel John Harbeson David Henige Nicholas Hopkins GoranHyden Flora S. Kaplan Andrew Kirchmeier Mary Alice Kraehe Rene Lemarchand Olga F. Linares Richard Long Thomas Maroukis Rita McCaslin AlbertJ.Mc~een Suzanne Miers Joseph C. Miller E. Philip Morgan Jack H. Mower Patrick K. Mutegi Catharine Newbury William Haven North
Nzongola-Ntalaja Simon Ottenberg Cora Presley Robert Pringle Frances W. Pritchett Peter J. Rigby Claire Robertson Bart Rousseve John Allen Rowe Eve Sandberg Margaret O. Saunders Ann A. Scarboro Yvette Scheven Mette Shayne David E. Skinner John Spencer Alonzo T. Stephens Jo Sullivan Eric Tevoedjre Julius Eric Thompson Thomas Turner Roslyn A. Walker Arnold P. Wendroff Robert G. White Elizabeth A. Widenmann I. W. Zartman Eleanor E. Zeff
LETTERS Dear Colleagues:
It has been a long-standing policy of the ASA to reject collaboration with government intelligence agencies. In 1982 the Board passed a specific resolution with respect to the Defense Intelligence Agency:
DIA RESOLUTION April 2-3, 1982
The Board of Directors of the African Studies Association notes with deep concern the recent establishment of a program to support academic research in Africa and other Third World regions by the Defense Intelligence Agency. Both educational institutions and individual scholars have been invited to apply to the Agency for such support. Believing that the credibility and integrity of American universitybased scholarsip in the African studies field depend upon arrangements which ensure the independence of academic research and
publication from the military and political interests of the government;and Being convinced that the basis of such independence is undermined by direct patron-client relationships between the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Africanist academic community; The Board calls upon Africanist scholars to refrain from participation in the Defense Intelligence Agency's program for research and support and to oppose participation in that program by their universities and research institutes.
It is in respect of this sentiment that I wish to call attention to a recent attempt of the CIA to involve our members in their activities. A letter of invitation to participate in "a colloquium of Africanists" sponored by the CIA was sent to a number of American Africanists. The letter described a meeting to take place in McLean, Virginia, from April 1-3, 1990. The program was to include a briefing on the
Directorate of Intelligence, a tour of some of the CIA's facilities and introductions to some analysts. Several panel discussions on African topics were planned. Though the visiting Africanists were not expected to make formal presentations, they were invited to raise questions and make comments on issues raised.
The invitation included a copy of a 1986 speech by the Deputy Director for Intelligence, Robert M. Gates, pleading with the academic community to coopera te wi th the CIA in its research activities.
I recommend that at its spring meeting the Board again consider the issue of collaboration between the Africanist community and the intelligence community. Perhaps a general resolution similar to that of April 2-3, 1982 is in order.
Sincerely, Mark W. Delancey
To the Chair: Archives-Libraries Committee, ASA
Your Guidelines for Librarians Interacting with South Africa [published in ASA News, vol. XXII, no. 3, Jul/Sep 1989] has come to the attention of local librarians and is at present being widely discussed. I am not sure whether our South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science (SAlLIS) will formally react. As a long time member of SAlLIS I feel it my duty, however, to draw your attention to some aspects of the Guidelines which reflect unfavourably on SAlLIS and should, therefore, be rectified.
In the first place I would like to state that I, like many colleagues in SAlLIS, welcome your constructive support to promote the required positive change in our country. I am, therefore, generally in agreement with the Guidelines insofar as they aim to support developments promoting black advancement and particularly
developments in education and librarianship.
It is regrettable that, by naming in paragraph 2.2 only political or labour organizations, the impression is given that the many organizations on the cultural, educational or other levels engaged in positive change should still be boycotted.
However, I am even more gravely concerned that the reference to SAlLIS in paragraphs 5.2 and 6.3 may be interpreted as singling out SAlLIS as an apartheid institution which should be avoided.
I would like to point out to you that in 1980 South African librarians reconstituted the segregated South African Library Association into the South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science as a professional organization with an open membership and renounced apartheid in a public statement. ..
Furthermore, on 18 September 1986, the Conference of SAI
LIS...adopted a resolution that ... We, the members of SAlLIS, con
firm that we regard SAlLIS as a body above the political and ideological doctrine, which grants membership irrespective of race, colour, sex or creed and accepts and allows differing views amongst its members.
We strive to raise the standard of library and information services in all communities throughout the country...
Paragraph 5.2 states that the membership of SAlLIS in IFLA is being challenged. I should like to correct this statement by pointing out that SAlLIS is not a member of IFLA, but some South African libraries have institutional membership.
IFLA decided some years ago that it cannot accept membership of any institution which is attached to or is itself practicing any form of apartheid. All South African libraries had to provide information on their policies and had to twice sign declarations that
they do not follow any discriminatory practices in respect of either users or staff. In spite of this, some individuals in IFLA still persist in trying to have the membership of South African libraries withdrawn ...
It remains, however, a matter of concern that the Guidelines document misrepresents SAlUS' endeavours to realize a free flow of information and commitment to an open library service. I would, therefore, like the Archives and Libraries committee to take cognisance of the positive steps which SAlUS' members have taken to dissociate the Institute from the creed and policies of apartheid.
I, futhermore, request you to consider giving SAlUS your active support to effect further positive change rather than taking any action which could have negative results ...
Yours Sincerely, John Willemse Chief Director, Deptartment of library Services University of South Africa
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEST AFRICAN FIELD OFFICE Gretchen Walsh of the Boston University Africana Library and Edna Bay of the ASA Secretariat testified before the House Sub-Committee on Legislative Branch Appropriations February 8. Both spoke in support of a request by the Library of Congress for funding for the establishment of a field office to collect materials in West Africa. Walsh testified in the place of the ASA Archives-Libraries Committee Chair Phyllis Bischof of I the University of California, Berkeley, who was unable to attend the hetlrings. Copies of Walsh's oral statement, Bischofs written testimony, and Bay's statement are repro t duced below.
As of this writing, Congress is still deliberating approval of the Library of Congress request for the 1991 budget. Members of Congress appmr particularly receptive to mail I on questions such as this and we have received positive signals that the request may be approved this yetlr (it was voted down last yetlr). Thanks to the ASA's Archives I Libraries Committee, members of Congress have been receiving letters from individuals iand universities. It is not too late for you to write.
Should you wish to write in support of the request, we have listed the names and home towns of the appropriate committee members below. Alternatively, the Congressional representative from your home district would be pletlSed to hear from you. Feel free to use words, phrases and idetlS from the materials we've printed below. If you do write, pletlSe do so within a week to ten days of receipt of this newsletter.
West African Field Office l
by Gretchen Walsh, Boston University I !
I would like to summarize the whole-hearted support of the librarians of
GOING AWAY FOR A WHILE?
Let us hold your membership mailings while you're gone.
ASA members resident in the US who leave their permanent addresses for short-term research trips to Africa sometimes ask their local post office to hold their first-class mail. Alas, the postal service destroys ASA publications mailed to such persons, and we are charged $ .30 to receive a notice that they are "temporarily away."
If you plan to ask the post office to hold your mail, please drop us a line. Let us know when you will leave and the date you will return. We will hold your ASA mail for you, and send it along when you get home.
the African Studies Association for the Library of Congress's proposed West African Field Office by positing answers to some questions you might well raise Iduring your deliberations:
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1. Why locate in West Africa? 2. Why obtain publications from West Africa? 3. Why establish an LC field office?
I won't elaborate the importance of West Africa, which is well documented in our written statements, beyond underscoring the strong human and cultural ties we Americans have with West Africa, and pointing out that despite serious Icurrent problems, countries in West Africa, and indeed the region as a whole, have potential for becoming Significant players in global economics and politics. West Africa is a friend we may well appreciate having.
American experts write many books on West Africa-why bother acquiring publications from the region itself? Simply because our experts in all fields need primary sources of information-documents, local studies, etc-to support the Iresearch that goes into writing those books. They need, as well, the exchange of ideas with African scholars who publish their research in Africa. Perhaps most I importantly, our students need the direct contact that African books, newspa jpers and magazines provide to place their studies in the human context of West Africa. Frivolous as it might seem, reading a political cartoon or advice column in a Nigerian newspaper can take Africa out of the abstract and make it real and t understandable for our students. I
Given our nationwide need for a broad spectrum of publications from West Africa, how do we expect LC's field office to help? Publications from West Africa are difficult to identify, locate and acquire--our professional discussions al
ways focus on those difficulties. Knowing the very successful record of LC's Nairobi office in solving these problems for East Africa through the accessions list, advice on specific problems and a recently expanded acquisitions service, we anticipate the same kinds of assistance from the West African office, as well as a strengthened collection in LC, the library of last resort for our nation's researchers.
This is the information age-we look forward to working with LC to expand the nation's understanding of West Africa through information, when the West African Field Office is established.
Regional Accessions Office by Phyllis B. Bischof, University of California, Berkeley
Thank you for this opportunity to state the wholeheartedsupport of the Archives-Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association of the US for the establishment of a West African regional office by The Library of Congress. Members of this Committee manage the most substantial and prestigious collections of Africana held by our nation's major research libraries. Our 70 members and our respective libraries welcome the prospect of better acquisition of and improved bibliographic control over West African materials, publications which have been notoriously difficult to acquire.
Africanists believe a West African regional acquisitions office to be not only highly desirable, but also necessary to improved acquisitions of West African publications by American libraries. Enactment of the request now before you would go far to alleviate the present partial and uneven coverage in this country of these publications which are sorely needed by scholars, students, entrepreneurs, and also by governmental policymakers. The outstanding success of the East African Accessions Office has long raised the question of why West Africa, with publications more numerous, has been ignored among foreign acquistions programs. A West African acquisitions program would significantly enhance information resources available nationally because of a stated intent to make available copies of publications acquired by the field office not only to The Library of Congress itself, but also by sale in microform to other major Africana libraries around the country. The East African Office publishes and distributes gratis its highly valued Accessions List: East Africa. This list informs librarians what has been published in the 22 countries covered by The Library's Nairobi field office, and it delineates for us the universe of printed information with which we need to be familiar. No comparable form of bibliographic control exists for West Africa, although it is profoundly needed. I should like to share with you just one specific example of the kind of problem typically faced by American librarians in acquiring African materials. For two years the Library of the University of California at Berkeley attempted in vain to set up a subscription to a Kenya newspaper, The Daily Nation, published in Nairobi. We particularly wanted to receive the paper since at least 15 Berkeley professors are en
gaged in East African research, and of course both American and Kenyan graduate and undergraduate students on the campus need to keep abreast of Kenyan news. One would think this to be a simple matter, but it was not. We wrote repeatedly with no response. Finally in 1987 we sent Susan Hall, a Berkeley Fulbright scholar spending a year in Nairobi, to the offices of the Daily Nation to discuss the matter in person. Subsequently much correspondence still was needed from Berkeley in order to get the subscription correctly underway. The paper finally began to arrive. However, in late 1989 we decided we would have to cancel our subscription. Why? Because the issues received were so few in number that each daily issue actually received cost us $44. No library can bear such costs. Only in limited instances can libraries afford the kind of special attention and voluminous correspondence we expended on trying to acquire this newspaper in the first place.
There is, however, a happy ending to this story. Just at the time we determined to cancel, the East African Accesssions Office offered to begin acquisition of selected newspapers, serials and governmental publications from Kenya for American libraries at cost plus a 50 percent administrative fee. We had been paying $780 annually for this paper to arrive by airmail. Now we shall pay $100.50 for an annual subscription, and we do expect the paper to arrive regularly and promptly. Savings will be used to pay for other African materials we could otherwise not have purchased. The Archives-Libraries Committee wishes to express its appreciation to the Library of Congress for this extension of the activities of its Nairobi Office. This action should significantly strengthen and improve East African holdings in American libraries. Since no commercial alternative to this support exists, improved library collections of Africana remain quite dependent upon this type of assistance.
In 1982 I made a seven-week's acquisitions trip to five West African countries. Although this was highly beneficial to my library and its collections, such trips are very costly, necessarily infrequent, and benefit only single institutions. They require months of preparation and weeks of follow-up in addition to the time away from one's normal work. Karen Fung, Stanford's Deputy Curator for Africana, made one such trip during the 1970s; Dr. Joseph J. Lauer, then of UCLA, also made one trip during the 1980s. Acquisitions trips are not possible for more than one or two of our members in any given year, and many years have passed without a single trip being taken. Not only their cost and infrequency bear on the wisdom of reliance on such trips to improve acquisitions; the sheer number of the more than 50 African countries for which we are responsible to collect materials does not permit more than occasional visits by even the most assiduous traveller.
Africana librarians consider publications of Nigeria to be among the most urgent to acquire; they are also among the most difficult. Our acquisition problems stem in large measure from remaining gaps in Nigerian infrastructure and from difficulties inherent in long-distance communication. Nigeria's population of an estimated 105 million
means that one of every six Africans is Nigerian. Nigeria possesses one of the highest per capita incomes on the continent ($730 in 1986, according to The Stateman's Yearbook of 1989-90), and its people are full of vitality and resourcefulness. After obtaining independence in 1960 Nigeria built 22 universities and scores of polytechnic and other college level schools. It also, like many other newly independent African nations, instituted universal primary education in the years 1955 to 1971. Thus it offers a number of aspects of unmistakable interest to this country, including a relatively well-trained workforce, sizable potential markets, and in addition, of course, substantial oil reserves.
Recently established (since 1984) Nigerian publishers are all quite Significant, but thus far only poorly represented in libraries of this country. They include the following: Fountain Publications (lbadan), Booklinks (lbadan), Gbemi Sodipo Press (Abeokuta), Malthouse Publishing (lbadan and Lagos), Paperback Publishers (lbadan), Saros International (Port HarcourO, Vantage Publishers (lbadan), Zikizum Publishers (Benin City), Pero Press (Lagos), Zim-Pan African Publishers (Oguta), etc. Publications of these newly established publishers and other indigenous publishers, as well as the information issued by West African governments should be readily available in major research libraries here in the United States. I wish to make emphatically dear that adequate private sector resources to supply research libraries with these publications do not exist.
It is a truism that this is an information age. In such an age Americans can ill afford to be without solid collections of West African publications. This country must compete in an information age, for so very many reasons. We must know the terrain and the facts of daily life, as well as the political and economic conditions in this important area. We must know markets and demographic patterns; educational, medical, and environmental information of all kinds is required. A number of West African countries contain parts of the Sahara Desert within their borders; detailed information regarding their climates is imperative in order to assess and act upon such questions as those associated with global warming. Information regarding levels of air pollution and water purity in oceans off the borders of these lands also affect the lives of Americans. Establishment of this office provides a singular opportunity to bridge a troubling gap in our sources of information on West Africa.
The Archives-Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association is encouraged by the present endeavor to establish a West African acquisitions office. We consider passage of the Library of Congress proposal for this office essential to the successful performance of our work. Passage is also essential to the national interest, for it would enable policymakers to base their decisions on a fuller representation of West African information of all kinds. Members of the Archives-Libraries Committee unanimously urge the Subcommittee's favorable consideration of this measure.
West African Regional Acquisitions Office by Edna G. Bay, African Studies Association
I am pleased to have the opportunity to testify in support of the Library of Congress's request for a West African regional acquisitions office. I am pleased, too, to be able to speak on behalf of the African Studies Association, a nonprofit corporation of some 2500 individuals and institutions with an interest in African affairs and the leading organization promoting African studies in the United States. Founded in 1957, the ASA's mission is to bring together persons with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa, to provide useful services to the Africanist community, and to publish and distribute scholarly Africanist materials.
Most of the 1900 individual ASA members are professors and researchers associated with institutions of higher education in the US, though our membership also includes persons with careers in the United States foreign service, in international development and health, in primary and secondary education and in church or social service work as it relates to Africa. Our institutional members are predominantly libraries and academic programs.
Among the most active of the committees within the African Studies Association is our Archives-Libraries Committee. The oldest of our constituent groups, the committee consists of profeSSional librarians and archivists representing virtually all the research institutions and major university libraries holding significant collections of Africana. Meeting twice annually, these 60-70 individuals have worked over the years to acquire materials on Africa and to make them available both to research scholars and to the American public.
The effective functioning of our members, as teachers, researchers and decision-makers in African affairs, is dependent upon access to current information on Africa, whether it be primary works such as news materials and government documents, or whether it be published and unpublished scholarly monographs and papers prepared by colleagues in African universities and research institutes. To the extent that we collectively assist in the formation of US opinion and of US policy on Africa, it is clearly in the national interest that the flow of information to us and to all Americans be ensured. In short, the quality of American understanding and analysis of African affairs is directly linked to the quality of information available to all of us.
The Library of Congress Office in Nairobi has done an excellent job in providing bibliographic control for a wide area of east, northeast, central and southern Africa. Its extensive acquisitions efforts have succeeded in developing one of the world's finest collections of current materials from those areas. Futhermore, through the office's cooperative acquisitions program, materials such as serials, which are particularly difficult to obtain through commercial sources, are being made far more widely available on a timely and continuing basis than has ever before been possible. The excellence of the services provided by the Nairo
bi office has underlined the need for a West African counterpart for the more than twenty African nations not currently covered by a Library of Congress field office.
The establishment of a West African acquisitions office is a particular need given the importance of that region: it is the area to which most African Americans trace their heritage, and it continues to be a strategically and economically important area for the United States. West Africa is increasingly the source of new immigrants to the United States, often skilled and talented individuals who have enriched American research capabilities in African studies as well as individuals who are contributing generally to the US economy. Nigeria, the world's sixth most populous country, is located in West Africa, as are Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Senegal, to mention just a few of the nations with which the US has special relations and in terests.
The need for the systematic collection of information on West Africa is crucial at this time for two reasons. First, we have all been made increasingly aware over the past decade of the world-wide interconnectedness of environmental, health, political and economic systems. Tracing the spread of AIDS in West Africa or understanding issues such as West African deforestation and its impact on the earth's environment are essential to a global approach. Information on West African markets and the supply of raw materials is central to our understanding of global economics, while the changes in great power relations and the deep economic crisis in West Africa have created fluid and rapidly developing political situations likely to change the nature of government there and the atmosphere of international organizations everywhere. Our long-term policy interests will certainly be affected as populations in West Africa increase their demands for democratic institutions.
Second, at the same time that we recognize the need for global understanding of human issues, our ability to acquire information from West Africa has declined. Over the decade of the 80s deteriorating economic conditions there have crippled channels of communication across the Atlantic. Our librarians and scholars have become increasingly frustrated at being unable to obtain current materials either in a reliable or a timely fashion. Institutions with the means send librarians on occasional collecting trips and individual scholars often make acquisitions a side activity on research visits. Nevertheless, such efforts are by definition spotty, and cannot begin to deal systematically or comprehensively with the entire body of available materials.
In fact, there is a greater production of print materials in West Africa than in eastern Africa. One hundred fiftythree publishing houses exist in Nigeria alone. Commercial vendors are able to supply American institutions with only a portion of the needed materials. West African countries produce national bibliographies or other listings of publications only sporadically and many West African publications are ephemeral, products of short print runs and inadequate budgets. A field presence is essential for the systematic collection of these materials.
We anticipate that a West African aquisitions office will assist us in two major ways. First, the office will alert us to
the existence of materials by producing a bi-monthly accessions list and annual list of publishers. We in turn will have access to those materials through the Library of Congress. Second, the Library of Congress plans through a West African office to offer American libraries participation in a cooperative acquisitions program to be run on a costrecovery basis. This will enable virtually any American library to obtain materials, and particularly serials, on a reliable basis at a considerable savings in cost, even though they will pay list price plus 50% overhead. Moreover, American librarians and individual scholars will be able to acquire materials like government documents, which are often not available in multiple copies, through the LC's photoduplication services.
The need for a West African field office is abundantly clear. It would facilitate research and understanding of that area in the context of America's responses to a world in the midst of dramatic political and economic changes. It would promote the national interest by enabling policy makers to base their decisions on a fuller representation of West African governmental activities and intellectual concerns. Surely Americans cannot afford to be without these information resources, so many of which are at present outside our reach.
House and Senate Committees considering the Library of Congress request for a West African Regional Office:
Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee on Appropriations House of Representatives 2113 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
Chair: Vic Fazio, Sacramento, CA Sidney R. Yates, Chicago, IL
David Obey, Wausau, WI John P. Murtha, Johnstown, PA
Bob Traxler, Bay City, MI Lindy Boggs, New Orleans, LA
Jerry Lewis, Redlands, CA Silvio Conte, Pittsfield, MA
John T. Myers, Covington, IN John Edward Porter, Wilmette, IL
Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations Committee on Appropriations SD-132 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Chair: Harry Reid, Searchlight, NV Barbara A. Mikulski, Baltimore, MD
Brock Adams, Seattle, W A Don Nickles, Ponca City, OK Mark O. Hatfield, Tigard, OR
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS JUNE 30, 1989
HOLLAND SHIPES VANN, P.e., CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 1117 PERIMETER CENTER WEST, SUITE NORTH 300, ATlANTA, GEORGIA 30338-5417 (404) 393-2900, TELECOPIER NO. 404' 390' 0251
october 11, 1989
Board of Directors African Studies Association, Inc.
We have compiled the accompanying statement of assets, liabilities and fund balance of African Studies Association, Inc. as of June 30, 1989 and the related statements of activity, changes in fund balance and cash flows for the six months ended June 3D, 1989, in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
A compilation is limited to presenting in the form of financial statements information that is the representation of management. We have not audited or reviewed the accompanying financial statements and, accordingly, do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance on them.
The financial statements for the year ended December 31, 1988 were audited by us and we expressed an unqualified opinion on them in our report dated February 7, 1989, but we have not performed any aUditing procedures since that date.
STATEMENTS OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE
ASSETS
June 30, 1989
(Compiled) CURRENT ASSETS:
Cash and equivalents $130,064 Accounts receivable 6,733 Inventories (Note 1) 22,129
158,926
EQUIPMENT (Note 1): Furniture and equipment 32,448 Computer equipment 8,016
40,464 Less; Accumulated depreciation 28,992
11. 472
$170,398
LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE
CURRENT LIABILITIES: Crossroads royalties $ 1,101 Membership dues received in advance 47,987 Deferred revenue - grants (Notes 1 and 3) 72,836 Due to Emory University (Note 2) 15,483
December 31, 1988
(Audited)
$51,594 6,033
24,994 82,621
32,448 7,135
39,583 27,329 12,254
$94,875
$39,145
19,525 137,407 58,670
FUND BALANCE 32,991 36,205
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See accountants' compilation report and accompanying notes to financial statements.
STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITY
Support and revenue: Membership dues Sale of publications Annual meeting Rental of mailing list Interest income Grants (Notes 2 and 3)
Expenses: Publications Annual meeting Board meetings and awards Mailing list Committees Horn of Africa conference General and administrative
Excess (deficit) of support and over expenses
revenue
Six Months Ended
June 30, 1989
(Compiled)
$54,917 14,267 13,233
3,478 4,703 3,753
94,351
28,457 4,571 6,950 5,626 7,070 2,164
42,727 97,565
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Year Ended December 31,
1988 (Audited)
$ 91,932 39,850 59,155
3,765 2,474
66,300 263,476
85,348 45,423 13,632
5,766
88,830 238,999
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See accountants' compilation report and accompanying notes to financial statements.
STATEMENT OF CHANGES
Balance at January 1, 1988
Support and revenue for 1988
Expenses for 1988
Balance at December 31, 1988
Support and revenue for the six months ended June 30, 1989
Expenses for the six months ended June 30, 1989
Balance at June 30, 1989
IN FUND
Grant Fund
$ -0
66,300
(66,300)
-0
3,753
(3,753)
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BALANCE
Unrestricted Fund
$ 11,728
197,176
(172,699)
36,205
90,598
(93,812)
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Total
$ 11,728
263,476
(238,999)
36,205
94,351
(97,565)
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See accountants' compilation report and accompanying notes to financial statements.
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STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Six Months Ended
June 30, 1989
(Compiled)Cash flows from operating activities:
Excess (deficit) of support and revenue over expenses $ (3,214)
Adjustments to reconcile excess (deficit) of support and revenue over expenses to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation 1,663 Changes in assets and liabilities:
Decrease in inventories 2,865 (Increase) in accounts receivable (700) Increase in Crossroads royalties 1,101 Increase in membership dues received
in advance 8,842 Increase (decrease) in deferred
revenue - grants 72,836 Decrease in due to University
of California Increase (decrease) in due to
Emory University (4,042) 82,565
Net cash provided by operating activities 79,351
Cash flows from investing activities: Acquisition of equipment (881)
Net cash used in investing activities (881)
Net increase in cash 78,470
Cash at beginning of period 51,594
Cash at end of period $130,064
Year Ended December 31,
1988 (Audited)
$24,477
2,725
6,539 (6,033)
10,214
(21,627)
(11,503)
19,525 (160)
24,317
(9,221)
(9,221)
15,096
36,498
$51,594
t J
I 1
See accountants' compilation report and accompanying notes to financial statements.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
JUNE 30, 1989 AND DECEMBER 31, 1988
NOTE 1: Summary of significant Accounting Policies
Description of Organization
The African Studies Association, Inc. (the Association) was
organized in 1957 as a non-profit membership corporation to bring
together persons with a scholarly and professional interest in
Africa, to provide useful services to the Africanist community, and
to publish and distribute appropriate scholarly and informational
materials. Membership is open to institutions and individuals.
Method of Depreciation
Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over
the estimated useful lives of the assets.
Income Taxes
The Association qualifies as a tax-exempt organization under
section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue code. Accordingly, no
provision for Federal or state income taxes has been recorded on
the accompanying financial statements.
Inventories
Inventories of books and publications are stated at the lower
of cost or market, with cost determined using the first-in, firstout method.
Deferred Revenue - Grants Deferred revenue - grants represent funds which are restricted
for specific purposes by the grantor. Unexpended grant funds are
recognized as revenue as expenditures are incurred for the purpose
See accountants' compilation report.
specified by the grantor. Grants which are not restricted by the
grantor are recognized as revenue upon receipt.
NOTE 2: Agreement with Emory University
The Association and Emory University (Emory) entered into an
agreement which provided for the Secretariat of the Association to
be located on the campus of Emory for a period of five years from
January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1992. The agreement provided for
Emory to pay for certain moving, operating and capital expenses in
connection with the moving and relocating of the Secretariat to
Emory. Emory donated $31,000 for these expenditures which is in
cluded in the accompanying statements of support, revenue and
expenses as grant funds received for the year ended December 31,
1988.
Additionally, Emory pays certain operating expenses of the
Association, such as payroll, postage, telephone, etc. and bills
the Association monthly. At June 30, 1989 and December 31, 1988,
the Association owed Emory $15,483 and $19,525, respectively, for
such expenses.
NOTE 3: Grant Funds
In 1988 and 1989, the Association received grants from the
Ford Foundation and other sources totaling $23,651. The grants
were used to fund foreign participation in the Association's 1989
and 1988 annual meetings. Expenditures relating to the above
grants totaled $389 as of June 30, 1989 and $23,262 in 1988.
See accountants' compilation report.
During 1988, the Association was awarded a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $12,038.
The funds are restricted to the publication of a book listing all
American and Canadian doctoral dissertations (from 1975 to 1987)
about Africa. Expenditures relating to the above grants totaled
$12,038 in 1988.
As explained in Note 2, Emory University contributed $31,000
to the Association in 1988. The funds were used for moving, operating and certain capital expenses of the Association.
In 1989, the Association received a grant from the MacArthur
Foundation in the amount of $25,000. The grant is used to fund
foreign participation in the Association's 1989 annual meeting.
The Association has not incurred any expenditures relating to the
above grant as of June 30, 1989.
In 1989, the Association received a grant from the Ford
Foundation in the amount of $50,000. The grant is used to fund
foreign participation in the Horn of Africa conference. The
Association incurred expenditures relating to the above grant in
the amount of $2,164 as of June 30, 1989.
In 1989, the Association received contributions in the amount
of $1,200. The contributions are used to fund various expenses
for the Association's 1989 annual meeting. Expenditures relating
to these contributions totaled $1,200 as of June 30, 1989.
See accountants' compilation report.
ASA ELECTIONS 1990 The following persons have been nominated for officers of the Association and members of the Board of Directors. Ballots for the election will be mailed to 1990 members in mid-summer.
Vice PresidentIPresident Elect Edmond J. Keller, University of California, Los Angeles C. S. Whitaker, University of Southern California
Directors Joel D. Barkan, University of Iowa Paul A. Beckett, University of Wisconsin-Madison Paul H. Brietzke, Valparaiso University Beverly Grier, Oark University Goran Hyden, University of Florida Daniel Weiner, University of Toledo
Edmond J. Keller BioiVaphical Information Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Education: MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1970); PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1974). Publications: (Books) Education, Manpuwer and Deoelopment: The Impact of Educational Policy in Kenya (1980); Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic (1988); Afromarxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy (1987) with Donald Rothchild; South Africa in Southern Africa: Domestic Change and International Conflict (1989) with Louis Picard. (Selected Major Articles) "Constitutionalism and the National Question in Africa: The Case of Eritrea," in Marina Ottaway, ed., The Political Economy of Ethiopia (forthcoming 1990); "Afro-Marxist Regimes" in Edmond J. Keller and Donald Rothchild, eds., Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Policy, 1987; "The Politics of State Survival: Continuity and Change in Ethiopian Foreign Policy," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (January 1987); "Ethiopian Socialism, Decentralization, and the Political Economy of Agricultural Development," in Louis A. Picard and Raphael briski, eds., Subnational Politics in the 1980s: Organization, Reorganization and Economic Deoelopment, 1987; "United States Policy on the Hom of Africa: Policymaking with Blinders On," in Richard Sklar, Gerald Bender and James S. Coleman, eds., African Crisis Areas and United States Foreign Policy, 1985; "Revolutionary Ethiopia: Ideology, Capacity and the Limits of State Autonomy," Journal ofCommonwealth and Comparative Politics (1985); "State, Party and Revolution in Ethiopia," African Studies Review (1985); liThe Ethiopian Revolution: How Socialist is it?" TournaI of African Studies (1984); "The State, Public Policyand the Mediation of Ethnic Conflict," in V. Olorunsola and D. Rothchild, eds., State Versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas, 1983; "Development Policy and the Evaluation of Community Self-Help: The Harambee School
Movement in Kenya/' Studies in Comparative International Deoelopment (1983); "Ethiopia: Revolution, Class and the National Question," African Affairs (1981); "Ethiopia: The Revolutionary Transformation of a 20th Century Bureaucratic Empire," TournaI of Modern African Studies (1981); ''Education, Ethnicity, and Political Socialization in Kenya," Comrxzrative Political Studies (1980); "The Political Socialization of Adolescents in Contemporary Africa: The Role of the School in Kenya," Comrxzrative Politics (1987); "Harambee! Education Policy, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Rural Community Self-Help Organization," Journal of African Studies (1977); "The Legacy of Frantz Fanon and Black Politics in America," in N. Muyuba and E. Atcherson, eds. From Third World to One World: A PanAfrican Perspective (1988); ''Black Americans and US Policy on the Horn of Africa" TransAfrica Forum (1984); numerous other articles, book chapters and reviews. Visiting Research Fellow: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1972-73; Bureau of Educational Research, University of Nairobi, 1975; United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa, 1976-77; and Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1981-83. Professional Activities (Selected List): Editor Issue: A Journal of Opinion, 1982-87; Associate Editor, Western Political Quarterly, 1987-present; Chair, ASA Current Issues Committee, 1980-84; Program Chair, ASA Annual Meeting (New Orleans), 1985; Member, Board of Directors, OxfamAmerica, 1986-89; Consultant to President Jimmy Carter on the Eritrean Peace Negotiations; Nominated for membership on the Council on Foreign Relations, 1990. Awards (Selected): American Council on Education Fellow, 1987-88; Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict grant, 1984-86; Ford Foundation/NEH/Post-doctoral Fellow, 1981-82; African-American Scholars Council Research Fellow, 1976-77; Ford Foundation Middle East and Africa Field Research Fellow, 1972-73. Current Research: Public policy and development policy analysis; state-society relations; revolutionary change; selfdetermination in sub-Saharan Africa; and the regional politics of Northeastern Africa.
Statement of Candida<;)' I believe that the decade of the 19905 will be viewed by
historians as a pivotal period in the political history of the world. Nowhere will this be more evident than in Africa. As the 1980s drew to a close the world economic and political order was posed for fundamental change. Western Europe was rapidly moving towards an expanded economic and political union of West European states; the Eastern Bloc was witnessing growing economic and political liberalization; the superpowers for the first time in more than 40 years were moving toward close cooperation and away from conflict. On the African continent itself, the several
political impasses in both the Hom of Africa and Southern Africa seemed closer to resolution than ever before, while at the same time the African economic crisis seems to have turned to a chronic malaise. These and other changes will no doubt have profound implications for the countries of Africa. In order to appropriately assess the impacts of such changes on African politics and society, Africanists will have to re-examine the research issues and approaches which concern them; be ready to take the lead in setting the African research agenda; and work diligently to keep Africa at the front of the policy agenda. These are formidable challenges, but I am convinced that they must be met if the ASA is to fulfill its chosen professional role.
I believe that the African Studies Assodation can best meet these challenges by not only continuing to do what it already does well (e.g. advancement of Africanist scholarship; community outreach and education about Africa, etc.); it can and must explore new avenues of research and policy action which will contribute to positive development and change in Africa. One important area of expanded activity should certainly be the broadening of relationships and cooperative arrangements between and among American and African universities and professional associations; and the expansion of relationships between ASA and other associations of Africanists throughout the world (e.g. Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe). The ASA could do much to encourage international joint conferences involving American Africanists and Africanists from other parts of the world.
A second area which needs the attention of the ASA is the development of scholarship funds that would enable more African graduate students to study in American universities. The Association could take the lead in making information about possible existing sources of funding more available for African students, and exploring the possibility of establishing an ASA fellowship fund for African students. Such students not only enrich our courses and seminars, they represent Africa's future intellectual leadership and must be supported in whatever ways possible so they can ably meet the challenges ahead.
Another area in which the ASA could have a profound impact is in finding ways to increase the flow of books published outside Africa to African libraries. The economic crisis has had a devastating impact on the ability of African libraries to purchase books published abroad. This concern is not a new one for the ASA, but we must continue to work hard to noticeably alter this situation.
Fourth, the ASA is not a political organization, but I believe its members are deeply concerned about how Africa is represented in policy circles. In this era of glasnost and a thawing in the Cold War, Africanists must be more vigilant than ever in monitoring how Africa is viewed and dealt with in policy arenas. One negative consequence of the changes now taking place in superpower relations is the possible further peripheralization of Africa and Africa-
related issues from the concerns of the First and Second World. The ASA must find new ways of engaging national policymakers on African issues relating to economic, political and human resource development.
Last, the ASA must continue to diversify its membership. Particular efforts need to be made to include members of the African diaspora in the Americas in the Assodation's rank and file as well as its leadership. Much progress has been made in this direction over the past decade, but I feel ASA must continue to nurture this process to ensure the permanence of such changes.
c. S. Whitaker Biographical Information Professor of International Relations and Political Science, and Dean, Social Sciences and Communication, University of Southern California; formerly, Professor of Political Science/Africana Studies; UCLA, 1962-69; Princeton University, 1969-75; CUNY (Brooklyn College), 1974-78; Rutgers University, 1978-1987. Education: BA (with High Honors) Swarthmore College, 1956; MA and PhD Princeton University, 1958 and 1964. Selected Publications. Books and Monographs: The Politics of Tradition: Continuity and Change in Northern Nigeria: 1946-1966 (Princeton University Press, 1970); ed., Perspectives On the Second Republic in Nigeria (Crossroads Press, 1981); ed., (with Anatoly Gromyko), Agenda For Action: African-Soviet-US Cooperation (Lynne Reiner Press, 1990); ed., (with R. L. Sklar), Essays in African Political Development (Lynne Reiner Press, in preparation); Book Chapters in J.S. Coleman and Carl G. Rosberg, eds., Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa (California University Press, 1964); Gwendolyn Carter, ed., National Unity and Regionalism in Eight African States, (Cornell University Press, 1966); R. Melson and H. Wolpe, eds. Nigeria: Modernization and the Politics of Communalism (Michigan State University, Press, 1971); Ahmadu Bello University, Reader in Sociology, 1973; "Forward" to Elliot Skinner and Pearl Robinson, eds., Transformation and Resilience in Africa (Howard University Press, 1982); Ikuo Kobashima and Lynn White, III, eds., Political System and Change (Princeton University Press, 1985). Articles: ''Three Perspectives on Hierarchy: Political Thought and Leadership in Northern Nigeria," Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies (March, 1964); "A Dysrhythmic Process of Political Change," World Politics Qanuary 1967); "Nigeria's Return to Civilian Rule," US Congress, House Committee on Foreign Relations, Sub-Committee on Africa, Hearings (September 26, 1979); "Second Beginnings: The New Political Framework in Nigeria," Issue (Spring/ Summer, 1981); ''The Unfinished State of Nigeria," Worldview, (March 1984); "Missed Opportunities For Intervention in the Desertification Crisis in Africa," Center for International and Strategic Studies, UCLA, 1987; "Environmental Protection (with Leonard Goncharav), Issue (Winter, 1988); ..Addressing the Crisis of Desertification in Africa," (In
Gromyko and Whitaker, op.dt., 1990). Professional Activities. Select List: Board of Director, African Studies Association, 1983-86; Current Issues Committee, ASA, 1970-72; Board of Directors, UnitarianUniversalist Service Committee (1987-); Board of Directors, University of Cape Town Fund, Inc., 1988-); Council on Foreign Relations (1984-) Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on US Policy Toward South Africa (1986-87); Board of Trustees, Immaculate Heart College Center, Los Angeles, California (1988-), Visiting Professor, University of Lagos, Nigeria 1981; Bayero University, Kano, 1981-83. Honors and Awards: Herskovits Prize Nomination, 1970; Social Science Research Council Fellow, UK and Nigeria, 1958-60; Ford Foundation Grant, Nigeria 1980-82; Fulbright Professor, Nigeria, 1981-83.
Statement of Candidacy Cycles of morbid attention and neglect in attitudes to
wards Africa have been reflected in the state of African studies, especially in the era of bi-polar conflict and eurocentric emphasis of the last forty-five years. In future, African studies will be concerned more and more with global matters, and at the same time with materials that continue to reflect the particular conditions and special characteristics of the continent. As the professional association of reference, the ASA should help focus attention on the intersection of world-class concerns and distinctively African phenomena. Through appropriate advocacy and discussion, the ASA can help project onto the global agenda the significance and relevance of African events and situations. Greater emphasis should be placed on academic scholarship and programs that concurrently contribute new knowledge and foster constructive social outcomes in Africa, and in countries in relation to Africa. The ASA should by example and precept seek to represent at all times the importance of the subject of Africa, and the impact of policies that influence and are affected by the course of African events. The Association should give particular thought to the challenge of sustaining its purposes within the international organizations and arenas that will become newly important with the decline of the cold war. The ASA should promote fearless critique and thoughtful celebration of the African odyssey.
Joel D. Barkan Bio(;faphicallnformation Background: Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa where I have also served as director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies. Over the years I have, various times, been a research associate, visiting professor, or senior research fellow at Makerere University (1966-67), University of Ghana, Legon (1%7), University of Dar es Salaam (1973-74), La Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris (1978-79), University of Nairobi (1974,1979-80), Centre for the Study of Developing Socie
ties, New Delhi (1984), University of Ibadan (1989) and Cornell University (1990). Education: AB, Cornell University (1963); MA, UCLA (1965); PhD, UCLA (1970); also participant in Crossroads Africa program (Kenya, 1%2). Awards/Grants: SSRC/ACLS Foreign Area Fellow (196668), The Rockefeller Foundation (1973-74), Fulbright-Hays Fellow (1978-79), Indo-American Fellow (1984), US Agency for International Development (1978-81), National Science Foundation (1990). Publications: An African Dilemma: University Students, Politics and Development in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda (Oxford University Press, 1975); co-author and editor, Politics and Public Policy in Kenya and Tanzania (Praeger, 1979, revised ed. 1984); co-author, The Legislative Connection: The Politics of Representation in Kenya, Korea, and Turkey (Duke University Press, 1984). I have also contributed articles to anthologies and journals including The Journal of Modern African Studies, Rural Africana, The American Political Science Review and World Politics, the most recent of which are; ''PeasantState Relations and the Social Base of Self-Help in Kenya" (with Frank Holmquist), World Politics, April 1989, and "Decentralizing the State: District Focus and the Politics of Reallocation in Kenya" (with Michael Chege), JMAS, December 1989.
Statement of Candidacy The ASA must address itself more forcefully and more
systematically to two problems which threaten future scholarship on Africa, and hence, the future vibrancy of our organization: 1) the decline in funding to support individual research in Africa, especially funding for graduate students pursuing their doctorates, and 2) the budgetary crisis of higher education in Africa which has resulted in the near breakdown of some institutions with the consequent decline in research activity by faculty at African universities and a drop in the number of Africans pursuing PhDs both at home and abroad.
The decline in funding opportunities for North American scholars makes it increasingly difficult for the Africanist community to renew itself, and to infuse its ranks with new members. The problem is compounded by the fact that it arises at a time when the academic job market has improved and will continue to do so throughout the 1990s. Will the study of Africa be squeezed out, because relatively few people will be able to pursue research on Africa compared to other areas of the world <e.g. Eastern Europe, the Pacific Rim)? In this regard, I would like to see the ASA establish a standing committee on research funding which would have two tasks: 1) to identify agendas for research 11 for which new funding might be available to both established scholars and graduate students, 2) to establish a ~\ working relationship with major funding agencies to create new funding opportunities in the humanities and social sciences consistent with the agendas identified under 1).
In respect to the crisis in Mrican higher education, the Association might, within the limits of its resources, seek to broker agreements of institutional exchange between African universities and those in the US and Canada. Such agreements enable faculty from African universities to have productive research leaves abroad at a time when local funds for such purposes no longer exist. They also smooth the flow of qualified graduate students from Africa to North America, yet require relatively modest levels of outside funding. And, they enrich the intellectual life of the host institution, especially where there is no major center of Mrican studies. ASA encouragement of such agreements would be a logical extension of the Association's international visitors program.
Paul A. Beckett Bio~aphical Information Present position: Assistant Dean of International Studies and Administrative Director, Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other positions: Associate Director, Mrican Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1969-76); Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington State University; Assistant Professor, Purdue University. Education: PhD, Political science and African studies, University of Wisconsin, 1970. Research: Mrican political thought; Nigeria's highly educated elite and the university institutions in Nigerian society (including Education and Power in Nigeria with James O'Connell); on Nigerian politics, political parties and democracy in Nigeria. Present research on social class, constitutionalism and democracy in Nigeria. I grew up in the "bush" of eastern Washington State, and Mrica came as a revelation. The years of new independence were heady times, and brilliant teachers compounded the excitement. I soon left my first teaching job to go to a position at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. I went on two-year leave from Purdue-but stayed seven years. The African past in Hausaland was living and tangible. No less so was the present-and the "New Nigeria" being built all around. To borrow a phrase from a possibly impeachable source (Beryl Markham's father), you could feel the future, "under your feet." I worked as a regular member of the faculty of Ahmadu Bello University, participating not just as a teacher and researcher but fully as well in institutional governance and development. I felt I gained enormously. There finally came a time to choose: stay for good or leave for good. We left. I taught briefly at one alma mater (Washington State) and then another, Wisconsin, offered me a new job as Associate Director of the Mrican Studies Program. How could 1 refuse? That was 1977. The years since have gone fast. On the UW campus we have experienced and tried to deal with all the crucial problems of African
studies programs in the US: declining outside support; institutional funding crises; generational faculty renewal; and maintaining the vitality of our links to Mrica. Beyond the campus I have worked in the ASA (most notably as Local Arrangements Chair for the 1986 Annual Meeting, and participated actively in a sister organization of the ASA, the Association of African Studies Programs.
Statement of Candidacy I would be particularly concerned with five issue areas:
Maintainin& the Connection. I fear that our fine relations with many individual African scholars, and our achievements in increasing participation from Africa, may mask a widening gap. African scholars, especially younger ones, face ever greater obstacles including what amounts to a crisis of isolation from work outside Africa. Meanwhile, more North American scholars work in Mrica less and more superficially. The African Development Crisis. We cannot ignore the economic crisis and the callous manipulation of economic power by the West. I feel we all need to be concerned scholars on this issue. Self-interest also is involved: the danger to African higher education and research represents a threat also to the future vitality and validity of our own work. Federal and Foundation Relations. We are the worst funded of the major world area study professions. We are also at the end of a dismal decade of declining suppport for international education as a whole. I think that without abandoning either our dignity or our status as a scholarlyorganization we can defend and promote the profession's interest more effectively. Renewin& Mrican Studies. We may feel that we just began-but within a decade the generation of us trained in the 1960s---African Studies' "baby boomers"-will be moving in increasing numbers toward retirement. We must energetically promote the profession's renewal, encouraging, supporting and welcoming new people, ideas and issues, if necessary at the cost of conflict here and there. ASA Organizational Stren&thenin&. The ASA has developed a worldwide role and consequent responsibility. Yet anyone who has helped organize one of our Association's annual self-manifestations learns with astonishment (feeling a little like Dorothy discovering the reality of Oz) how little so much is done with. Fortunately, much progress has been made in strengthening ASA as an organization. I think the Board can carry this forward: above all, why should the ASA not be better funded?
While generally unremarkable within my generation, my career pattern has been particularly heavy on experience within an African university system and, subsequently, in questions of organization, development and funding of African studies both on the institutional and (US) nationallevels. I deeply respect and value our traditions of nonpartisanship. But within that context I would like to be an
activist member of an activist Board of an activist Association.
Paul H. Brietzke Born in Chicago in 1944, I hold an economics BA (hon
ors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Lake Forest College, a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The NEH and the German Academic Exchange Commission (DAAD) awarded me research grants. I am presentlya professor at Valparaiso University School of Law, having taught and researched at universities in England (three years), Malawi (three years) and Ethiopia (two years). While writing about antitrust law, law and economics, and comparative law-Africanist scholarship is frequently deemed irrelevant in American law schools--I have published a fair amount on African topics: two books (one as a joint author), two books of teaching materials, 20 articles, and eight book reviews. These publications concern comparative law (with attempts to revise Eurocentric methodologies), an anthropology of law (land tenure, witchcraft and attitudes toward crime and punishment), the relationship between law and development (with attempts to avoid simplistic Western attitudes), law and politics and human rights (especially the challenging right to development). I am fairly well read-in social science approaches to Mrica and in African history and I try to folIowan interest in the arts by attending presentations at ASA Annual Meetings.
In addition to the ACLU and other human rights organizations, I have long been active in the International Third World Legal Shldies Association (known by the tonguetwisting acronym of INTWORLSA), as Vice President (1979-87> and as co-editor of Third World Legal Studies. I placed an INTWORLSA Symposium on the World Bank in Vol. 27 (4) of African Studies Review, serving as Guest Editor for that issue and on the ASR Board of Editors from 1981 to 1986. I would promote closer collaboration between INTWORLSA and the ASA, if this were thought desirable.
Unable to find a suitable research and/or teaching position in Africa in recent years, I took a Fulbright to Malaysia
\ in 1988. Travels in Asia and discussions with scholars there \ i \and in the US drove home to me the £u11 extQAt to which Afri~ Africa,n studies are unjustly neglected. While ASian studies flounsh, a cyrucal and short-sighted geopolitics assigns a marginal role to Africa among government policymakers, curriculum committees at many universities and officials in foundations and the media. While the ASA has attempted to change these perceptions, we should use our collective expertise even more aggreSSively. This could most easily be done in the areas where a consensus exists among us: advocating an interrelated development and human rights, and justice in and for South Africa. Africa has a few good friends in Congress and the State Department, but we should ''lobby'' hard to combat widespread ignor
ance and "disinformation." Research grants are vital to building up and maintaining a knowledge base about Mrica in the public interest. These should be lobbied for widely, stressing the intrinsic value of the arts and humanities and of Mricans' analyses of their own countries. Extensive/J1 and effective courses and media depictions are needed to give Africa an informed future among Americans. All of this is a tall order, but the ASA Board can (and does) chip away at these and other problems. Finally, I would promote a distinctively legal perspective on African issues, a perspective often neglected by Mricanists but one which some American and African policymakers can more readily understand.
Beverly Grier Biographical Information Assistant Professor of Government, Oark University (Worcestor, MA). Education: University of Michigan (BA, 1972), Yale University (PhD, 1979). Awards: Ford Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship, National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Fulbright Scholar-Lecturer (University of Niamey, Niger). Recent Publications: "Contradiction, Crisis, and Class Conflict: The State and Capitalist Development in Ghana Prior to 1948," in LL. Markovitz, ed., Studies of Power and Class in Africa (OUP, 1987); "Pawns, Porters and Petty Traders: Women in the Transition to Export Agriculture in Ghana," Signs (forthcoming). Forthcoming: Creating a Peasantry: Land, Labor and State in Colonial Ghana. Research interests: the state, gender, capitalism and legal change.
Statement of Candidacy My candidacy centers on three related issues. The first
is the crisis in Africa today. This crisis is profound and multidimensional. Its roots go back several centuries. Last fall, the ASA took an important step toward focussing the attention of its members on the continent's contemporary economic, social, political and environmental problems when it established the Task Force on the Attainment of Self-Sustainable Development in Africa. The inclusion of African colleagues is central to the work of the Task Force. As a member of the Task Force and, if elected, as a member of the Board of the ASA, I would work to make the concerns many of us have for the future of Africa's people a central part of the ASA's ongoing activities: panels, roundtables, foreign visitors, and ASA publications.
The second issue on which my candidacy is centered is the historic, contemporary and future roles of African women. Through the work of the ASA Women's Caucus and many other concerned members, the ASA has made tremendous progress in recent years in the area of genderrelated panels, roundtables and visitors. Unfortunately, gender-related papers tend to be segregated onto "gender panels." We need to build on past accomplishments by in
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tegrating gender issues more systematically. Through a different approach to programming, we could see papers on African women appear not only on "women's panels" but on panels on environmental degradation, technological change, agricultural productivity, law, music, resistance movements and health as welL
Finally, as an ASA Board member, I would work to alter a disturbing trend among US undergraduates that has implications for Africa: the movement away from the pursuit of doctoral degrees. Africa-related research and teaching in our colleges and universities are critical to an enlightened and sensitive US public and to a US foreign policy that does not intensify Africa's already severe crisis. I propose to make an effort toward reversing this trend by working for the permanent inclusion of an undergraduate student panel at Annual Meetings whose participants would have their expenses met in part by the ASA. This would expose promising young students (US and foreign, especially African) to an important aspect of our profession and, hopefully, encourage some of them to pursue a career in research and teaching.
GoranHyden BiQg!'aphical Information
Born, raised and educated in Sweden, I became interested in Africa while preparing myself for a career as political reporter in the late 1950s and early 19605. As recipient of one of the first research fellowships of the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, I went to Tanzania in 1964 to do field work for my doctoral dissertation. Encouraged and advised by the late James S. Coleman, I decided to devote my life to Africa and to teaching and research.
My teaching began at Makerere University in 1965-66 where I served as Visiting Lecturer. Upon completion of my PhD at the University of Lund in 1968, I was hired by the Department of Government at the University of Nairobi to teach Development Administration and Comparative Politics, the two fields with which, as a political scientist, I have been most closely associated over the years. Between 1971 and 1977 I taught courses in these two fields at the University of Dar es Salaam. After a sabbatical year at the Univesity of California, Berkeley, 1977-78, I returned to East Africa as the Social Science Research Advisor of the Ford Foundation, administering, among other things, a small research grant competition and assisting in other ways to build the social science research community in the region. I continued that activity after 1980 in my new capacity as Representative of the Ford Foundation for Eastern and Southern Africa. I quit that job in 1985 and came to this country initially on a sabbatical leave based at Dartmouth College.
I took up my current position of Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida in August 1986. Since about that time I have also served, on a part-time basis, as Associate Director of the World Hunger Program at Brown
University, responsible for the program's research work in Africa. Between 1986 and 1989 I was a member of the SubCommittee on African Agriculture of the Social Science Research Council. In 1986-87 I was on the Advisory Committee of "Low-Research Agriculture in Africa" project of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). As an affiliate of the Center of African Studies at the University of Florida I have been responsible for developing a research program on "Governance, Constitutionalism and Civil Society" in collaboration with three universities in East Africa. The project has recently received funding support of $182,500 from the Ford Foundation. I have served on the Editorial Board of Africa and currently occupy a similar position for the Canadian Journal ofAfrican Studies. I was recently appointed member of a special Task Force of the ASA with responsibility for overseeing the production of a series of research papers to be jointly authored by African and American scholars on a select number of topical issues. Since the mid-1960s I have written eight books and edited/ coauthored another six on Africa in either English or Swedish. I have contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals in Africa, Europe and North America. My two most recent books, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania and No Shortcuts to Progress, have been widely referred to and discussed by scholars on all three continents. My current research includes work on governance issues and the institutional dimensions of alleviating hunger and poverty in Africa.
Statement of Candidacy As a relative newcomer to the academic scene in this
country I have not been able to make a contribution to ASA in the past. In seeking election to the Board of Directors at this particular time, there are four issues that especially concern me. 1. The role of academic research in Africa is currently beginning to take on a new significance. In the 19605 and early 1970s a lot of research was done by both Africans and Africanists but nObody took it seriously outside the walls of academe. Then followed a period when governments began to curtail academic research and, like donor agencies, preferred to hire consultants, pressed by deadlines and the need to satisfy client interests, this type of commissioned work has added little to our knowledge of Africa. Today, for the first time really, there is a growing realization among public consumers of our resaerch that it may matter. Thus, a growing number of African governments are again opening the doors to academic research. Even in donor circles there is finally an acceptance that there are no shortcuts to progress. In its recently published longterm perspective study of sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank echoes this opinion and stresses, among other things, the need for a better understanding of the African condition. 2. The sad irony of the present situation is that as this new recognition of the role of academic research is emerging, \ our African colleagues find themselves in increasingly dif
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ficult circumstances to perform their professional work. Thus, in spite of Africa's great short-term financial needs, it is important that investments are made to sustain and improve the research infrastructure for our African colleagues. Given the growing recognition of the role of academic research, the opportunity does exist to secure such investments, but the point needs to be made over and over again to donor institutions by both ourselves and our African colleagues. Otherwise, funds will go to other equa]]y urgent matters.
~\ 3. To be taken seriously, we, the Africanists in North America, will have to demonstrate our own readiness to support research development in Africa. Collaborative research programs and efforts to overcome the "book famine" are important but our thinking must go beyond these relatively "easy" initiatives. ASA is particularly we]] placed to serve a key role in this regard. 4. ASA is a scholarly association. Its primary role is to produce and communicate knowledge about Africa. But it must also speak on issues such as the conditions under which knowledge is being produced. ASA has an advocacy role on behalf of researchers both here and in Africa. As suggested above, this role may prove to become particularly important in the next few years as the opportunity to place research on the African center stage presents itself. If elected to the Board, I would wish to take more concrete steps toward realizing this opportunity to African and Africanist researchers alike.
Daniel Weiner Biographical Information Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University. Previous employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo and Research Associate, Beijer Institute (Stockholm, Nairobi and Harare, 1981-86) and Oimate-Society Research Group (Oark University, 1978-80). Education: BA, Geography, Oark University, 1979 (fields of concentration - geomorphology and climatology); MA, Clark University, 1981 (fields of concentration - resource management and climate impact assessment); PhD, Clark University, 1986 (fields of concentration - economic development, energy planning, political economy and agricultural geography). Selected publications: (single-authored) "Socialist Transition in the Capitalist Periphery: A Case Study of Agriculture in Zimbabwe," Political Geography Quarterly, 1990. "The Land Question in South Africa," in R. Prosterrnan et aI, United States Policy and Third World Development: Landlessness and Tenure Problems in the 1980s and 90s, 1990. "Agricultural Restructuring in Zimbabwe and South Africa," Development and Change, 1989. "Agricultural Change in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa after Apartheid," Geoforum, 1988. "Land and Agricultural Development," in C. Stoneman, Zimbabwe's Prospects, 1988. (co-authored) Trans
forming Southern African Agriculture, 1990. "Energy for Rural Development in Zimbabwe: Concepts and Issues for Growth with Equity," in R. Hosier, Energy for Rural Development in Zimbabwe, 1988. "Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe," Journal of Modern AfrjcIln Studies, 1985. "Hunger: a Polemical Review," Antipode, 1982. "Energy Planning in Developing Countries: Blunt Axe in a Forest of Problems," Ambio, 1982. "The Effect of Climate Fluctuations on Human Populations: Two Hypotheses," in T. Wigley, et aI, Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and their Impact on Man, 1981. Awards and Grants: Social Science Research Council: Joint Committee on African Studies, 1987. University of Toledo Faculty Research Fellowship Grant, 1987; Jessie Noyes Fellow, Oimate and Society Research Group, 1979. Research Interests: My research focuses on environment and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifica]]y, my work has examined the relationship between political economyand resource management in rural Africa. Working directly with the governments of Kenya and Zimbabwe, Ione component of this work has been geared towards poli I
cyand project formulation. I am presently researching vari f ous aspects of agricultural development in southern Africa. The research goes beyond analyses of the present crisis to include case studies of successs stories. Focus is placed on the role of energy on agricultural productivity and the rural environment, some of the socio-economic components of agricultural change/stagnation, and agrarian differentiation. I am also interested in drought and natural hazards research in general.
Statement of Candida<;y Many people fear that political changes in Eastern Eu ,t
rope will negatively impact development efforts in Africa. I While it is unlikely that Africa, the "Crisis Continent of the ! 80s," will become Africa, the "Forgotten Continent of the I 90s," recent geo-political changes present new challenges !
Ito Africanists and the African Studies Association. As a member of the Board of Directors, I would be particularly supportive of the following ASA initiatives: 1) Institutions of higher education in the US must be coninually reminded of the importance of supporting interisciplinary African and Afro-American studies programs. me of our best work comes out of these programs which ~ I
I are important sources of information dissemination to students and the wider public. !2) We must continue to work towards the goals of main ! taining and increasing funding for research in Africa and in support of African educational and research institutions. ! 3) The volumes of research presently produced by ASA members could be more fully utilized in current policy debates. I believe that our mission must also include education about Africa with the objective of influencing donor agencies and policymakers. It is fundamental that this effort involve as many Africans as possible.
It is more than colloquy to propose that Africa has adequate natural and human resources to achieve economic growth (l would also contend that environmental problems will be an important constraint to growth in Eastern Europe). Progressive economic development-which includes
some combination of sustainable growth and grassroots democracy-will necessitate that Africa benefits more from domestic resources. This complex political and economic issue should remain a central concern to ASA members and the Association.
ASR Call for Reviewers
The Book Review Editor of African Studies Review invites members of the ASA to review books for the journal. Members and others are invited and encouraged to participate as reviewers. In order to join our roster of reviewers, please complete this form and return it with a current CV to:
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ASA MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS If you have not renewed already,
use the form on the following page to renew your ASA membership or to join the Association as a new member. Remember, you must be a 1990 mem
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A limited number of copies of African Cinema Now!, essays on African film produced for the ASA Atlanta Annual Meeting, are still available
through the ASA Secretariat. The 2()" page booklet includes essays by prominent film scholars and critics Mbye Cham, Manthia Diawara and Teshome Gabriel. Cham delineates contemporary issues and trends in African cinema. Diawara evaluates three narrative movements discernable in African cinema: socialist realism, colonial confrontation, and the return to source. Gabriel explores the
ASA ENDOWMENT The Board of Directors has agreed
to establish a modest endowment for the African Studies Association. Built with tax-exempt donations, the ASA Endowment will be managed to encourage constant financial growth. It will ensure the long-term stability of the Association and over time may be used to support selected activities and a portion of the operations of the ASA.
As the ASA matures, the Association is increasingly drawn to expand its programs and activities. Four major awards are now sponsored by the ASA: the Distinguished Africanist Award for lifetime contributions to African studies, the Herskovits Award for the best book in African studies published in English each year, the Conover-Porter award for the best bibliographical or reference work in the field and the James H. Robinson Award for creative work based on a first visit to Africa. In early 1989, the Association joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science! American Council of Learned Societies journalsto-Africa project, donating 100 copies of African Studies Review, Issue and ASA News on a continuing basis for distribution to African institutions. During the past decade, the Ford Foundation and other donors have contributed to the success of the Association's International Visitors Program, which provides travel support to enable overseas scholars to attend
the Annual Meeting. ASA members have indicated their desire to continue the International Visitiors Program even should outside funding not be available. Plans are being made to expand member services in the immediate future by the production and distribution of a biennial directory of ASA members. With expanded computer capabilities in the secretariat's Emory University home, there are increased publications possibilities available to the ASA.
Ideas for other worthy special projects are a constant in Board discussions. However, the Association at present must fund all special projects through current revenues or grants. Since its founding, the ASA has worked to keep membership fees at a modest level, despite constantlyincreasing costs for member serviceS. Our members' desire that the Association be more active nationally and internationally in projects to promote the study of Africa prompts us to embark on the building of the ASA Endowment. In this endeavor, we emulate other major academic associations that have built substantial endowments which permit them to cover operating and special expenses. The growth and use of the ASA Endowment will enable the Association to hold membership costs to the lowest levels possible at the same time that we expand special activities and projects.
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distinctive nature of African filmmaking.
ASA members may obtain a free copy of African Cinema Now! by adding $1 (postage and handling) to their 1990 dues renewal check. Nonmembers may purchase the booklet for $3 pre-paid from the African Studies Association, Credit Union Building, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
lenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities this spring. Should it be awarded, the NEH will contribute up to $1 for every $2 that the Association raises, beginning with all contributions after December 1, 1989. Please join us in supporting this worthy cause. We recommend a taxdeductible donation level of $100, though we would be delighted to accept a gift of any size. We urge you to consider pledging your speaking honoraria or your book royalties to us.
ANNUAL MEETING 1990
The 33rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association will be held at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, from November 1 - 4, 1990. The theme of the Meeting is Africa: Development and Ethics.
The Program Committee is chaired by Professor Willie B. Lamouse-Smi th of the Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228. Phone: 301-4552924, -2928, -2158 and FAX 301-4551076.
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RECENT MEETINGS An international conference in
honor of Professor Thurstan Shaw, convened on the occasion of the scholar's 75th birthday, was held November 20-23, 1989, at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of lbadan. Participants were mainly Africanists and Cultural Resource Managers drawn from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, C6te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Botswana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Sweden, West Germany, France, Britain, and the US.
The main objective of the conference was to review African cultural resource management disciplines, in particular archaeology, and to assess their role in the development of African countries. Papers reviewed the progress made in African cultural studies over the past 50 years in prehistoric archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, ecological archaeology, and art and material culture. Public archaeology and cultural resource management practices in Africa were reviewed to evaluate how these might be utilized for development.
In making recommendations, participants urged students of African societies to emulate the example of Thurstan Shaw in their field behavior and publications. In addition, they made a series of recommendations for African governments, some of the most important of which were: 1) that African governments formulate and implement cultural policies whose goals include educating African pe0ples as to the vital importance of preserving, conserving and developing their cultural resources, enacting appropriate laws to protect cultural resources and to retrieve those artifacts illegally removed overseas in the past; 2) that where agencies do not already exist, bodies be set up to conceive and execute research programs in cultural resources development and environmental impact and vegetational history studies, and 3) that African countries step up efforts to collaborate in cultural resource management at regional and sub-regional
levels. Delegates were impressed at the amount and quality of archaeological research being conducted in many African nations.
Kit W. Wesler of the Wickliffe Mounds Research Center, Kentucky, reports that the conference proceedings will be published by Heinemann (Nigeria).
The Union of Afrialn Performing Artists News (UAPANEWS) of February 1990 describes a workshop on theater for integrated development organized by the Nigerian Popular Theatre Alliance. Held in Benue State, Nigeria, from December 4-15, 1989, the event involved 50 participants and resource persons from Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Jamaica, Britain, Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ghana and the US. The following description is drawn from the printed newsletter text.
In one of the three villages chosen for the workshop, the theater workers found that the community was frustrated at its lack of resources and technology. A bridge needed to link the village to the outside world continued to be built as a temporary structure, subject to destruction by floods each year. A day secondary school had been removed, while the village primary school was in a decrepit state and there were no health facilities. The villagers were angered by their belief that elsewhere, less productive areas had been better endowed with infrastructure.
The villagers participated in the theatrical improvisations, which were used by the group as a method of research into development issues. At the end of the nine-day workshop, villagers and resource persons took part in a final performance. The villagers effectively took over the process and celebrated their lives. Having established a basic story-line from the earli
er improvisations, in which such local traditional art forms as singing, dancing, story-telling, and "voice-echoing," were included, the final performance was as example, as one of the resource persons put it, "of a dialectical questioning of changing consciousness."
The story was simple. A young man from the village goes to school and returns home on his first vacation to "great expectations." His life in school has turned out to be epicurean and his stay in the village can only be disappointing. He is chased away by his father, but returns later as a candidate in the local elections, making all sorts of ridiculous promises.
He is challenged by another candidate, more realistic, less pretentious, but without the charisma of the first. In the end, he too has to make silly promises to the electorate.
With the campaigning over, it is the tum of the electorate, some 300 members of the audience gathered in the village square, to question the candidates. The exchange shifts gears. Reality replaces fiction. The villagers protest openly and refuse to be duped any longer. In the end, they decide to boycott the election and not pay taxes to the federal government. The theater facilitators become uneasy. What other surprises are in store? A fictional government officer is introduced to question the people about their defiance and to threaten them. He is received in the village by a fictional chief in council. Soon, the real village chief intervenes, having paid the appropriate obeissance to the fictional one. The latter concedes his place in the play to the former. Reality/ fiction? A female member of the audience moves into the arena cursing and advances to the fictional state agent whom she threatens to beat. The moment is electrifying. None of this happened in the "rehearsals." The fictional state agent calmly picks up a child from the audience and shows him to the approaching woman. She immediately realizes the "play" atmosphere. A female singer in the cast takes up a
protest song and this is thundered by the audience. The village is in a state of "empowennent," but what next?
As the group of participants/ resource persons left the village on the morning of December 19, everyone was euphoric, but also apprehensive. Was the village capable of building its bridge? Did this community have the capacity to actualize its defiance? Would the government (local government, state, federal) come to the assistance of the communi ty? Would MAMSER, the Nigerian President's Office responsible for Mass Mobilization for Economic and Social Recovery, provide the vital link to the village or would their defiance be met with state repression?
A detailed report on the workshop obtainable from Dr. Steve Oga Abah, Nigerian Popular Theatre Alli
ance, P. O. Box 399, Sarnaru, Zaria, Nigeria.
An International Colloquium on the Life and Work of King Glele (1858-1889) was held in Abomey, Benin from December 27-29, 1989. The scholarly event was a highlight of a twelve-day cultural festival commemorating the centenary of the death of Glele, the last truly independent monarch of precolonial Dahomey.
Organized by Elise Soumonni, Chair of the Department of History at the University of Benin, the colloqUium included presentations by some 20 scholars from Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Haiti, France, the UK and the US.
Papers presented painted a portrait of Glele the man and his reignmate, Queen Zoyindi, and explored
the religiOUS, political and artistic activities of Glele's 31-year reign. The audience, which ranged from 70-90 persons for the various presentations, included not only scholars and students, but also descendents of the Glele family who eagerly participated in discussion of the issues raised.
The scholars invited to the colloquium representated a broad mix of methodological backgrounds, ranging from those whose work is based mainlyon European archival sources to those who work nearly exclusively with oral materials. The richness of the discussions, formal and informal, about nineteenth-century Dahomean history suggested that all appreciated the fruitful interchange from differing perspectives and the necessity of drawing on a variety of historic source materials.
FUTURE MEETINGS
The 14th Annual National Conference of the National Council for Black Studies will be held at the Pacifica Hotel, Los Angeles, April 19-22. The conference theme is "Leadership, Scholarship and Social Transfonnation." For infonnation call 812-855-6581 or 614593-1307.
"Reassessing Colonialism in Africa" is the theme of the BerkeleyStanford Annual Spring Conference, May 12, 1990, at UC-Berkeley. Contact Abdul Janmohamed, Conference Chair, Center for African Studies, 215 Moses Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 (415642-8338) for further information.
The Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology will take place at the Bayview Plaza Holiday Inn in Santa Monica, CA from May 18-20, 1990. The conference theme is "Making Popular Culture." For registration infonnation, write 1990 SCA Advance Registration, 1703 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009.
"Sustainable Agriculture in Afri
ca: Sociocultural, Political and Economic Considerations," a symposium sponsored by the Center for African Studies, Ohio State University, will be held May 25-26 in Columbus. Contact: Center for African Studies, 145 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (614-292-8169).
"Environmental Impact of African Financial Crisis," a workshop sponsored by Yale University, will be held Friday, September 21, 1990, at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT. Themes for working group sessions include: 1) the debt burden and the problem of deforestation, 2) African financial crisis, agriculture and wildlife, 3) the impact of environmental decline on the ability to repay debt, and 4) structural adjustment programs and the environment. Space is limited and preregistration required by August 31. Contact A. Richard Mordi (Workshop Coordinator), Yale University (ISPS), P. O. Box 16A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06511. Tel: 203-432-3216. FAX: 203-432-3296.
American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974
1987
Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer, Alfred Kagan and Gregory Larkin
A comprehensive listing of complete references for more than 8500 American and Canadian dissertations and theses on Africa. Arranged by country and region: indexed by subject and author. An essential title for reference shelves.
Cat. No. 802 1989/ 356 pp.
ISBN 0-918456-63-0 Hardcover! $75.00
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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS The Institute of Southern Afri
can Studies, a center for interdisciplinary policy-related and developmentoriented research of the National University of Lesotho, announces the Visiting Research Fellowship Programme. Designed for senior scholars in the sciences, humanities, education and law, fellows will pursue work of a comparative and collaborative nature on any of the following areas: economic and social development; development in post-apartheid Southern Africa; structural adjustment in the Southern African region; migrant labor; environmental issues; women and development; information science; cultural preservation; human rights; sustainable agriculture and rural development; aspects of law, education and science related to development. Applicants are asked to submit a curriculum vitae and detailed research proposal for the period of affiliation with the Institute (six to 12 months). Ouring the fellowship period, fellows will participate in research activities, teach, and prepare an article for journal publication or manuscript for a monograph. The Institute will pay for a return economy ticket plus local travel and subsistence allowance. Oosing date for applications is May 31, 1990. Applications should include three (3) letters of reference and should be sent to: The Director, Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho, P. O. Roma 180, Lesotho. Tel: (OSO) 340247. FAX: 340000.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Reference Materials program supports projects that organize essential resources for scholarship and improve access to information and collections. A wards are made in two categories: Tools and Access. Dictionaries, historical or lin
guistic atlases, encyclopedias, concordances, catalogues raisonnes, linguistic grammars, descriptive catalogues and data bases are eligible for the Tools category. Archival arrangement and description projects, bibliographies, bibliographical data bases, records surveys, cataloguing projects, indexes and guides to documentation are eligible in the Access category. The deadline for both categories is September I, 1990 for projects beginning after July 1,1991. For more information, write Reference Materials, Room 318, NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania A venue NW, Washington, DC 20506.
Applications are invited for MacArthur Research Scholar awards with the Program on International Cooperation in Africa (PICA) of Northwestern University's Program of African Studies. PICA is an interdisciplinary research program that revolves around a broad range of issues with implications for more than one African country. These include the problem of refugees, labor migration, famine and drought, environmental management, public health, local economic and social relations between communities across borders, languages spoken across borders, the politics of Islam, etc.
MacArthur Research Scholar awards are tailored to the needs of post-doctoral scholars and practicing policy-makers. They are available for short-term (one to three months) projects and are not tenable during the summer months. The awards do not include salary, but enable scholars to undertake research at Northwestern University without having to seek outside funds. A modest allocation for travel may be made and will be adjudicated on the basis of merit and need. There are no citizenship restrictions.
Details of application processes are available from Akbar Virmani, Coordinator, PICA, Northwestern University, 620 Library Place, Evanston, IL 60208. Deadline for appointments in January-March 1991 is May 1, 1990 and for appointments in April-June 1991 is August I, 1990.
Fulbright Scholar Awards for 1991-92 include about 1000 grants worldwide in research and university lecturing for periods ranging from three months to a full academic year. In many regions, the opportunity exists for multicountry research. Fulbright awards are granted in virtually all disciplines, and scholars in all academic ranks are eligible to apply.
Grant benefits vary by country, but generally include round-trip travel for the grantee and (for most full academic-year awards) one dependent; stipend in US dollars and/or local currency; tuition allowance for schoolage children in many countries; and book and baggage allowances.
EUgiblity requirements for a Fulbright award are US citizenship; PhD or comparable professional qualifications; univerrsity teaching experience; and, for selected assignments, proficiency in a foreign language. There must be a three-year interval between Fulbright grants to a single scholar.
Deadline for application to the Africa program is August I, 1990. Application materials are available from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 3400 International Drive, Suite M-SOO, Washington, DC 200083097. Tel: 202-686-7866.
EMPLOYMENT The Center for African Studies at
the University of Florida is seeking applicants for the position of Assistant / Associate to serve as the Center's Assistant Director. This is a nontenure accruing appointment renewable on a yearly basis. The beginning date will be on or about August 10, 1990.
The Assistant Director assists the Director; coordinates curriculum development, oversees undergraduate Certificate program and acts as undergraduate advisor; organizes and coordinates the Center's public events series; assists in conference planning and implementation; edits a Center newsletter; oversees linkage programs; develops, instructs, and coordinates interdisciplinary African studies courses.
Qualifications include PhD (or near completion) in social science, humanities, or environmental science
THE TRAVELLING SABBATICAL
ASA News will publish brief notices from members wishing to spend a short period of time (three to nine months) at another institution. Please limit announcements to 100 words.
I. A. Akinjogbin, Professor of History at Obafemi Awolowo University, He, Nigeria, would like to spend his 1990-91 sabbatical at a US university. A senior scholar, he has published some nine books on Nigerian and Dahomean history, including Dahomey and Its Neighbors, 1708-1818, A History of lfe up to 1980 and War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793-1893. Dr. Akinjogbin has also served as Acting Director of the Institute of African Studies at He and has extensive university administrative experience. He can be contacted through the university address. Telegrams: lFEVARSITY IFE and Telephone: He (036) 230290.
field; advanced graduate work in African studies; demonstrated administrative skills; substantial field experience in Africa; knowledge of an African language is highly desirable. Salary is negotiable. Application deadline: April 15, 1990.
Applicants should send a cv, a letter detailing relevant background, research interests, pertinent publications, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to: Director, Search Committee, Center for African Studies, 427 Grinter Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Tel: 904-392-2183.
Africana Catalog Librarian, li brarian I or II, Mugar Memorial li brary, Catalog Department. Creates
records for Boston University's bibliographic database, evaluates, selects and revises records of other institutions for the local and national databases. Conducts research as appropriate to maintian the quality and accuracy of the local database. Requires M.L.S. from an ALA accredited institution; knowledge of AACR2, li brary of Congress classification system and subject headings, and the MARC format. A background or interest in African studies, knowledge of French and at least one other foreign language required. Experience with a bibliographic utility (OCLC or RUN) preferred. Full time, 35 hours per week, exempt position. Rank depending on qualifications. Salary range: $23,000-$31,000. Contact Collette Jackson-Smith, Office of Personnel, Boston University, 25 Buick Street, Boston, MA02215.
The companion book to an exhibition organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, Into the Heart of Africa is lavishly illustrated with 16 full-color and 84 black and white photographs of objects and historical photos from the ROM's outstanding African collections.
Between 1875 and 1925 soldiers and missionaries from Canada travelled to Africa to campaign on secular and spiritual fronts, amassing scores of artifacts on their journeys, for reasons that tell us as much about the collectors as about the people who created the objects.
Diaries and letters home bring to life the characters, cultures and events of a century ago, revealing a turbulent period of history, as Canadians participated in Britain's efforts to colonize and convert African nations. The objects themselves speak of the economic, political and religiOUS complexities of numerous societies, While demonstrating the superb artistry of their African creators.
Curator Jeanne Cannizzo explores these cross-cultural encounters, taking a critical look at the institution of the museum and how the use of artifacts within its context expresses our own underlying cultural assumptions.
Cat.No.804 96pp. ISBN 0-88854-350-6 $19.95 paper
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ASA ANNUAL MEETING PAPERS 1989
The following papers are included in the collection of the proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5, 1989. They are available at $4 each for ASA members and $5 for non-members. Complete sets of the papers in xerox, microfilm or microfiche are available for $350. When ordering individual papers, please include the order number that accompanies each entry.
Abegunrin, Olayiwola. Political Legitimacy in Independent Africa: A Case Study of Nigeria. 1989:1
Abudulai, M. Sulemana. Women and Access to Productive Resources in Bawku District of Ghana. 1989:2
Agle, Andy. Management Aspects of Child Survival Programs in Africa. 1989:3
Akande, Bolanle. The Role ofNigerian Women in Food Production. 1989:4
Ali, Mohammed. LAnguage Policies in Ethiopia. 1989:5 Allman, Jean M. Gender and Social Change in Colonial Asante:
Reflections on "Spinisters," "Concubines" and "Wicked Women." 1989:6
Asgill, Eddie Omo. The Expense ofFiction at the Altar of Ideology: Alice Walker and Others. 1989:7
Barnes, Virginia Lee. Coming of Age in East Africa: The Life History Process and its Ef!lpowerment of a Somali Woman. 1989:8
Bates, Robert H. The Structuring Influence of Capital in PreCapitalist Societies. 1989:10
Berry, Sara. Understanding Agricultural Policy in Africa: The Contributions of Robert Bates. 1989:9
Besteman, Catherine. LAnd Tenure in the Middle Jubba: Opposing Systems and Symbolic Mennings. 1989:11
Bhola, H. S. The "Other" Literacy Program in Zimbabwe: The Materialization of the Mission of the Adult Literacy Organization of Zimbabwe (ALOZ). 1989:12
Campbell, Bonnie. Structural Adjustment and Recession in Africa: Implications for Democratic Process and Participation. 1989:13
Carney, Judith A. The Impact of New Work Routines on the Mandinka Division of LAbor in a Gambian Irrigated Rice Project. 1989:14
Cason, J. Walter. Role of Christian Missions in the Making of Modern Liberia. 1989:15
Cattell, Maria G. Death Never Goes Unnoticed: Funerals as Social Dramas and Dramas of Social Change in Samia, Kenya. 1989:16
Cobbe, James. Consequences of Economic Integration in Southern Africa for the Effectiveness of Economic Policy Actions from Outside the Region. 1989:17
Cook, Kristy D. Women's Time Allocation and Changing Production Patterns in Southwestern Kenya. 1989:18
Copson, Raymond W. Prospects for Conflict Resolution in Angola and Mozambique. 1989:19
D'Agostino, Victoire. Cerenls Market Liberalization in Mali: Lessons and Prospects. 1989:20
Daley, Patricia. Gender Relations and Social Reproduction in Barundi Refugee Settlements, Western Tanzania. 1989:21
Digre, Brian. Ewe Preferences and the Press: Ethnic Politics and Self-Determination in British-Administered Togoland, 1954-1956. 1989:22
Due, Jean M. and F. Magayane. Changes Needed in Agricultural Policy for Female-Hended Farm Families in Tropical Africa. 1989:23
Dunn, E. Elwood. The Mission of the Episcopal Church and the Making ofModern Liberia. 1989:24
Forje, John W. Scientific and Technological Innovation and Structural Changes in the African Economic Recovery Programme: Choices and Priorities for the Future. 1989:25
Fashoyin, Tayo. The Facts of Adjustment Measures on Nigerian LAbor. 1989:26
Fessehassion, Aster. The Impact of the Armed Struggle on the Liberation of Women in Eritren. 1989:27
Fetter, Bruce. Mortality among Black Mineworkers in Central and Southern Africa, 1903-54: Some Comparative Perspectives. 1989:28
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi. Political Instability and Economic Growth, with Evidence from SubSaharan Africa. 1989:29
Fraser, Oeveland. Globalism, Regionalism, and Ideology as Contributors to Change in Senate Voting Patterns on Africa. 1989:30
Fratkin, Elliot. Being Maasai: Aspects of Identity. 1989:31 Frescura, Franco. LAnd Alienation and Social Conflict in
Southern Africa. 1989:32 Fukui, Haruhiro and Shigeko N. Fukai. The Structure and
Functions of Informal Politics in Contemporary Japan: A Framework for Analysis with Illustrations. 1989:33
Furlong, Patrick J. Azikiwe, Nigerian Nationalism and the "National Church." 1989:34
Gocking, Roger. The Changing Attitude towards Inheritance in the British Courts of the Gold Coast: 1870-1935.1989:35
Green, Deborah and Hazel Daren. The Impact of US-Soviet Rapproachement on Mobutu's Relationship to Southern Africa. 1989:36
Habte-Mariam, Tsehai. Socia-Economic Transformation of Women in Eritren. 1989:37
Hadsel, Fred Latimer. American Scholarship on Africa, 19501970: Origins, Influences, Highlights. 1989:38
Haile, Semere. Will Soviet-American Relations End the EthioEritrea Conflict? 1989:39
Hansen, Holger Bernt. Pre-Colonial Immigrants and Colonial Servants: The Nubians in Uganda Revisited. 1989:40
Harris, Laura Arnston. In the Hands of Others: A Yeliba in Maninka Society. 1989:41
HoUos, Marida and Francis Richards. Gender Associated Development of Formal Operations in Nigerian Adolescents. 1989:42
Hopkins, Raymond F. The Politics of Food Aid and Food Security in Africa. 1989:43
Iniama, E. A. Economic Integration and Trade Flows among Ecowas Countries. 1989:44
Kalipeni, Ezekiel. Post-Independence Development Strategies and Philosophies in Malawi and Tanzania: A Comparative Analysis. 1989:45
Kargbo, Ibrahim. British Colonial Trade Policies and American Commerical Interests in Sierra Leone, 1900-1930. 1989:46
Kokora, Pascal D. "Anglophonie" and "Francophonie" in Africa, a Communication Gap: A Case Study from Francophone Africa. 1989:47
Komenan, Andre. The Social Dimensions of Adjustment: Regional Training Programme. 1989:48
LeMarchand, Rene. Libyan Adventurism. 1989:49 Lopes, Carlos. Rapports de Pouvoir dans une Societe Malinke:
Le Kaabu du XlI au XVIII Siecles. 1989:50 McHenry, Dean E. South Africa: An Assessment of Contend
ing "Solutions." 1989:51 McKim, Wayne. The East African Economic Crisis of 1920.
1989:52 Mabbs-Zeno, Carl and Barry Krissoff. Implications for Africa
ofTrade Liberalization in Tropical Beverages. 1989:53 MacGaffey, Janet. Farmer, Smuggler, Trader, Thief: How to
Get by in Zaire's Economic Crisis. 1989:54 Magyar, Karl P. South Africa in the Post-Po W. Botha Era: The
Search for a New Regional Strategy. 1989:55 Mahmoud, Fathia et aL Women and AIDS in Africa: Issues
Old and New. 1989:56 Martin, William G. Southern Africa as a Region in the World
Economy: An Interim Report. 1989:57 Mazrui, Ali A. Africa between Gandhi and Nehru: An Afro
Asian Interaction. 1989:58 Mengisteab, Kidane. Partnership of the State and the Market
in African Development. 1989:59 Merryfield, Merry M. Cultural Literary and African Educa
tion.1989:60 Mortimer, Mildred. Flight from Enclosure in Leila Sebbar's
Fiction. 1989:61 Moseley, K. P. West African Industry and the Debt Crisis: A
Research Report. 1989:62 Moss, Barbara A. Clothed in Righteousness and Respect: The
Use of Uniforms Within Zimbabwean Women's Ruwadzano in the Methodist Church. 1989:63
Neuberger, Benjamin. Early PanAfricanism, Judaism and Zionism: W. E. B. Du Bois. 1989:64
NjOku, Johnston Akuma-Kalu. Folklore and Nation Building: Positive Reflections on the Dynamics of Emergent Folklore in Contemporary Nigeria. 1989:65
Nnadozie, Emmanuel. The Political Economy of Islamic Penetration and Development in Niger. 1989:66
Nooter, Nancy Ingram. High-Backed Stools: A Pan-Ethnic Tradition in East Africa. 1989:67
Obidegwu, Chukwuma F. Nigeria: Priorities and Prospects for the 1990s. 1989:68
Oculi, Okello. The New International Intellectual Order and the Focus of W. E. B. Du Bois and Amilcar Cabral. 1989:69
Ohaegbulam, F. Ugboaja. U. S. Congress and American Foreign Policy Towards Southern Africa from Nixon to Reagan.1989:70
Olaniyan, Tejumola. Inventing a New Subject: OAU and the Politics of Culture. 1989:71
Omar, Athman Lali. The Funeral Rites Practiced by the Swahili People of the East African Coast. 1989:72
O'Toole, Thomas. Portrait of a Minority: Greeks in Zimbabwe. 1989:73
Oyler, Dianne White. Agricultural Education in Liberia: A Home Grown Alternative. 1989:74
Parker, Kathleen A. Professional and Traditional Cultures: Factors Affecting Health Worker-Community Interaction. 1989:75
Pateman, Roy. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Aspects of the Eritrean Revolution. 1989:76
Peters, P. E. Rational Choice, Agency and Meaning: Notes toward a Critique of Bates. 1989:77
Pickles, James. Industrial Restructuring, Peripheral Industrialisation, and Labour Policy in South Africa. 1989:78
Posnansky, Merrick. Restructuring the African University: A Case Study from Ghana. 1989:79
Rasmussen, Susan J. TamaZlli: The Ordinary and Extraordinary in Concepts of Person, Health, and Healing among the Kel Ewey Tuareg. 1989:80
Renne, Elisha P. Polyphony in the Court: Child Custody Cases in Kabba District Court, 1925-1975. 1989:81
Rentmeesters, Veronica. Eritrea: Will Women's Liberation Survive the Liberation Struggle? 1989:82
Ross, Nancy. The Impact of the Anti-Mobutu Lobby and the Emergence of the Pro-Mobutu Lobby. 1989:83
Roth, Michael and Jon Unruh. Land Title, Tenure Security and Household Differentiation in the Lower Shabelli Region, Somalia. 1989:84
Rothchild, Donald. Regional Peacemaking in Africa: An American Perspective on the Role of the Great Powers as Facilitators. 1989:85
Roy-Campbell, Z. M. Education, Ideology and the Crisis in Tanzania. 1989:86
Saenz, Candelario. Lords of the Waste: Predation and Pastoral Production among the Pre-Colonial Kel Fadey Twareg of Niger. 1989:87
Sarnoff, Joel and Jonathan Jansen. DecentraliZiltion: Hope and Hype in African Governmental Reorganization. 1989:88
Schmidt, Nancy J. Resources for Teaching about the Social Impact of AIDS in Africa. 1989:89
Serapiao, Luis Benjamin. Frelimo and Political Legitimacy in Independent MOZilmbique. 1989:90
Sheik-Abdi, Abdi. A Justifiable Madness: The Making of Mohammed Abdulle Hassan of Somalia, an Early African Nationalist.1989:91
Sheldon, Kathleen. Farming in the City: Urban Women and Agricultural Work in Mozambique. 1989:92
Shepherd, George W. Monitoring the Effects of Structural Adjustment on the Poor: Basic Rights in Africa. 1989:93
Siegel, Brian. Between the Bulamatari and IngeIeshi: Comparative Lamba Ethnohistory. 1989:94
SiUah, Mohammed-Bassiru. Saudi Arabum Economic Aid to Sierra Leone: A Study of South-South Cooperation for Development. 1989:95
Sparks, Donald 1. Industrial Growth and Development in Namibia: Prospects for Internal Growth and Regional Cooperation. 1989:96
Spear, Thomas. Being Maosai, but not 'People of Cattle': The Arusha of Northwestern Tanzania in the 19th Century. 1989:97
Steiner, Christopher B. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: The Mediation of Knowledge by Traders in African Art. 1989:98
Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski. The Role of the American University in Enhancing the Educational Effectiveness of an African University. 1989:99
Sunal, Dennis W. Overview of a Model for Enhancing the Educational Effectiveness ofan African University. 1989:100
Sutton, J. E. G. Ntusi: An Interlacustrine Town of the 11th to 15th Centuries. 1989:101
Tolmacheva, M. A. A Cultural Interpretation of Swahili Geographical Vocabulary. 1989:102
Torrey, Barbara Boyle. Contribution to Research on AIDS Overseas by the Center for International Research, U. S. Bureau of the Census. 1989:103
Trager, Ullian. Local-Level Development in Nigeria: Institutions and Impact. 1989:104
Turrittin, Jane. Contradictions of Class and Gender for Educated Mande Women between 1930 and 1960: The Case of Aoua Keita. 1989:105
Unruh, Jon and Micahel Roth. Integration of Transhumant Pastoralism and Irrigated Agriculture. 1989:106
Uwazurike, Chudi. Intellectual Critics and the State in the Nigerian Transition to Democracy: Does Marginalization Matter to Legitimacy? 1989:107
Van de Walle, Nicolas. The Politics of Non-Reform in Cameroon.1989:108
Venter, Denis. The Crisis Model as an Analytical Construct: Political Development and Change in Colonial Malawi. 1989:109
Warms, Richard 1. Commerce or Civil Service? Changes in Career Choicein Mali. 1989:110
Williams, Donald C. Accommodation in the Midst of Crisis: Aspects of Consociational Democracy in Nigeria. 1989:111
Worley, Barbara A. Gifts Make a Difference: Property and the Autonomy of Women among Kel Twareg Pastoralists. 1989:112
Xia Jisheng. Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in the 1990s. 1989:113
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The theses listed below were reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAn vol. SO, nos. 5-8, parts A and B. Each citation ends with a page reference to the abstract and order number (if any) for copies. Most US dissertations are available from University Microfilms International (300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346). Canadian theses are available from the National Library of Canada (395 Wellington St., Ottawa KIA ON4). British (UK) theses available from the British Library have order numbers with a "Btl (for "BRO") prefix. See DAI for details on ordering.
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Jones, Richard B. A study of two cropping systems in Western Ngamiland, Botswana, through the application of the farming systems research methodOlogy. Ph.D., V. of Reading (V.K.), 1988. 364pp. DA50B:1699. BX86015.
Khallaayoune, Khalid. Sheep fascioliasis in Morocco: Epidemiology and serodiagnosis. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1989. 225pp. DA50B:2799.8925538.
Macharia, Joseph N. M. Growth and photosynthesis of maize (lea mays L.) in SUb-optimal environments with particular refrrence to Britain and Kenya. Ph.D., V. of Essex (V.K.), 1988. 286pp. DA50B:2712. 886454.
Maganga, Samwel Lefi Samwe1. Bark-stripping and food habits of blue monkeys in a forest plantation on Mount Meru, Tanzania. Ph.D., V. ofidaho, 1989. 140pp. DA50B:1718. 8918538.
Mathias, Philippa J. Micropropagation of the tropical hardwoods, Khaya ivorensis A. Chev. and Mauclea diderrichii (De Wild. and Th. Dur.) Merrill [West Africa]. Ph.D., V. of Nottingham (V.K.), 1988. 342pp. DASOB:1729. 8-85997.
SalIah, Peter Yao Kanze. Selection for response to nitrogen fertilizer in a tropical maize population [Ghana]. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1989 .
-~=LA=~~I!r!_""Il"!'!!!m!~,",,-mm~r:r.r::::r""'100pp, DA50B:1701. 8918292. Amri, Am. ance 0 essum fly [Mayetiola destructor (Say)] in wheJ;zt [Morocco]. Ph.D., Kansas State V., 1989. 135pp. DA50B:2677. 8924308.
Benson, Delwin Eugene. Private values and management of wildlife and recreation in South Africa with comparisons to the USA. Ph.D., Colorado State V., 1989. 174pp. DA50B:3235. 9000442.
Bouzoubaa, Khalid. Fowl typhoid: An epidemiologic study in Morocco and an approach to control with membrane proteins. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1989. 187pp. DA50B:1710. 8915787.
Chaarani, Bahija. Management and productivity of sheep flocks in Meknes province, Morocco, with especial reference to abortion and lamb mortality. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1989. 153pp. DA50B:3348. 9001003.
Diop, Amadou Makhtar. An evaluation of weed interference in rice grown on hydromorphic soils in West Africa [Nigeria}. Ph.D., Oregon State V., 1988. 142pp. DA50B:1697. 8918665.
Friedericks, James Bahadur. Evaluation of African Trifolium species for growth and biological nitrogen fixation [Ethiopia}. Ph.D., Virginia POly. Inst. & State V., 1989. 155pp. DA50B:2682. 8922351.
Hamliri, Ahmed. Selenium deficiency of sheep in Morocco: Assessment, occurrence and prevention. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1989. 170pp. DA50B:2798. 8925529.
Hough, John Laurence. National park-local people relationships: Case studies from northern Benin, West Africa and the Grand Canyon, USA. Ph.D., V. of Michigan, 1989. 300pp. DA50B:3237. 90001643.
Tibary, Ahmed. Factors affecting semen preservation and estrus synchronization in Moroccan sheep. Ph.D., V. of Minnesota, 1989. 177pp. DAB:1804. 8918293.
Anthropology
Barham, Lawrence Stephen. The later Stone Age of Swaziland. Ph.D., V. of Pennsylvania, 1989. 762pp. DA50A:2122. 8922465.
Bhoola, Furhana Ahmed. Household structure, decision-making, and the economic, social, and legal status of women in Mogadishu, Somalia. Ph.D., Michigan State V., 1989. 216pp. DA50A:2126. 8923832.
Carlson, Robert Geoffrey. Haya worldview and ethos: An ethnography of alcohol production and consumption in Bulwba, Tanzania. Ph.D., V. of Illinois at Vrbana-Champaign, 1989. 458pp. DA50A:2126.8924785.
Cattell, Maria G. Old age in rural Kenya: Gender, the life course and social change. Ph.D., Bryn Mawr ColI., 1989. 749pp. DA50A:2548. 9000504.
Etude, Peter Ntongwe. The role of traditional medicine: The educated Cameroonian's perspective. Ph.D., Saint Louis V., 1989. 147pp. DASOA:2549. 9000906.
Ford, Iris Carter. Intra-community variation in cooking patterns andnutritional implications among the Tikar of northwest Cameroon.
Ph.D., American V., 1989. 387pp. DA50A:2127. 8923188.
Henk, Daniel Wallace. Kazi ya shaba: Choice, continuity, and social change in an industrial community of southern Zaire. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 1988. 730pp. DA5OA:2550. 8923970.
Hunt, David Roehm. Dermatoglyphic variation among sub-Saharan AfriCllns: A multivariate analysis of populiltion structure. Ph.D., U. of Tennessee, 1989. 288pp. DA50A:I715. 8919833.
Hunt, Kevin Dean. Positional behavior in Pan troglodytes at the Mahale Mountains and the Combe Stream National Parks, Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1989. 332pp. DA50A:2554. 9001647.
Malkki, Liisa Helena. Purity and exile: Transformations in historicalnational consciousness among Hutu refugees in Tanzania. Ph.D., Harvard u., 1989. 574pp. DA5OA:2552. 8926214.
Mehlman, Michael James. Later quaternary archaeologiCilI sequences in northern Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989. 762pp. DASOA:2124. 8924898.
Morais, JoNo Manual F. The early farming communities of Southern Mozambique: An assessment of new and extant evidence. Ph.D., U. of Oxford (U.K.), 1987. 288pp. DA50A:2124. 8-86583.
Schwartz, Nancy L. World without end: The meanings and mDvements in the history, narratives and 'tongue-speech' of Legio Maria of AfriCIln Church Mission among Luo of Kenya. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1989. 725pp. DASOA:I714. 8920358.
Taylor, Christopher Charles. Milk, honey and money: Changing concepts of pathology in Rwanda populllr medicine. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1988. 479pp. DA50A:1352. 8914637.
Tsukada, Kenichi. Luvale perceptions of mukanda in discourse and music {Zambia}. Ph.D., Queen's U. of Belfast (N.J.), 1988. 370pp. DA50A:I353. 8917245.
Warkentin, Raija Tellervo. The influence of Christian missions on parental control over children among the Bira of Zaire. Ph.D., U. of Alberta (Can.), 1989. DA50A:2131.
Whittemore, Robert Dunster. Child CIlregi'Ding and socialization to the Mandinka way: Toward an ethnography of childhood [Senegal}. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1989. 340pp. DA50A:2553. 9000825.
Architecture
Chalfoun, Nader Victor. Appropriate energy design guidelines for new desert housing in Egypt: A CIl5e study for cluster houses at Sadai City. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 1989. 302pp. DA5OA:2275. 9000121.
Intsiful, George William Kofi. Towards adequate housing in Ghana: The CIl5e of Ayija Township and the Asawasi Housing Estate in the city ofKumasi. Arch.D., U. of Michigan, 1989. 275pp. DA5OA:2275. 9001585.
Zeghlache, Harnza. The Medina as an expression ofsocial values [Tunisia}. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1987. 225pp. DA50A:1829. 8903897.
Biological Sdences
Beals, Thomas Palmer. The evolution ofantigenic diversity in African trypanosomes. Ph.D., Stanford U., 1989. 143pp. DA50B:2763. 8925830.
Sesay, Haruna Rashid. Transmission dynamics ofonchocerciasis in the forest-savanna mosaic region of northern Sierra Leone. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 1989. 254pp. DA50B:2747. 8923750.
Sutton, Richard Evan. RNA processing in trypanosomes. Ph.D., Stanford U., 1989. 307pp. DA50B:2775. 8925960.
Business Administration
Ezebuiro, Isaac Ifechukwu. Management techniques for improvement of telecommunications service efficiency [Nigeria}. Ph.D., Union for Experimenting Call. &: u., 1988. 262pp. DA50A:2564. 8917303.
Massie, Robert Kinloch. Moral deliberation and policy formuliltion: A study of eight institutional investors' approaches to South African disinvestment. D.B.A., Harvard U., 1989. 424pp. DA5OA:I727. 8919905.
Earth Sciences
Bechtel, Timothy Daniel. Mechanisms of isostatic compensation in East AfriCil and North America. Ph.d., Brown U., 1989. 258pp. DASOB;3368.9002196.
Caporusclo, Florie Andre. Petrogenesis of mantle eclogites from South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Colorado at Boulder, 1988. 164pp. DA50B:2806.8912182.
Walsh, Maud Maureen. Carbonaceous cherts of the Swazilllnd Supergroup, Barberton Mountain Land, southern Africa. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. &: A&:M Call., 1989. 211pp. DASOB:3366. 9002179.
Watson, Gary. Internal waves in the Strait of Gibraltar: A study using radar imagery [Morocco}. Ph.D., U. of Southampton (U.K.), 1988. 190pp. DA50B:3374. BX86651.
Xie, Ji-akang. Stochastic modeling and methods of inversion of highfrequency Lg coda with applications to Africa. Ph.D., Saint Louis u., 1989. 139pp. DA50B:3369. 9000945.
Economics
Ajayi, Richard Ajibade. Essays on oil, external debts, and optimal exchange rates in the developing economies [Nigeria}. Ph.D., Temple U., 1989. 147pp. DA50A:1751. 8920206.
Amin, Julius Atemkeng. The Peace Corps: Origins and performance in Cameroon. Ph.D., Texas Tech U., 1988. 291pp. DASOA:1395. 8908499.
Ayemou, Afla Odile. Analysis of forest management strategies in Cote d'Ivoire: An economic mDdel. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 1989. 200pp. DA50A:2169. 8924761.
Brown, Christopher Michel. Liberia's rubber outgrowers: An economic appraisal. Ph.D., Fletcher Sch. of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts U.), 1989. 279pp. DA50A:1744. 8919377.
Christensen, Garry Neil. Determinants of private investment in rural Burkina Faso. Ph.D., Cornell U., 1989. 254pp. DA50A:2169. 8924514.
Curry, Steve. Tourism and underdevelopment in Tanzania: An analysis of the origins, expansion and consequences of international tourism in Tanzania to 1977. Ph.D., U. of Bradford (UK), 1988. 408pp. DA50A:1387. BX86053.
Dagbo, Lotchi. A macroeconometric model of Cote d'Ivoire. Ph.D., Northwestern U., 1989. 203pp. DASOA:2577. 9002483.
Dione, Josue. Informing food security policy in MIlli: Interactions between technology, institutions and market reforms. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 1989. 425pp. DASOA:2170. 8923842.
Drinkwater, Michael John. The state and agrarian change in Zimbabwe's communal areas: An application of critical theory. Ph.D., U. of East Anglia (U.K.), 1988. 448pp. DA50A:1382. 8-85945.
Gebrehiwot, Alemayehu. Agricultural research and extension linkages in the central province of Ethiopia: An inter-organisational analysis. Ph.D., U. of Reading (UK), 1988. 360pp. DA50A:1383. BX85947.
Gebremariam, Yilma. A multidimensional analysis of regional integration and cooperation: The case of the Economic Community of West African States. Ph.D., U. of Southern California, 1989. DA50A:2578.
Hamidian-Rad, Pirouz. A multisector dynamic optimization model for Liberian economic development. Ph.D., Catholic U. of America, 1989. 162pp. DA50A:1392. 8917024.
Han, Kiyoun. Trade, tax, and agricultural policy in a highly distorted economy: The case of Sudan. Ph.D., Duke U., 1988. 316pp. DA50A:1753.8919222.
Kaunda, Jonathan Benjamin Mayuyuka. MIlLzwi: Development policy and the centralised state--a study of Liwonde Agricultural Development Division. Ph.D., U. of East Anglia (UK), 1988. 404pp. DA50A:1385. 8-85975.
Lewanika, Mbikusita Wamundila. An econometric model of the world copper industry lZambia & Zaire). Ph.D., Colorado Sch. of Mines, 1989. DASOA:1389.
Lunn, J.R. Capital and labour on the Rhodesian railway system, 18901939. Ph.D., U. of Oxford (U.K.), 1986. 377pp. DA50A:2597. B86615.
McCully, Michael John. A structuralist analysis offood security in Ghana. Ph.D., U. of Notre Dame, 1989. 306pp. DA50A:1378. 8919500.
Mirotchie, Mesfin. Productivity analysis of private and socialized agriculture in Ethiopia. Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U., 1989. 273pp. DA50A:17SO. 8913752.
Mohammed, Ahmed Taha. Rural-rural Lzbor circuLztion and poverty: The evidence from the Sudan seasonal migration. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 1989. 247pp. DA50A:2186. 8922085.
Mwanza, Kamima Wa Chimika Na. Determinants of crop acreage and sales in Zambia: Econometric estimates and policy. Ph.D., Clark U., 1989. 243pp. DA50A:1747. 8920376.
Ndukwe, Felix Orah. An econometric investigation of monetary policy preference function in a developing economy: The case of Nigeria, 1973-1981. Ph.D., Fordham U., 1989. 189pp. DASOA:1755. 8919998.
Owoye,Oluwole. Economic conditions and aggregate strike activity: A macro model with some empirical tests for Nigeria, 1950-1985. Ph.D., Northern Illinois U., 1989. 174pp. DASOA:2599. 9000535.
Schafer, Hartwig. Real exchange rates and economic performance: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ph.D., North Carolina State U., 1989. 174pp. DA50A:1380. 8918986.
Seka, Pierre-Roche. Current account constraints, macroeconomic shocks, and adjustments in a "partially" fixed exchange regime: Focus on Coted'Ivoire. Ph.D., Howard U., 1988. 215pp. DASOA:1742. 8919671.
Stevenson, Gail B. World Bank policy-based lending, 1980-1985: A review and evaluation lMaLzwi}. Ph.D., American U., 1988. 434pp. DA50A:1743.8921664.
Uchendu, Okorie Awa. Second-tier foreign exchange market, devaluation and the impact effects: A simuLztion study for Nigeria (19861990). Ph.D., Howard U., 1988. 231pp. DA50A:1743. 8919673.
Education
Acker, David G. Relevance of u.s. graduate education in agriculture to careers in agricultural development of East Africa agriculturalists (Tanzania). Ph.D., Oregon State U., 1988. 172pp. DA50A:1183. 8918651.
Adeyemo, Joseph Adekanmi. The prevalence of stress among teachers in institutions of higher learning. Ed.D., Lorna Linda U., 1989. 165 pp. DA50A:2313.8924109.
Asagwara, Ken C. Prince. A perspective on free education at allievels in Nigeria. Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), 1989. DASOA:2314.
Babi, Fred Bobuin. The adoption of television in Cameroon and its effects on youths. Ph.D., American U., 1988. 130pp. DASOA:2010. 8919942.
bin Karubi, Kikaya. The modernity of Bantu traditional values: Testing the invariance hypothesis [Zaire]. Ph.d., Boston U., 1989. 201pp. DA50A:1620.8920091.
Boikai, LeRoy Zobon. A survey of teachers' percetions ofand beliefs about promoting critical thinking in Liberian high schools. Ed.D., Columbia U. Teachers CoIl., 1989. 154pp. DASOA:2457. 9002507.
Bugingo, Emmanuel. A conceptual framework for preservice program development in educational administration: A case application for the Republic of Rwanda's education system. Ph.D., Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale, 1989. 166pp. DA50A:1493. 8922377.
Chimerah, Rocha M. The implications of the selected works of Ngugi
in the educatiotUll thinking and practices of Kenya. Ph.D., Ohio U., 1989. 391pp. DA50A:1913. 8922888.
Conley, Shirley Potter. Cross-cultural education: Breaking through cultural barriers [Cape Verde]. Ed.D., U. of Massachusetts, 1989. 195pp. DA50A:2409. 9001494.
EI-Abedeen, Mohamed Shams El-Dein Zein. Facilities and activities financed by associated expenditure in Egyptian universities: Their relationship to the academic and professional development of student teachers. Ph.D., U. of Southampton (U.K.), 1987. 537pp. DASOA:1631. BX86359.
Cithiora, Wambui Barbara. Towards a participatory development process: A proposal for development of nonfonnal education in Kenya's rural areas. Ed.D., Columbia U. Teachers Coil., 1989. 166pp. DASOA:2311.9002536.
Hussein, Yehia Ismail. The relationship between attitudes of English teachers in Egypt toward methods of teaching English and selected demographic characteristics. Ed.D., George Washington U., 1989. 191pp. DA50A:1199. 8916993.
Ibegbu, Callistus Uchenna. Regional disparities and social inequalities in Nigerian universities: A study ofeducational expansion and selection. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Buffalo, 1989. 415pp. DASOA:2450.8921547.
Kakanda, Alfred Mukelabai. An organizational model plan for the application ofexpanded educational broadcasting services in the formal secondary school education system of Zambia. Ph.D., U. of Stirling (UK), 1988. 368pp. DA50A:1201. 8-86138.
Kilmer, James R. Relationship of caning to internal-externallocus of control among selected African secondary and college students. Ph.D., Andrews U., 1988. 165pp. DA50A:1602. 8919893.
Kite, Charles Allan. A history of the Association of International Schools in Africa, 1969 to 1986. Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 1989. 227pp. DA50A:1507. 8921481.
Konditi, Jane Akinyi Osamba. Competency needs of administrators in teacher training colleges in Kenya as perceived by administrators and faculty. Ph.D., U. of North Texas, 1989. 140pp. DA50A:1508. 8921233.
Kuye, Jerry Olu. Education and development: A case study of the impact of selected political, economic, social, and cultural variables on the Universal Primary Education Program in Nigeria between 1976 and 1981. Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), 1989. DA50A:2329.
Kwari, Yakubu. The relationship between selected educational variables and student academic achievement in Sokoto State of Nigerian secondary schools. Ph.D., Wayne State U., 1989. 157pp. DA50A:1875. 8922763.
Lakpah, Michael Uririn. Administration and practice ofadult education in the Lagos State of Nigeria. Ph.D., U. of Hull (U.K.), 1987. 401pp. DASOA:1527. BX86295.
Louw, Dean Charles. Organizational climate and desegregation in South African schools. Ed.D., U. of Virginia, 1989. 128pp. DA50A:1876.8919084.
Maphinda-Lebbie, Tamba. Selected West African agricultural students' view of their United States graduate training and education in light of their expected home country agricultural jobs and conditions. Ph.D., U. of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989. 128pp. DA50A:1184. 8916279.
Miller, Reg Manson. Kalahari fabrics as art and culture: A concept of cultural and artistic identity [Nigeria}. Ed.D., Columbia U. Teachers CoIl., 1989. 127pp. DA50A:2360. 9002569.
Ngware, Suleiman Shaaban Abdallah. Tanzania's educational reforms, 1977-1987: Policy analysis and implications for secondary education. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1989. 163pp. DA50A:2374. 8918289.
Njoku, Ignatius Chukwunenye. The effects of the British educational system upon the indigenous schools of !boland, Nigeria. Ph.D., Columbia U., 1989. 261pp. DA50A:1621. 8919174.
Nkwenti, Ignatius Ndefru. Barriers to adult learers: The case of Cameroon. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College Park, 1988. 163pp. DA50A:2354. 8912333.
Nomishan, Daniel A. A study of the leadership behavior of selected elementary and secondary school principals in Nigeria. Ed.D., Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, 1989. 176pp. DA50A:1938. 8917209.
Nwachuku, Uchennia T. Culture-specific counseling: The Igbo case [Nigeria}. Ed.D., U. of Massachusetts, 1989. 228pp. DA50A:1221. 8917386.
Okonkwo, Ifejika Ugbukwu. Community skills centers as a means to rural economic development: An analysis of the Obollo Afor Community Skills Center model in Anambra State, Nigeria. Ed.D., U. of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1989. 137pp. DA50A:1182. 8918559.
Saadi, Mohamed Ashur. Geography teacher training at the college level and its contribution to the teaching ofgeography in Libya. Ph.D., U. of Oklahoma, 1988. 158pp. DA50A:1281. 8913794.
Sidzumo-Sanders, Ruth Ann Nomathemba. The Bantu education system: Impact on Black women in South Africa. Ph.D., Wayne State U., 1989. 332pp. DA50A:1889. 8922782.
Takalo, Moroatshoge. Examination questions for African pre-service teq.cher education in South Africa: A critical analysis. Ed.D., Columbia U. Teachers CoIL, 1989. 154pp. DA50A:1640. 8913137.
Engineering
Abduljawad, A.M. Multivariate synthesis of hydrologic time series by disaggregation [Libya & Tunisia}. Ph.D., Utah State U., 1988. 250pp.
DASOB:2060. 8918872.
Chino sa, Napoleon Oyovbikigho Orhotaile. Housing in Africa: Provision, trends and costs [Nigeria}. Ph.D., U. of Leeds (U.K.), 1988. 400pp. DA50B:2064. B-86148.
Toweh, Solomon Hartley. Prospects for Liberian iron ores considering shifting patterns of trade in the world iron ore industry. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 1989. 356pp. DA50B:2129. 8915992.
Entomology
Surtees, David Peter. Multivariate morphometries and cytotaxonomy of the West Afriam Simulium damnosum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae). Ph.D., U. of Liverpool(U.K.), 1988. 435pp. DASOB:1762. BX86195.
Folklore
Giray-Laul, Eren. Jula oral narratives in Bobo-Dioulasso: Continuity, recreation, and transcultural communication (Burkina Faso). Ph.D., Indiana u., 1989. 310pp. DA50A:2607. 8925142.
Geography
Abdelgadir, Usama Osman. The impact of education, migration, and remittances on rural agricultural households in El-Obeid Area, Sudan. Ph.D., Clark U., 1989. 209pp. DASOA:2196. 8920370.
Dakhil, Meftah Ali. Migration, development, and place preferences: The example of Libya. Ph.D., U. of Kentucky, 1989. 277pp. DA50A:2607.9001419.
Franklin, Janet. Canopy reflectance modeling in a tropical savanna [West Africa}. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara, 1988. 178pp. DASOA:l401. 8916343.
Mahmoud, Ali Ahmad Yousef. Temporal and spatial climatic relationships between the Great Plains and North Africa. Ph.D., U. of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1989. 223pp. DA50A:2198. 8925250.
Geology
Evans, Andrew Lee. The sedimentary evolution of the Suez rift basin, Egypt: Neogene paleobathymetry, subsidence and uplift history, tectonic and stratigraphic events. Ph.D., Stanford U., 1989. 239pp. DA50B:2309.8919422.
Phillips, David. Argon isotopic studies of minerals in kimberlites, mantle xenoliths and diamonds, from selected southern African localities. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1989. 28Opp. DA50B:1817. 8917777.
Health Sciences
Elkhalifa, Mohamed Yousif. Cellular and hUmDral immune responses in onchocerciasis: Correlations with clinical signs and infection intensity [Sudan & Sierra Leone}. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 1989. 181pp. DA50B:2832.8923845.
Rogers, Sandra. "Since the nurses came:" Primary health care nursing in a Nigerian village. D.N.S., U. of California, San Francisco, 1989. 277pp. DA50B:3405. 8926417.
Vande Waa, John Alan. Naturally acquired immunity to malaria measured in vitro against the erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum [Sudan]. Ph.D., Michigan State u., 1989. 93pp. DASOB:2837. 8923896.
Zarba-Vary, Audrey. Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethene (DDE) in human milk from South African women. Ph.D., Iowa State U., 1989. 161pp. DASOB:2346. 8920202.
History
Barlow, Monica. The clouded face of truth: A review of the South African newsfNlPerpress approaching union. Ph.D., U. of Bristol (U.K.), 1988. 297pp. DA50A:1408. BX85995.
Berg, David Allen. The genre of non-juridical oracles (HRTW) in ancient Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 1989. DA50A:1770.
Berkey, Jonathan Porter. Education and society: Higher religious learning in late medieval Cairo. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1989. 342pp. DASOA:1778.8920335.
Carroll, Scott T. The Melitian schism: Coptic Christianity and the Egyptian church. Ph.D., Miami U., 1989. 232pp. DASOA:1770. 8920380.
Carter, Marina. Indian labor migration to Mauritius and the indenture experience, 1834-1874. Ph.D., U. of Oxford (UK), 1987. 394pp. DASOA:2202. 8-86557.
Fonge, Fuabeh Paul. A history of the Civil Service in Anglophone Cameroon: Transition and integration, ca. 1961-1982. Ph.D., Howard U., 1989. 378pp. DASOA:1771. 8921107.
Ibokette, Isongesit Sampson. Contradictions in colonial rule: Urban development in northern Nigeria, 1900-1940. Ph.D., Queen's U. at Kingston (Can.), 1989. DA50A:2204.
La Rue, George Michael. The haJeura system: Land and social stratification in the social and economic history of the Sultanate of Dar Fur (Sudan), ca. 1785-1875. Ph.D., Boston U., 1989. 588pp. DASOA:1408.8917622.
Taylor, Christopher Schurman. The cult of the saints in late medieval Egypt. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1989. 295pp. DA50A:1779. 8920361.
Language
Ahmed, Medani Osman. Vocabulary learning strategies: A case study of Sudanese learners of English. Ph.D., U. ColI. of North Wales, Bangor (U.K.), 1988. 438pp. DA50A:1291. BX85989.
Amellal, Djamila. A syntactic study of the conditional construction in Kabyle [Algeria}. Ph.D., U. of Essex (U.K.), 1988. 285pp. DASOA:2034. 8-86458.
Bickmore, Lee Stephen. Kinyambo prosody [Tanzania}. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1989. 243pp. DA50A:2470. 8926426.
Huffman, Marie King. Implementation of nasal: Timing and articulatory landmarks [Nigeria & Ghana]. Ph.D., U. of California, Los An· geles, 1989. 202pp. DASOA:2472. 8926432.
Maghway, J.B. Aspects of prosody in English and Swahili [Tanzania}. Ph.D., U. of Edinburgh (U.K.), 1988. 336pp. DA50A:2037. 8
86415.
Mohamed, Fatma Abdel Hamid. Arabic-English rode-switching in the speech ofan Egyptian child. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 1989. 212pp. DA50A:2037. 8922573.
Osuaswu- Bertram Iwunwa Nkemgemedi. The development and modernization of the Igbo language [Nigeria}. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Buffalo, 1989. 273pp. DA50A:1649. 8921564.
Paradis, Carole. Phonologie et morphologie lexicales: Les classes nominates en peul (Fula) [Mauritania}. Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 1986. 437pp. DA50A:2038. 8923463.
Sumbu, Mangoma Namuyaba. Code-miring in the speech of a multilingual child [Zaire}. Ph.D., Indiana U., 1989. 295pp. DASOA:2040. 8925170.
Tepstad, Gunn Karin. Contributions to the study of the Aramaic legal papyri. of Elephantine [Egypt}. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1989. 341pp. DA50A:1291. 8915860.
Williams, Charles Kinston. Chadic historical syntax: Reconstructing word order in proto-Chadic [Nigeria}. Ph.D., Indiana U., 1989. 21Opp. DA50A:2040. 8925173.
Law
Rahman, EI Fatih EI Rasheed Abdel. Egyptian and Sudanese practice on state immunities with particular reference to the Islamic perspective. Ph.D., U. of Edinburgh (U.K.), 1988. 457pp. DASOA:2220. B
86430.
Library Science
Abdullahi, Ismail H.A. A study of cooperative programs among unifJeTSity and special libraries in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 1989. 193pp. DASOA:1836. 8924301.
Kaniki, Andrew Musonda. Agricultural information needs in Zambia: A study of a two-way informatwn flow. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 1989. 306pp. DASOA:1837. 8924303.
Mwiya, Nawa. A study of Zambian librarians' attitudes toward field experience as a component of library and information science education. Ph.D., U. of Mkhigan, 1989. 265pp. DA50A:2285. 9001687.
Nwanosike, Eugene Ogbonia. A study of secondary school library resources in Anglophone Cameroon: Strategies for improvement. Ed.D., U. of Massachusetts, 1989. 326pp. DASOA:2886. 8917387.
Ojiambo, Joseph Bernard. Communication ofagricultural information between research scientists, extension personnel and farmers in Kenya. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 1989. 236pp. DASOA:2286. 8925798.
Ralebipi, Matabole Dorothy. Perceived management development needs of South African library managers: A preliminary investigation. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1989. 196pp. -DA50A:2286. 9001034.
Literature
Chacha, Chacha Nyaigotti. Meaning and interpretation of Swahili
poetry: A portrayal ofa changing society [Kenya}. Ph.D., Yale U., 1988. 364pp. DA50A:1303. 8917155.
Cohen, DaIya. Symbolic and surrealistic features in the short stories of Yusuf Idris [Egypt}. Ph.D., Georgetown U., 1988. 263pp. DA50A:2076.8923231.
Dvorak, Angeline Godwin. Surrogate motherhood and the quest for self in selected novels of Doris Lessing [Zimbabwe}. Ph.D., Florida State U., 1989. 230pp. DASOA:1663. 8921296.
Elias, Khaliquzzaman M. The legacies of Prospero: A critique of the colonial and the neo-colonial experiences in selected writings of Richard Wright, Chinua Achebe, and George Lamming [Nigeria}. Ph.D., Howard U., 1989. 339pp. DASOA:1651. 8921105.
Foertmeyer, Victoria Ann. Tourism in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Ph.D., Princeton U., 1989. 366pp. DA50A:16SO. 8920342.
Hemminger, William John. A translation of "l'Ex-pere de la nation," by Aminata Sow Fall [Senegal}. Ph.D., Ohio U., 1988. 151pp. DASOA:1655. 8917754.
Odamtten, Vincent Okpoti. The developing art of Ama Ata Aidoo [Ghana}. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Stony Brook, 1988. 622pp. DA50A:1303.891473O.
Rasebotsa, Nobantu Nkwane Lorato. The language of possibilities: Domination and demythicization in Gordimer's art [South Africa}. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Stony Brook, 1988. 246pp. DASOA:1303.8915505.
Sparrow, Fiona Mary. HThe spirit in the ascene The African writings of Margaret Laurence [Somalia, Ghana & Nigeria}. Ph.D., U. of Toronto (Can.), 1989. DASOA:1660.
Music
King, Roberta Rose. Pathways in Christian music communication: The case of the Senufo of Cote d'I'OOire. Ph.D., Fuller Theo. Sem., 1989. 451pp. DASOA:1131. 8918247.
Philosophy
Handal, Najoua Kefi. Islam and political development: The Tunisian experience. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. & A&M CoIL, 1989. 243pp. DASOA:2519.9OO2147.
Moreira, Americo Montes. The role of Marxism in the anti-colonial revolution in black Africa [Guinea-Bissau}. Ph.D., Boston CoIl., 1989. 356pp. DA50A:2088. 8922293.
Slaughter, Thomas Freeman. Toward preserving the meaning ofthe term Hwhite masks Hin the title of Frantz Fanon's PBlack Skin, White Masks. N Ph.D., State U. of New York at Stony Brook, 1988. 243pp. DASOA:1326.8917267.
Physical Sciences
Anyanwu, Longinus Obialor. A study of selected predictors of achievement in the computer science programs in the Nigerian uniuersi
ties. Ed.D., Morgan State U., 1989. 121pp. DASOB:3006. 8923181.
Boumaza, Mourad. Ammonia plant availability: A study of the causes of ammonia plant failures and their outages in developing countries and an examination of ways of improving their performance with particular reference to Algeria. Ph.D., U. of Bradford (U.K.), 1988. 422pp. DA50B:3039. BX86516.
Hereld, Dale. A glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C of African trypanosomes. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 1989. 92pp. DA50B:2898. 8923689.
Paisarnuchapong, Oranut. Cloud identification and screening for improving assessments of agricultural production [Niger]. Ph.D., U. of Missouri-Columbia, 1989. 299pp. DA50B:2976. 8925313.
Political Science
Ammons, Lila Faye. Consequences of war on African countries' social and economic development. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College Park, 1989. 166pp. DA50A:2229. 8924123.
Animashaun, Tajudeen Ajao. Public policy impact on technology development: A comparative analysis of Nigeria and selected NICS. Ph.D., Boston U., 1989. 341pp. DA50A:1426. 8917217.
Araya, Mesfin. Eritrea, 1941-52, the failure of the emergence of the nation-state: Towards a clarification of the Eritrean question in Ethiopia. Ph.D., City U. of New York, 1988. 313pp. DA50A:1420. 8914740.
Barnett, Michael Nathan. War preparation and the restructuring of state-society relations: Israel and Egypt in comparative perspective. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1989. 449pp. DA50A:1427. 8918270.
Choi, Roo Ton. Foreign intervention in African conflicts: A case study of the Angolan conflict (1961-1985). Ph.D., U. of Georgia, 1989. 309pp. DA50A:1793. 8919279.
Courville, Cindy L. The Zimbabwe nationalist movements: Strategy for liberation. Ph.D., U. of Denver, 1988. 2SOpp. DA50A:2631. 8920366.
Elonge, Henry Akwo. A political and administrative history of the Cameroon National Assembly, 1946-1986. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Albany, 1989. 350pp. DA50A:1432. 8918173.
Eyo, Clement l.B. Public policy and the development of small-scale industries in Nigeria: A policy analysis perspective. Ph.D., Howard U., 1989. 277pp. DA50A:2236. 8921106.
Gulley, James Lee. Evaluating the impact of international training for development in Zaire: A case study of the studies and planning service, the Department of Agriculture, Zaire. Ph.D., American U., 1987. 252 pp. DA50A:2230. 8922649.
Hendrixson, Karen Leslie. Seeking the economic kingdom: The impact of state majority ownership of the Ghana Bauxite Company on company performance. Ph.D., Fletcher Sch. of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts U.), 1989. 309pp. DA50A:1795. 8919380.
Hoagland, Sara Hodges. Learning within implementing development assistance organizations: A comparative analysis offive tree-planting
programs in the Nyanza Province of Kenya. Ph.D., American U., 1989. 263pp. DA50A:2231. 8923189.
Jones, Jocelyn. The peasantry, the party and the state in Guine-Bissau. D.Phil., U. of Oxford (U.K.), 1987. 686pp. DA50A:2632. B-86577.
Konfor, Stephen Nge. Study abroad as a strategy of manpower development: The propensity of African students to remain in the United States after graduation (a close look). Ph.D., Wayne State U., 1989. 259pp. DA50A:2225. 8922761.
Kwarteng, Charles Owusu. Challenges of regional economic cooperation among the ECOWAS states of West Africa. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 1989.364 pp. DA50A:2232. 8924306.
Manda, Patrick Mwase Mbaluko. The decentralisation of government in Zambia since independence. Ph.D., U. of Leeds (U.K.), 1988. 356pp. DA50A:1800. B-86319.
Manzo, Kathryn Anne. Dependent development and social change in South Africa. Ph.D., Arizona State U., 1989. 419pp. DA50A:1795. 8919626.
Masanja, Patrick. The politics of workers' participation: A study of industrial relations in Tanzanian public-sector factories. Ph.D., U. of Hull (U.K.), 1987. 329pp. DA50A:1500. BX86300.
Osaghae, Moses Osaretin Francis. Mass media use and political integration in Nigeria. Ph.D., Texas Tech U., 1989. 275pp. DA50A:1789.8920914.
Rummel, Lynette. Privatization in Algeria: Implications for development theory. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1989. 327pp. DA50A:2636.9000822.
Sillah, Mohammed-Bassiru. Saudi Arabian economic aid to West Africa: A case study of the Gambia and Sierra Leone, 1975-1985. Ph.D., Howard U., 1988. 463pp. DA50A:2234. 8919672.
Winrow, Gareth M. The foreign policy of the German Democratic Republic in Africa. Ph.D., U. of Manchester (U.K.), 1988. 741pp. DA50A:2235.8-86514.
Wynne, Susan G. The land boards of Botswana: A problem in institutional design. Ph.D., Indiana U., 1989. 534pp. DA50A:2229. 8925117.
Zedan, Soud Mohamad. Water resources management in Egypt and the Sudan: A comparative study. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Binghamton, 1989. 224pp. DA50A:2646. 8926274.
Religion
Baai, Gladstone Sandi. The religious identity of the Church and its social and political mission in South Africa, 1948-1984: A historical and theological analysis. Ph.D., U. of Durham (U.K.), 1988. 442pp. DA50A:1327. B-86126.
Chancellor, James Darrell. A comparative approach to religious fundamentalism: Egyptian Sunni Islam and American Protestant Christianity. Ph.D., Duke U., 1988. 273pp. DA50A:2530. 9002046.
Edwards, Robert Earl. Growth of the Church of God through Ushirika Groups among the Luhya in Nairobi, Kenya. D.Miss., Fuller Theo. Sem., 1989. 380pp. DA50A:1329. 8914722.
Mandivenga, Ephraim Chikakano. Islam in Zimbabwe: A study of religious developments from the 16th to the 20th century. Ph.D., U. of Aberdeen (U.K.), 1986. 272pp. DASOA:1969. BX86271.
Priest, Douglas Dunbar. The problem ofanimal sacrifice among Maasai Christians [Kenya & Tanzania]. Ph.D., Fuller Theo. Sem., 1989. 306pp. DASOA:1330. 8918248.
Social Work
Kamuvaka, Mickal Kaunee. The impact of politicm emancipation on structure of the Namibian family. D.S. W., U. of Pennsylvania, 1989. 276pp. DASOA:1439. 8916545.
Sociology
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim. Marriage patterns, trends and timing in Northern and urban Sudan. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 1989. 230pp. DA50A:2251. 8922455.
Adinkrah, Mensah. Political coercion in military-dominated regimes: A subcultural interpretation [Ghana}. Ph.D., Washington U., 1988. 308pp. DASOA:1455. 8917505.
Eltigani, Eltigani Eltahir. The socioeconomic aspects ofchild health in Gezira, Sudan. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 1989. 246pp. DASOA:2252. 8923676.
Fortuna, Carlos Jose C!dido Guerreiro. Threading through: Cotton production, colonial Mozambique, and semiperipheral Portugal in the world-economy. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Binghamton, 1989. 392pp. DASOA:1818. 8909089.
Kiwara, Angwara Denis. Workers' health and safety in Tanzania and K.tmya. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, 1989. 359pp. DA50A:2669. 8926488.
Meyer, Robert E. An organizational basis for facilitating increased agricultural productivity in Central Province, Zambia. Ph.D., Iowa State U., 1989. 235pp. DASOA:1820. 8920167.
Mokoli, Mondonga M. State, agricultural policy, and rural development in a developing country: The case of post-1965 Zaire. Ph.D., American U., 1989. 267pp. DA50A:1820. 8921662.
Moore, Subithra Moodley. The politics ofbeleaguered ethnic states: Herrenvolk democracy in Israel and South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Washington, 1989. DA50A:2664.
Oheneba-Sakyi, Yaw. The timing ofbirlhs during the onset of the fertility transition in Ghana. Ph.D., Brigham Young U., 1989. 210pp. DASOA:2662. 9000760.
Sanogo, Diouratie. Determinants of breastfeeding and amenorrhoea duration and their fertility impact in Mali. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 1989. 213pp. DA50A:2253. 8923747.
1 Statistics I
Soliman, Amal Sanaa. Studies in female labour supply: Egypt. Ph.D., City U. (London) (U.K.), 1989. 227pp. DASOB:2487. IBX86279. I
Theology 1 !
Aigbe, Sunday Agbons. The prophetic role of a church in a developing economy: The case of the Assemblies ofGod in Nigeria. Ph.D., Full f er Theo. Sem., 1989. 374pp. DA50A:1336. 8917045.
Ekpenyong, Michael Otto. The contribution of the theology of story to the emerging theologies of Africa [Nigeria}. Ph.D., Duquesne U., 1988. 31Opp. DA50A:2537. 8911368.
Urban & Regional Planning
Ngau, Peter Musyoki. Rural-urban relations and agrarian development in Kutus arelZ, Kenya. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 1989. 216pp. DA50A:2675. 9000818.
Ouf, Ahmed Mohamed Salah El-Din Ahmed. Planning for small scale industries in less developed countries: A systemic approach [Egypt}. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 1989. 319pp. DA50A:2271. 8922578. !'
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Oussadou, Aomar. Residential satisfaction in the new urban housing projects in Algeria: A case study of Ain-Allah, Algiers. Ph.D., U. of Nottingham (U.K., 1988. 347 pp. DASOA:1825. 8-86086.
Women's Studies
Hoff, Joanna Tenneh Diggs. The role of women in national development in Liberia, 1800-1900. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 1989. 160pp. DA50A:2676. 8924838. I Stefanos, Asegedetch. An encounter with revolutionary change: A portrait of contemporary Eritrean women. Ed.D., Harvard U., 1989. 554pp. DA50A:2272. 8915424.
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