“Society, State & Identity in African History”
4th Congress of the Association of African Historians
(African Union Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, 22nd-24th May 2007)
PROGRAM
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Arrival Day - Monday 21st May 2007 |
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On Arrival |
Registration at Ghion & King’s Hotels |
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Day 1: Tuesday, 22nd May 2007 - MORNING Sessions |
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Speaker/s |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration at Congress Venue |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Opening Ceremony - (Venue: Plenary Hall) |
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9:00 – 9:20 |
Welcome statements
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· Prof. Bahru Zewde, Chairperson, National Organizing Committee · Prof. Andreas Eshete, President, Addis Ababa University · Prof. Doulaye Konate, President, Association of African Historians |
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9:20 – 9:30 |
Statement by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission |
His Excellency Professor Alpha Oumar Konaré |
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9:30 – 9:40 |
Opening Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
His Excellency Ato Seyoum Mesfin |
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9:40 – 10:00 |
Tribute to Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo |
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10:00 –10:30 |
Group photo & Coffee/Tea break |
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10.30 – 11:30
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Parallel Session I |
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Group I: Heritage and Identity - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Doulaye Konate (Mali) o Rapporteur: José Mvuezolo Bazonzi (DRC) |
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· Intangible Heritage: African Museums and Living Cultures[*] |
Adame Ba Konaré (Mali) |
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· Cinema, Identity and Urban Cultures in Africa* |
Georg Odile (France) |
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· Between the Clothing and the Nakedness of the Woman: Example of clothing habits among the farming populations in present day Burkina Faso (end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries)* |
Moussa Willy Bantenga (Burkina Faso) |
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· Heritage Management for Africa in the 21st Century |
Kassaye Begashaw (Ethiopia) |
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Group II: Colonialism and identity - (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Issiaka Mandé (Burkina Faso) o Rapporteur: Ridha Tlili (Tunisia) |
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· French Style Colonialism and the Role of Vichy* |
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (France) |
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· The Colonial Perception of the African and the Construction of Racial Attitude in Europe* |
Sofiane Bouhdiba (Tunisia) |
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· “Toubabesses” (White Women ) or “ soeurs de race “ (Racial Sisters )? African Midwives in a Colonial Situation and Feminine Identity Shifts between the Twenties and the Sixties* |
Pascale Barthélémy & Anne Hugon (France) |
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· Africa and the Transformation of Historical and Political Identities: From Nationalism to Institutional Transnationalism in Cape Verde* |
Maria R..Turano (Italy) |
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11:30 –12:30 |
Group Discussions |
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12:30 – 1:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Day 1: Tuesday, 22nd May 2007 - AFTERNOON Sessions |
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1:30 – 2:30 |
Parallel Session II |
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Group I: The challenge of creating a pan-African identity (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Pontian G. Okoth (Kenya) o Rapporteur: C.B.N. Ogbogbo (Nigeria) |
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· The Pan-African Movement in the XXth century* |
Lazare Ki-Zerbo (France/Burkina Faso) |
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· Pan-Africanism: Cultural Nationalism or Afrokitsch |
Agbenyega Adedze (USA) |
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· Transnational African Identities: History, Representation and Agency |
Abiyi Ford & Metasebia Woldemariam (Ethiopia) |
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· Interculturality and political stakes in municipalities in Africa* |
Doti Bruno Sanou
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Group II: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Tekeste Negash (Sweden) o Rapporteur: Kenneth N. Akali (Nigeria) |
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· The Steps Of Identity Construction in Nigeria of the XXth Century : The Case of Yoruba |
Jean-Luc Martineau (France) |
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· The Supposed Identity of Ethiopians According to a Letter of 1625* |
Vittorio Morabito (Italy) |
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· The Ethnic Self and the National Other: The Anywaa Identity Politics in Reference to the Ethiopian State System |
Dereje Feyissa (Ethiopia) |
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· Issues of Territoriality in the Problematic of Pre-Colonial State Administration : The Case of the Medieval Empires of Western Sudan* |
Modibo Diakité (Mali) |
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2:30 – 3:30 |
Group Discussions |
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3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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4:00 – 5:00 |
Parallel Session III |
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Group I: Colonialism and identity - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (France) o Rapporteur: John Gasu (Ghana) |
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· Towards Historicizing the Ossification of Colonial Identities in Africa: The Anglophone/Francophone Divide in Postcolonial Cameroon |
Nicodemus Fru Awasom (The Gambia) |
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· The Contexts of Colonialism and Ethnicity in Indigene – Settler Relations: Comparative Historical Evidence from Social (Dis)order in Two Nigerian Cities |
Akachi Odoemene (Nigeria) |
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· ‘This Is Our School’: The Development of an Education System among the BaSotho in the Dewure Purchase Areas in Gutu, 1937-1960 |
Joseph Mujere (Zimbabwe) |
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· Colonialism and Bangala Identity in Central Africa* |
Mumbanza mwa Bawele Jérôme-Emilien (DRC) |
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Group II: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Lily Mafela (Botswana) o Rapporteur: Sofiane Bouhdiba (Tunisia) |
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· Reclaiming the Bakassi Kingdom: The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria Border |
Molem Sama Christopher & Debora Johnson-Ross (Cameroon) |
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· The Dilemma of Colonial Boundaries in Contemporary Africa: The Bakassi Peninsula in Nigeria-Cameroon Border Relations |
Geoffrey I. Nwaka (Nigeria) |
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· The African Experience of European Border Making: The Kivu/Rwandan Border Region, 1910-1916 |
Jeanick Vangansbeke (Belgium) |
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· Magendo and Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations and Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border, 1962-1980 |
Peter Wafula Wekesa (Kenya)
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5:00 – 6:00 |
Group Discussions |
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6:30 – 8.30 |
Reception (hosted by the National Organizing Committee) |
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Day 2: Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 - MORNING Sessions |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Parallel Session IV |
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Group I: Colonialism and identity - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Ibrahima Thioub (Burkina Faso) o Rapporteur: Blaise-Jacques Nkene (Cameroon) |
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· Race and Imprisonment in Colonial Senegal: Evidence from the Prison of Saint-Louis (1860-1940) |
Ibra Sene (USA) |
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· From the Colonial Vision of « Black Muslim » to Senegalese Islam : Lost Identities, Living Identities* |
Mamadou Karfa Sané & Hélène Grandhomme (Senegal) |
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· Post- independence, Political Paradigm And Geopolitical Imperatives* |
Ridha Tlili (Tunisia) |
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· Ottoman-Abyssinian Relations Faced with European Colonialism* |
Ahmet Kavas (Turkey)
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Group II: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Kasaija Phillip Apuuli (Uganda) o Rapporteur: Olajide Olayemi Akanji (Nigeria) |
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· Hausa Identity : Social Marks ,Colonial Deconstruction and Resistance to Acculturation* |
Mahaman Alio (Niger) |
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· Citizenship, Identity and Social Inequality: Revisiting Mungiki Appraisal in Kenya |
Mwangi Joseph Macharia (Kenya) |
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· The Northern Factor in Malawi’s Contemporary Politics: A Historical Introspection |
Blessings Chinsinga (Malawi) |
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· Searching for National Identities in the Post-Colonial States: Malaysia’s Experience |
Saadon Awang (Malaysia) |
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10:00 –10:45 |
Group Discussions |
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10:45 –11:05 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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11:05 –12:05 |
Parallel Session V |
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Group I: Identity-based conflicts - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Philemon Muamba Mumbunda (DRC) o Rapporteur: Bundjoko Banyata (DRC) |
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· Power and Particular Identities: The Case of the Crisis in the Côte d’Ivoire (2002-2007)* |
Seydou Camara (Mali) |
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· Identity Crisis and Struggle for Leadership in the Great Lakes Region: Reading of Major Land Ownership and Armed Conflicts of Kivu (1900-2005)* |
José Mvuezolo Bazonzi (DRC) |
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· The Causes of the Current Ethnic Violence in the Great Lakes Africa: An Historical and Socio- Political Analysis* |
Joseph Gahama (Rwanda) |
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· Identity and Power in Rwanda: The Grand Narrative of Ethnicity Unraveled |
Petra Vervust (Belgium) |
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· Slave Trade and Identity Withdrawal in the Senegambia: The Case of Sereer of the North -West* |
Ismaila Ciss (Senegal) |
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Group II: Federalism and devolution - (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Irma Taddia (Italy) o Rapporteur: Dereje Feyissa (Ethiopia) |
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· Ethiopian Federalism's Problem Child: The Gambella Region (1991-2003) |
Berouk Mesfin (Ethiopia) |
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· Federalism and Devolution: Challenges Facing African Countries to Nurture Democracy: The Case of Kenya |
Julius Simiyu Nabende (Kenya) |
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· Discourse on Decentralisation and Decentralising Practices in the Political History of the Democratic Republic of Congo* |
Jacques Tshibwabwa Kuditshini (DRC) |
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· Defending Regional Autonomy: The Case of Nekemte and Kelem |
Tessema Ta’a (Ethiopia) |
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12:05 –12:50 |
Group discussions |
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12:50 – 2:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Day 2: Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 - AFTERNOON Sessions |
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2:00 – 3:00
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Parallel Session VI |
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Group I: Conceptions of the nation-state and identity (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chairperson: Bahru Zewde (Ethiopia) o Rapporteur: Mwangi Joseph Macharia (Kenya) |
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· The Dilemma of Eritrean Identity and Its Future Trajectories |
Tekeste Negash (Sweden) |
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· Better Said Than Done: Haile Sellassie's Efforts to Construct Secular Nationalism |
Shiferaw Bekele (Ethiopia) |
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· The State, Identity and New Forms of Conflicts in the Niger Delta |
Kenneth N. Akali (Nigeria) |
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· For the Nation to Live, the Tribe Must Die? The State, Ndebele Identity and Belonging in Zimbabwe |
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (South Africa) |
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Group II: Identity-based conflicts (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Nicodemus Fru Awasom (The Gambia) o Rapporteur: Akachi Odoemene (Nigeria) |
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· Not Yet Uhuru? Rural Development Discourses in Luoland, 1888-2005 |
E. S. Atieno Odhiambo (USA) |
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· Colonial Legacy, Secessionism and State Intervention: Paradoxical National Identities of the Ogaden and Ishaq Clans in Ethiopia |
Samuel Negash (Ethiopia) |
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· Contested Histories at the End/s of Apartheid |
Leslie Witz (South Africa) |
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· Swedish and Zulu Nationalism Played Out in the Course of the 1906 Bambatha Uprising in South Africa |
Lars Berge (Sweden) |
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3:00 – 3:45 |
Group Discussions |
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3:45 – 4:05 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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4:05 – 5:05 |
Parallel Session VII |
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Group I: Migration and acculturation (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Moussa Willy Bantenga (Burkina Faso) o Rapporteur: Ismaila Ciss (Senegal) |
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· The Emigration of Moroccan Jews: Impoverishment of a NationalIdentity* |
Jamaâ Baida (Morocco) |
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· Being a Student in the Metropolitan Country at the Time of Accession to Independence: The Association of Students of Malagasy Origin from 1947 to 1960* |
Faranirina Rajaonah (Malagasy/France) |
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· The Impact of the Peules’ Migrations on the Handicraft and Traditional Architecture Models in Northern Cameroon* |
Hamadou (Cameroon) |
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· Migrations, Identity and State Building in the Sahel Region of Niger: The Experience of Damargu’s Pre-colonial Populations (Niger Republic) * |
Malam Issa Mahaman (Niger) |
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Group II: Evolving identities (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Giampaolo Calchi Novati (Italy) o Rapporteur: Mahaman Alio (Niger) |
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· Rethinking the Discourse on Identity in Contemporary Ethiopia |
Shimelis Bonsa (Ethiopia) |
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· Creation of One’s Identity: The Case of Ethiopian Occupational Groups |
Teclehaimanot Gebresellassie (Ethiopia) |
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· The Problematic of Pre-Colonial Identities in Lower-Kasai in the DRC * |
Bundjoko Banyata (DRC) |
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· The Autonomus Status of South-Kasaï or the Over-Ethnicization of Urban Centres in the DRC * |
Philémon Muamba Mumbunda (DRC) |
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5:05 – 5:50 |
Group Discussions |
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Day 3: Thursday, 24th May 2007 - MORNING Sessions |
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9:00 –10:00 |
Parallel Session VIII |
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Group I: Identity-based conflicts - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: Anthony Asiwaju (Nigeria) o Rapporteur: Julius Simiyu Nabende (Kenya) |
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· Identity-Based Conflicts in Africa: The Case of Ife-Modakeke, Nigeria |
Olajide Olayemi Akanji (Nigeria) |
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· Representations of Atrocities and the Aftermath of Massacres among the Igbo of the Diaspora (Nigeria-Cameroon) * |
Blaise-Jacques Nkene (Cameroon) |
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· Identity Politics and Resource Control Conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta |
C.B.N. Ogbogbo (Nigeria) |
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· Identity Crisis and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana |
John Gasu (Ghana) |
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Group II: Migration and acculturation - (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Geoffrey I. Nwaka (Nigeria) o Rapporteur: Blessings Chinsinga (Malawi) |
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· Migrant Chewa Identities and Their Construction through Gule Wamkulu/Nyau Dances in Zimbabwe |
Anusa Daimon (Zimbabwe) |
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· Gender and Migration in Botswana during the Colonial and Post-Colonial Times, c.1860-c.1980 |
Lily Mafela (Botswana) |
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· Acculturation and Botswana Migrant Miners in South Africa, 1930 – 1980 |
Wazha G. Morapedi (Botswana) |
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· Migration and Identity: The Mande of the Present- day Northern Côte d’Ivoire* |
Mohamed Ould Sidi Aly (Mali) |
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10:00 –10:45 |
Group Discussions |
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10:45 – 11:05 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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11:05 – 12:05 |
Parallel Session IX |
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Group I: Lessons of regional integration - (Venue: Plenary Hall) o Chair: E. S. Atieno Odhiambo (Kenya) o Rapporteur: Peter Wafula Wekesa (Kenya) |
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· Fast Tracking East African Federation: Have the Countries of the Region Learnt from History? |
Kasaija Phillip Apuuli (Uganda) |
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· Composite Memories, « National Constructions » and the Challenge of Regional Integration in West Africa* |
Doulaye Konate (Mali) |
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· The OCEAC: A Regional Cooperation Organism for Health in Central Africa (1963-2005)* |
Pierre Fadibo (France) |
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· Integration in the CEDEAO Region: Stakes and Perspectives in the Commercial Sphere* |
Issa Sacko (Mali) |
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· Security As a Critical Lesson for the New East African Community |
Pontian G. Okoth (Kenya) |
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Group II: Identity & Historiography - (Venue: Committee Room 1) o Chair: Jamaâ Baida (Morocco) o Rapporteur: Shimelis Bonsa (Ethiopia) |
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· From Dahomey to Benin: Exorcising the Ghosts of Memory in a West African State |
Anselme Guezo (Benin) |
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· Pre-colonial Periods without Terminus a Quo in Recent African Historiography (1965-2005): An Archaeological Approach* |
Obaré Bagodo (Benin) |
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· History and Identity References Of Lower-Saalum Populations* |
Rokhaya Fall (Senegal) |
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· From Collective Leadership to Presidentialism: I.B. Tabata, Authorship and the Biographic Threshold |
Ciraj Rassool (South Africa) |
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12:05 –12:50 |
Group Discussions |
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12:50 – 2:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Day 3: Thursday, 24th May 2007 - AFTERNOON Session |
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2:00 – 6:00 |
General Assembly of the Association of African Historians (Venue: Com. Room 1) o Chair: Doulaye Konate (Mali) o Rapporteur: Ali Diabiguile (Mali) |
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2:00 – 3:45 |
Business session of AAH (as per agenda) |
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3:45 – 4:05 |
Coffee/Tea break |
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4:05 – 5:30 |
Business session of AAH (cont’d) |
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5:30 – 6:10 |
Closing ceremony |
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6:10 – 6:25 |
Bus trip to Addis Ababa City Hall to see an Ethiopian historical drama |
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6.30 – 7.30 |
Staging of historical drama |
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8.00 – |
Reception (hosted by Addis Ababa University) |
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