Fourth Congress of the Association of African Historians

        22-25 May 2007

 

    

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Fourth Congress of the Association of African Historians - A Conference Jointly organized by Department of History (Addis Ababa University) and Forum for Social Studies (Addis Ababa) in collaboration with the Executive Committee of the Association of African Historians and with the support of The African Union Commission, Addis Ababa 22 - 25 May, 2007    Back to FSS HOME     ABOUT FSS    NEWS    PUBLICATIONS  LIBRARY

 

4th Congress of the Association of African Historians 

Selected Abstracts 

No.

Name

Topic

Country

  1.  

Abdullah, Ibrahim

Identity, Exclusion and Citizenship in Colonial and Post-Colonial Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

  1.  

Abiyi Ford & Metasebia Woldemariam

Transnational Afrcan Identities: History, Representation and Agency

Ethiopia

  1.  

Abutudu, Musa I.

The Igbo, Victimhood and the Politics of Identity Transformation in Nigeria

Nigeria

  1.  

Adedze, Agbenyega

Pan-Africanism: Cultural Nationalism or Afrokitsch

Nigeria

  1.  

Akali, Kenneth N.

The State, Identity and New Forms of Conflict in the Niger Delta

Nigeria

  1.  

Akanji, Olajide Olayemi

Identity-based Conflicts in Africa: The Case of Ife-Modakeke, Nigeria

Nigeria

  1.  

Aiyede, E. Remi

The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism and Development: A Nigerian Case Study

Nigeria

  1.  

Allman, Jean

Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana 1959-1962

USA

  1.  

Awang, Saadon

Searching for National Identities in the Post-Colonial States: The Malaysian Experience

Malaysia

  1.  

Awasom, Nicodemus Fru

Towards Historicizing the Ossification of Colonial Identities in Africa: the Anglophone/Francophone Divide in Postcolonial Cameroon

Gambia

  1.  

Berge, Lars

Identity-Based Conflicts surrounding the 1906 Zulu Uprising in Kwazulu Natal

Norway

  1.  

Berouk Mesfin

Ethiopian Federalism's Problem Child: The Gambella Region (1991-2003)

Ethiopia

  1.  

Boolane, MItseo

Bushmen, Coloureds, Hottentots and Bastards: Ethnic Identity and re-location strategy within the Kalahari Gembok Park area

Botswana

  1.  

Chapman, Jennifer

Sexual Identity of Women and Girls: From Social Constructs to Gifts

USA

  1.  

Chinsinga, Blessings

The Northern Factor in Malawian Politics: A Historical Introspection

Malawi

  1.  

Christopher, Molem Sama

Reclaiming the Bakassi Kingdom: The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria Border

Cameroon

  1.  

Daimon, Anusa

Migrant Chewa Identities and their Construction through Gule Wamkulu Dances

Zimbabwe

  1.  

Ekpootu, Mfon U.

Contestations of Identity: Colonial policing of female sexuality in Nigeria

Nigeria

  1.  

Epprecht, Marc

Sexuality and African Identity: Sketching the History of an Idea

Canada

  1.  

Gasu, John

Identity Crisis and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana

Ghana

  1.  

Guezo, Anselme

From Dahomey to Benin: Exorcising the Ghosts of Memory in a West African State

Benin

  1.  

Kasaija, Phillip A.

Fast Tracking East African Federation: Have the Countires of the Region Learnt from History

Uganda

  1.  

Kehinde, Michael O.

Colonialism and Yoruba Identity: Boundary, State Building and Partitioned Identity in W. Africa

Nigeria

  1.  

Kimathi, Leah W.

Power Belongs to Us: Shifting Contours of the Kikiuyu Identity in Kenya

Kenya

  1.  

Klausen, M.

Whiteness, Patriarchy and Illegal Abortion in South Africa under Apartheid, 1948-1990

Canada

  1.  

Macharia, Mwangi Joseph

Citizenship, Identity and Social Inequality: Revisiting Mungiki Appraisal in Kenya

Kenya

  1.  

Mafela, Lily

Gender and Intra-national Migration in Botswana

Botswana

  1.  

Manganga, K.

Ethnic Pride and Ethnic Prejudice in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe: The Case of the Angoni Faction Fights, 1917-1925

Zimbabwe

  1.  

Mark, Peter

Pre-colonial identities: 17th century Upper Guinea Coast

USA

  1.  

Morapedi, Wazha

Migrant Labour and Acculturation in Botswana, 1930-1980

Botswana

  1.  

Mujere, Joseph

'This is our school': Identity, Cultural Hybridity and the Development of Education System among the Basotho, 1932-1960

Zimbabwe

  1.  

Nabende, Julius

Federalism and Devolution: Challenges facing African countries to nurture democracy, the case of Kenya

Kenya

  1.  

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo

Revisiting Trbalism, Violence and Belonging: Post-Colonial State and Re-construction of Ndebele Identity

South Africa

  1.  

Nwaka, Geoffrey I.

Federalism, Ethnic Relations and Conflict Management in Nigeria

Nigeria

  1.  

Odhiambo, Atieno

The Luo in Kenya

Kenya

  1.  

Odoemene, Akachi

The Contexts of Colonialism and Ethnicity in Indigene-Settler Relations: Two Nigerian Cities

Nigeria

  1.  

Ogbogbo, C.B.N.

Identity Politics and Resource Control Conflict in Nigeria

Nigeria

  1.  

Okoth, Godfrey

Security as a critical lesson for the new East African Community

Uganda

  1.  

Onwuzuruigbo, Ifeanyi

Elites, Communal Identities and Land Conficts in Colonial Nigeria: The case of  Aguleri/Umuleri Conflicts 1898-1960

Nigeria

  1.  

Pawlikova-Vilhanova, Viera

The Challenge of Writing a History: Early Luganda Historical Writing and Position in Colonial Uganda

Slovakia

  1.  

Rassool, Ciraj

From collective leadership to presidentialism: I.B. Tabata, authorship and the biographic threshold

S. Africa

  1.  

Samuel Negash

Colonial Legacy, Secessiionism and State Intervention : Paradoxical National Identities of the Ogaden and Ishaq Clans in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

  1.  

Sene, Ibra

Race and Imprisonment in Colonial Senegal: Evidence from the Prison of St. Louis (1860-1940)

Senegal

  1.  

Shiferaw Bekele

Better said than done: Haile Sellassie's efforts to construct secular nationalism

Ethiopia

  1.  

Tebeje, Molla

The Dob'a

Ethiopia

  1.  

Tekeste Negash

Colonialism and the Evolution of a destructive/negative identity: The Case of Italian Colonialism in Eritrea

Sweden

  1.  

Vangansbeke, Jeanick

The African Experience of Belgian, German and British Border Making as told by Belgian Archives

Belgium

  1.  

Venosa, Joseph L.

The Belly of the Master is Never Known: The Effect of Englands's 1867 Expedition on the Development and Maintenance of a Pre-colonial Abyssinian , Identity

USA

  1.  

Verlust, Petra

Identity and conflict in Rwanda

Belgium

  1.  

Wekesa, Peter W.

Magendo and Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations and Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border, 1962-80

Kenya

  1.  

Witz, Leslie

Contested histories at the end of apartheid

S. Africa

 

 

 

 

  1.  

Alio, Mahaman

L'identité hausa: marqueurs sociaux, deconstruction coloniale et resistance a l'acculturation

Niger

  1.  

Aly, Sidi Mohamed

Migration et identité: les Mandés du Nord de l’actuelle Côte d’Ivoire

Mali

  1.  

Bagodo, Obare

Periodes precoloniales sans terminus a quo en historiographie africaine recente (1972-2005): approche archeologique

Benin

  1.  

Baida, Jamaa

L' émigration des Juifs marocains: Appauvrissement d'une identité nationale

Morocco

  1.  

Banyata, Bundjoko

La problématique des identité pré-coloniales au Bas-Kasaï en RDC

DRC

  1.  

Barthelemy, Pascale, & Anne Hugon

“Toubabesses” ou “ soeurs de race”? Sages femmes africaines en situation coloniale et mutations d’identités féminines des années vingt aux années soixante

France

  1.  

Bawele, Jerome

Colonialisme et identité “Bangala” en Afrique centrale

Central Africa

  1.  

Bazonzi, José M.

Crise identitaire et lutte de leadership dans la région des Grands Lacs: lecture des principaux conflits fonciers et armés du Kivu (1900-2005)